43.5102° N, 16.4397° E
SPLIT
Most Famous People Born in Split, Croatia
- Notable people
- 666
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1973
- Most distinctive
- Polo 34.8×
A Diocletian-era port whose twentieth-century contribution is almost entirely athletic — a Polo cohort running at better than thirty times the global baseline, a thick Handball bench behind it, and the Rower and Basket clusters a certain kind of Adriatic coast city produces almost as a matter of course. The palace town that somehow quietly became a factory for team-sport internationals.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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What Split Is Known For
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Football is Split's biggest profession — 38% of all notables (251).
Split over-indexes on polo — 34.8× the global rate.
Split under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Split's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Ivo Lapenna
1909 - 1987
Gastone Medin
1905 - 1973
Vicko Krstulović
1905 - 1988
Janko Rodin
1900 - 1974
Mirko Bonačić
1903 - 1989
Antun Bonačić
1905 - 1948
Tina Morpurgo
1907 - 1944
Antonio Blasevich
1902 - 1976
Stanko Fabris
1909 - 1997
Elko Mrduljaš
1909 - 1991
Davor Jelaska
1907 - 1995
Kolnago Ferante
1907 - 1969
Ante Roje
1905 - 1980
Bruno Katzianka
Born 1904
Mario Croci
Born 1909