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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Tomislav Ivić
1933 - 2011
Nikola Pilić
Born 1939
Boris Dvornik
1939 - 2008
Dražen Marović
Born 1938
Ivo Trumbić
Born 1935
Igor Zidić
Born 1939
Stanko Poklepović
1938 - 2018
Petar Šegvić
1930 - 1990
Toma Bebić
1935 - 1990
Ruben Radica
Born 1931
Jerko Ješa Denegri
Born 1936
Joško Vidošević
1935 - 1990
Jagoda Buić
Born 1930
Zvonimir Mrkonjić
Born 1938
Ivo Cipci
Born 1933
Petar Bergamo
Born 1930
Antonio Calebotta
1930 - 2002
Tomislav Ostoja
Born 1931
Zarko Dadic
Born 1930
Ante Nardelli
1937 - 1995
Vladimir Šenauer
1930 - 2013
Ante Jurić (calciatore jugoslavo)
1934 - 2013
Katja Raganelli
Born 1939
Mirjana Živković
Born 1935
Tonči Gulin
1938 - 1999
Marko Mandič
1939 - 1991
Zdenko Bego
1933 - 2014
Tatjana Zoković
1931 - 2003