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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Nikolai Volkoff
1947 - 2018
Mate Parlov
1948 - 2008
Miroslav Radman
Born 1944
Željko Franulović
Born 1947
Zvonko Bego
1940 - 2018
Tom Bunk
Born 1945
Đurđica Bjedov
Born 1947
Sergije Krešić
Born 1946
Ratomir Tvrdić
Born 1943
Ivo Rudic
1942 - 2009
Branko Buljevic
Born 1947
Vjeran Zuppa
Born 1940
Nikša Gligo
Born 1946
Alija Behmen
1940 - 2018
Matéo Mornar
Born 1946
Zoran Vanjaka
Born 1948
Vinko Begović
Born 1948
Zdenko Vukasović
Born 1941
Vinko Rosić
1941 - 2006
Ratko Glavina
Born 1941
Marin Kovačić
1943 - 2016
Vinko Cuzzi
1940 - 2011
Ante Ivković
Born 1947
Nikola Mardešić
Born 1945
Slobodan Dijaković
Born 1947