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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Duje Draganja
Born 1983
Đurđica Bjedov
Born 1947
Miloš Milošević
Born 1972
Vanja Rogulj
Born 1982
Karla Šitić
Born 1992
Anamarija Petričević
Born 1972
Smiljana Marinović
Born 1977
Željko Panić
Born 1976
Matea Samardžić
Born 1995
Tone Gazzari
1912 - 1996
Ante Roje
1905 - 1980
Slobodan Dijaković
Born 1947