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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.