45.8130° N, 15.9772° E

ZAGREB - CENTAR

Most Famous People Born in Zagreb - Centar, Croatia

Notable people
1,308
Peak decade
1980s
Median birth year
1968
Most distinctive
Handball 12.7×

Yugoslavia and then Croatia sent their sports pipeline to Europe through here — handball at 12.7×, with basketball, rowing, hockey, and football all above the global rate. Miroslav Krleža wrote the entire modernist Croatian canon on these streets, and the architect over-index traces the Secessionist downtown that Zagreb rebuilt around itself after 1880.

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Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 254 notable births.

What Zagreb - Centar Is Known For

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Football is Zagreb - Centar's biggest profession — 24% of all notables (320).

Zagreb - Centar over-indexes on handball — 12.7× the global rate.

Zagreb - Centar under-produces politician — only 0.4× the global rate.

  1. Football 320 2.2×
  2. Actor 72 1.0×
  3. Politician 60 0.4×
  4. Basket 60 3.6×
  5. Handball 52 12.7×
  6. Player 51 2.0×
  7. Hockey 45 2.9×
  8. Singer 37 1.4×
  1. Handball 52 12.7×
  2. Basket 60 3.6×
  3. Rower 14 2.9×
  4. Hockey 45 2.9×
  5. Football 320 2.2×
  6. Film 33 2.0×
  7. Player 51 2.0×
  8. Architect 22 1.9×
  1. Politician 60 0.4×
  2. Painter 22 0.6×
  3. Writer 28 0.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Zagreb - Centar's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

1850 1875 1900 1925 1950 1975 2000
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  • Politics & Law
  • Art & Design
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0062 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger

1856 - 1936

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0190 NAVY

Maximilian Njegovan

1858 - 1930

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1014 INDUSTRIALIST

Adolf Müller (industrialist)

1857 - 1932

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