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.
Standouts
Notable Births by Decade
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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.
Profession Mix Over Time
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Miroslav Krleža
1893 - 1981
August Cesarec
1893 - 1941
Zlatko Baloković
1895 - 1965
Marino Tartaglia
1894 - 1984
Emil Perška
1896 - 1945
Dragutin Babić
1898 - 1945
Dragutin Vrđuka
1895 - 1948
Ljubomir Micić
1895 - 1971
Josip Scholz
1898 - 1945
Archduke Leopold of Austria, Prince of Tuscany
1897 - 1958
Drago Ibler
1894 - 1964
Vladimir Vuković
1898 - 1975
Stjepan Betlheim
1898 - 1970
Svetislav Stančić
1895 - 1970
Vladimir Varlaj
1895 - 1962
Ivo Krbek
1890 - 1966
Emil Plazzeriano
1897 - 1972
Jaroslav Šifer
1895 - 1982
Juraj Andrassy
1896 - 1977
Ivan Granec
1897 - 1923
Dragan Plamenac
1895 - 1983
Ante Pandaković
1891 - 1968
Alfred Albini
1896 - 1978
Vera Stein Ehrlich
1897 - 1980
Archduke Rainer of Austria (1895–1930)
1895 - 1930
Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria (1899–1977)
1899 - 1977
Đuro Tiljak
1895 - 1965
Leo Müller
1894 - 1941
Ivan Tomašević (soldier)
1892 - 1945
Vladimir Šterk
1891 - 1941
Ivan Hus
1898 - 1992
Vladimir Vranić
1896 - 1976
Lav Mirski
1893 - 1968
Nikola Fink
1894 - 1968