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
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.
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- Filtered to 1940s Clear ×
Krešimir Ćosić
1948 - 1995
Oja Kodar
Born 1941
Tomaž Šalamun
1941 - 2014
Rajko Grlić
Born 1947
Vlado Milunić
Born 1941
Sanja Iveković
Born 1949
Daša Drndić
1946 - 2018
Dragutin Šurbek
1946 - 2018
Ranko Munitić
1943 - 2009
Rudolf Belin
Born 1942
Dunja Vejzović
Born 1943
Slobodan Šnajder
Born 1948
Mladen Ramljak
1945 - 1978
Slavko Ćuruvija
1949 - 1999
Jagoda Kaloper
1947 - 2016
Mišo Cebalo
Born 1945
Živa Kraus
Born 1945
Žarko Puhovski
Born 1946
Radimir Čačić
Born 1949
Albin Vidović
1943 - 2018
Damir Šolman
Born 1949
Rada Iveković
Born 1945
Zlatko Škorić
1941 - 2019
Zdenka Kovačiček
Born 1944
Predrag Cvitanović
Born 1946
Goran Milić
Born 1946
Tomislav Šola
Born 1948
Željko Malnar
1944 - 2013
Petar Kralj
1941 - 2011
Zlatko Mateša
Born 1949
Miroslav Poljak
1944 - 2015
Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler
1942 - 2008
Zdravko Hebel
1943 - 2017
Helga Vlahović
1945 - 2012
Hrvoje Hitrec
Born 1943
Branka Primorac
Born 1946
Ognjen Kraus
Born 1945
Vesna Girardi-Jurkić
1944 - 2012
Zvonko Kusić
Born 1946
Ivica Kostović
Born 1943
Tomislav Radić
1940 - 2015
Dubravko Škiljan
1949 - 2007
Ronald Lopatni
Born 1944
Slobodan Lang
1945 - 2016
Hedvig Hricak
Born 1946
Ozren Bonačić
Born 1942
Drago Mlinarec (musician)
Born 1942
Nenad Puhovski
Born 1949
Boris Mikšić
Born 1948
Velimir Neidhardt
Born 1943
Nebojša Vučković
1949 - 2019
Božidar Orešković
1942 - 2010
Marijan Čerček
Born 1949
Branko Gračanin
Born 1943
Albert Goldstein
1943 - 2007
Boris Perušič
Born 1940
Zlatko Tomčić
Born 1945
Davor Solter
Born 1941
Goran Švob
1947 - 2013
Zdenko Kobeščak
Born 1943
Dalibor Martinis
Born 1947
Nada Rocco
Born 1947
Mišo Broz
Born 1941
Ingrid Fickler
Born 1940
Ivan Čermak
Born 1949
Hrvoje Turković
Born 1943
Gvozden Flego
Born 1946
Zlatko Dračić
Born 1940
Krunoslav Cigoj
1949 - 2015
Marijan Šunjić (physicist)
Born 1940
Ružica Meglaj-Rimac
1941 - 1996
Nina Vajić
Born 1948
Branko Supek
1945 - 2003
Živko Zalar
Born 1948
Mladen Budiščak
1947 - 2003
Mladen Juran
Born 1942
Srećko Lipovčan
1942 - 2009
Regina Poly
1942 - 2014
Nenad Ivanković
Born 1948
Marina Matulović-Dropulić
Born 1942
Branko Despot
Born 1942
Radovan Tadic
Born 1949
Zvonko Plepelić
1945 - 2018
Davor Štern
Born 1947
Dorrit Harazim
Born 1943
Jakov Bienenfeld
1948 - 2016
Marijan Novak
Born 1947
Eugen Pleško
1948 - 2020
Josip Milković
Born 1942
Jacob Engel
Born 1949
Stevo Karapandža
Born 1947
Miroslav Gojanović
Born 1949
Vladimir Lalo Nikolić
Born 1941
Darko Bekić
Born 1946
Srećko Štiglić
1943 - 2020
John Sola
Born 1944
Marijan Jantoljak
Born 1940
Đurđa Fočić
Born 1948
Dag Strpić
1946 - 2013
Nenad Porges
Born 1946
Valdimir Matausic
Born 1948
Tomislav Jakić
Born 1943
Sasha D’Arc
Born 1945
Jasna Tkalec
1941 - 2017
Zlatko Haramincic
Born 1942
Radoliub Radenković
Born 1949
Marijan Bradvic
1949 - 2019
Ivica Liposinovic
Born 1945
Zlatan Siric
Born 1942
Zlatko Mesić
1946 - 2020