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.