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
Tomaž Šalamun
1941 - 2014
August Šenoa
1838 - 1881
August Cesarec
1893 - 1941
Daša Drndić
1946 - 2018
Bora Ćosić
Born 1932
Slobodan Šnajder
Born 1948
Radovan Ivšić
1921 - 2009
Ljudevit Vukotinović
1813 - 1893
Franjo Bučar
1866 - 1946
Ivo Goldstein
Born 1958
Hrvoje Hitrec
Born 1943
Krešimir Mišak
Born 1972
Edo Popović
Born 1957
Jure Šterk
1937 - 2009
Albert Goldstein
1943 - 2007
Nenad Petrović (writer)
1925 - 2014
Egon Caesar Conte Corti
1886 - 1953
Boris Bakal
Born 1959
Lada Žigo
Born 1970
Aleksandar Žiljak
Born 1963
Anna Baar
Born 1973
Zlatan Čolaković
1955 - 2008
Ana Bilić
Born 1962
Svjetlan Junaković
Born 1961
Danko Rabrenović
Born 1969
Richard Steiner
Born 1970
Mladen Savić
Born 1979