List of Croatians Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
This is a list of more or less famous people with Croatian heritage, born in or associated with Croatia or of immediate Croatian ancestry, including both Croats and members of Croatia's national minorities.The bottom section also include some corner cases:
- people born in parts of Illyria/Illyricum before the Great migrations
- people with less direct or less certain Croatian ancestry.
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People born in Illyria or the subsequent Roman province, now part of Croatia, before the Great Migrations and the arrival of Croats and other Slavs:
- Diocletian - Roman emperor from Dalmatia, Split
- Jerome - born at Stridon , (Pannonia/Dalmatia)
- Saint Marinus - builder of San Marino, from Rab
- Valentinian I - Roman emperor from Pannonia
- Valens - Roman emperor from Pannonia
- Pope John IV - pope from Dalmatia
- Diego Maradona - footbal player, great grandmother from Dalmatia
- John Malkovich - actor, grandparents
- Néstor Kirchner Ostoić - president of Argentina, one parent
- Ivan Gašparović - president of Slovakia, one parent
- Francisco Orlić Bolmarčić - former president of Costa Rica, both parents
- Joseph Haydn - composer, (see Haydn and Croatian folk music)
- Emile Zola - writer
See also
- Croatian literature (includes a list of Croats in literature)
- List of rulers of Croatia
- List of Slavs
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