Yugoslavia
People of this nationality
Sanja Nikčević
b. 1960
writer
Janez Vrečko
b. 1946
literary historian
Ljubiša Stevanović
1910 – 1978
association football player
Ante Roje
1905 – 1980
swimmer
Vinko Golob
1921 – 1995
association football player
Žarko Bulajić
1922 – 2009
political commissar
Ivan Šantek
1932 – 2015
association football player
Mirko Ivančić
b. 1960
rower
Smilja Mučibabić
1912 – 2006
ecologist
Predrag Matvejević
1932 – 2017
essayist
Meho Kodro
b. 1967
association football player
Sadi Kalabar
1901 – 1960
chess player
Šaban Šaulić
1951 – 2019
singer
Mirca Župnek Sancin
1901 – 1970
composer
Nikola Moravčević
b. 1935
philologist
Simo Važič
1934 – 2019
athletics competitor
Slavko Pregl
1945 – 2026
writer
Miško Kranjec
1908 – 1983
writer
August Lešnik
1914 – 1992
association football player
Dragoljub Velimirović
1942 – 2014
chess player
Mišo Cebalo
1945 – 2022
chess player
Dragutin Gavrilović
1882 – 1945
military officer
Matilda Tomšič Sebenikar
1847 – 1933
waiter
Siniša Kovačević
b. 1954
film director
Uroš Petrović
b. 1967
writer
Aleksandar Vasiljević
b. 1938
military officer
Boško Kajganić
1949 – 1977
association football player
Hakija Pozderac
1919 – 1994
political commissar
Pero Pirker
1927 – 1972
politician
Janez Gorjanc
1948 – 2025
Nordic combined skier
Goran Čabrilo
b. 1958
chess player
Borislav Pekić
1930 – 1992
writer
Oton Postružnik
1900 – 1978
painter
Mirko Vincens
1914 – 1944
canoeist
Ljubodrag Simonović
b. 1949
writer
Edvard Kocbek
1904 – 1981
linguist
Daniel Šarić
b. 1972
association football player
Žarko Potočnjak
1946 – 2021
actor
Dušan Savnik
1919 – 1975
linguist
Ismet Mujezinović
1907 – 1984
painter
Jelena Dimitrijević
1862 – 1945
poet
Marijan Kristan
1937 – 2006
ice hockey player
Slavko Aleksić
1956 – 2025
Franc Pribošek
1917 – 1981
ski jumper
Marta Pustišek
1917 – 1966
gymnast
Slađana Golić
b. 1960
basketball player
Nedjeljko Mihanović
1930 – 2022
politician
Vedran Mimica
b. 1954
architect
Ivo Radovniković
1918 – 1977
association football player
Vladimir Androić
b. 1957
basketball player
Velimir Valenta
1929 – 2004
rower
Matija Barl
1940 – 2018
linguist
Ivan Večenaj
1920 – 2013
painter
Miroslav Šutej
1936 – 2005
graphic artist
Črtomir Nagode
1903 – 1947
geologist
Alekso Martulkov
1878 – 1962
politician
Bojan Savnik
1914 – 1984
canoeist
Ivo Pogorelić
b. 1958
pianist
Lujo Vojnović
1864 – 1951
diplomat
Stanislav Karasi
b. 1946
association football player
Stipe Krnčević
1911 – 1978
rower
Janez Zibler
b. 1958
alpine skier
Josip Takač
1919 – 1991
association football player
Stane Kavčič
1919 – 1987
politician
Branko Miljković
1934 – 1961
poet
Janez Frančišek Gnidovec
1873 – 1939
Catholic priest
Nikola Babić
1905 – 1974
association football player
Duško Antunović
1947 – 2012
water polo player
Bojan Jamina
1979 – 2022
association football player
Ferdinand Seidl
1856 – 1942
naturalist
Ljubiša Đorđević
1906 – 1944
association football player
Ljubo Benčić
1905 – 1992
association football player
Alma Karlin
1889 – 1950
writer
Radomir Šaper
1925 – 1998
basketball player
Momir Kecman
b. 1940
amateur wrestler
Tone Dečman
1913 – 1989
Nordic combined skier
Goran Šaula
b. 1970
association football player
Nenad Miloš
b. 1955
swimmer
Zoran Janković
1940 – 2002
water polo player
Miša Aleksić
1953 – 2020
record producer
Aleksandar Bakočević
1928 – 2007
politician
Živko Čingo
1935 – 1987
journalist
Karlo Kuret
b. 1970
racing driver
Danilo Dončić
1969 – 2024
association football player
Fric Detiček
b. 1943
alpine skier
Herman Gvardjančič
b. 1943
painter
Martina Vidaić
b. 1986
poet
Prince Tomislav of Yugoslavia
1928 – 2000
Ludvig Dornig
1930 – 1996
alpine skier
Breda Smolnikar
b. 1941
writer
Ivica Brzić
1941 – 2014
association football player
Stipe Šuvar
1936 – 2004
politician
Viktor Ravnik
b. 1941
ice hockey player
Goran Vasić
b. 1972
association football player
Marija Radosavljević
b. 1927
shot putter
Veljko Narančić
1898 – 1983
athletics competitor
Dragan Nikolić
1957 – 2018
soldier
Anna Stein
b. 1949
artistic gymnast
Jože Zidar
1927 – 2012
ski jumper
John Holer
1935 – 2018
businessperson