List of people from Osijek

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This is a list of famous people who were born or have lived in Osijek, Croatia.

Artists, musicians and actors[]

• Viktor Axmann (architect)
• Zlatko Burić (Croatian-Danish actor)
• Petra Cicvarić (actress)
• Bela Čikoš Sesija (painter, one among the first representatives of symbolism (secesija, art nouveau) in Croatia)
• Slobodanka Čolović (athlete, who competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing fourth, and a gold at the 1987 Mediterranean Games)
• Mia Dimšić (singer, who will represent Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022)
• Andrej Dojkic (actor)
• Zvonimir Jurić (film and TV director)
• Julije Knifer (painter)
• Franjo Krežma (violinist)
• Branko Lustig (Hollywood producer and winner of two Oscars)
• Branko Mihaljević (composer), spent his career in Osijek and died in Osijek
• Oliver Mlakar (TV anchor)
• Oscar Nemon (sculptor)
• Aklea Neon (singer)
• Zlatko Pejaković (singer)
• Ivan Rein (painter)
• Rod Riffler (modern dance teacher and choreographer)
• Sigmund Romberg (composer), studied in Osijek (Osijek gymnasium)
• Zdenka Rubinstein (operatic soprano)
• Branko Schmidt (film director)
• Krunoslav Slabinac (popular singer)
• Miroslav Škoro (singer and composer)
• Dado Topić (singer)
• Adolf Waldinger (19th-century painter)

Authors[]

• Maja Bošković-Stulli (historian, writer, publisher and academic)
• Borivoj Dovniković (film director, animator, caricaturist, illustrator and graphic designer)
• Drago Hedl (journalist, editor of Feral Tribune, winner of the Knight International Journalism Award in 2006)
• Vladimir Herzog (Brazilian TV journalist, university professor and theater author)
• Vane Ivanović (athlete, political activist and writer)
• Matija Petar Katančić (18th-century writer, university professor for archaeology, translator of the Bible in the Croatian, author of the first paper over the archaeology in Croatia)
• Zlatko Krilić (writer and the president of the Croatian Writers' Association)
• Viktor Sonnenfeld (translator and philosopher)

Politicians[]

• Biljana Borzan (member of the European Parliament and member of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia)
• Josip Frank (lawyer and politician)
• Vilim Herman (former representative in the Croatian Parliament for Croatian Social Liberal Party)
• Branimir Glavaš (right-wing politician)
• Ivan Rikard Ivanović (politician and industrialist)
• Zlatko Kramarić (liberal politician and former mayor)
• Vladimir Šeks (President (Speaker) of the Croatian Parliament)
• Vesna Škare Ožbolt (leader of the Democratic Centre political party)
• Daniel Srb (politician)

Scientists[]

• Branko Grünbaum (mathematician and professor)
• Snježana Kordić (Croatian linguist)
• Andrija Mohorovičić (meteorologist and seismologist born in Volosko, Istria)
• Vladimir Prelog (chemist, Nobel prize winner, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• Lavoslav (Leopold) Ružička (chemist, Nobel prize winner; born in nearby Vukovar and attended famous Osijek high school/gymnasium ^[1])

Athletes[]

• Marko Babić (footballer)
• Nenad Bjelica (footballer)
• Igor Cvitanović (footballer)
• Jelena Dokić (Australian tennis player, former #4 on WTA)
• Marko Dugandžić (footballer)
• Kosta Perović (Serbian basketball player; first basketball player from Osijek to be drafted into NBA)
• Alen Petrović (footballer)
• Jasna Šekarić (Serbian sport shooter; winner of one gold, three silver and one bronze medal at Olympic games; winner of International Shooting Sport Federation "Shooter of the Millennium" award)
• Robert Špehar (footballer)
• Davor Šuker (footballer, winner of Golden Boot at 1998 FIFA World Cup)
• Saša Vasiljević (Bosnian basketball player)
• Donna Vekić (tennis player)
• Jurica Vranješ (footballer)

Other[]

• Francis, Duke of Teck (German Prince)
• Jovan Četirević Grabovan (icon painter)
• Mirko Hermann (industrialist, businessman, banker and member of the Freemasonry in Osijek)
• Slavko Hirsch (physician, founder and director of the Epidemiological Institute in Osijek)
• Mihajlo Klajn (agronomist and communist killed during the Holocaust)
• Arnold Kohn (Zionist and longtime president of the Jewish community Osijek)
• Franjo Šeper (Archbishop of Zagreb from 1960 to 1968, and Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1968 to 1981)
• Ferdo Šišić (historian)
• Josip Juraj Strossmayer (Maecenas bishop)
• Simon Ungar (rabbi of the Osijek Jewish community)
• Miroslav Volf (Christian theologian)
• Branko Vukelić (spy working for Richard Sorge's spy ring in Japan)
• Igor Ćutuk (journalist)

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