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
- Aleksandar Gavrilovic (one of founders of Osijek theater)
- Zlatko Burić (Danish actor)
- Bela Čikoš Sesija (painter, one among the first representatives of symbolism (secesija, art nouveau) in Croatia)
- Andrej Dojkic (actor)
- Zvonimir Jurić (film and TV director)
- Julije Knifer (painter)
- Franjo Krežma (violinist)
- Branko Lustig (Hollywood producer and winner of two Oscars)
- Oliver Mlakar (TV anchor)
- Oscar Nemon (sculptor)
- Zlatko Pejaković (singer)
- Ivan Rein (painter)
- Rod Riffler (modern dance teacher and choreographer)
- 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)
- Dobriša Cesarić (poet)
- 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)
- 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 (controversial 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)
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)
- Davorka Balic (basketball player; plays in ADBA Avilés in Spain)
- 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)
- 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, father of Mary of Teck, later Queen Mary, hence the great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II)
- 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)
- Daška McLean (daughter of Ivan Rikard Ivanović)
- Franjo Šeper (Archbishop of Zagreb from 1960-1968, and Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1968-1981)
- 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)