Military
- Nikola Jurišić – Croatian nobleman, soldier, and diplomat
- Matija Gubec – leader of the Croatian and Slovenian peasant revolt
- Petar Krešimir IV of Croatia – medieval king & military leader
- Petar Kružić – heroic defender of Klis against the Turks
- Grgo Kusić – tallest Croat ever, tallest soldier of Austro-Hungarian Army
- Michael J. Novosel – hero of the Vietnam War
- Lothar Rendulic – Austrian Colonel General during World War II
- Andrijica Šimić – legendary hajduk
- Tomislav – first Croatian king
- Baron Franjo Trenk – leader of Pandurs; father of military music
- Petar Zrinski – Croatian ban and conspirator
- Nikola Šubić Zrinski – Croatian ban, hero of the Battle of Szigetvár
- Nikola VII Zrinski – Croatian ban, warrior and poet
- Louis Cukela – U.S. Marine
- Peter Tomich (Petar Tomić) – U.S. Army & U.S. Navy
- Mijat Tomić – Croatian legendary Hajduk
- Svetozar Boroević – Austro-Hungarian general during the World War I
- Matija Zmajević, Admiral of the Baltic fleet
- Rustem Pasha Opuković, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
- Piyale Pasha, Ottoman Grand Admiral and Vizier
- Jure Francetić – Ustashe Commissioner
- Luka Ibrišimović – Priest and Hajduk
- Petar Keglević – ban of Croatia and Slavonia
- Blago Zadro - Hero of the Croatian Independence War
- Franjo Vlašić – Croatian general and ban
- Ivan Karlović – ban of Croatia
- Stjepan Sarkotić – Croatian general in the Austro-Hungarian Army
- Josip Filipović – Croatian general under the then Austrian army
- Mato Dukovac – Croatian World War II fighter ace
- Cvitan Galić – Croatian World War II fighter ace
- Daniel Antonio Jukic – hero of Falkland War
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
““My ancestors were all famous for military genius.”
My Lady smiled graciously. “It often runs in families,” she remarked: “just as a love for pastry does.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)