People
Some of the people Croats take special pride in include:
- Prince Domagoj of Croatia
- First independent ruler, prince Branimir of Croatia
- Founder of the first Croatian kingdom King Tomislav
- King Peter Krešimir IV of Croatia, "the Great"
- King Dmitar Zvonimir of Croatia
- "Father of the Nation" Ante Starčević
- Statesman and soldier Nikola Šubić Zrinski
- Poet Marko Marulić
- Playwright and prose writer Marin Držić
- Inventor of parachutes Faust Vrančić
- Physicist and diplomat Ruđer Bošković
- Poet Ivan Gundulić
- Army general ban Josip Jelačić
- Sculptor Ivan Meštrović
- Inventor of torpedoes Giovanni Luppis
- Chemist Lavoslav Ružička
- Inventor of ink pens, bluing detergent (Windex), the rail-car brake, the hot water bottle, and the anode battery, Eduard Slavoljub Penkala
- Parliamentarian Stjepan Radić
- Writer Miroslav Krleža
- Writer Vladimir Nazor
- Josip Broz Tito, Croatian Yugoslav communist partisan who liberated the country from Nazi German rule and leader of Yugoslavia.
This list is far from inclusive: the list of Croatians includes all the people who influenced the Croatian culture and history.
Read more about this topic: Culture Of Croatia
Famous quotes containing the word people:
“All people have a sense of pity.”
—Chinese proverb.
Mencius.
“If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.”
—Martin Luther (1483–1546)
“It was not exactly a hairdresser’s; that is to say, people of a coarse and vulgar turn of mind might have called it a barber’s; for they not only cut and curled ladies elegantly, and children carefully, but shaved gentlemen easily.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)