List of Croatian Americans - Others

Others

  • Lidia Bastianich - acclaimed chef, restaurateur, and PBS cooking show host
  • John Owen Dominis - Last Hawaiian Royalty by Marriage to Hawaiian Queen Lydia Kamekaha Kapaaka in 1862
  • Victor Grinich - member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley
  • Mike Grgich - winemaker
  • Ferdinand Konščak - explorer - AKA Padre Consago Gonzales - 18th century explorer and missionary who discovered that the Baja Peninsula was a peninsula, and he mapped the region. Also founded the village of San Antonio Real
  • Ron Kovic - anti-war activist and writer
  • Bill Kurtis - well-known television journalist and producer
  • Michael Lah - Cartoonist
  • Anthony Francis Lucas, born as Antun Lučić, Discovered oil in Texas - first successful oil well in Texas - There is even an award named after him
  • Amber Brkich Mariano - reality TV contestant who was the winner of Survivor: All-Stars
  • Zinka Milanov - Metropolitan Opera Coloratura
  • Joe "Pegleg" Morgan - high-ranking Mexican Mafia Carnal
  • Steve Nelson (activist) - Spanish Civil War veteran and Communist Party leader who was jailed in Pittsburgh in the 1950s; birth name Stjepan Mesaros (Croatian of Hungarian extraction)
  • Michael J. Novosel - recipient of the Medal of Honor
  • Marty Pasetta - producer
  • Kevin Radich - sports reporter
  • Bill Rancic - entrepreneur, husband of E! News' Giuliana DePandi
  • Gene Rayburn - radio and television personality
  • Teresa Scanlan - Miss America 2011
  • Franjo Vlasic - dairyman and founder of Vlasic Pickles
  • Vanna White - television personality and co-host of the game show the Wheel of Fortune

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