List of people from Osijek

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

Artists, musicians and actors

*Zlatko Burić (famous Danish actor)
*Bela Čikoš Sesija (painter, one among the first representatives of symbolism (secesija, art nouveau) in Croatia)
*Hugo Conrad von Hötzendorf (19th century painter)
*Izidor Jung (19th century painter)
*Zvonimir Jurić (film and TV director)
*Julije Knifer (painter)
*Franjo Krežma (famous violinist)
*Branko Lustig (Hollywood producer and winner of two Oscars)
*Krešimir Mikić (popular actor)
*Oliver Mlakar (Croatian TV anchor)
*Branko Schmit (film director)
*Krunoslav Slabinac (popular Croatian singer)
*Miroslav Škoro (Croatian singer and composer)
*Dado Topić (Croatian singer)
*Adolf Waldinger (19th century painter)

Authors

*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)
*Matija Petar Katančić (18th century Croatian writer, university professor for archaeology, translator of the Bible in the Croatian, author of the first paper over the archaeology in Croatia)
*Jagoda Truhelka (Croatian novelist)

Politicians

*Ludwig Adamovich (Senior) (Austrian Minister of Justice - 1938, University professor in Prag, Graz and Vienna)
*Branimir Glavaš (controversial right-wing politician)
*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)

cientists

*Andrija Mohorovičić (Croatian meteorologist and seismologist born in Volosco, 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 [http://3gimos.skolstvo.htnet.hr/ famous Osijek high school/gymnasium] )

portspeople

*Davor Šuker (footballer, winner of Golden boot at 1998 FIFA World Cup)
*Nenad Bjelica (footballer)
*Marko Babić (footballer)
*Robert Špehar (footballer)
*Igor Cvitanović (footballer)
*Jurica Vranješ (footballer)
*Goran Ljubojević (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)
*Jelena Dokić (Australian tennis player, former #4 on WTA)
*Kosta Perović (Serbian basketball player; first basketball player from Osijek to be drafted into NBA)
*Saša Vasiljević (Bosnian basketball player)

Other

*Josip Juraj Strossmayer (Croatian Maecenas bishop)
*Ferdo Šišić (historian)
*Franjo Šeper (Archbishop of Zagreb from 1960-1968, and Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1968-1981)
*Francis, Duke of Teck (German Prince, father of Mary of Teck, later Queen Mary, hence the great grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II)
*Miroslav Volf (Christian theologian)