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== Zdenko Kalin ==
was NOT Croatian. He was Slovene, born in Solkan (Slovenia). Please remove him from the list. <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 18:48, 10 March 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


== Criteria ==
Can we add Leslie Thomas (Tom) Starcevich to the military section please - thanks <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 08:09, 25 February 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


Currently, "List of Croats" is defined in the lead as:
: "list of prominent individuals who were Croatian citizens or of Croatian ancestry."
While "prominent" may be presumed to imply the ] criterion, this definition is not entirely unambiguous, and may be also problematic in some respects. Here are some questions that need to be answered:
# Do we want to include "Croatian citizens" or just ethnic Croats? (E.g. Nikola Tesla meets the former criterion, but not the latter.) There are arguments in favor of both options.
# Do we construe "Croatian citizens" broadly as not only people who are or were citizens of the Republic of Croatia (1991-present), but also all people who lived and were associated with the same territory? Again, Tesla was strictly speaking never a Croatian citizen, but could be reasonably considered one "retroactively".
# "Croatian ancestry" presumably means "<nowiki>] ancestry</nowiki>", but it is fairly clear that "person of Croatian ancestry"<>"Croat". Are all n-th generation Croats still Croats? Where do we draw the line? ] (]) 14:34, 23 August 2012 (UTC)


'''Split'''. List of Croats (ethnic Croats) ≠ List of Croatians (nationality).--] 14:44, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
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== Male or Female ==
'''Archives'''
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Hi Folks, I have a suggestion that affects the entire list. Given that that the non-Croat (or non-slavic at least) world may not be familiar with Croat names, what do you think of adding a (M) or (F) after each name? I'm half Croatian and grew up with a fair amount of influence from the Northern California Croat community, but even names like ] and ] stumped me.--] (]) 16:18, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
== complete rewrite needed ==


== Inferiority complex ==
This article needs complete cleanup rewrite. This page has been a playground for idiots that make jokes and other idiots that use the former idiots to accuse entire croatian nation for megalomania.


While reading the history of changes of this article I've 'learned' that Leonardo, Michelangello, Napoleon, Brigitte Bardot, Charlie Chaplin ... were Croats. I know there are many editors suffering from the inferiority complex which can be an explanation why all these 'were' Croats. I tried to clean the list removing the names which cannot be put on this list(Schwarz - an Austrian Jew, Boscovic - an Italian, Andric - a Serb). Alas, I see the same name back in the list .
:'''So this way you demostrate your knowledge about this topic and supreme mind telling us who is idiot and what the accusation is?'''--] 08:25, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
<blockquote>
A sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated.
In psychology, a complex, or cluster of repressed fears, described by Alfred Adler based on physical inferiority. The term is popularly used to describe general feelings of inferiority and the overcompensation that often ensues.
Adler described the complex as arising from the perceived inferiority of an organ or part of the body and leading to feelings of general inferiority. He believed that everyone suffered from inferiority feelings and that the desire or determination to relieve them determined people's behavior. Failure to deal with them could lead to neurotic symptoms.
</blockquote>
--] (]) 19:59, 1 November 2015 (UTC)


== Ivo Andric ==
Also, there is a lot of spam here. Some 3rd class artists or scientist propably see this page as a chance to put their names on the internet.


His mother was a Serbian, he refused to be listed as a Croatian in Yugoslav Encyclopedia. Please, respect his identity.--] (]) 23:16, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
I suggest puttin "{{Talkfact}}" next to every possible name here and deleting all unexplained names.


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Cheers.—] <span style="color:green;font-family:Rockwell">(])</span> 16:14, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
# Ljubo Babić
# Vladimir Becić
# Cata Dujsin


== Malkovich Croat? ==
==Ivo Tatic==


Read the answer here (Up to today, I do not know whether I am Croat, Montenegrin, or Bosnian)
I found very little information on this architect but the information I did find suggests he was notable. Why isn't there any information on him? Does he perhaps have an article on another wikipedia? ] 13:55, 26 August 2006 (UTC)


''Kada je prvi put u nekim novinama napisano da sam hrvatskog podrijetla, majka mi je rekla da potječemo iz Crne Gore, za što do tada također nisam čuo''--] (]) 06:33, 12 October 2017 (UTC)
== Removal of actors ==


== External links modified ==
Why have the likes of Eric Bana, John Malkovich, Tom Hanks, Denise Richards etc...been removed from from the list here.


Hello fellow Wikipedians,
If someone has one parent or has some link to Croatia by blood why not mention it...and that inludes Marco Polo, Haydn and Maradona.


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All famous people on Wiki who have a mixture of orign even a 1/4 tend to outline it in the first paragraph.
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:As per The Serbian Americans by Jerome Kisslinger, Chelsea House Publishers New York 1990 pages 99-101 John Malkovich is a Serb. The consulting editors for this book were:
:*Ann Orlov, Managing editor, Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, Harvad MA
:*M.Mark Stolarik - President, The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia
:*David M. Reimers, Professor of History, New York University
:*James F Watts, Chairman, History Department, City College of New York
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Cheers.—] <span style="color:green;font-family:Rockwell">(])</span> 21:22, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
:About Malković I know, he even has living relatives in Croatia, Marco Polo is questionable though he was born on Hvar. Ivo Andrić and Ruđer Bošković were Croats. {{unsigned|89.172.14.249|12:05, 30 September 2006 (UTC)}}


== External links modified ==
Ivo Andric was a Serb, he wrote mostly about serbs and people in bosnia, he lived in serbia, was serbian ambasador, and both of his parents were Serbs. <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 12:21, 22 December 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->


Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have found some intersting theories and propaganda on the net.Above statement is one such peice of rubbish. Just because soemthing is in print doesn't make it truth .


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JOHN MALKOVICH IS AMERICAN HIS FATHER WAS A CROAT, END OF STORY.
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:::::John Malkovich's father never declared himself as a Croat. The people who worked on the book above are supreme authorities as to the ethnic groups in the USA--] 12:44, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
::::::Serb propaganda my friend in book form, i only know him to be know as American of Croat origin] 03:52, 11 October 2006 (UTC)


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:::::::Yeah sure, whenever something is in Serbs favor it's Serbian propaganda, stop being childish and believing in CROATIAN PROPAGANDA. For god sake...


Cheers.—] <span style="color:green;font-family:Rockwell">(])</span> 00:23, 25 December 2017 (UTC)
:::::::Also if someone has living relatives in Croatia, that doesn't make him Croatian! ] 13:21, 19 March 2007 (UTC)


== Requested move 21 July 2018 ==
I can also show you books to say Nikola Tesla was Croat, but we all know he was simply born in Croatia to Serbian parents.


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As for John Malkovich he was always know as Yugoslav later as Croatian...very few places will list him as Serb and if they do it's usually a mistake.
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The result of the move request was: '''moved as requested''' per the discussion below. ]<small>]</small> 02:05, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
PS We're fighting over silly things.
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] → {{no redirect|List of people from Croatia}} – Per ], ], and ], we cannot commingle "people from Croatia" and "people with some Croatian ancestry"; the latter ] anyway. Talk pages of articles with ambiguous titles like this show a lot of dispute about inclusion, and it's caused by an impermissibly confused scope and a misleading title. This should move for ] with almost all of the rest of our "people from {{var|X}}" articles and categories. <small>The remaining "List of {{var|Label}}s" and "List of {{var|Label}} people" pages are being taken one RM at a time, since they vary between labels that are ethnic, national/regional, or both, on a case-by-case basis.</small> The scope will need cleanup; it is presently explicitly mixing people from Croatia and people who are not from there but identify as of Croatian heritage (what about 1/4 Croatian? 1/16? On the basis of what sources?). The latter is just not an encyclopedic criterion at all and is inevitably going to lead to OR and PoV. At this article it already has, and it's been tagged as problematic in this regard {{em|since 2009}}. Time to just fix it. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — ] ] ] 😼 </span> 04:11, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
=== WHY DID SOMEONE DELETE, IVO ANDRIC, RUDJER BOSCOVICH AND JOHN MALKOVICH???? ===
*'''Support''' per above and my reasoning at the move request at ]. ''']<sup><small>]</small></sup>''' 04:19, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
*'''Comment'''. If I understand correctly, e.g. ] would be in scope of "List of people from Croatia"? I'd still slightly prefer the earlier name, "List of Croats" (the article was apparently stealthily renamed a while ago for whatever reason), although my gripe with it was that it never clearly defined the scope of the list (i.e. who is a "Croat"), and was therefore messy and pointless. ] (]) 13:23, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
*:Tesla would still qualify, since he was born there. Also qualifies for American lists as a permanent resident and naturalized citizen. Would also qualify for a list of ethnic Serbs, if we wanted such a thing. "List of Croats" has all the problems of "List of Croatians". It's going to be confused a mixture of people who live in Croatia and people with some degree of Croatian ancestry but who have never set foot there. <span style="white-space:nowrap;font-family:'Trebuchet MS'"> — ] ] ] 😼 </span> 13:17, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
*'''Support''' per nom. As I said, while I still feel "List of Croats" would be ideal, in the real world it devolved into an unfixable mess. (It ''might'' have worked as a list of people who ''self-identified'' as Croats, because it would be easier to get rid of all those nonsense entries, but "self-identified" would inevitably lead into another set of problems, chiefly with sourcing.) The new scope may not necessarily provide an easy way out, but I suppose it's still better than the alternatives. IMO, confusion with regard to the new scope is much less likely, but still possible (what precisely does it mean to be "from Croatia"?). However, these things can be stipulated later. ] (]) 13:57, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
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== unnecessary and redundant marks. ==
PLEASE DON'T START AN EDIT WAR.
THESE PEOPLE ARE OF CROAT BLOOD AND SHOULD BE LEFT ON THE LIST...PLEASE ] 05:11, 29 September 2006 (UTC)


- Some people in the list are marked as "Jewish". I don't see how mentioning peoples religion would improve the list. I suggest removing the mark.
DELETING THEM IS VANDELISM AND WILL BE REPORTED.
- Most people in the category "Architecture" are marked as "architect". This seems preety redundant to me.
] 05:11, 29 September 2006 (UTC)


] (]) 07:39, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
:Srbi su vrlo aktivni po tim nekim pitanjima. Svojataju nenormalno, vrlo drsko. {{unsigned|89.172.14.249|12:01, 30 September 2006 (UTC)}}

::Ja samo ne razumin zasto oni to minjaju, i to stalno svaki dan...zasto treba pravite te probelme. Ako se zna i oni kazu da su Hrvati kako odmah oni nalaze neke verzije da su Srbi.
::Zao mi je da ima nekih koji to rade ...nema smisla i ispadau glupi jer sami znaju da ti ljudi nisu Srbi ] 22:55, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Ivo Andric nije hrvat, Ivo je rodjen u Bosni. Covjek nema veze sa Hrvatskom. Bosanski Katolik. Sta ga veze za Hrvatsku po vama? Religija? Mozda je onda i Papa Hrvat........vi hrvatski nacionalisti treba malo da smirite dozivljaje. <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 09:09, 21 October 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Asim Kurjak ==

Asim Kurjak has been accused for several infamous things, such as abusing harvested egg cells to achieve exceptional results in treating fertility problems and recently of pretty huge plagiarism of his science works (basically, copying parts of other scientists work). If that is proven true, he should be moved to "Infamous" section. {{unsigned|194.152.209.139|08:42, 18 September 2006 (UTC)}}

:About Kurjak's plagiarism see details here {{unsigned|72.75.5.121|00:13, 20 September 2006 (UTC)}}

:It is now official: . Mr. Kurjak told that he is going to ask for international examination of his two papers. {{unsigned|217.14.208.175|22:50, 21 November 2006 (UTC)}}

: Police is investigating claims of giving his patients egg cells taken from other women - HRT {{unsigned|217.14.208.175|22:02, 30 March 2007 (UTC)}}

: Ethical Comittee of AZVO has issued an statement confirming BMJ claims {{unsigned|217.14.208.175|19:23, 17 May 2007 (UTC)}}

== Tesla ==

Has anyone counted how many times he's been added and removed? Just curious. I understand he was an ethnic Serb born and raised in Croatia. As someone with no involvement in the issue, may I point something out? The title of the article says "Croatians". Many people would interpret that to mean "People from the country of Croatia". The article is not titled "List of Ethnic Croats". How about drafting an introductory paragraph to set the rules? Maybe if you define the rules, it would be easier to decide who belongs and who doesn't. Just a suggestion. ] 00:23, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
:No dilemma about Tesla. Born in the Military Frontiers which was (taht time) under direct rule of the Viennese Court, moved out the Austro-Hungarian Empire before 1881 when the Military Frontiers was integrated into the Croatia and Slavonia Kingdom. Claiming such a nonsense is the same as to claim that Archimedes is an Italian due to the fact that his birthplace Siracuse is in today's Italy. {{unsigned|72.75.5.121|00:17, 23 September 2006 (UTC)}}
::And I'll repeat, nothing in the article defines what is meant by "Croatian".
::Regardless of what government was in power, the place was called Croatia when he was born there.] 16:41, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
::: Wrong - the place was called Military Frontiers {{unsigned|72.75.5.121|23:54, 25 September 2006 (UTC)}}
:::: Really? I guess didn't know that. They thought it was Croatia. ] 01:40, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
::::: Firstly read what you have intended to call upon. The reference given by you denies what you've wanted to prove. {{unsigned|72.75.5.121|01:44, 27 September 2006 (UTC)}}
:::::: It contains 54 occurrences of "Croatia" as a place name. ] 14:39, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
::All I'm saying is, if you define the terms up top, you shouldn't have the constant revert wars below. ] 16:41, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

=== Tesla in the wrong category ===

I noticed that Nikola Tesla is listed in "Social Science" not in "Inventors" and he really has nothing to do with social science! {{unsigned|83.131.103.10|11:28, 8 December 2006 (UTC)}}

=== Mihajlovic ===

Why isnt Sinisa Mihajlovic in there? He is as croat as tesla is {{unsigned|83.248.137.228|16:51, 15 December 2006 (UTC)}}

:Good remark. He is a Croat by his mother's side. ] 09:28, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

== Juraj Dalmatinac ==

Translating ''Giorgio Orsini'' into ''Juraj Dalmatinac'' does not make him a Croat--] 00:12, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

== Junior Eurovision winner Dino Jelusic? ==

I'd like to suggest a Croat for inclusion in the list of Croats, Dino Jelusic.

He won the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in 2003.

He's already listed in Misplaced Pages at:

A video of him singing the winning song, "Ti Si Moja Prva Ljubav" in 2003 at 11 years of age can be seen at:

His website is at &

I get the impression that he is highly talented, and I strongly suspect he will become well-known worldwide. (OK, that's just my opinion, but I give some reasons if required).] 19:30, 3 October 2006 (UTC)



== Vandalism ==

According to , it has been repeatedly vandalized in recent time. This is classified as ''plain removal'', and is to be as per ] reverted and reported ]. --] 19:26, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

==Name spamming==
This page needs thorough cleaning/filtering. Too many unimportant or not-so-important names. We don't have to list here every Croat on this world that exists or existed. ] 08:37, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

== Nazis are in Italy not Croatia ==
In order to response to some ]s here:

1.During the www2 many Italian troops were situaed in Croatia. At the beginning of italian occupation, in the night 3rd/4th July 1941 '']'' troops from Split , assisted with armored escort of '']'' destroyed almost all stores in Split . Reason: the owners rejected to change the store names from croatian into italian. Similar things that were happenning ex. in Germany ]

2. ] occupation of ] has lasted unfortunately much longer. For the Slavic population it can be compared with ] or Jewish destiny during Nazi regime. During the occupation of Istra all Slavophones had to italianize their names. Even the names on the graves were italianized. That was for more than 20 years of one of the worst fascist terror in the 20th century.

3. You forget that Nazis were '''your''' companions for 12 years. In fact '''Italians/Germans were inventors of fascism/nazism'''. So , do not give us a lectures about our history.
Even still today are being legally sold all the souvenirs of ] and ] in Italy. Not in Croatia

Take look at these links:

Smrt fašizmu!
Pozdrav Domovini! --] 21:02, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

== Religion - Bishop Joseph James Potocnak - NOT A CROATIAN ==

I am the niece of Bishop Potocnak. My father is his brother. Both are alive; therefore, I know my heritage. Bishop Potocnak is 1/2 Ukrainian (Rusyn), 1/2 Slovakian. He is not a Croatian, nor does he consider himself one. He considers himself an Eastern European immigrant to the US because of his parents' background, but I know Croatia has NEVER been considered our land of origin. Please remove this as it is incorrect - and also unfair to the two countries to which he does associate himself. While I obviously consider this an indisputable fact as I am his niece, I will leave it to others to determine that. However, I'd like this changed as soon as possible. I would be happy to add the information under the other countries as well as a bio of my uncle.] 01:30, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

:hahaha, you're lying, ''to the US''?? Isn't he from South Africa? I've added him to the list along with the other bishops... Potocnjak is either Slovanian or Croatian, probably Slovenian tho, now that I think about it... {{unsigned|Cold water|05:44, 3 March 2007 (UTC)}}

::No...I'm not lying. My uncle, who spells his name Potocnak (no j, please) may currently be a bishop *in* South Africa, but is not FROM South Africa. While he now reports directly to Rome, his initial association was Sacred Heart, US branch (Wisconsin - he went to seminary there). Potocnak is (according to my grandparents) Slovakian, *not* Slovenian. My uncle, in fact, was BORN in the US, in Pennsylvania to be exact. It is his parents who were the immigrants. His mother was Ukrainian (Rusyn), father Slovakian. Please take your ignorance and racism somewhere else, please.] 19:47, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

== Marco Polo ==

MARCO POLO WAS BORN IN KORCULA NOT HVAR {{unsigned|66.167.78.99|06:50, 8 January 2007 (UTC)}}


Marco Polo was born in Venice. Quote from "Il Milione": ''Marco Polo, savio e nobile cittadino di Vinegia''. Please, have a look here:

== Maradona ==
I dont believe Diego Maradona is croatian. Hes under the sports players. can anyone change this? {{unsigned|71.254.211.239|11:25, 11 January 2007 (UTC)}}
:Thsi lists people who are Croatian, or who have "Croat ancestry" - which is the case with Maradona as his grandmother or somethign was a croat. {{unsigned|58.165.118.58|11:30, 11 January 2007 (UTC)}}

== Dukes ==

Mislav and Domagoj should be added to the military list. {{unsigned|89.172.26.227|13:58, 20 January 2007 (UTC)}}

== Cleaning of this article ==

This article needs thorough cleaning up. <br>
So many names that don't deserve to be here. I see (self)propaganda of anonimous persons. ] 14:19, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

== Sasa Petricic (Media) is not a Croat ==

He is Serbian. <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (]) 05:12, 8 February 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->

== Ivo Andric is not from Croatia or a Croatian! ==

Ivo Andric is born in Bosnia in a catholic family! Ivo Andric has never lived in Croatia, he spent his life writing books in Serbia, that is also where he recived his Nobel prize. Claiming that Ivo Andric is from Croatia is as stupid as claiming that Kim Il Sung is from Zimbabwe. Ivo Andric has also stated numerous times that he is in fact Serb.{{unsigned|Adnan22|17:15, 1 March 2007 (UTC)}}

:]Adnan, read the article before you say something. Here's a scanned picture, where Ivo Andrić declared himself as a Croat (he did that part of his life).</br>Is this enough? ] 07:56, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

::No it is not enough, Ivo Andric has nothing to do with croatia, he has never lived in croatia. As it says on the paper he is from Bosnia. Later on in life Ivo Andric has stated that he is serb. He has spent his life in Serbia, and later on stated that he is a serb. Bottom line is, he is born in Bosnia and not croatia. He is definetley not from croatia or a croatian national.{{unsigned|212.214.204.91|13:00, 3 March 2007 (UTC)}}

:::Childish denying. Look at the evidence. He declared himself as Croat in one part of his life. But his family is Croat family. Live with that. ] 18:32, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

::::No but rather nationalistic lies to decieve others. You do realise that many people in Bosnia and Serbia and hell even Slovenia call themselves Croats even though they DO not or have NEVER lived in Croatia? Explain to me why he chose to live his life in Serbia and not in his "homeland" croatia? Because he is NOT croatian, he could be croat but NOT croatian!

::::And stop deleting my argument about Marijan Benes, who also is NOT croatian! {{unsigned|212.214.204.75|19:06, 4 March 2007 (UTC)}}

== Marijan Benes is a Bosnian ==

Can you people stop listing personalities who are not from croatia as famous croatian people? Marijan Benes is and has lived in Bosnia in the town of Banjaluka. He is a Bosnian catholic, you can come down to Banjaluka find the pub called "Nana" and ask Marijan Yourself! {{unsigned|Adnan22|14:33, 4 March 2007 (UTC)}}

== Oscar Nemon==

Please can you change the sculptor Nemon Oscar to Oscar Nemon as his name is the wrong way round? Many thanks, Emma <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (]) 19:22, 17 March 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->

== Johnny Mercer is not Croatian ==

Johnny Mercer is not Croatian. He himself was born in Savannah, Georgia, USA. His father's line is American for several generations. His maternal grandparents were Croatian immigrants, but his mother was American-born and a US citizen. ] 14:59, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

== I have 2 more people to add to the list. ==

Anthony Burulcich - the drummer for ].

] - TV personality, best known as the presenter for ] in Australia.

Thanks. <small>—The preceding ] comment was added by ] (]) 05:20, 16 April 2007 (UTC).</small><!-- HagermanBot Auto-Unsigned -->


I have one for you to add to the list.... Frank Vlasic ......The creator and owner of Vlasic Pickles. <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (] • ]) 07:32, 25 February 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Tito ==

CAN SOMEONE REMOVE THE PICTURE OF TITO? WHY IS IT THAT OF ALL THE PEOPLE HE IS THE ONLY ONE WITH A PICTURE?
PLEASE REMOVE IT TO PRESERVE MY SANNITY. {{unsigned|64.105.136.42|02:55, 15 May 2007 (UTC)}}

== Add Zvonimir Berković ==

I propose adding Zvonimir Berković, film director, screenplay writer and university professor (See , or ], one of his films). He is also quite uncontroversial.

--] 05:01, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

== I've stopped contributing to this list ==

So far, I have added many names, and contributed greatly to this list, but because most of the names have been taken off, I just don't feel like continuing doing this. This list is pretty weird. There are many other celebrities with distant Croatian heritage that I've found, but don't feel like adding them here. I wish we had another site for that. {{unsigned|Cold water|23:37, 19 July 2007 (UTC)}}

==The German - US cinema director Werner Herzog==
In some biographies is written that at least one of his parents were Croatians,it seems that his father.His real name is mentioned to be Werner Stipetic,if this is not a legend.Ewan <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 09:37, 28 October 2007 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

==Infamy?!==

u cant write that! or u must write it for every nation! so please, delete it <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 13:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Sergio Endrigo ==
Sergio Endrigo was italian, not croatian. Please correct. You can alse see his own homepage: http://www.sergioendrigo.it/... <small>—Preceding ] comment added by ] (]) 22:26, 2 September 2008 (UTC)</small><!-- Template:UnsignedIP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

== Croats? ==

I don't know who made this list but I can tell he made a terrible job. This list has too many mistakes, first of all Slavica Ecclestone, I don't know who the hell put her on the list because she is an ethnic Serb. This guy Dušan Vukotić is hardly a Croat, you just need to look at his name Dušan and if you have a brain you will understand that he is not a Croat. Branko Lustig is not a Croat but a Jew and he belong to the List of Jews list, the same thing is with David Schwarz. Strossmayer is a half-Croat and he should be removed from the list. '''Ivo Andrić''' isn't a Croat damnit, he declared as a Serb multiple times and he belongs to the List of Serbs. You should put on your list Svetozar Boroević von Bojna who was orthodox by religion but he declared as a Croat. Nina Morić and Saša,Tin i Kedžo, what can I say to that, they are not famous and I'm not sure that they are Croats. So this list needs some cleansing.] (]) 17:40, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

:Look at ] and ]. I wonder, which one is a Serb and which one is a Croat? Or, say, ]. Branislav/Branimir is definitely a Croatian name (see ] as an example) and Ivanović - well, it's not Jovanović. So? ] <sup>(])</sup> 16:45, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Well I can say that this guy Svetozar Delić is a Serb. About Bojana Bijelić I can't say anything but her name sounds like a Serb one. Branislav and Branimir are not the same, have you ever seen a Serb named Branislav.

P.S. you can't be certain with names of people who lived were borned during YU because back then you could find a Serbian name on a Croat and the opposite (thing were fucked up).
But still some names are Serbian for sure like: Aleksandar, Pavle, Duško/Dušan, Boris...] (]) 13:37, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

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Criteria

Currently, "List of Croats" is defined in the lead as:

"list of prominent individuals who were Croatian citizens or of Croatian ancestry."

While "prominent" may be presumed to imply the WP:LISTPEOPLE criterion, this definition is not entirely unambiguous, and may be also problematic in some respects. Here are some questions that need to be answered:

  1. Do we want to include "Croatian citizens" or just ethnic Croats? (E.g. Nikola Tesla meets the former criterion, but not the latter.) There are arguments in favor of both options.
  2. Do we construe "Croatian citizens" broadly as not only people who are or were citizens of the Republic of Croatia (1991-present), but also all people who lived and were associated with the same territory? Again, Tesla was strictly speaking never a Croatian citizen, but could be reasonably considered one "retroactively".
  3. "Croatian ancestry" presumably means "] ancestry", but it is fairly clear that "person of Croatian ancestry"<>"Croat". Are all n-th generation Croats still Croats? Where do we draw the line? GregorB (talk) 14:34, 23 August 2012 (UTC)

Split. List of Croats (ethnic Croats) ≠ List of Croatians (nationality).--Zoupan 14:44, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Male or Female

Hi Folks, I have a suggestion that affects the entire list. Given that that the non-Croat (or non-slavic at least) world may not be familiar with Croat names, what do you think of adding a (M) or (F) after each name? I'm half Croatian and grew up with a fair amount of influence from the Northern California Croat community, but even names like Ignjat and Vanja stumped me.--Scalhotrod - Just your average banjo playing, drag racing, cowboy... (talk) 16:18, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Inferiority complex

While reading the history of changes of this article I've 'learned' that Leonardo, Michelangello, Napoleon, Brigitte Bardot, Charlie Chaplin ... were Croats. I know there are many editors suffering from the inferiority complex which can be an explanation why all these 'were' Croats. I tried to clean the list removing the names which cannot be put on this list(Schwarz - an Austrian Jew, Boscovic - an Italian, Andric - a Serb). Alas, I see the same name back in the list .

A sense of personal inferiority arising from conflict between the desire to be noticed and the fear of being humiliated. In psychology, a complex, or cluster of repressed fears, described by Alfred Adler based on physical inferiority. The term is popularly used to describe general feelings of inferiority and the overcompensation that often ensues. Adler described the complex as arising from the perceived inferiority of an organ or part of the body and leading to feelings of general inferiority. He believed that everyone suffered from inferiority feelings and that the desire or determination to relieve them determined people's behavior. Failure to deal with them could lead to neurotic symptoms.

--72.66.12.17 (talk) 19:59, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Ivo Andric

His mother was a Serbian, he refused to be listed as a Croatian in Yugoslav Encyclopedia. Please, respect his identity.--72.66.12.17 (talk) 23:16, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

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Malkovich Croat?

Read the answer here Do danas ne znam jesam li Hrvat, Crnogorac ili Bosanac (Up to today, I do not know whether I am Croat, Montenegrin, or Bosnian)

Kada je prvi put u nekim novinama napisano da sam hrvatskog podrijetla, majka mi je rekla da potječemo iz Crne Gore, za što do tada također nisam čuo--109.92.171.142 (talk) 06:33, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested per the discussion below. Dekimasuよ! 02:05, 29 July 2018 (UTC)


List of CroatiansList of people from Croatia – Per WP:NOR, WP:NPOV, and WP:COATRACK, we cannot commingle "people from Croatia" and "people with some Croatian ancestry"; the latter isn't an encyclopedic classification anyway. Talk pages of articles with ambiguous titles like this show a lot of dispute about inclusion, and it's caused by an impermissibly confused scope and a misleading title. This should move for WP:CONSISTENCY with almost all of the rest of our "people from X" articles and categories. The remaining "List of Labels" and "List of Label people" pages are being taken one RM at a time, since they vary between labels that are ethnic, national/regional, or both, on a case-by-case basis. The scope will need cleanup; it is presently explicitly mixing people from Croatia and people who are not from there but identify as of Croatian heritage (what about 1/4 Croatian? 1/16? On the basis of what sources?). The latter is just not an encyclopedic criterion at all and is inevitably going to lead to OR and PoV. At this article it already has, and it's been tagged as problematic in this regard since 2009. Time to just fix it.  — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  04:11, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

  • Support per above and my reasoning at the move request at Talk:List of people from Sardinia. Vaselineeeeeeee 04:19, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
  • Comment. If I understand correctly, e.g. Nikola Tesla would be in scope of "List of people from Croatia"? I'd still slightly prefer the earlier name, "List of Croats" (the article was apparently stealthily renamed a while ago for whatever reason), although my gripe with it was that it never clearly defined the scope of the list (i.e. who is a "Croat"), and was therefore messy and pointless. GregorB (talk) 13:23, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
    Tesla would still qualify, since he was born there. Also qualifies for American lists as a permanent resident and naturalized citizen. Would also qualify for a list of ethnic Serbs, if we wanted such a thing. "List of Croats" has all the problems of "List of Croatians". It's going to be confused a mixture of people who live in Croatia and people with some degree of Croatian ancestry but who have never set foot there.  — SMcCandlish ¢ 😼  13:17, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
  • Support per nom. As I said, while I still feel "List of Croats" would be ideal, in the real world it devolved into an unfixable mess. (It might have worked as a list of people who self-identified as Croats, because it would be easier to get rid of all those nonsense entries, but "self-identified" would inevitably lead into another set of problems, chiefly with sourcing.) The new scope may not necessarily provide an easy way out, but I suppose it's still better than the alternatives. IMO, confusion with regard to the new scope is much less likely, but still possible (what precisely does it mean to be "from Croatia"?). However, these things can be stipulated later. GregorB (talk) 13:57, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

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unnecessary and redundant marks.

- Some people in the list are marked as "Jewish". I don't see how mentioning peoples religion would improve the list. I suggest removing the mark. - Most people in the category "Architecture" are marked as "architect". This seems preety redundant to me.

62.146.75.212 (talk) 07:39, 3 June 2019 (UTC)

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