List of people on stamps of Croatia
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This is a list of people on stamps
of Croatia
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Postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage. Typically, stamps are made from special paper, with a national designation and denomination on the face, and a gum adhesive on the reverse side...
of Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
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- Josip Andreis, painter (2009)
- Ivo AndrićIvo AndricIvan "Ivo" Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and the 1961 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under the Ottoman Empire...
, writer (2001) - Gjuro Baglivi, physician (2007)
- Bruno BjelinskiBruno BjelinskiBruno Bjelinski was a Croatian composer.Bjelinski was born into a Jewish family. He doctored in law at the University of Zagreb and later studied music at the Zagreb Academy of Music under Blagoje Bersa and Franjo Dugan. Bjelinski started composing in 30's with two sonatas for violin and piano...
, composer (2009) - Ivana Brlić-MažuranićIvana Brlic-MažuranicIvana Brlić-Mažuranić was a Croatian writer. Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.-Life:She was born on April 18, 1874 in Ogulin into a well-known Croatian family of Mažuranić...
, writer (1996) - Ivan Bunić VučićIvan Bunic VucicĐivo Sarov Bunić , now known predominantly as Ivan Bunić Vučić, was a Croatian politician and poet from the Republic of Ragusa .-Biography:...
, poet (1992) - Dobriša CesarićDobriša CesarićDobriša Cesarić was a Croatian poet and translator born in Požega.Despite his limited output, Cesarić is considered as one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century.-External links:* * *...
, poet (2002) - Charles the Great, king (2001)
- Marco Antonio de DominisMarco Antonio de DominisMarco Antonio Dominis was a Dalmatian ecclesiastic, apostate, and man of science.-Early life:He was born on the island of Rab, Croatia, off the coast of Dalmatia...
, archbishop (2010) - Džore DržićDžore DržicDžore Držić was a Croatian poet and playwright, one of the fathers of Croatian literature.This respectable citizen of Dubrovnik, the uncle of the greatest Croatian playwright Marin Držić, the rector of the Church of All Saints, the chancellor of the Dubrovnik chapter, a contemporary of the poet...
, writer (2001) - Ljudevit GajLjudevit GajLjudevit Gaj was a Croatian linguist, politician, journalist and writer. He was one of the central figures of the Croatian national reformation, also known as the Illyrian Movement.-Origin:...
, politician, linguist and writer (2009) - Grgo Gamulin, art historian and writer (2010)
- Juraj HabdelićJuraj HabdelicJuraj Habdelić was a Jesuit and a Croatian writer.His parents was Boldižar Habdelić and Margarita Kraljić. He went to gymnasium in Zagreb, studied philosophy in Graz and theology in Trnava. He worked as a teacher in Rijeka, Varaždin and Zagreb where he became the rector of Jesuit Collegium and...
, writer and lexicographer (2009) - Janko Polić KamovJanko Polic KamovJanko Polić Kamov was a Croatian writer and poet.He was born in Sušak, Rijeka. Rebellious by nature, he was expelled from Rijeka high school and dropped out of the school in Zagreb. Because of his participation in the demonstration against the Hungarian governor in Croatia, Khuen-Héderváry, he was...
, writer (2010) - Ljubo Karaman, art historian (2006)
- Augustin KažotićAugustin KažotićAugustin Kažotić was a Croatian humanist, a medieval Christian monk, an orator and the bishop of Zagreb...
, Catholic priest (2002) - Janica KostelićJanica KostelicJanica Kostelić is a retired alpine ski racer from Croatia. She is the only woman to win four gold medals in alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics , and the only woman to win three alpine skiing gold medals in one Olympics ....
, alpine skier (2001) - Josip KozaracJosip KozaracJosip Kozarac was a Croatian writer.Josip Kozarac was born in Vinkovci. He studied forestry management in Vienna and later served as forestry official in Vinkovci.He wrote stories, plays and novels...
, writer (2006) - Miroslav KrležaMiroslav KrležaMiroslav Krleža was a leading Croatian and Yugoslav writer and the dominant figure in cultural life of both Yugoslav states, the Kingdom and the Republic . He has often been proclaimed the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century.-Biography:Miroslav Krleža was born in Zagreb, modern-day...
, writer (1993) - Matko LaginjaMatko LaginjaMatko Laginja , was a Croatian lawyer and politician.He earned a doctorate in law in Graz...
, writer and politician (2002) - Andrija MohorovičićAndrija MohorovicicAndrija Mohorovičić was a Croatian meteorologist and seismologist. He is best known for the eponymous Mohorovičić discontinuity and is considered a founder of modern seismology.-Early years:...
, seismologist and meteorologist (2007) - Vlaho PaljetakVlaho PaljetakVlaho Paljetak was a Croatian composer. He was born in Dubrovnik in the Austro-Hungarian Empire which is now part of modern Croatia. Vlaho was educated in Arbanasi, near Zadar, and worked as a teacher in Hvar and Vis. He studied singing and violin and was a self-taught guitarist...
, composer (1993) - Vladimir PrelogVladimir PrelogVladimir Prelog FRS was a Croatian chemist and Nobel Prize winner in chemistry. Prelog lived and worked in Prague, Zagreb and Zürich during his lifetime.-Biography:...
, chemist (2001) - Vanja Radauš, sculptor (2006)
- Ivan Matetić RonjgovIvan Matetic RonjgovIvan Matetić Ronjgov was an Istrian composer.Ivan Matetić was born in Istria, then a part of Austria-Hungary on April 10, 1880 in a village near the city of Rijeka / Fiume called Rojnici, which is now in Croatia, from which he took his nickname "Ronjgov"...
, composer (2010) - Lavoslav RužičkaLavoslav RužickaLavoslav Ružička FRS born as Lavoslav Ružička was a Croatian scientist and winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry who worked most of his life in Switzerland...
, chemist (2001) - Tadija SmičiklasTadija SmiciklasTadija Smičiklas was a Croatian historian and politician.Smičiklas finished gymnasium in Zagreb at the Greek Catholic seminary, and went on to study history and geography in the then imperial capital Vienna...
, historian (1993) - Petar ŠegedinPetar Šegedin (writer)Petar Šegedin was a Croatian writer.Šegedin was born in Žrnovo, on the island of Korčula. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb...
, writer (2009) - Juraj ŠižgorićJuraj ŠižgoricJuraj Šižgorić was a Croatian latinist poet.He was the first humanist from Šibenik and the central personality of the Šibenik's humanist circle and also one of the most important figures in 15th century cultural life and history of Croatian people.His Elegiarum et carminum libri tres was a first...
, poet (2009) - Antun ŠoljanAntun ŠoljanAntun Šoljan was a Croatian writer in a period of Cold War who appeared as a part of literal magazine Krugovi ....
, writer (2002) - Nikola TeslaNikola TeslaNikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...
, electrical engineer and inventor (2006) - Josip Eugen TomićJosip Eugen TomicJosip Eugen Tomić was a Croatian writer.Josip Eugen Tomić was born in Požega. He specialised in writing light-hearted fiction, with which he became very popular. Many of his works dealt with neighbouring Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is also known for translating 50 plays to Croatian. He died in Zagreb....
, writer (1993) - Franjo Tuđman, politician (1999)
- Blanka VlašićBlanka VlašicBlanka Vlašić is a Croatian athlete who specialises in the high jump. She is the current Croatian record holder in the event, and also the current indoorWorld Champion. The daughter of Croatian decathlon record holder Joško Vlašić, she was a talented junior athlete and attended her first Olympic...
, high jumper (2007) - Cvijeta ZuzorićCvijeta ZuzoricCvijeta Zuzorić was a lyric poetess from the Republic of Ragusa. She wrote mainly in Italian, but even sometimes in Serbo-Croatian language.-Life:...
, poet (1996)