Petrinja, Croatia
1. Krsto Hegedušić (1901)
Croatian Naive Painter
Painter of the Naïve Art movement and founding member of the Earth Group, a Croatian artists' collective. His 1969 work "The Bridegroom, the Ox and the Pump" was a critique...
2. Svetozar Delić (1885)
Croatian Politician
Svetozar Delić was the first communist mayor of Zagreb Croatia. Although he is known for his work in the early Yugoslav communist organization Napred Delić is mostly recognized for being...
3. Branko Horvat (1928)
Croatian Economist And Politicia
Branko Horvat was a Croatian Jewish economist and politician born in Petrinja. Horvat was born in Petrinja on 24 July 1928. In 1944 during World War II as a Jews...
4. Marijan Vlak (1955)
Footballer
Marijan Vlak is an Croatian former football goalkeeper and the manager of Budapesti Vasas SC. He spent his playing career as a goalkeeper for Dinamo Zagreb NK Zagreb and Segesta...
5. Stevan Šupljikac (1786)
Duke Of Serbia
Stevan Šupljikac known simply as Vojvoda Šupljikac was a voivode and the first Duke of the Serbian Vojvodina in 1848.
6. Vlado Lisjak (1962)
Wrestler
Vlado Lisjak is a former Croatian Greco-Roman wrestler who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia. He won gold in the 68 kg category beating Tapio Sipilä in the...