1. Ivan Gundulić (1589)

Croatian Poet

Early seventeenth-century Croatian poet known for a religious work entitled Tears of the Prodigal Son and for an epic poem called "Osman." He also wrote a 1628 pastoral play entitled...

2. Petar Preradović (1818)

Croatian Poet

Croatian lyric poet and author associated with the Illyrian Movement in pan-Slavist culture and politics. His best-known poetic works include "Putnik" and "Miruy, miruy, srtse moye."

3. Đuro Ferić (1739)

Croatian Poet

Đuro Ferić also Giorgio Ferrich was a Croatian poet and a Jesuit vicar general of the Republic of Ragusa. As a poet he belonged to the Illyrian circle in Ragusa....

4. Ignjat Đurđević (1675)

Croatian Poet

Ignjat Đurđević was a baroque poet and translator best known for his long poem Uzdasi Mandaljene pokornice. Đurđević was born in Republic of Ragusa. His mother is of the Zlatarić...

5. Šišmundo Gundulić (Unknow)

Croatian Poet

Šišmundo Gundulić also Sigismondo Gondola son of famous poet Ivan Gundulić and Nika Sorkočević and brother of the Austrian Marshal Fran Dživo Gundulić. He was also a Rector of the...

6. Ljubo Wiesner (1885)

Croatian Poet

Ljubo Wiesner was a Croatian poet. He was a follower of Antun Gustav Matoš's work. He founded the publications Grič Kritika and Savremenik. His introduction to Hrvatska mlada lirika in...

7. Jerolim Kavanjin (1641)

Croatian Poet

Jerolim Kavanjin was a Croatian poet from Dalmatia. He was born into a wealthy and noble family of Split as a descendant of Croaticised Italian family of Cavagnini. Kavanjin rose...

8. Đivo Šiškov Gundulić (1678)

Croatian Poet

Đivo Šiškov Gundulić son of Šišmundo Gundulić and Katarina Nale was the Rector of the Republic of Ragusa between 1696–1700. Following his father and his grandfather he also wrote...

9. Brne Karnarutić (Unknow)

Croatian Poet

Brne Karnarutić was a Croatian Renaissance poet and writer. He was born in Zadar probably in 1515 from an old noble family. After schooling in Zadar he studied law probably...

10. Vladimir Vidrić (1875)

Croatian Poet

Vladimir Vidrić was a Croatian poet. He is considered one of the major figures of the Croatian secessionist poetry.

11. Vatroslav Lichtenegger (Unknow)

Croatian Poet

Vatroslav Lichtenegger was a Croatian poet who claimed to have scored and harmonized the song Lijepa naša domovino in 1891. He is buried in the Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb. His...

12. Juraj Šižgorić (Unknow)

Croatian Poet

Juraj 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...

13. Mikša Pelegrinović (Unknow)

Croatian Poet

Mikša Pelegrinović was a Croatian poet from Dalmatia.

14. Gustav Krklec (1899)

Croatian Poet

Gustav Krklec was a Croatian writer. Krklec was born in Udbinja near Karlovac. He studied in Vienna and Zagreb. Since 1922 he lived in Belgrade working as a secretary at...

15. Dobriša Cesarić (1902)

Croatian Poet

Dobriša 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.

16. Ivan Bunić Vučić (1591)

Croatian Poet

Đivo Sarov Bunić now known predominantly as Ivan Bunić Vučić was a Croatian politician and poet from the Republic of Ragusa.

17. Dinko Ranjina (Unknow)

Croatian Poet

Dinko Ranjina was a Dalmatian Italian poet from the Republic of Ragusa. In 1556 he was accepted into the Republic's ruling Grand Council. He was married to the sister...

18. Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević (1865)

Croatian Poet

Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević was a Croatian poet. His reflexive poetry reaching its zenith in the 1890s was a turning point that ushered modern themes in Croatian poetry.

19. Marko Marulić (1450)

Croatian Poet

Marko Marulić was a Croatian national poet and Christian humanist known as the Crown of the Croatian Medieval Age and the father of the Croatian Renaissance. He signed his works...

20. Dragutin Tadijanović (1905)

Croatian Poet

Dragutin Tadijanović was a renowned Croatian poet and in his native Croatia he is referred to as a Bard. Tadijanović was born in the village of Rastušje close to Slavonski...

21. Juraj Baraković (Unknow)

Croatian Poet

Juraj Baraković was a Croatian Renaissance poet from Zadar. Baraković was born in the village of Plemići Rtina.

22. Antun Mihanović (1796)

Croatian Poet

Antun Mihanović was a notable Croatian poet and lyricist most famous for writing the national anthem of Croatia which was put to music by Josif Runjanin and adopted in 1891....

23. Ognjeslav Utješenović (1817)

Croatian Poet

Ognjeslav Utješenović Ostrožinski was a Croatian Serb politician and writer. He is mainly remembered for his role in the Illyrian movement led by Ljudevit Gaj which promoted unity among South...

24. Radovan Ivšić (1921)

Croatian Poet

Radovan Ivšić was a Croatian writer best known for his drama Kralj Gordogan and book of poems Crno. Ivšić spent his life uncompromising in the spirit of liberty. Those values...