This is a list of notable Croatian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Croatian American or must have references showing they are Croatian American and are notable.

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• Nenad Bach
  Nenad Bach
  Nenad N. Bach is a recording artist, composer, performer, producer and peace activist.He formed the European chart-topping rock band Vrijeme i Zemlja. His USA single, “Can We Go Higher?” was performed at Woodstock '94, is on the album Pavarotti & Friends Together for the Children of Bosnia, and is...
  
   - recording artist, composer, performer, producer and peace activist
• Michael Bailey
  Michael Bailey
  Michael Bailey was the Chief Executive Officer of the Compass Group, a British food service company in the FTSE 100 Index. He stepped down on 31 May 2006.-Background:...
  
   - American veteran of multiple wars, Built the William P. Spyker American Legion in Alexandria, Pennsylvania
• Scott Bakula
  Scott Bakula
  Scott Stewart Bakula is an American actor, known for his role as Sam Beckett in the television series Quantum Leap, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama in 1991 and was nominated for four Emmy Awards. He also had a prominent role as Captain Jonathan...
  
   - actor
• Ivo Banac
  Ivo Banac
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   - historian and professor at Yale University
  Yale University
  Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
  
  
• Lidia Bastianich
  Lidia Bastianich
  Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is an American chef, author, and restaurateur....
  
   - acclaimed chef, restaurateur, and PBS cooking show host
• Gary Beban
  Gary Beban
  Gary Joseph Beban is a former American football player. Son of an Italian-born mother and a first generation Croatian-American father, Beban won the 1967 Heisman Trophy, the most prestigious award in college football, and the Maxwell Award, while playing quarterback for the University of...
  
   - former NFL player
• Mark Begich
  Mark Begich
  Mark Peter Begich is the junior United States Senator from Alaska and a member of the Democratic Party. A former mayor of Anchorage, he served on the Anchorage Assembly for almost ten years prior to being elected mayor in 2003...
  
   - U.S. Senator from Alaska and former Mayor of Anchorage
• Nick Begich
  Nick Begich
  Nicholas Joseph "Nick" Begich, Sr. was a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Alaska. He disappeared in a plane crash in Alaska in 1972. His son Mark Begich is currently the junior U.S...
  
   - Alaska congressman
• Steve Belichick
  Steve Belichick
  -External links:...
  
   - football player
• Bill Belichick
  Bill Belichick
  William Stephen "Bill" Belichick is an American football head coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. After spending his first 15 seasons in the league as an assistant coach, Belichick got his first head coaching job with the Cleveland Browns in 1991...
  
   - football head coach
• Pete Bercich
  Pete Bercich
  Peter James Bercich is a former professional American football linebacker in the National Football League. He played college football for the University of Notre Dame. He played five seasons for the NFL's Minnesota Vikings . He has served as the color commentator on the Vikings Radio Network since...
  
    - former NFL player and coach with the Minnesota Vikings. Currently the color commentator on KFAN radio.
• Michael Anthony Bilandic
  Michael Anthony Bilandic
  Michael Anthony Bilandic was an Illinois politician who served as the mayor of Chicago, Illinois and as Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court. He was a member of the Democratic Party....
  
   - Illinois politician who served as the mayor of Chicago
• John Bonacic
  John Bonacic
  John J. Bonacic is the Republican New York State Senator from the 42nd District...
  
   - New York State Senator
• Courtney Angela Brkic
  Courtney Angela Brkic
  Courtney Angela Brkic is Croatian American memoirist, short story writer, and academic.-Life:She is a native of Washington, D.C., grew up in Arlington, Virginia, and graduated from Yorktown High School...
  
   - anthropologist, short story writer
• Brenda Brkusic - Emmy Award winning Producer and Award winning Filmmaker. Film and Television Producer and Director. Television Host and Television Channel Manager. Executive Producer of Program Development and National Productions for PBS.
• Paul William Bucha
  Paul William Bucha
  Paul William Bucha is an American Vietnam War veteran and recipient of the Medal of Honor. He was a foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.-Early life:...
  
   - highly decorated American Vietnam War veteran and recipient of the Medal of Honor (He is currently a foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.)
• Tony Butala
  The Lettermen
  The Lettermen are an American male pop music vocal trio. The Lettermen's trademark is close-harmony pop songs with light arrangements. The group started in 1959...
  
   - co-founder and member of the singing group The Lettermen

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• Tom Cecic
  Tom Cecic
  Tom Cecic was a Croatian American soccer defender who spent two seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team.-NASL:Cecic spent two seasons in the North American Soccer League...
  
   - soccer player
• John Cena
  John Cena
  John Felix Anthony Cena is an American professional wrestler, actor, rapper, and television personality. He is currently signed to WWE as a member of its WWE Raw brand....
  
   - professional wrestler
• Ann Cindric
  Ann Cindric
  Ann Cindrić [tsindrich] was a pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 6", 135 lb., Cindrić batted and threw right-handed...
  
   - All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
• Fred Couples
  Fred Couples
  Frederick Steven Couples is an American professional golfer who competes on the PGA Tour and the Champions Tour. A former World No. 1, he has won numerous events, most notably the 1992 Masters Tournament. In August 2011 he won his maiden senior major at the Senior Players Championship...
  
   - golfer, Croatian mother
• Louis Cukela
  Louis Cukela
  Louis Cukela, born Vjekoslav Lujo Čukela, was a United States Marine numbered among the nineteen two-time recipients of the Medal of Honor. Cukela was awarded the Medal by both the US Army and the US Navy for the same action during the Battle of Soissons in World War I...
  
   - famous Marine and the recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Jaksa Cvitanic
  Jakša Cvitanic
  Jakša Cvitanić is a Professor of Mathematical Finance at the California Institute of Technology. His main research interests are in mathematical finance, contract theory, stochastic control theory, and stochastic differential equations.Cvitanić has co-authored some fundamental papers on financial...
  
   - Professor of Mathematical Finance

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• David Diehl
  David Diehl
  David Diehl is an American football offensive guard with the New York Giants of the National Football League and is one of only two offensive lineman who entered the NFL in 2003 to start all 80 regular season games through the end of the 2008 season....
  
   - football player and offensive lineman in the National Football League
• John Owen Dominis
  John Owen Dominis
  John Owen Dominis was an American-born statesman. He became Prince Consort of the Kingdom of Hawaii upon his marriage to the last reigning monarch, Queen Liliuokalani...
  
   - Last Hawaiian Royalty by Marriage to Hawaiian Queen Lydia Kamekaha Kapaaka in 1862

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• William Feller
  William Feller
  William Feller born Vilibald Srećko Feller , was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory.-Early life and education:...
  
   - mathematician
• Bill Fralic
  Bill Fralic
  William P. Fralic, Jr. is a former professional American football offensive guard in the NFL.-Early years:...
  
   - former professional American football offensive guard
• Allan Francovich
  Allan Francovich
  Allan Francovich was an American film producer and director who made a series of films purporting to expose Central Intelligence Agency covert operations....
  
   - film producer and director
• Mike Frankovich
  Mike Frankovich
  Mitchell John “M.J.” Frankovich was an American film producerFrankovich was born in Bisbee, Arizona. He played football for UCLA and was inducted into UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986...
  
   - film producer
• Judah Friedlander
  Judah Friedlander
  Judah Friedlander is an American actor and comedian, known for his trademark trucker hats, oversized glasses and unkempt appearance, which he retains in many of his screen roles.-Early life:...
  
   - actor and comedian
• Mira Furlan
  Mira Furlan
  Mira Furlan is a Croatian actress and singer currently residing in the United States. She is well known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn on all five seasons of the science fiction television series Babylon 5 , and Danielle Rousseau on Lost.-Early life:Furlan was born to an...
  
   - television and film actress

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• Frank Gorshin
  Frank Gorshin
  Frank John Gorshin, Jr. was an American actor and comedian. He was perhaps best known as an impressionist, with many guest appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and The Tonight Show...
  
   - actor and comedian
• Jay Grdina
  Jay Grdina
  John G "Jay" Grdina is an American businessman, pornographic actor, director and CEO of . His family originates from Croatia. He is often credited under the stage name Justin Sterling.-Early life:...
  
   - Porn Actor, ex-husband of former pornstar Jenna Jameson
  Jenna Jameson
  Jenna Jameson is an American entrepreneur and former pornographic actress, who has been called the world's most famous adult-entertainment performer and "The Queen of Porn."...
  
  
• Bobby Grich
  Bobby Grich
  Robert Anthony "Bobby" Grich is an American former professional baseball second baseman who played for the Baltimore Orioles and California Angels of Major League Baseball...
  
   - former MLB baseball player
• Victor Grinich
  Victor Grinich
  Victor Grinich was a pioneer in the semiconductor industry and a member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley....
  
   - member of the Traitorous Eight that founded Silicon Valley
• Mike Grgich
  Mike Grgich
  Mike Grgich is a Croatian American winemaker in California. He was born into a winemaking family in the town of Desne on Croatia's coastal region of Dalmatia...
  
   - winemaker
• Elvis Grbac
  Elvis Grbac
  Elvis M. Grbac is a retired American football quarterback who played in the NFL. During his career he was a starting quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, the Kansas City Chiefs, and Baltimore Ravens...
  
   - former NFL quarterback

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• Tom Haller
  Tom Haller
  Thomas Frank Haller was an American professional baseball player and baseball executive. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball with the San Francisco Giants , Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers...
  
   - former MLB baseball player
• Terry Jonathan Hart - former astronaut
• Frankie Hejduk
  Frankie Hejduk
  Frank Daniel "Frankie" Hejduk is an American soccer player who currently plays for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer. He formerly played as right back for Columbus Crew, where he was team captain, and the United States national team.-Youth and College:Hejduk attended San Dieguito High...
  
   - Current US National Soccer Team player and member of the Columbus Crew
• Les Horvath
  Les Horvath
  Leslie "Les" Horvath was the 1944 Heisman Trophy winner, who played quarterback and halfback for the Ohio State University.- Early life :He was born in South Bend, Indiana, and raised in the Cleveland, Ohio area....
  
   - former NFL quarterback

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• Mike Karakas
  Mike Karakas
  Mike Karakas was an American professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League who was the league's first American-born and trained goaltender. Karakas played six full seasons and parts of two others with Chicago Black Hawks. He appeared in two Stanley Cup Finals, winning once...
  
   - NHL Hockey Player
• John Kasich
  John Kasich
  John Richard Kasich is the 69th and current Governor of Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing from 1983 to 2001...
  
   - congressman Ohio Governor (2011- ).
• Richard Kauzlarich
  Richard Kauzlarich
  Richard Dale Kauzlarich is an American diplomat, writer, and intelligence analyst.Kauzlarich graduated from Black Hawk College in 1964 with an associate of arts degree. He received his B. A...
  
   - diplomat, writer, and intelligence analyst
• Michael Klesic
  Michael Klesic
  Michael Vladimir Klesic is an American actor.Klesic was born in Tarzana, California. He was raised mostly in Los Angeles and attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly Hills, California...
  
   - actor
• Ferdinand Konščak
  Ferdinand Konšcak
  Ferdinand Konščak was a Jesuit missionary, explorer, and cartographer.-Education:...
  
   - explorer - AKA Padre Consago Gonzales - 18th century explorer and missionary who discovered that the Baja Peninsula was a peninsula, and he mapped the region. Also founded the village of San Antonio Real
• Ron Kovic
  Ron Kovic
  Ronald Lawrence Kovic is an anti-war activist, veteran and writer who was paralyzed in the Vietnam War. He is best known as the author of the memoir Born on the Fourth of July, which was made into an Academy Award–winning movie directed by Oliver Stone, with Tom Cruise playing Kovic...
  
   - anti-war activist and writer
• Dennis Kucinich
  Dennis Kucinich
  Dennis John Kucinich is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1997. He was furthermore a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections....
  
   - former Mayor of Cleveland, US Congressman from Ohio
  Ohio
  Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
  
  , and 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate
• Toni Kukoc
  Toni Kukoc
  Toni Kukoč is a retired Croatian professional basketball player. He was renowned for his versatility and passing ability; although his natural position was small forward, he played all five positions on the court with prowess and demonstrated court vision and an outside shooting touch that were...
  
   - former NBA player
• Bill Kurtis
  Bill Kurtis
  Bill Kurtis is an American television journalist, producer, narrator, and news anchor. He is also the current host of A&E crime and news documentary shows, including Investigative Reports, American Justice, and Cold Case Files...
  
   - well-known television journalist and producer

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• Laura La Plante
  Laura La Plante
  Laura La Plante was an American actress, best-known for her roles in silent films.-Early acting career:...
  
   - Silent Screen Actress
• Michael Lah
  Michael Lah
  Michael Richard Lah was an American animator. He is best known for his work at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, primarily as a member of Tex Avery's animation unit....
  
   - Cartoonist
• Curtis Leskanic - baseball player
• Mickey Lolich
  Mickey Lolich
  Michael Stephen Lolich is a former Major League Baseball pitcher from 1962 until 1979 who played the majority of his career with the Detroit Tigers.-Baseball career:...
  
   - Baseball Player
• Plavka
  Plavka
  Plavka Lonich is a Californian singer of Croatian and Peruvian origin who lives in London. She mostly performs under the name "Plavka"....
  
    Lonich - Singer
• Anthony Francis Lucas
  Anthony Francis Lucas
  Anthony Francis Lucas was a Croatian-born oil explorer. With Pattillo Higgins he organized the drilling of an oil well near Beaumont, Texas that became known as Spindletop...
  
  , born as Antun Lučić, Discovered oil in Texas - first successful oil well in Texas
  Texas
  Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
  
   - There is even an award named after him
• Branko Lustig
  Branko Lustig
  Branko Lustig is a prominent Croatian Jewish film producer. He is the only person born in Croatia to have won two Academy Awards.-Early life:...
  
   - movie producer

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• Anthony Maglica
  Anthony Maglica
  Anthony "Tony" Maglica is the owner and founder of Mag Instrument Inc, the company that manufactures the Maglite flashlight which was designed by Maglica...
  
   - inventor
• John Malkovich
  John Malkovich
  John Gavin Malkovich is an American actor, producer, director and fashion designer with his label Technobohemian. Over the last 25 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award...
  
   - actor
• Tony Mandarich
  Tony Mandarich
  Ante Josip "Tony" Mandarich is a former football offensive lineman of the NFL. He was the first round draft pick of the Green Bay Packers in 1989, second overall behind quarterback Troy Aikman, and ahead of the third selection, running back Barry Sanders, the fourth selection, linebacker Derrick...
  
   - NFL offensive player
• Josip Marohnić
  Josip Marohnic
  Josip Marohnić remains up to this day the most influential Croatian emigrant in the Americas.Marohnić was born in Hreljin, Croatia , and lived in the USA for 28 years where he emigrated alone in 1893, later his wife Andrijana and daughter Josipa joined him...
  
   - Published first book of Croatian poetry in America - "Amerikanke"
• Amber Brkich Mariano
  Amber Mariano
  Amber Joy Mariano is an American television personality and winner of Survivor: All-Stars, after appearing as a contestant on one of its predecessors, Survivor: The Australian Outback...
  
   - reality TV contestant who was the winner of Survivor: All-Stars
• Roger Maris
  Roger Maris
  Roger Eugene Maris was an American Major League Baseball right fielder. During the 1961 season, he hit a record 61 home runs for the New York Yankees, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season record of 60 home runs...
  
   - baseball player
• Mary Matalin
  Mary Matalin
  Mary Joe Matalin is an American political consultant, well known for her work with the Republican Party. She was an assistant to President George W. Bush and counselor to Vice President Dick Cheney until 2003. Matalin has been chief editor of Threshold Editions, a conservative publishing imprint...
  
   - political commentator and former assistant to President George W.Bush
• Michael Matijevic
  Michael Matijevic
  Miljenko Matijevic, also known as Michael Matijevic is a rock vocalist best known as the lead singer of the American band Steelheart. He has cited Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin and David Coverdale of Whitesnake as his strongest influences...
  
   - musician
• Mark Matkevich
  Mark Matkevich
  Mark Matkevich is an American actor best known for appearing as Drue Valentine in 17 episodes of the television program Dawson's Creek. Matkevich has also had recurring roles on Ed and Joan of Arcadia...
  
   - actor
• Leonard Matlovich
  Leonard Matlovich
  Technical Sergeant Leonard P. Matlovich was a Vietnam War veteran, race relations instructor, and recipient of the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star....
  
   - Vietnam War veteran
• Kevin McHale
  Kevin McHale
  Kevin Edward McHale is a retired American professional basketball player and current head coach of the Houston Rockets. After his playing career, he worked for the Minnesota Timberwolves as the team's general manager and later its coach. He was fired as coach in June 2009...
  
   - former NBA player
• Johnny Mercer
  Johnny Mercer
  John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American lyricist, songwriter and singer. He is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music. He was also a popular singer who recorded his own songs as well as those written by others...
  
   - songwriter and singer
• Ivan Mestrovic
  Ivan Meštrovic
  Ivan Meštrović was a Croatian and Yugoslav sculptor and architect born in Vrpolje, Croatia...
  
   - Famous Sculptor and Professor at Syracuse and Notre Dame
• George Mikan
  George Mikan
  George Lawrence Mikan, Jr. , nicknamed Mr. Basketball, was an American professional basketball player for the Chicago American Gears of the National Basketball League and the Minneapolis Lakers of the NBL, the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball Association...
  
   - former NBA player
• Zinka Milanov
  Zinka Milanov
  Zinka Milanov was a Croatian-born operatic spinto soprano who had a major career centred on the New York Metropolitan Opera.-Biography:...
  
   - Metropolitan Opera Coloratura
• Pat Miletich
  Pat Miletich
  Patrick Jay Miletich is a retired American mixed martial artist and a current sports commentator. He is known for his fights in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, where he became the first UFC Welterweight Champion and UFC 16 tournament champion....
  
   - martial artist
• Ivana Miličević
  Ivana Milicevic
  -Early life:Miličević was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Croatian family, the daughter of Tonka, a homemaker, and Damir Miličević, a slaughterhouse worker and entrepreneur. She emigrated to the United States at the age of five and was raised in Michigan...
  
   - actress
• Tomo Miličević
  Tomo Miličević
  Tomislav "Tomo" Miličević is a Bosnian-American musician. He is the lead guitarist of the alternative rock band 30 Seconds to Mars.- Family :...
  
   - guitarist for 30 seconds to Mars
• Guy Mitchell
  Guy Mitchell
  Guy Mitchell, born Albert George Cernik, was an American pop singer, successful in his homeland, the U.K. and Australia...
  
   - singer & actor
• Joe "Pegleg" Morgan - high-ranking Mexican Mafia
  Mexican Mafia
  The Mexican Mafia , also known as La Eme , 13 is a Mexican American criminal organization, and is one of the oldest and most powerful prison gangs in the United States.-Foundation:...
  
   Carnal
• Patrick Muldoon
  Patrick Muldoon
  Patrick Muldoon is an American actor.-Early life:Muldoon was born in San Pedro, California, the son of Deanna, a homemaker, and William Patrick Muldoon II, a personal injury lawyer. He is of Irish descent on his father's side and of Croatian descent on his mother's side...
  
   - actor
• Lorenzo Music
  Lorenzo Music
  Lorenzo Music was an American actor, voice actor, writer, television producer and musician. His best-known roles include voicing the animated cartoon cat Garfield, and Carlton the doorman on the CBS sitcom Rhoda...
  
   - actor, voice actor, writer, television producer and musician

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• Steve Nelson (activist)
  Steve Nelson (activist)
  Stjepan Mesaros, best known as Steve Nelson was a Croatian-born American political activist. Nelson achieved public notoriety as the political commissar of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War and a leading functionary of the Communist Party, USA...
  
   - Spanish Civil War veteran and Communist Party leader who was jailed in Pittsburgh in the 1950s; birth name Stjepan Mesaros (Croatian of Hungarian extraction)
• Josip Novakovich
  Josip Novakovich
  Josip Novakovich is a Croatian American writer.His grandparents had immigrated from the Croatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to Cleveland, Ohio, and, after the First World War, his grandfather returned to what had become Yugoslavia...
  
   - writer
• Krist Novoselic
  Krist Novoselic
  Krist Anthony Novoselic II is a Croatian-American rock musician, best known for being the bassist and co-founder of the grunge band Nirvana. After Nirvana ended, Novoselic formed Sweet 75 and then Eyes Adrift, releasing one album with each band...
  
   - bassist for Nirvana
  Nirvana (band)
  Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
  
  
• Michael J. Novosel
  Michael J. Novosel
  Michael J. Novosel, Sr. of Enterprise, Alabama was a recipient of the United States' highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor — and a retired Chief Warrant Officer .-Biography:...
  
   - recipient of the Medal of Honor

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• Mario Puratić
  Mario Puratić
  Mario Puratić is a Croatian-born American inventor who made major advances in fishing technology, such as the Puretic power block....
  
   - inventor of Puretic power block
  Puretic power block
  The Puretic power block is a special kind of mechanised winch used to haul nets on fishing vessels. The power block is a large powered aluminium pulley with a hard rubber-coated sheave...
  
  
• Marty Pasetta
  Marty Pasetta
  Marty Pasetta is a producer of many televised award, entertainment and game shows. He produced many Academy Awards ceremonies between the 1970s to the 1990s.-References:...
  
   - producer
• Mark Pavelich
  Mark Pavelich
  Mark Thomas Pavelich is a retired US professional ice hockey forward who played 355 regular season games in the NHL for the New York Rangers, Minnesota North Stars and San Jose Sharks between 1981 and 1992 and was a member of the 1980 U.S...
  
   - retired professional ice hockey player
• Erv Palica
  Erv Palica
  Erv Palica was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched from 1947-1956 with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Baltimore Orioles. He appeared in the 1949 World Series for the Dodgers.From 1952-53, Palica served in the militaty during the Korean War.-External links:* at Find a Grave...
  
   - former MLB pitcher
• Tony Peraica
  Tony Peraica
  Anthony J. "Tony" Peraica was the Cook County Commissioner for the 16th district, and was the Republican nominee for Cook County Board President in 2006.-Life:...
  
   - politician of the Republican party
• Drazen Petrovic
  Dražen Petrovic
  Dražen Petrović was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s before joining the American NBA in 1989...
  
   - deceased professional basketball player for Yugoslavian, Croatian and american NBA teams.
• Rudy Perpich
  Rudy Perpich
  Rudolph George "Rudy" Perpich, Sr. was an American politician and the longest-serving governor of Minnesota. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, he served as the 34th and 36th Governor of Minnesota from December 29, 1976 to January 4, 1979, and from January 3, 1983, to January 7, 1991...
  
  , former Governor of Minnesota as well as Lieutenant Governor & senator
• Dan Plesac
  Dan Plesac
  Daniel Thomas Plesac is a former Major League Baseball pitcher with an 18-year career from to . He played for the Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Philadelphia Phillies...
  
  - baseball player

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• George Radanovich
  George Radanovich
  George Purdy Radanovich is a former U.S. Representative for , serving from 1995 to 2011. The district includes most of northern Fresno, as well as several rural areas northeast of the city. On December 29, 2009, Radanovich announced he would not seek reelection in 2010...
  
   - congressman
• Kevin Radich
  Kevin Radich
  Kevin "The Rat" Radich is now the weekday afternoon sports reporter on KGO AM 810, in San Francisco. He joined KGO in early 2007, after a year of work as a weekend sports anchor for KCBS 740 AM radio. His wife, Kim Wonderley works at KCBS, as the morning traffic anchor...
  
   - sports reporter
• Bill Rancic
  Bill Rancic
  William "Bill" Rancic is an American entrepreneur who was the first candidate hired by The Trump Organization at the conclusion of the first season of Donald Trump's reality television show, The Apprentice...
  
   - entrepreneur, husband of E! News' Giuliana DePandi
• Ante Razov
  Ante Razov
  Ante Razov is a retired American soccer player of Croatian descent who last played for Chivas USA in Major League Soccer.-Club:...
  
   - US soccer player
• Gene Rayburn
  Gene Rayburn
  Gene Rayburn was an American radio and television personality. He is best known as the host of various editions of the popular American television game show Match Game for over two decades....
  
   - radio and television personality
• Denise Richards
  Denise Richards
  Denise Lee Richards is an American actress and former fashion model of Croatian and Welsh descent. She has appeared in films including Starship Troopers, Wild Things, and The World Is Not Enough...
  
   - actress
• Rick Rossovich
  Rick Rossovich
  Rick Rossovich is an American actor.Rossovich was born Frederic Enrico Rossovich in Palo Alto, California. His brother, Tim Rossovich, is a former professional football player and also an actor.-Career:...
  
   - actor

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• Lou Saban
  Lou Saban
  Louis Henry Saban was an American football player and coach. Saban played for Indiana University in college and as a pro for the Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference...
  
   - football coach
• Nick Saban
  Nick Saban
  Nicholas Lou "Nick" Saban is the head coach of the University of Alabama's Crimson Tide football team. Saban has previously served as head coach of the National Football League's Miami Dolphins and three other NCAA universities: LSU, Michigan State and Toledo...
  
   - football coach
• Vladimir Sabich - skier
• Teresa Scanlan
  Teresa Scanlan
  Teresa Scanlan, is an American beauty pageant titleholder from Gering, Nebraska who was named Miss Nebraska 2010, subsequently winning Miss America 2011 and becoming the youngest Miss America since Bette Cooper in 1937.-Biography:...
  
   - Miss America 2011
• George M. Skurla
  George M. Skurla
  George Martin Skurla graduated from University of Michigan in 1944 and was an aeronautical engineer with Grumman Corporation. He began his career as an apprentice engineer, rising through the ranks and in 1965 becoming Director of Operations at the Kennedy Space Center...
  
   - aeronautical engineer for the Apollo Program
• Jason Smilovic
  Jason Smilovic
  Jason Smilovic is a writer, executive producer, and creator of the television series Kidnapped, My Own Worst Enemy, and Karen Sisco. Smilovic was most recently an executive producer on My Own Worst Enemy. He also wrote the movie Lucky Number Slevin. Smilovic graduated from the University of...
  
   - writer, executive producer
• Michael Anthony Stepovich
  Michael Anthony Stepovich
  Michael Anthony "Mike" Stepovich is an American lawyer who, from 1957 to 1958, served as the last Governor of Alaska Territory. Following his education and military service during World War II, Stepovich established a law practice in his home town of Fairbanks, Alaska and began his political...
  
   - former Governor of Alaska
• Rudy Svorinich
  Rudy Svorinich
  Rudy Svorinich, Jr. is a Republican who served on the Los Angeles City Council representing the 15th district. A resident of San Pedro, his diverse district also included the communities of Watts, Wilmington, Harbor City, Harbor Gateway, and San Pedro. He was elected to the council in 1993 and...
  
   - politician for the Republican party
• Joe Stydahar
  Joe Stydahar
  Joseph "Jumbo Joe" Lee Stydahar was an American football offensive tackle for the Chicago Bears from 1936 to 1942 and 1945 to 1946 and is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was born and raised about east of Pittsburgh in the small mining community of Kaylor, Pennsylvania in Armstrong...
  
   - former NFL player
• Henry Suzzallo
  Henry Suzzallo
  Henry Suzzallo was president of the University of Washington from 1915 to 1926. He later served as director of the National Advisory Committee on Education and president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.- Biography :Suzzallo was of Croatian descent, born in San Jose,...
  
   (Zucalo) (1873–1933)- president of the University of Washington
  University of Washington
  University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
  
  
• Louis Svečenski
  Louis Svečenski
  Louis Svečenski was an American violist, violinist, and music educator of Croatian birth.Born in Osijek, Svečenski studied the viola at the Vienna Conservatory before moving to Boston, Massachusetts in 1885...
  
   - Violinist

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• Milka Ternina
  Milka Ternina
  Milka Ternina was a Croatian dramatic soprano who enjoyed a high reputation in major American and European opera houses...
  
   - Soprano Opera Singer with the Metropolitan Opera
• Vincent Thomas
  Vincent Thomas
  Vincent Tomasevich-Thomas was a Democratic Party politician from California who represented San Pedro's 68th and 52nd Districts in the California Assembly from 1941 to 1979. -Childhood and education:...
  
   - Democratic Party politician from California
• John Tomac
  John Tomac
  John Tomac is a retired professional cyclist who competed in multiple disciplines in road racing and mountain biking during a successful senior career that spanned twenty years. He is regarded as a mountain biking icon and was inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1991...
  
   - cyclist, considered the best mountain biker of all times
• Peter Tomich
  Peter Tomich
  Petar Herceg 'Tonić was a United States Navy sailor who received the United States military's highest award, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II.-Biography:...
  
   - United States Navy sailor and a recipient of the Medal of Honor
• John J. Tominac
  John J. Tominac
  John Joseph Tominac was a United States Army officer and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.-Military career:...
  
   - United States Army officer and a recipient of the Medal of Honor
• Rudy Tomjanovich
  Rudy Tomjanovich
  Rudolph Tomjanovich, Jr. , nicknamed Rudy T., is an American retired basketball player and coach who coached the Houston Rockets to two consecutive NBA championships. He is currently a scout for the Los Angeles Lakers.-Early life:...
  
   - basketball player/coach

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• Maksimiljan (Makso) Vanka
  Maksimilijan Vanka
  Maksimilijan Vanka , also known as Maxo Vanka, was a Croatian-American artist.Maxo Vanka was born in Croatia in 1889. It is believed that he may have been the illegitimate child of Habsburg nobility. He was sent to live with peasants, but at the age of eight was discovered by his maternal...
  
   - Painter
• Auggie Vidovich II
  Auggie Vidovich II
  Auggie Vidovich II is a driver who has raced in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.-Career:Vidovich was born in Lakeside, California. Vidovich has competed in the Elite Division Southwest Series for several years. He had a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Auggie Vidovich II (born February 20, 1981) is a...
  
   - driver in the NASCAR Busch Series
• Franjo Vlasic
  Franjo Vlasic
  Franjo Vlasic may refer to:*Franjo Vlašić, 19th century ban of Croatia*Franjo Vlasic, founder and namesake of Vlasic Pickles...
  
   - dairyman and founder of Vlasic Pickles

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• Fritzie Zivic
  Fritzie Zivic
  Fritzie Zivic , born as Ferdinand Henry John Zivcich , was an American boxer.-Biography:...
  
   - "Croat Comet", World boxing champion (welterweight)
• Mike Zordich - former NFL player
• Chris Zorich
  Chris Zorich
  Christopher Robert Zorich is a former American football defensive tackle in the National Football League for the Chicago Bears and Washington Redskins.-Early life:...
  
  - former NFL player