List of Istrians

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• Josip Bratulić, philologist, historian, and the 22nd President of Matica hrvatska
• Gian Rinaldo Carli, historian, economist, antiquarian, professor of astronomy and navigation
• Petar Stanković (1771–1852), historian, archeologist, inventor and writer

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• Franciscus Patricius (Frane Petrić), philosopher and scientist; a known defender of Platonism and an opponent of Aristotelianism
• Anton Mahnič, Roman Catholic bishop, theologian and philosopher, founder and the main leader of the Croatian Catholic movement
• Hermannus Sclavus, 12th-century philosopher, astronomer, astrologer, mathematician, translator and author

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File:Francesco Patrizi 1580.jpg|Patricius

File:Herman-of-Carinthia-1024x800.jpg|Sclavus

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• Josip Belušić, professor of physics and mathematics, inventor; invented the speedometer{{cite book|author= Richard W. Bulliet|author-link= Richard W. Bulliet|title=The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x341CwAAQBAJ&q=Josip+Belusic+croatian+inventor&pg=PA29|date=2020|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York, NY|page=129|isbn=9780231540612}}
• Paolo Budinich, theoretical physicist
• Lucija Čok, linguist and politician, former minister of education of Slovenia
• Antonio Grossich, surgeon, introduced tincture of iodine as a way of sterilization in 1908Neurological stamp, Antonio Grossich (1849-1926), Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 2000;69:301;
• Andrija Mohorovičić, meteorologist and geophysicist, known for the eponymous Mohorovičić discontinuity and considered one of the founders of modern seismology{{cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/historians-miscellaneous-biographies/andrija-mohorovicic|title=Mohorovičić, Andrija|author=|publisher=Encyclopedia.com|access-date=30 January 2021|archive-date=1 February 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210201205826/https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/historians-miscellaneous-biographies/andrija-mohorovicic|url-status=live}}
• Stjepan Mohorovičić, physicist, geophysicist and meteorologist called "the father of positronium," whose existence he predicted{{cite journal | author=S. Mohorovičić | title=Möglichkeit neuer Elemente und ihre Bedeutung für die Astrophysik | journal=Astronomische Nachrichten | year=1934 | volume=253 | issue=4 | pages=93–108 | doi= 10.1002/asna.19342530402| bibcode=1934AN....253...93M }}
• Fran Novljan, Croatian educator and andragogue
• Herman Potočnik, rocket engineer, pioneer of astronautics; He is remembered for his work addressing the long-term human habitation of space, and for conceiving the first space station
• Santorio Santorio, physiologist and physician who is considered the father of modern quantitative experimentation in medicine; his studies of basal metabolism introduced quantitative experimental procedure into medical research{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Santorio-Santorio|title= Santorio Santorio |author= |publisher= Britannica |access-date=30 January 2021}}

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File:Belusic.png|Belušić

File:Portrait of Andria Mohorovicic.gif|Mohorovičić

File:Herman Potocnik Noordung.jpg|Potočnik

File:Sanctorius.jpg|Santorio

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• Laura Antonelli (Antonaz{{cite book|last1=Lisanti|first1=Tom|last2=Paul|first2=Louis|title=Film Fatales: Women in Espionage Films and Television, 1962–1973|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4VJCaXXANA0C&pg=PA44| year=2002| publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-1194-8|pages=44–46|chapter=Laura Antonelli}}), film actress, appeared in 45 films between 1964 and 1991
• Joe Bastianich, American restaurateur, author, showman, television personality born in Queens, N.Y. to Istrian parents of Italian nationality but largely East European descent{{cite episode |title=The Long Way Home |series=Finding Your Roots|first1=Rachel|last1=Dretzin|first2=Leslie Asako|last2=Gladsjo|first3=Dyllan|last3=McGee |first4=Peter|last4=Kunhardt|first5=Stephen|last5=Segaller|network=PBS |date=March 2016}}{{efn|Regarding her identity, Joe's mother Lidia has stated: "I feel very Italian, but I do have some Slavic in me, and I relate to that as well; so that forms the mixture that is Lidia."{{cite episode |title=Flight |series=Finding Your Roots|first1=Rachel|last1=Dretzin|first2=Leslie Asako|last2=Gladsjo|first3=Dyllan|last3=McGee |first4=Peter|last4=Kunhardt|first5=Stephen|last5=Segaller|network=PBS|date=November 2020}}}}
• Lidia Bastianich, celebrity chef, television host, author, and restaurateur
• Karlo Bilić (Charles Billich), contemporary artist based in Sydney, Australia
• Josip Crnobori, 20th-century painter
• Jadranka Đokić, film, television and stage actress
• Bruno Juričić, architect
• Luka Juričić, stage, television and film actor
• Orlando Mohorović, modernist artist
• Antun Motika, 20th-century modernist painter
• Bernardo Parentino, painter of the Renaissance
• Renato Percan, modernist painter
• Jakov Puljanin, architect
• Rick Rossovich, American actor, born in Palo Alto, California, U.S. to a father of distant Istrian Croatian origins (his paternal great-great grandfather was from Mošćenička Draga){{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001685/bio|title=Rick Rossovich Biography|author=|publisher=IMDb|access-date=30 January 2021|archive-date=31 January 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210131235405/https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001685/bio|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://croatia2go.com/15-celebrities-you-didnt-know-that-are-of-croatian-heritage/|title=15 Celebrities you didn't know that are of Croatian heritage|author=|publisher=croatia2go.com|access-date=22 January 2021|archive-date=1 February 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210201135612/https://croatia2go.com/15-celebrities-you-didnt-know-that-are-of-croatian-heritage/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.croatiaweek.com/famous-people-with-croatian-heritage-part-1/|title=Famous People with Croatian Heritage – Part 1|author=|publisher=Croatia Week|access-date=22 January 2021|archive-date=1 February 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210201135814/https://www.croatiaweek.com/famous-people-with-croatian-heritage-part-1/|url-status=live}}
• Tim Rossovich, American actor, former NFL linebacker and 1969 Pro Bowl; brother of actor Rick Rossovich
• Teresa Scanlan, American beauty pageant who was named Miss Nebraska 2010; won Miss America 2011 at age 17 and became the youngest Miss America since Bette Cooper in 1937;{{Cite news |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/missamerica/ |title=Miss America |work=American Experience |publisher=PBS}} grandparents are from Ilovik, Cres-Lošinj archipelago{{cite web|url=http://www.novilist.hr/hr/Scena/Showbiz/FOTO-Najmlada-Miss-Amerike-Teresa-Scanlan-porijeklom-je-Hrvatica|title=Najmlađa Miss Amerike Teresa Scanlan porijeklom je Hrvatica|publisher=Novi list|language=Croatian|date=2010-01-16|access-date=2011-01-16|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110118030919/http://www.novilist.hr/hr/Scena/Showbiz/FOTO-Najmlada-Miss-Amerike-Teresa-Scanlan-porijeklom-je-Hrvatica|archive-date=2011-01-18}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/najmlada-miss-amerike-ima-hrvatske-korijene-galerija-239880|title=Najmlađa Najmlađa Miss Amerike ima hrvatske korijene|publisher=Večernji list|language=Croatian|date=2010-01-16|access-date=2011-01-16}}
• Sebastiano Schiavone da Rovigno, woodcarver and marquetry artist
• Angelo and Francesco Trevisani, painters of the late-Baroque, active mainly in Venice
• Alida Valli, actress who appeared in over 100 movies, including a number of American films

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• Mate Balota, poet, novelist and economist
• Boris Domagoj Biletić, writer, literary critic and vice-president of the Croatian Writers' Association
• Viktor Car Emin (1870–1963), writer, publicist, and revivalist of Croatian nationalism
• Zvane Črnja, poet, prose writer, essayist, culturologist, screenwriter, playwright and filmologist, journalist, publicist, polemicist and publisher
• Andreas Divus Justinopolitanus, Renaissance scholar who translated the Iliad and the Odyssey into Latin, and was the author of their first published version
• Drago Gervais, poet, writer and playwright in the Chakavian dialect of Croatian
• Simon Greblo, priest, Glagolitic writer and scribe; with Žakan Juri, one of the most important connoisseurs of the Glagolitic alphabet at the end of the 15th century
• Antun Kalac, poet, writer, playwright, translator and revivalist of Croatian nationalism
• Eugen Kumičić, writer and politician; one of the most prolific Croatian novelists of the realism era and a pioneer of naturalism in Croatian literature; with Ante Starčević, significantly contributed to the birth of Croatian nationalism{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/kumicic-eugen|title=Kumičić, Eugen|encyclopedia=Croatian Encyclopedia|publisher=Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography|language=hr|access-date=9 April 2018}}
• Giuseppina Martinuzzi, educator, journalist, socialist, and feminist
• Božo Milanović, priest, historian, writer, antifascist
• Daniel Načinović, poet, prose writer, essayist, journalist, and translator
• Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini, writer and journalist, author of novels, poetry, and essays
• Tone Peruško, writer and pedagogue
• Fulvio Tomizza, writer
• Žakan Juri, priest, Glagolitic writer and herald of the first Croatian printed book

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File:MateBalota.jpg|Balota

File:Fulvio Tomizza.jpg|Tomizza

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• Andrea Antico, music printer, editor, publisher and composer of the Renaissance, who is regarded as the first significant music printer
• Franka Batelić, singer and songwriter, who won the first edition of Showtime and represented Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018
• Michael Bublé, Canadian singer, songwriter, and record producer; grandparents were Istrians,{{cite web|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2004/05/24/devo-tutto-al-mio-nonno-italiano.html|title=Devo tutto al mio nonno italiano|author=Carlo Moretti|publisher=Republica|access-date=22 January 2021|archive-date=25 January 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210125160135/https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2003_12_190_2993.html|url-status=live}}{{cite book|author=Michael Heatley|title=At This Moment: The Story of Michael Bublé|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vO6aAwAAQBAJ&q=michael+buble+istria|date=2011|publisher=Omnibus Press|location=London, United Kingdom|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vO6aAwAAQBAJ&dq=michael+buble+istria&pg=PT8 Chapter 1, page 1]|isbn=9780857127242}} Italian and possibly Slavic {{efn|Bublé has stated in his memoir: "[On the side of the family native of modern-day Croatia] some say we're Yugoslavian, others that we're Italian."{{cite book|author=Michael Bublé|title=Onstage, Offstage: (The Official Illustrated Memoir)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S45_SrLeHvYC&q=michael+buble+istria|date=2011|publisher=Random House|location=Random House Tower, New York City, United States|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=S45_SrLeHvYC&q=yugoslavia10]|isbn=9781446463246}}}}
• Tony Cetinski, pop singer, one of the most popular musicians in Croatia and countries of former Yugoslavia
• Luigi Dallapiccola, composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions
• Sergio Endrigo, singer-songwriter, won the Sanremo Music Festival in 1968, and represented Italy at the Eurovision Song Contest 1968
• Gustafi, Porin Award-winning folk rock ban
• Tamara Obrovac, ethno jazz singer, flutist, songwriter and composer, won a total of four Porins; singer with second most Porins for best female vocal performance, after Josipa Lisac
• Lidija Percan, singer, famous for her songs in the Italian Istroveneto dialect
• Lea Sirk, singer who represented Slovenia at the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest
• Antonio Smareglia, opera composer born to an Istrian Italian father and a Croatian mother, Julija Štiglić{{cite web|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/antonio-smareglia_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/|title=Smareglia, Antonio|author=|publisher=Enciclopedia Italiana|access-date=30 January 2021|archive-date=31 January 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210131104928/https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/antonio-smareglia_(Dizionario-Biografico)/|url-status=live}}
• Luka Šulić, cellist born in Maribor to an Istrian Slovenian mother from Izola{{Cite web|url=http://www.gloria.com.hr/vijesti/showpage.php?id=16842|title=Gloria - EKSKLUZIVNO / Luka Šulić i Stjepan Hauser: Dečki od milijun dolara|date=2011-11-21|language=hr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124072243/http://www.gloria.com.hr/vijesti/showpage.php?id=16842|archive-date=2011-11-24|url-status=dead}}{{Cite news|url=http://old.slovenskenovice.si/bulvar/domaci-trac/celist-luka-ponosen-da-je-slovenec|title=Čelist Luka ponosen, da je Slovenec|work=Slovenskenovice.si|access-date=2018-05-18|language=sl}} He is a member of 2CELLOS, along with Stjepan Hauser, who was born in Pula
• Giuseppe Tartini, Baroque composer and violinist
• Francesco Usper, composer and organist
• Alen Vitasović, Croatian pop singer and songwriter, famous for singing and writing songs about Istria in the Chakavian dialect
• Massimo Savić, pop singer

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File:Franka Batelić 2018.jpg|Batelić

File:Tony Cetinski Makarska.jpg|Cetinski

File:Sergio Endrigo.jpg|Endrigo

File:Tamara obrovac byMilin.jpg|Obrovac

File:Giuseppe Tartini (Tartini House).jpg|Tartini

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• Mate Blažina, anti-fascist, Order of Bravery and Order of the National Hero
• Gulfaris, Lombard duke of Istria
• Wilhelm Ehm, WW2 Wehrmacht veteran and East German Admiral who was Deputy Minister of National Defense of the German Democratic Republic and head of the People's Navy (Volksmarine)
• Epulon, king of the Histri
• Joakim Rakovac, guerrilla, activist, anti-fascist; he was killed in an ambush by the Nazis in WW2
• Licio Visintini, Italian naval officer during World War II; Silver Medal of Military Valor (twice) and Gold Medal of Military Valour
• Mario Visintini, MOVM, Italian naval officer during World War II, Gold Medal of Military Valour, nicknamed cacciatore scientifico (scientific fighter pilot)

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File:Licio visintini.jpg|Licio Visintini

File:Mario Visintini.jpg|Mario Visintini

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• Luciano Delbianco, Mayor of Pula; successfully negotiated the peaceful removal of Yugoslav troops in the 1990s, saving the city from destruction
• Juraj Dobrila, Catholic bishop, printer and benefactor from Istria who advocated for greater national rights for Croats and also Slovenes in Istria under Austrian rule
• Valter Drandić, politician, member of the European Committee of the Regions, former Mayor of Pula and long-time member of the Croatian Parliament; Officer of the Order of the Star of Italy
• Fabio Filzi, Italian irredentist and patriot; Medal of Military Valor and War Merit Cross
• Andrei Glavina, writer, professor and politician
• Peđa Grbin, president of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia since 2020
• Silvano Hrelja, leader of the Croatian Pensioners' Party since 2008
• Ernest Jelušić, priest, revivalist of Croatian nationalism and politician
• Veli Jože, Istrian giant native of Motovun in the local folklore, and the protagonist of Vladimir Nazor's novel of the same name
• Radovan Juričić, Head of State Administration Office of Istria County, successfully negotiated the peaceful removal of Yugoslav troops from Pula in the 1990s
• Ioannis Kapodistrias, 1st Governor of Hellenic State, whose ancestry can be traced back to Koper (Capodistria), hence Kapodistrias
• Luka Kirac, priest, revivalist of Croatian nationalism and politician
• Šime Kurelić, politician and revivalist of Croatian nationalism
• Boris Miletić, Mayor of Pula and president of the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) since 2014
• Francesco Neffat (Franjo Nefat), politician, anti-fascist, partisan, and Mayor of Pula
• Rossana Rossanda, journalist, politician and feminist, who co-founded Il manifesto
• Francesco Salata, Italian senator, Ambassador of Italy to Austria, journalist and author
• Nazario Sauro, sailor and Italian irredentis
• Vjekoslav Spinčić, author and politician, member of the Party of Rights and Croatian nationalist of the late 19th century
• Igor Štoković, Mayor of Pula, who successfully negotiated the peaceful removal of Yugoslav troops from Pula in the 1990s
• Vittorio Vidali, antifascist, senator of the Italian Republic

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File:Luciano Delbianco.JPG|Delbianco

File:Juraj Dobrila.jpg|Dobrila

File:Valter Drandić 1.jpg|Drandić

File:Pedja Grbin.jpg|Grbin

File:Boris Miletić.JPG|Miletić

File:Rossana Rossanda.jpg|Rossanda

File:Francesco-salata-01-9.jpg|Salata

File:Vjekoslav Spinčić 1898 Vilím.png|Spinčić

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• Francesco Bonifacio, beato
• Miroslav Bulešić, one of Croatia's beati
• Egidio Bullesi (Bullessich), Venerable, the confirmation of his life of heroic virtue in 1997 allowed for Pope John Paul II to name him as Venerable{{cite web|url=https://catholicsaints.info/venerable-egidio-bullesi/|title=Venerable Egidio Bullesi|publisher=Saints SQPN|date=1 March 2017|access-date=13 January 2019}}
• Saint Gaudentius of Ossero, bishop of Ossero and patron of the town and the island
• Julian of Bale, one of Croatia's beati
• Oton of Pula, one of Croatia's beati

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File:Miroslav-Bulesic.jpg|Blessed Bulešić

File:Julian of Bale 1700 incision.jpg|Julian of Bale

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• Maximianus, Bishop of Ravenna
• Josip Pavlišić, Bishop of Rijeka
• Isidoro Sain, the first Bishop of Rijeka
• Antonio Santin, Archbishop of Trieste, and the second Bishop of Rijeka
• Josip Ujčić, the second Archbishop of Belgrade

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• Juraj Cvečić, Protestant reformer, translator and editor
• Flacius (Matija Vlačić-Franković Ilirik), Lutheran reformer, pioneer in church historical studies, and "theological controversialist who created a lasting rift within Lutheranism"{{Cite encyclopedia |entry-url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Matthias-Flacius-Illyricus |entry=Matthias Flacius Illyricus |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica}}
• Matija Grbić (Garbitius), humanist, classical philologist, translator and protégé of Luther and Melanchthon, dean of the University of Tübingen 1545–1557; helped and promoted Flacius in Tübingen
• Stjepan Konzul Istranin, translator and reformer who translated the New Testament into Croatian and authored and translated religious books into Čakavian dialect.{{cite book |last1=Franičević |first1=Marin |last2=Šelec |first2=Franjo |last3=Bogišić |first3=Rafo |title=Od renesanse do prosvjetiteljstva |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=naRiAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Liber : Mladost |page=167}}
• Sebastian Krelj, Protestant reformer, writer, pastor, linguist and preacher born in Vipava, modern day Slovenia
• Baldo Lupetina (Lupetino), reformer from Labin, who preached both in Chakavian dialect and Italian; was the uncle-in-law and mentor of Flacius; executed for heresy in Venice
• Pier Paolo Vergerio (Vergerij), protestant reformer

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File:Matthias Flacius.png|Flacius

File:Stjepan Konzul Istrijanin (1521-1579) Glasoviti Hrvati 1886.png|Konzul Istranin

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• Asher Lämmlein, 16th-century self-proclaimed forerunner of the Jewish messiah

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• Silvano Abbà, modern pentathlete who won a bronze medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics
• Jasmin Agić, former football player who played for Dinamo Zagreb and Croatia's national football team, son-in-law of Srećko Juričić
• Danijel Aleksić, footballer currently playing for İstanbul Başakşehir F.K. and Serbia national football team; individually he won a UEFA European Under-17 Championship Golden Player Award in 2008;{{Cite web |author=Paul Saffer |date=1 July 2008 |url=http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/under17/news/kind=2/newsid=794185.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120723004603/http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/under17/news/kind=2/newsid=794185.html |archive-date=2012-07-23 |title=2008: Danijel Aleksić |website=Union of European Football Associations |access-date=2021-03-18 |url-status=dead }} with clubs he won the 2019–20 Süper Lig
• Mario Andretti, former racing driver; won the Formula One Championship in 1978
• Andretti family, John, Jeff, Michael and his son Marco all competed in major racing championships and sports races. Most notably, Michael won a CART championship, and a 3rd place at the 1993 Italian F1 Grand Prix. They all descend from Istrian-Italian immigrant to the U.S. Mario Andretti.
• Nino Benvenuti, boxer, won gold at the 1960 Summer Olympics and two European Amateur Championships, and as a professional the EBU Middleweight Title and the WBA and WBC super welterweight and middleweight titles
• Lorena Beučić, former handball player, played for the Yugoslav national team; won the 1977 Junior World Championship with Yugoslavia
• Mark Bresciano, former professional footballer and one of the most capped players for Australia, born to a Croatian Istrian mother in Melbourne{{cite web|url=http://www.jutarnji.hr/viduka--ruka-na-srcu-za-obje-himne/224295/ |title=Viduka: Ruka na srcu za obje himne |author=Orlić, Alen |publisher=Jutarnji List |date=21 June 2006 |access-date=26 April 2014 |language=hr |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426215034/http://www.jutarnji.hr/viduka--ruka-na-srcu-za-obje-himne/224295/ |archive-date=26 April 2014 }}
• Mario Brnjac, footballer, one of the key defenders for Rijeka during much of the 1960s and the early 1970s
• Damir Burić, water polo player, won the gold with Croatia at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and the silver at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Giovanni Cernogoraz, sports shooter, won the gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics in Men's trap
• Lino Červar, former handball coach; in 2003 guided Croatia men's national handball team to a gold at the 2003 World Championship; won the gold at the 2004 Olympics; won two silvers at the World Cup, three silvers and two bronzes at the Europeans, one gold and two bronzes at the Mediterranean Games
• Giovanni Delise, rower who won a gold medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics together with Giliante D'Este, Renato Petronio and Nicolò Vittori. They were all from Isola (Izola), and won also several European Championships.
• Giliante D'Este, won gold medal in 1928 with the Isola team; won bronze medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics (coxless four)
• Luigi De Manincor, sailor, won a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics
• Samanta Fabris, volleyball player, won an Italian League with Imoco Volley, the 2018 Mediterranean Games with Croatia, as well as a bronze at the 2013 Mediterranean Games and silver at the 2019 European League
• Evelina Galo, former handball player, played for Yugoslavia's national handball team
• Suzana Golja, former handball player, played for the Croatian national team
• Dario Hübner, former football player, became the oldest Serie A Capocannoniere in the 2001–02 Serie A
• Valner Franković, former handball player;won two Croatian Premier Leagues and two Cups with RK Zagreb, with which he reached the 1995 final of the Champions League
• Matea Ikić, volleyball player, currently playing for Kuzeyboru Spor Kulübü and the Croatian national team
• Vinko Jelovac, Yugoslav basketball player; with Yugoslavia he won the 1970 World Cup, as well as the 1973, 1975, and 1977 EuroBasket; won the 1971 Mediterranean Games, and a silver at the 1976 Summer Olympics
• Željko Jerkov, former basketball player; represented Yugoslavia at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics, winning a silver and a gold, respectively; won the 1978 FIBA World Championship in the Philippines, as well as three EuroBaskets
• Gordana Jurcan, former volleyball player, won the 1993 Mediterranean Games with Croatia, as well as a silver at the 1995 European Championship; with Rijeka she won two Croatian Leagues and two Cups
• Igor Jurković, The Istrian Warrior, heavyweight kickboxer, six times Croatian national champion, winner of K-1 Le Grand Tournoi in Paris and FFC Light Heavyweight World Champion, once ranked #8 in the world{{cite web|url=http://www.gloryworldseries.com/en/fighters/rankings|title=Fighters Rankings|work=gloryworldseries.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151020031809/http://www.gloryworldseries.com/en/fighters/rankings|archive-date=2015-10-20}}
• Srećko Juričić, former football player, won two Yugoslav Cups with HNK Rijeka, considered one of Rijeka's greatest players of all time;{{cite web|url=http://www.novilist.hr/Sport/Nogomet/Asevi-s-Kantride-Idealna-momcad-Rijeke|title=DREAM TEAM: Asevi s Kantride: Idealna momčad Rijeke|publisher=Novi list|date=29 August 2011|access-date=13 December 2017|archive-date=6 September 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906023102/http://www.novilist.hr/Sport/Nogomet/Asevi-s-Kantride-Idealna-momcad-Rijeke|url-status=live}} currently the sporting director of HNK Rijeka
• Karmen Kokot, former handball player, played for Yugoslavia women's national handball team
• Igor Marenić, professional sailor, won the gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics; the 2009 World Championships, and three European Championships (2009, 2011, 2012)
• Matjaž Markič, swimmer who won several medals at the European Championships, and a bronze at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
• Fran Mileta, handball player playing for Nexe and Croatia's national team
• Anđelo Milevoj, former football player widely regarded as HNK Rijeka's best defender of all timeLazzarich, Marinko (2008) (in Croatian). Kantrida bijelih snova. Rijeka: Adamić. {{ISBN|978-953-219-393-0}}, p. 467.
• Diego Modrušan, former handball player for the Croatian national team; won the gold at the 2001 Mediterranean Games with Croatia
• Tereza Mrdeža, tennis player
• Alvaro Načinović, former handball player born in Rijeka,{{efn|Načinović is a surname that originates from Labin, Istria. Today, the surname is still most prevalent in Istria.{{cite web|url=https://actacroatica.com/en/surname/Na%C4%8Dinovi%C4%87/|title=Načinović|author=|publisher=Acta Croatica|access-date=30 January 2021|archive-date=31 January 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210131220404/https://actacroatica.com/en/surname/Na%C4%8Dinovi%C4%87/|url-status=live}}}} who represented both Croatia and Yugoslavia; won a bronze at the 1988 Summer Olympics; representing Croatia he won the gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics, a silver at the 1995 World Cup and a bronze at the 1994 Euro Cup
• Sandro Nicević, basketball player, won a silver with Croatia at the FIBA U18 European Championship; played at EuroBasket 1997, EuroBasket 2003, EuroBasket 2009, and represented Croatia at the 2008 Olympics
• Ornela Paliska, former handball player, won the 1977 Women's Junior World Handball Championship with Yugoslavia
• Abdon Pamich, race walker born in Rijeka (Fiume){{efn|Although Pamich was born in Fiume and competed for Italy, Pamić is a surname typical of Istria, originating from Pazin.{{cite web|url=https://actacroatica.com/en/surname/Pami%C4%87/|title=Pamić|author=|publisher=Acta Croatica|access-date=30 January 2021|archive-date=31 January 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210131205722/https://actacroatica.com/en/surname/Pami%C4%87/|url-status=live}} Other notable Istrians with this surname include international footballer Igor Pamić, his son Zvonko, his late son Alen, and his nephew Manuel}} who won the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics competing for Italy
• Igor Pamić, former football player, played for the Croatian national football team
• Mate Parlov, boxer, European Amateur Champion in 1971 and 1973; World Amateur Champion in 1974, and gold medalist at the 1912 Summer Olympicsl as a professional, he won the EBU Light Heavyweight title in 1976, and the WBC Light Heavyweight Title in 1978; born in Split, but raised in Pula, where he moved in his childhood
• Toni Perković, basketball player playing for Split and Croatia's national football team
• Adriana Prosenjak, former handball player, played for both Yugoslavia and the Croatian national team; first captain of Croatia, winning the 1993 Mediterranean Games; named best player of Croatia in 1993, and also won the Croatian and Italian club championships and the 1991 EHF Cup
• Andrej Prskalo, football player playing for HNK Rijeka and Croatia's national football team
• Mladen Prskalo, former handball player, played for the Croatian national team
• Rene Sain, volleyball player, currently playing for RC Cannes and the Croatian national team; won the 2018 Mediterranean Games with Croatia, and a silver at the 2019 European League
• Ingrid Siscovich, former volleyball player, won a silver at the 1997 Junior European Championship and a silver at the 1999 European Championship representing Croatia
• Damir Skomina, UEFA Elite category football referee, officiated at the 2017 UEFA Europa League Final and the 2019 UEFA Champions League Final
• Simon Sluga, professional footballer currently playing for Luton and the Croatian national team
• Giovanni Steffè, rower, won silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics in coxed pair
• Agostino Straulino, sailor; together with Nicolò Rode, won a gold and a silver medal at the Summer Olympics
• Roberto Sošić, former handball player, played for the Yugoslav national team
• Luka Stepančić, handball player, competed for Croatia in the 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019 World Championships, as well as the 2018 and 2020 European Championships, winning the silver in 2020; represented Croatia at the 2016 Summer Olympics, won the Croatian and French championships, and reached the final of the Champions League with PSG
• Vanja Udovičić, Serbian water polo player, Ministry of Youth and Sports of Serbia, who won several medals at the summer Olympics, several European Championships, and two World Championships; father was from Istria, both of Slavic and Italian descent{{cite web|title=Vanja Udovičić: Hoću doktorat, cure ne tražim|author=Srđan Hebar|url=https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/vanja-udovicic-hocu-doktorat-cure-ne-trazim-209759|publisher=Večernji list|access-date=18 March 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210318131219/https://www.vecernji.hr/vijesti/vanja-udovicic-hocu-doktorat-cure-ne-trazim-209759|archive-date=18 March 2021|url-status=live}}{{cite web|title=Vanja Udovičić|date=6 June 2017|url=https://www.biografija.org/sport/vanja-udovicic/|publisher=biografija.com|access-date=18 March 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210318131632/https://www.biografija.org/sport/vanja-udovicic/|archive-date=18 March 2021|url-status=live}}
• Sven Ušić, Yugoslav basketball player; represented Yugoslavia at EuroBasket 1985, playing eight games
• Gašper Vinčec, sailor who won a bronze at the 2007 World Championships
• Antonio Vojak, professional footballer who played for Juventus FC and Naples; won the 1925–26 Serie A with Juventus, and with 102 goals with Naples is the club's top goalscorer of all time
• Vasilij Žbogar, sailor born in Koper; won two silvers and a bronze at the Olympic Games

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File:Mario Andretti may 26 2017 Indianapolis 500 usa.jpg|Andretti

File:Damir Burić 2010.jpg|Burić

File:Lino Červar - Handball-Teamchef Croatia (1).jpg|Červar

File:Suresnes championnats d'Europe d'avirons 619r.jpg|D'Este

File:Samanta Fabris 2018.jpg|Fabris

File:Igor Jurkovic.jpg|Jurković

File:Sandro Nicevic.JPG|Nicević

File:Abdon Pamich FIDAL.jpg|Pamich

File:Mate Parlov 1972.jpg|Parlov

File:Rene Sain - Final de los Juegos del Mediterráneo 2018.jpg|Sain

File:Luka Stepancic 20151011.jpg|Stepančić

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