Pavao Miljavac

{{Short description|Croatian soldier and politician (1953–2022)}}

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| birth_place = Maletići near Netretić, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia

| death_place = Zagreb, Croatia

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| allegiance = Croatian Army

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| rank = General (General zbora)

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| commands = Chief of General Staff (1996–1998)

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Pavao Miljavac (3 April 1953 – 6 December 2022{{cite web | url=https://branitelji.gov.hr/vijesti/sahranjen-general-pavao-miljavac/4240 | title=Sahranjen general Pavao Miljavac }}){{cite web |url=https://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/hrvatska/umro-je-umirovljeni-general-pavao-miljavac-15283268 |title=Umro je umirovljeni general Pavao Miljavac |lang=hr |date=2022-12-06 |access-date=2022-12-06 |website=Jutarnji list |first1=Krešimir |last1=Žabec |first2=Marko |last2=Špoljar}} was a Croatian Army general.

He served as Chief of General Staff between 1996 and 1998, and between October 1998 and January 2000 he served as Croatia's Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of Zlatko Mateša, following Andrija Hebrang's resignation.{{cite web | url = http://hidran.hidra.hr/rhe/rh66.htm | title = Sixth Government | work = The Government of the Republic of Croatia - chronology | publisher = Croatian Information-Documentation Referral Agency | date = 2008-10-05 | accessdate = 2011-02-01}}

He ran in the January 2000 general election on the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) ticket, and won a seat in the Croatian Parliament. However, he left the party three months later and joined the newly established splinter party Democratic Centre in April 2000, along with other prominent HDZ members such as Vesna Škare-Ožbolt and Mate Granić.{{cite web | url = http://www.sabor.hr/Default.aspx?sec=1655 | language = Croatian | publisher = Croatian Parliament | title = Pavao Miljavac - DC | work = Zastupnici 4. saziva Hrvatskoga sabora | accessdate = 2011-02-01}}

Miljavac left politics after 2003. He owned a wood processing facility in Novigrad na Dobri.{{cite news | url = http://www.nacional.hr/en/clanak/19700/generals | newspaper = Nacional #507 | date = 2005-08-01 | title = Generals | accessdate = 2011-02-01|author=Eduard Šoštarić|archivedate=27 May 2012|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527135533/http://www.nacional.hr/en/clanak/19700/generals}}