WMilan Begović was a Croatian writer, born in Vrlika, in the territory of today's Croatia.
WIvan "Ivo" Brešan was a Croatian playwright, novelist and screenwriter, known for political satire. His work included screenplays written with his son Vinko.
WTituš Brezovački was a Croatian playwright, satirist and poet.
WDimitrios Dimitriou was a Greek Croatian poet, dramatist, short story writer and literary critic. One of the most learned people of his time, he played a major role in the movement for the national awakening of the Croatian nation as part of what he and his close friend and colleague Ljudevit Gaj called the Illyrian people by imposing the Croatian language in the local literacy and with the creation of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb. His political activism for a Croatian national revival dealt through his participation in many patriotic pamphlets, most notably the Narodne novine and Hrvatski Sokol among many others.
WJadranka Đokić is a Croatian actress. Widely considered one of the most talented and greatest Croatian actresses of the 21st-century, she has garnered critical success and numerous accolades for her versatile range in theatre, film and television.
WMarin Držić was a Croatian writer from Republic of Ragusa. He is considered to be one of the finest Renaissance playwright and prose writers of Croatian literature.
WFadil Hadžić was a Bosnian film director, screenwriter, playwright and journalist, mainly known for his comedy films and plays. He was of Bosnian origin, but mainly lived and worked in Croatia, and was well known throughout Yugoslavia.
WHrvoje Hitrec is a Croatian writer and politician. He is notable for his works for children and youth, most famous of his works being Smogovci, but he also wrote novels, film and TV scripts, dramas. He received several notable Croatian literary awards: "Ksaver Šandor Gjalski," "Ivana Brlić Mažuranić" and "Grigor Vitez."
WRadovan Ivšić was a Croatian writer, best known for his drama Kralj Gordogan and book of poems Crno. Ivšić spent his life uncompromisingly in the spirit of liberty. Such values brought him close to the surrealist movement. He was a friend of André Breton and Toyen and was one of the signers of the last Manifeste du surréalisme, 1955. His best-known statements are “Never give up your dreams” and paraphrase “We are our dreams”.
WJanko Polić Kamov was a Croatian writer and poet. His literary work was small, but very significant, because in his poems and plays he expressed his anger and displeasure over hypocrisy and injustice of his contemporaries in a way unprecedented in Croatian literature. His masterwork is a modernist novel Isušena kaljuža (1906–1909) saturated with psychosexual and spiritual conflicts of the iconoclastic first-person narrator and later described as a proto-existentialist prose, written decades before the literary movement's appearance. Kamov's novel, invariably described as the premier Croatian avant-garde major prose work, was printed for the first time in 1956. Because of that he earned reputation as one of the greatest rebels and iconoclasts in history of Croatian culture.
WLjubomir Kerekeš is a Croatian film, theatre and television actor.
WMiroslav Krleža was a Croatian writer and a prominent figure in cultural life of both Yugoslav states, the Kingdom (1918–1941) and the Socialist Republic. A one time Vice President and General Secretary of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (JAZU), he has often been proclaimed the greatest Croatian writer of the 20th century and beyond.
WEugen Kumičić was a prominent Croatian writer and politician. Kumičić was one of the most prolific Croatian novelists of the realism era and a pioneer of naturalism in Croatian literature.
WHanibal Lucić or Annibale Lucio was a Croatian Renaissance poet and playwright, author of the first secular drama in Croatian language.
WRanko Marinković was a Croatian novelist and dramatist.
WVili Matula or Vilim Matula is a Croatian actor, director, civil activist and politician. He is widely known as one of the most prominent Croatian actors of all time, as well as new representative in Croatian Parliament for green-left coalition We can! (Croatia).
WGoran Navojec is a Croatian actor and musician. In his three decade long career, Navojec has starred in numerous films including How the War Started on My Island (1996), The Three Men of Melita Žganjer (1998), God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen (2002), Long Dark Night (2004), Two Players from the Bench (2005), The Parade (2011) and Our Everyday Life (2015). He has also had prominent roles on television, including the gawky, vulnerable doctor Toni Grgeč in the comedy series Naša mala klinika (2004–2007) and comical but tough Refko Mujkić in Lud, zbunjen, normalan (2010–2015).
WVjenceslav Novak was a Croatian Realist writer, dramatist, and music historian.
WJunije (Džono) Palmotić, was a Croatian baroque writer, poet and dramatist from the Republic of Ragusa. He was a member of the Palmotić noble family.
WSlobodan Šnajder is a Croatian writer and publicist.
WFilip Šovagović is a Croatian actor, film director, comedian, playwright and journalist. At first known simply as the son of renowned Croatian actor Fabijan Šovagović, he has established himself as one of the most prolific Croatian actors of the 21st century.
WGoran Tribuson is a Croatian prose and screenplay writer.