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Croatian fighters + Famous Croats
''Being in the Croatian parliament doesn't mean anything''
''CroCop is the only known Croat''
''Name one ethnic Croat or Croatian''
MMA
-Mirko ''CroCop'' Filipovic
-Zelg Galesic
-Pat ''The Croatian Sensation'' Miletich (Croatian-American)
-Dan Bobish (Croatian-American)
-Jerry Vrbanovic (Croatian-American)
-James Zikic (Croatian-English)
-Elvis Sinosic (Croatian-Australian)
-Anthony Perosh (Croatian-Australian)
K1
-Branko Cikatic, first K1 Grand Prix Winner
-Stefan Leko (Croatian-German)
-Sinisa Andrijasevic
Other Sports
-Ivano Balic - Fedor of Handball
Croatia won the World Championship and the gold medal in the 1996 and 2004 Olympic Games. (Handball)
-Janica Kostelic - Fedor of (Women) Alpine Skiing (4 olympic golds, 4 times world cup champion)
Yugoslavia has won 4 World Championship of Basketball, more than any other country, and more ethnic Yugos have played in the NBA than from any other country, besides the USA.
-Peter Maravich, NBA Hall of Famer
-Drazen Petrovic - NBA Hall of Famer
-Drazen Dalipagic, NBA Hall of Famer
-Kresimir Cosic - NBA Hall of Famer
-George Mikan, NBA Legend and Hall of Famer
-Kevin McHale, NBA Hall of Famer (Half Croatian)
-Peja Stojakovic, NBA star (finished 2nd in 2005 with an avg. of 25 pts. per game)
-Andrew Bogut, first pick in the 2005 NBA Draft
-Steve Stipanovich, second pick in the 1983 NBA Draft
-Darko Milicic, secod pick in the 2003 NBA Draft
-Rudy Tomjanovich, third pick in the 1970 NBA Draft
-Gregg Popovich, coach for the San Antonio Spurs
-Borislav Stankovic, NBA Hall of Famer
-Aleksandar Nikolic, NBA Hall of Famer
ETC.
Joe Sakic, NHL Mvp (10th with most pts. in NHL history)
Joseph Cattarinich, NHL Hall of Famer
Frank Mahovlich, NHL Hall of Famer
Roger Maris, MLB Legend
Beat Babe Ruth's Home Run record, held it until guys who are now suspected to have used steroids surpassed it, starting with McGwire in 1997.
Mario Ancic and Ivan Ljubicic, Davis Cup winners (2005), both ranked in the top 10.
Ljubicic was ranked 3rd for most part of last year, behind Federer and Nadal.
Goran Ivanisevic, Wimbledon Champion (2001)
Iva Majoli, Roland Garros Champion (1997)
Marin Cilic, #1 Junior
Croatia finished 3rd in the WC of 1998. Davor Suker won the Golden Boot and was included in Pele's top 100 greatest footballers of all time. And there are of course many, many, many other Croats that have played for the best clubs in Italy, Spain, England, etc. but I'm not gonna go into it.
Diego Maradona, Croatian-Argentine, possibly the greatest footballer of all time
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Drazan Jerkovic, Golden Boot winner at the 1962 EURO & 1966 WC
Yugoslavia has always been one of the top countries in Volleyball and Waterpolo.
Yugoslavia won the Gold Medal in Volleyball at the 2000 olympic games.
Serbia is the World Champion of Waterpolo, and Croatia is not far behind them.
Ok, I have of course not mentionned everyone, and I'm not going to, now I'm just gonna add some other names.
Tamara Boros, best non-Asian ping-pong player (ranked 7th)
Zoran Primorac - 1993 & 1997 World Cup winner (ping-pong)
Mario Andretti - F1 World Champion
Gary Gabelich, American automobile-racing driver
Bill Vukovich, American hall of fame racing driver
Sofia Mulanovich, famous Peruvian surfer
The Great Antonio, Strongman and eccentric
George Chuvalo, Canadian Boxing Legend
Zeljko Mavrovic, former European Champion, only loss against Lennox (by decision)
Stipe Drvis, European Champion
Fritzie ''The Croat Comet'' Zivic, former World Welterweight Champion
Nikola Pilic, 4 Times Davis Cup Winner
Josip Peruzovic, WWE Hall of Famer
Jerry Sags, former WWE & WCW Tag Team Champion (The Nasty Boys)
Bill Belichick, NFL Coach
Nick Saban, NFL Coach
This is enough
Ok other famous Croats include
Rudy Perpich, former governor of Minnesota
Rose Perica-Mofford, first female governor of Arizona
Michael Stepovich, former governor of Alaska
George Voinovich, former governor of Ohio, mayor of Cleveland, current US Senator
Dennis Kucinich, US Congressman, youngest mayor of a major US city
Jim Gerlach, US Congressman
George Radanovich, US Congressman
John Kasich, former US Congressman
Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago
Nestor Kirchner, President of Argentina
Ivan Gasparovic, President of Slovakia
Francisco Orlic Bolmarcic, former President of Costa Rica
Vicente Merino Bielich, former President of Chile
Branko Lustig, Winner of 2 Oscars (Gladiator and Schindler's List)
John Malkovich
Cary Elwes
Denise Richards
Eric Bana
Goran Visnjic - ER
Bill Kurtis - A&E
Vanna White - Wheel of Fortune
Krist Novoselic, Nirvana
Sandra Nasic, Guano Apes
Jesus, do I have to keep mentionning them, there are by way at least 1000 that I have forgotten to add.
Ok, there's Marco Polo, Joseph Haydn, Ivo Pogorelich (greatest pianist in the world). There were 2 Pope who were Croatians, and one million other people.
I can't continue.
Think before u type, there has been 100 other ''CroCops'' from Croatia in other fields and sports.
Oh and there is the the inventor of the modern world Nikola Tesla, and some other Nobel prize winners that I have forgotten.
And Chile's richest man Andronico Luksic, and 5 other ministers in Chile.
Joe Millionaire winner, Zora Andrich
Survivor winner, Amber Brkich
The Apprentice winner, Bill Brkich
Last edited by jason_voorhees; 02-04-2007 at 08:13 PM.
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