Croatia - 2025 Famous Croats - set of 4 (MNH)
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2025 Famous People
VESNA KRMPOTIĆ (1932–2018), writer and translator. She graduated from the general education secondary school in Zagreb in 1951 and earned a degree in English studies and psychology from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in 1959.
SLOBODAN NOVAK (1924–2016), writer, is considered one of the most important prose authors of contemporary Croatian literature. He attended the general education secondary school in Split, graduated in 1943 in Sušak, and graduated in Yugoslav studies in 1953 at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.
GUSTAV KRKLEC (1899–1977), a prominent Croatian poet of the first half of the 20th century, prose writer and translator, was born in Udbinja near Karlovac on 23 June 1899. He spent his childhood in Hrvatsko zagorje, completed his general education secondary school in 1918 in Sušak, attended the Higher Agricultural School in Vienna, studied philosophy and psychology in Zagreb in 1921, and studied directing in Prague,
GEORGE MARTIN SKURLA (1921–2001), an American aeronautical engineer of Croatian descent, was responsible for the production and success of the lunar modules for NASA's Apollo program, which enabled humans to land on the Moon, as well as the production of military aircraft such as the F-14 Tomcat and A-6 Intruder. During the Cold War, George M. Skurla held the highest positions in the then-largest American military corporation, Grumman, where he also became president.