This is a list of notable philosophers who either spent many productive years of their lives in Croatia or the country's citizens working abroad, in alphabetical order:

A

• Đuro Arnold (1853–1941), philosopher, writer and pedagogue

B

• Julije Bajamonti (1744–1800), polymath, physician, medical historian, encyclopedist, translator, composer and music theoretician
• Karlo Balić (1899–1977), theologian, writer and philosopher
• Pavo Barišić (born 1959), philosophical historian and bioethicist
• Antun Bauer (1856–1937), theologian, philosopher and writer
• Ruđer Josip Bošković (1711–1787) ^{[1] [2]}, polymath, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, theologian, diplomat and poet
• Branko Bošnjak (1923–1996), sociologist, comparatist, philosopher, writer and philosophical historian

C

• Nadežda Čačinovič (born 1947), philosopher, sociologist and comparatist

D

• Blaženka Despot (1930–2001), philosopher and sociologist
• Branko Despot (born 1942), philosopher and philosophical historian
• Markantun de Dominis (1560–1624), polymath, ecclesiastic, physicist, mathematician and philosopher
• Vladimir Dvorniković (1888–1956), philosopher and ethno-psychologist
• Rajmund Džamanjić (1587–1647), theologian, philosopher and linguist

E

• Bruna Esih (born 1975), philosopher, historian and politician

F

• Heda Festini (born 1928), philosopher and philosophical historian
• Ljiljana Filipović (born 1951), philosopher and writer
• Predrag Finci (born 1946), philosopher and essayist
• Ivan Focht (1927–1992), philosopher, mycologist and critic
• Matija Frkić (1583–1669), theologian and philosopher

G

• Vlado Gotovac (1930–2000), essayist, poet, philosopher and politician
• Stjepan Gradić (1613–1683), polymath, astronomer, theologian, translator, poet and diplomat
• Danko Grlić (1923–1984), marxist theorist and humanist
• Nikola Vitov Gučetić (1596–1647), polymath, philosopher, physicist, science writer and politician

H

• Anđelko Habazin (1924–1978), philosopher of science and historian
• Herman Dalmatin ( c. 1100 – c. 1160), philosopher, astronomer, astrologer, mathematician and translator
• Srećko Horvat (born 1983), marxist theorist and political philosopher

I

• Rada Iveković (born 1945), philosopher, indologist, feminist and writer

J

• Mislav Ježić (born 1952), philosopher, philologist and indologist

K

• Milan Kangrga (1923–2008), social philosopher and marxist theorist
• Daniel Kolak (born 1955), philosopher of science and religion
• Mario Kopić (born 1965) philosopher, translator and writer
• Antun Kržan (1835–1888), philosopher and theologian
• Rajmund Kupareo (1914–1996), theological writer, philosopher, translator, composer and poet
• Ivan Kuvačić (1923–2014), marxist and sociologist

L

• Željko Loparić (born 1939), philosopher and historian of philosophy

M

• Antun Mahnić (1850–1920), theologian and philosopher
• Julije Makanec (1904–1945), politician, philosopher and writer
• Ljubomir Maraković (1887–1959), literary historian, critic, writer and Catholic philosopher
• Franjo Marković (1845–1914), philosopher and writer
• Ignac Josip Dominik Martinović (1755–1795), theologian, philosopher, physicist and politician

P

• Danilo Pejović (1928–2007), philosopher and editor
• Franjo Petriš (1529–1597), polymath, philosopher, scientist, writer and humanist
• Gajo Petrović (1927–1993), marxist theorist, humanist and editor
• Žarko Puhovski (born 1946), philosopher and political scientist

R

• Bonaventura Radonić (1888–1945), theologian and philosopher
• Nino Raspudić (born 1975), philosopher, writer and political analyst

S

• Neven Sesardić (born 1949), philosopher and geneticist
• Viktor Sonnenfeld (1902–1969), translator and philosopher
• Josip Stadler (1843–1918), theologian, philosopher and writer
• Ivan Supek (1915–2007), physicist, philosopher, writer, playwright, peace activist and humanist
• Vanja Sutlić (1925–1989), philosopher, essayist and philosophical historian
• Goran Švob (1925–1989), logician, philosopher and author

V

• Matija Vlačić – Ilirik (1520–1575), theologian, historian, writer and philosopher
• Faust Vrančić (1551–1617), polymath, inventor, engineer, humanist, linguist and latinist
• Predrag Vranicki (1922–2002), Marxist humanist and philosopher

See also

• List of Croatian inventors
• List of Croatian artists

Notes

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• Stipe Kutleša – director of the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb (2002–2006)
• Nenad Miščević – university professor in Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary
• Augustin Nalješković – one of the representatives of traditional scholastic renaissance philosophy
• Benedikt Rogačić – Jesuit from Dubrovnik who lived in Rome
• Srđan Vrcan – university professor in Rome, Pecs, Bergen, Moscow, Berlin, Paris etc.
• Franjo Zenko – director of the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb (1980–1985)