Andrija Mohorovičić was a Croatian geophysicist. He is best known for the eponymous Mohorovičić discontinuity and is considered one of the founders of modern seismology.
The Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts is the national academy of Croatia.
The University of Rijeka is in the city of Rijeka with faculties in cities throughout the regions of Primorje, Istria and Lika.
Petar "Pero" Budmani was a writer, linguist, grammarian, and philologist from Dubrovnik and a renowned polyglot.
Nikola Bošković was a Ragusan merchant, whose travels in Ottoman Raška were included in Illyricum sacrum. He is best known as the father of Roger Joseph Boscovich.
The Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics is an official institute in Croatia whose purpose is to preserve and foster the Croatian language. It traces its history back to 1948, when it was part of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts. The modern institute dates back to Croatia's independence in 1991.
Franjo Rački was a Croatian historian, politician and writer. He compiled important collections of old Croatian diplomatic and historical documents, wrote some pioneering historical works, and was a key founder of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Pavao Pavličić is a Croatian writer, literary historian and translator whose main focus are crime novels. He writes for both adults and children.
Dragotin Cvetko was a Slovenian composer and musicologist.
Adolfo Veber Tkalčević was a Croatian philologist, writer, literary critic, aestheticist and politician.
Viktor Novak was a Yugoslav Croat historian, professor at the University of Belgrade and full member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU), and a corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts (JAZU).
Milan Moguš was a Croatian linguist and academician.
Mirko Malez was a prominent Croatian palaeontologist, speleologist, geo-scientist, ecologist and natural history writer. He was known as a "pioneer of Croatian speleoarchaeology". He was a member of the Yugoslav Academy, JAZU (present-day Croatian, HAZU - Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and one of only four Croatian PhDs of speleology. Thanks to Malez's popularization of science, Varaždin County, in northern Croatia, is also known as a "cradle of the Palaeolithic age".
Svetislav Stančić was a Croatian pianist and music pedagogue.
Maja Bošković-Stulli was a Croatian slavicist and folklorist, literary historian, writer, publisher and an academic, noted for her extensive research of Croatian oral literature.
Marko Branica was a Croatian chemist known for his investigations of electrochemical methods for the environmental analysis. For his research he was awarded the Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences.
Ivan Franatica Sorkočević was a writer from Dubrovnik, at the time the Republic of Ragusa.
Dubrovnik Annals is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1997. It covers all aspects of the history and culture of Dubrovnik and the Dubrovnik Republic. It is published by the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts's Institute for Historical Sciences and the editor-in-chief is Vladimir Stipetić. The annals are yearly presented at a conference in a festive atmosphere.
Martin Sekulić (1833–1905) was a mathematics and physics teacher from Karlovac, one of the few high-school professors who were members of the Croatian community of physicists at the time.
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