46 Military personnel of the Croatian War of Independence

Rahim Ademi is a retired Croatian Army general of Kosovar Albanian origin.

Imra Agotić was a Croatian general who distinguished himself in the Croatian War of Independence.

Željko Ražnatović, better known as Arkan, was a Serbian mobster and paramilitary commander. He was head of the Serb paramilitary force called the Serb Volunteer Guard during the Yugoslav Wars.

Marko Babić was a Croatian Army officer who served during the Croatian War of Independence. He is most notable for his contribution during the Battle of Vukovar, where he led the defence of Trpinjska Cesta.

Janko Bobetko was a Croatian general who had participated in World War II and later in the Croatian War of Independence. He was one of the founding members of 1st Sisak Partisan Detachment, the first anti-fascist military unit during World War II in Yugoslavia. He later had a military career in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA).

Đorđe "Giška" Božović was a Serbian criminal, gangster and paramilitary commander during the Yugoslav Wars.

Živko Budimir is a Bosnian Croat politician who served as the 9th President of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the two autonomous entities that compose Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 17 March 2011 until 9 February 2015. He is the founder and current president of the Party of Justice and Trust.

Radimir Čačić is a Croatian politician and businessman who has been President of the People's Party – Reformists (NS-R) since the party's formation in 2014, as well as Prefect of Varaždin County since 2017.

Agim Çeku is a Kosovan politician, former Minister of Security Forces in Kosovo and formerly the Prime Minister. Of military background, he was a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) that fought against Serbian rule in 1998–1999, earlier being a commander in the Croatian War of Independence in the Croatian Army.

Zvonimir Červenko was a Croatian general and the chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia from 1995 to 1996.

Ljubo Ćesić, best known by his nickname Rojs, is a retired Croatian army general and politician.

Davor Domazet-Lošo is a Croatian politician, writer, and a retired admiral of the Croatian Navy.

Željko Glasnović is a former Croatian military officer and politician.He was a member of Croatian Parliament's club called Independents for Croatia.

Branimir Glavaš is a Croatian former major general and right-wing politician. He was one of the founders of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party which was in power in the 1990s and one of its key figures until a split in 2006. In 2009 he was found guilty for war crimes.

Ante Gotovina is a Croatian-French retired lieutenant general and former French senior corporal who served in the Croatian War for Independence. He is noted for his primary role in the 1995 Operation Storm. In 2001, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) indicted him on war crimes and crimes against humanity charges in connection with that operation and its aftermath. After spending four years in hiding, he was captured in the Canary Islands in December 2005.

Hrvoje Klasić is a Croatian historian. Since 2003, Klasić is a professor at the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb. His work focuses on contemporary Croatian and world history. Klasić is a prominent critic of attempts at rehabilitation of the World War II fascist Ustasha movement in the country. He is ambassador for the European Association of History Educators.

Živko Korać, was a soldier of the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina. Živko became prominent after Operation Storm, as he continued resisting Croatia for 5.5 years after the fall of Krajina. On 14 January 2001, in Banija's winter forests, the Croatian authorities began searching for Živko, including the Croatian Police, army, and local hunting groups. After hours of heavy fighting, Živko pulled the pin of his last grenade and committed suicide

Ivan Korade was a Croatian Army general best known for his role in the Croatian War of Independence. Korade's long history of violent behaviour resulted in forced retirement in 1997 and culminated in a 2008 shooting spree in which he murdered five people before committing suicide.

Ante Kotromanović is Croatian politician and army officer who served as Defense Minister of Croatia from December 2011 until January 2016.

Damir Krstičević is a Croatian general and politician who served as the Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister from 2016 until his resignation in May 2020, which he tendered due to the deaths of two Croatian military pilots in an aircraft accident.

Drago Lovrić is a Croatian general who served as a chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia.

Josip Lucić is a Croatian general and former chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia.

Predrag Fred Matić is a Croatian centre-left politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as a Member of European Parliament since 2019. He previously served as Minister of Veterans' Affairs from 2011 to 2016, in the Cabinet of Zoran Milanović.

Veljko Milanković was a Bosnian Serb war commander during the Yugoslav Wars with the rank of second lieutenant.

Pavao Miljavac is a retired Croatian Army general.

Stojadin Mirković was a Yugoslav People's Army conscript who fought in the war in Croatia. He became known on a wide scale after it was discovered that he died along with Maj. Milan Tepić in the Battle of the Barracks.

Ratko Mladić is a Bosnian Serb convicted war criminal and colonel-general who led the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) during the Yugoslav Wars. In 2017, he was found guilty of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Mile Mrkšić was a colonel of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in charge of the unit involved in the Battle of Vukovar during the Croatian War of Independence in 1991. He was convicted for not preventing the mass killing of 264 Croats that followed the fall of Vukovar, and sentenced to 20 years.

Jean-Michel Nicollier was a French volunteer and Croatian soldier in the Croatian War of Independence who was killed in the Vukovar massacre.

Borislav Pelević was a Serbian politician. He was president of the nationalist Party of Serbian Unity (SSJ), a party with marginal importance in Serbian politics, until it merged with the Serbian Radical Party in December 2007.

Rudolf Perešin was a Croatian fighter pilot serving in the Yugoslav Air Force (JRZ) during the 1991–95 Croatian War of Independence who defected to the Croatian side in October 1991, by flying his MiG-21 fighter jet from Željava Air Base to Klagenfurt, Austria, on a reconnaissance flight for the JRZ. He was the first pilot to desert from the Yugoslav Air Force. Following his defection he continued to fly missions for the Croatian Air Force and was shot down in May 1995 by Serb Krajina military forces, resulting in his death.

Ivan Pokaz is a retired Croatian general who served as deputy head of intelligence at the General Staff of the Armed Forces during the Croatian War of Independence, and as head of military intelligence from 1996 until 2000.

Željko Reiner is a Croatian physician, politician, university professor, member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and former Minister of Health and Social Welfare who served as the 10th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament since independence and the 20th speaker overall, from December 2015 until October 2016.

Vojislav Šešelj is a Serbian politician, founder and president of the far-right Serbian Radical Party (SRS); he was convicted of war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Between 1998 and 2000, he served as the deputy prime minister of Serbia.

The 1992 European Community Monitor Mission helicopter downing was an incident that occurred on 7 January 1992, during the Croatian War of Independence, in which a European Community Monitor Mission (ECMM) helicopter carrying five European Community (EC) observers was downed by a Yugoslav Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, in the air space above the village of Podrute, near Novi Marof, Croatia. An Italian and a French officer and three Italian non-commissioned officers were killed. Another ECMM helicopter flying in formation with the attacked helicopter made an emergency landing. The second helicopter carried a crew and a visiting diplomat, all of whom survived. The incident was condemned by the United Nations Security Council and the EC. As a result of the incident, the Yugoslav authorities suspended the head of the air force, and the Yugoslav defense minister, General Veljko Kadijević, resigned his post. The events followed the end of the first stage of the war in Croatia and closely preceded the country's international recognition.

Veselin Šljivančanin is a former Montenegrin Serb officer in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) who participated in the Battle of Vukovar and was subsequently convicted on a war crimes indictment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for his role in the Vukovar massacre. His prison sentence was changed twice, from five to seventeen to ten years. He has since been ordered released by the ICTY on time served and good behavior.

Vukašin Šoškoćanin was a Croatian Serb war commander active during the Croatian War.

Martin Špegelj was a Croatian army general and politician who served as the second Defense Minister of Croatia and, later, the chief of staff of the newborn Croatian army and inspector-general of the army. His efforts to organize and equip the army from scratch were seen as instrumental in helping Croatia survive the first year of the Croatian War of Independence. Partly owing to disagreements with president Franjo Tuđman, he retired in 1992, after the war froze with the permanent ceasefire at the end of 1991.

Predrag Stipanović is a Croatian rear admiral, since January 2018 serving as the Croatian Military Representative to NATO.

Petar Stipetić was a Croatian general who served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Croatia from 2000 until 2002.

Mirko Šundov is a Croatian General who served as a Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Croatia from 2016 until 2020.

Milan Tepić was a Major in the Yugoslav People's Army. He was the last person to be awarded the Order of the National Hero of Yugoslavia, given to him posthumously for blowing up an ammunition depot during the Siege of Bjelovar Barracks.

Anton Tus is a retired Croatian general who served as head of the Yugoslav Air Force between 1985 and 1991 and was the first Chief of Staff of the Croatian Armed Forces from 1991 to 1992 during the Croatian War of Independence.

Dragan Vasiljković, nicknamed Captain Dragan was the commander of a Croatian Serb paramilitary unit called the Knindže or during the Yugoslav Wars. In 2005, prosecutors in Croatia accused him of committing war crimes during the wars. A warrant for his arrest was subsequently issued by Interpol. He was arrested in Australia in January 2006, and ordered to prison by the High Court of Australia in anticipation for extradition to Croatia to face prosecution for his alleged crimes. He was extradited to Croatia on 8 July 2015 after losing his thirteenth appeal and sentenced to 15 years in prison on 26 September 2017 by the County Court in the city of Split. He was released from prison in March 2020.

Goran Višnjić is a Croatian-American actor who has appeared in American and British films and television productions. He is best known in the United States for his roles as Dr. Luka Kovač in ER and Garcia Flynn in Timeless, both NBC television series. For ER, he and the cast were nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Awards. He is the son-in-law of Croatian film director and former head of Croatian Radiotelevision (1991–95), Antun Vrdoljak. He moved to the United States in the late 1990s.

Blago Zadro was a commander of the northern part of Croatian forces in Vukovar during the Croatian War of Independence. He was killed in an attack by the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) in the town of Borovo Naselje.