
Andrej Babić is a Croatian songwriter who has written many Eurovision songs since 2003. He has written songs for four countries: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia and Portugal.
Mate Balota, born Mijo Mirković, was a prominent Croatian poet, novelist and economist.
Juraj Baraković was a Croatian Renaissance poet from Zadar.

Milan Begović was a Croatian writer, born in Vrlika, in the territory of today's Croatia.

Milena Benini was a Croatian science fiction writer and translator. She received several prizes for her work, including 6 times an SFERA Award and multiple times an Artefakt Award.

Mirko Bogović was a Croatian poet and politician.

Ivan "Ivo" Brešan was a Croatian playwright, novelist and screenwriter, known for political satire. His work included screenplays written with his son Vinko.

Ivan (Đivo) Vučić Bunić, now known predominantly as Ivan Bunić Vučić, was a politician and poet from the Republic of Ragusa.

Dobriša Cesarić was a Croatian poet and translator born in Požega. Cesarić is considered as one of the greatest Croatian poets of the 20th century. In 1951 he became a member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Đuro Deželić was a Croatian writer.

Boris Dežulović is a Croatian journalist, writer and columnist, best known as one of the founders of the now defunct satirical magazine Feral Tribune.

Ksaver Šandor Gjalski was a Croatian writer and civil servant.

Filip Grabovac or Filip Grahovac was a Croatian Franciscan priest, professor, patriot, poet and writer.

Šišmundo (Šiško) Gundulić, also Sigismondo Gondola, was a nobleman and poet from the Republic of Ragusa. He was the son of poet Ivan Gundulić and Nika Sorkočević, and brother of the Austrian Marshal Fran Dživo Gundulić. He served as a Rector of the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik).

August Harambašić was a Croatian writer, poet, publisher, politician and translator from the 19th century.

Petar Hektorović was a Croatian writer.

Dragojla Jarnević, 12 was a Croatian poet and teacher. She became a member of the Illyrian movement, being most famous for writing of women's rights issues. She is also known for being an early mountaineer and rock-climber, famous for scaling the rock of Okić.

Rikard Jorgovanić was a Croatian writer. As the son of a Bohemian immigrant of German ethnicity, and his Croatianized last name was calqued after German Flieder. He enrolled in the public school of Varaždin, and later continued his education in Zagreb. His poetical verses are characterized by intrigue and intimacy. While he is known as the first writer of fantasy in Croatia, his work also differs from the usual pro-nationalistic ideology.

Brne Karnarutić, (1515–1573) was a Croatian Renaissance poet. His most famous work was a historical epic on the Battle of Szigetvár.

Josip Kozarac was a Croatian writer.

Baltazar Adam Krčelić was a Croatian historian, theologian and lawyer. After Vitezović, he was the most prominent figure in the Croatian cultural life of the time.

Mato Lovrak was a Croatian writer for children.

Vjenceslav Novak was a Croatian Realist writer, dramatist, and music historian.

Pavao Pavličić is a Croatian writer, literary historian and translator whose main focus are crime novels. He writes for both adults and children.

Dalibor Perković is a Croatian science fiction writer. He worked as a journalist and is now a physics teacher.

Petar Šegedin was a Croatian writer.

Dinko Šimunović was a Croatian writer.

Giorgio Sisgoreo was an Italian Latinist poet.

Spomenka Štimec is a Croatian writer, one of the most acclaimed contemporary writers in Esperanto, and also significant to Esperanto in Croatia. She shared a FAME Award.

Ante Tomić is a Croatian writer and journalist.

Josip Eugen Tomić was a Croatian writer.

Aleksandar Žiljak is a science fiction and fantasy writer and illustrator from Zagreb, Croatia. In 2006, he co-edited Ad Astra, an anthology of Croatian SF stories, which covers period from 1976 to 2006, and he co-edits Croatian literary SF journal Ubiq.
Petar Zoranić was a Croatian writer and poet from Zadar. He is most important as the author of Planine, regarded as the first Croatian novel. Pastoral in nature, the novel was written in 1538 and published in 1569. Zoranić wrote two other works, Ljubveni lov and Vilenica, but neither of these has survived.