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Nikica Valentić

1950 - 2023

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Nikica Valentić (pronounced [nîkit͡sa ʋǎleːntit͡ɕ]; 24 November 1950 – 3 May 2023) was a Croatian entrepreneur, lawyer, and politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 1993 to 1995. He is to date the youngest person to have served in that capacity, being 42 years old when taking office, and is also the first Croatian prime minister to have been born after World War II. A native of Gospić, Valentić graduated from the Zagreb Faculty of Law. Before being involved in politics, he was a high-ranking official of INA, the Croatian oil company. On 3 April 1993, as a member of the Croatian Democratic Union, he was appointed by the President Franjo Tuđman to the post of Prime Minister. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikica Valentić is the 15,048th most popular politician (down from 14,591st in 2019), the 298th most popular biography from Croatia (down from 292nd in 2019) and the 57th most popular Croatian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nikica Valentić ranks 15,048 out of 19,576Before him are Michael Somare, Xie Fuzhi, Jan Sokol, Grantley Goulding, Jean, Count of Paris, and Mesannepada. After him are Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne, João Pinheiro Chagas, Shuttarna III, Ulrich IV, Count of Württemberg, Naplanum, and Hywel Dda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Nikica Valentić ranks 417Before him are Themba Masuku, Toshiko Fujita, Ronny Yu, Anna Jantar, Sandra Reemer, and Nicholas Evans. After him are David Johansen, Marshall Manesh, Alvaro Vitali, Gary Locke, Ian McNeice, and Julia Alvarez. Among people deceased in 2023, Nikica Valentić ranks 383Before him are Peter Brötzmann, Bernard Morel, Heinrich Messner, Richard Lynn, Pedro Solbes, and Zdeněk Mácal. After him are Michael Lerner, Irma Serrano, Richard Murphy, Cindy Williams, Marie Kovářová, and Federico Sacchi.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Nikica Valentić ranks 298 out of 700Before him are Ezio Loik (1919), Nikolai Volkoff (1947), Ranko Marinković (1913), Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski (1816), Miroslav Kraljević (1885), and Zoran Vulić (1961). After him are Antonio Vojak (1904), Željko Jerkov (1953), Danijel Subašić (1984), Nikola Pokrivač (1985), Daša Drndić (1946), and Srđan Mrkušić (1915).

Among POLITICIANS In Croatia

Among politicians born in Croatia, Nikica Valentić ranks 57Before him are Dubravka Šuica (1957), Juraj Dobrila (1812), Vesna Pusić (1953), Zlatko Mateša (1949), Tihomir Orešković (1966), and Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski (1816). After him are Hrvoje Horvat (1946), Rossana Rossanda (1924), Zlatko Tomčić (1945), Neven Mimica (1953), Jadranko Prlić (1959), and Helen of Zadar (null).