Famous People with Name Perica

Perica Bukic            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Perica Bukic: is a Croatian water polo player and politician. He represented Yugoslavia at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, where the team won the golden medal.Bukic is a member of the Croatian Democratic Union.[1] In the Croatian parliamentary election, 2003 he attained a seat in the Croatian Parliament. In the 2007 Croatian parliamentary election he retained his seat.

Perica Stanceski            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Perica Stanceski: is a Macedonian football player who currently plays for FK Borac Banja Luka in Premier League of Bosnia and Herzegovina on loan from Serbian Superliga club FK Cukaricki. He made his debut for Partizan in 2002 before moving to FK Bežanija in 2006.

Perica Vlašic            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Perica Vlašic: was a Croatian rower who competed for Yugoslavia at the 1956 Summer Olympics and at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He also competed in seven European championships and won eight consecutive Yugoslav championships in the single scull, as well as seven double scull national championships. He entered the Single scull in the European championship and finished first in the final on 18 August 1953 ahead of Teodor Kocerka of Poland. He could achieve a very fast rowing rate of 58 strokes per minute.

Zlatko Perica            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Zlatko Perica: is a guitarist. He has played for the German group Tangerine Dream, but in 1994 recorded his last studio album with the band, and in 1997 he would appear on his last live album with them. In 2005 he was the lead guitarist in Swiss musician DJ Bobo's "Pirates of Dance" tour. Shortly after his birth, due to family and economic circumstances, he and his mother migrated from Croatia to Bern, Switzerland. Although he had been a fan of music since early childhood, he didn't start playing the guitar until the age of 14. Later he attended the Guitar Institute of Technology in Los Angeles, California.

Petar Perica            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Petar Perica: was a Croatian Catholic priest, a member of the Jesuits, and the author of the Catholic hymns Zdravo Djevo and Do nebesa nek se ori. He was born June 27, 1881 in Kotišina near Makarska. He finished elementary school in Makarska. He continued his education in 1895 in Travnik. After Pope Leo XIII consecrated the world to the Sacred Heart in 1899, in Croatia an initiative was launched with the help of Perica intended to draw Croatian youth to dedicate themselves to the Sacred Heart. A brochure was released to this purpose, which included Perica's Do nebesa nek se ori, which remains one of the most popular Croatian liturgical songs. In 1900 a Croatian pilgrimage to Rome was held, during which Perica and Franjo Scholz gave to Pope Leo XIII an album containing the signatures of over 160,000 Croatian youth.