Famous People with Name Petar

Petar Bošnjak            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Petar Bošnjak: is a Croatian football defender, currently playing for NK Slaven Belupo.

Petar Mlinaric            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Petar Mlinaric: is a Croatian politician and member of parliament. He is also deputy mayor of the city of Vukovar and a member of the Croatian Democratic Union party.

Petar Hektorovic            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Petar Hektorovic: was a Croatian writer. He was a poet and collector of Hvar's fishermen songs, and an important figure of the Renaissance period in Croatian literature. His major work Fishing and Fishermen’s Talk (Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje, 1568), is a hybrid genre: simultaneously a travelogue, discourse in fishing, reflexive poem and poetic epistle to his friend Jeronim Bartucevic.

Petar Preradovic            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Petar Preradovic: was a Croatian poet.In 1847 he was again stationed in Italy where he took part in the Wars of Italian Unification. When he returned to Croatia, he became a close associate of Josip Jelacic. He was stationed to various Austrian military outposts and gradually rose to the rank of general.

Petar Zoranic            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Petar Zoranic: was a Croatian Renaissance writer from Zadar.He is most important as the author of Planine, the first Croatian novel. Pastoral in nature, the novel shows influence of Virgil, Ovid, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca and Giovanni Boccaccio. The novel was written in 1538 and published in 1569.

Paul Petard            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Paul Petard: was a French botanist who specialized in the study of native plants of French Polynesia. His book Petard Botanical Plant Encyclopedia is still widely used as a reference, and contains much information about traditional applications of Tahitian Noni juice. He held a doctorate in pharmacy.