Famous People with Name Josip

Josip Coric            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Josip Coric: is a Croatian-born Bosnian football midfielder who plays for FC Slovan Liberec in the Czech Gambrinus liga.

Josip "Mico" Duvancic            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Josip "Mico" Duvancic: is a Croatian former football player and manager.

Josip Jurendic            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Josip Jurendic: is a Croatian football striker, currently playing for NK Zagreb.

Josip Kneževic            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Josip Kneževic: is a Croatian international footballer, currently playing for Amkar Perm.Josip Kneževic has started his career in senior professional team of NK Osijek on 2005/2006 at the age of 17. He has regularly played for Croatian national team U-18, U-19, U-20 and U-21, has total 13 caps in Croatian national team for young players.

Josip Kuže            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Josip Kuže: is a Croatian football coach and former player. He was a player and later coach of Dinamo Zagreb where he played from 1971-1981 making a total of 384 appearances and scoring 14 goals. Currently Kuže is the coach of Albania.

Gejza Josipovic            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Gejza Josipovic: was a Croatian unionist politician, who served as Minister without portfolio of Croatian Affairs twice: between 1906–1910 and after a short period between 1910–1913. His father was Emerik Josipovic, who also served in this position. Gejza graduated in the Budapest University's Faculty of Law. He participated in the occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1887 he became member of the Parliament of Croatia. After the Treaty of Trianon he lived in Hungary.

Ivo Josipovic            Origin/Culture/Country: Serbia, Europe

Ivo Josipovic: is a Croatian politician, the third and current President of Croatia, having taken office in 2010. Josipovic entered politics as a member of the League of Communists of Croatia (SKH), and played a key role in the democratic transformation of this party as the author of the first statute of the SDP that replaced the SKH-SKJ. He left politics in 1994, but returned in 2003 as an independent Member of Parliament. In addition to politics, Josipovic has also worked as a university professor, legal expert, musician and composer. Josipovic entered the 2009–2010 presidential election as the official candidate of the SDP, which he had rejoined in 2008. In the first round he topped eleven rivals with 32.4% of the vote, and entered the second round with the independent candidate Milan Bandic who had secured 14.8%. He went from being almost unknown to the general public in Croatia to winning 60.26% in the final election. He campaigned for Nova Pravednost (New Justice), calling for a new social and legal framework to address the deep social injustices, corruption and organised crime. This includes the protection of individual rights and the promotion of such fundamental values as equality, human rights, LGBT rights, justice, diligence, social empathy and creativity.