The following is a list of notable people from Bjelovar and the geographical area corresponding to present-day Bjelovar-Bilogora County, Croatia.
Artists, musicians and actors
Momčilo Bajagić Bajaga (born 1960), singer, songwriter and musician. Vojin Bakić (1915–1992), sculptor. Boris Buzančić (1929–2014), actor and politician. Dragomir Čumić (1937–2013), actor. Tošo Dabac (1907–1970), photographer. Bogdan Diklić (born 1953), actor. Eva Fischer (1920–2015), actress. Sonja Kovač (born 1984), actress, model and singer. Charles Millot (1921–2003), actor. Edo Murtić (1921–2005), painter. Milena Mrazović (1863–1927), journalist, writer, piano, and composer. Bojan Navojec (born 1976), theatre and film actor. Goran Navojec (born 1970), actor and musician. Mario Petreković (born 1972), comedian, actor, television presenter and entertainer. Ivo Robić (1923–2000), singer. Nasta Rojc (1883–1964), painter. Ferdo Rusan (1810–1879), reformer, composer and musician. Ivo Serdar (1933–1985), actor. Zdenko Strižić (1902–1990), architect, urban planner, and teacher. Snježana Tribuson (born 1957), screenwriter and film director.
Authors
Slavko Kolar (1891-1963), writer. Mato Lovrak (1899-1974), children's literature writer. Milena Mrazović (1863-1927), journalist, writer. Josip Novakovich (born 1956), writer. Đuro Sudeta (1903-1927), writer. Janus Pannonius (1434-1472) poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs. Goran Tribuson (born 1948), prose and screenplay writer. Ivan Trnski (1819-1910), writer, translator and 7th President of Matica hrvatska.
Military leaders
Vilko Begić (1874-1947), military officer. Ivan Herenčić (1910-1978), leader in the Independent State of Croatia. Károly Knezić (1808-1849), honvéd general in the Hungarian Army. Branko Krga (born 1945), military officer and Serbia's Chief of the General Staff. Marko Mesić (1901-1982) decorated gunnery officer.
Politicians
Đurđa Adlešič (born 1960), politician and former leader. Milivoj Ašner (1913-2011) Independent State of Croatia's police officer who was number 4 on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most wanted Nazi war criminals and on the Interpol's most wanted list. Vesna Bedeković (born 1966), politician who served as the Minister of Demographics, Family, Youth and Social Policy of Croatia. Boris Buzančić (1929-2014), actor, politician, mayor of Zagreb. Slavko Cuvaj (1851-1931), politician, Ban of Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia. Silvije Degen (born 1942), politician and lawyer. Gordan Jandroković (born 1967), politician and diplomat, 12th Speaker of the Croatian Parliament, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs. Julije Makanec (1904-1945), politician. Anka Mrak-Taritaš (born 1959), politician, Minister of Construction and Spatial Planning and President of the Civic Liberal Alliance.
Historians and scientists
Zvonimir Janko (1932–2022), mathematician. Željko Karaula (born 1973), historian. Božidar Puretić (1921-1971), physician. Branko Souček (1930-2014), pioneer of Croatian computer science. Đuro Šurmin (1867-1937), literary historian and politician. Hrvoje Tkalčić (born 1970), geophysicist and professor at the Australian National University in Canberra.