Elfman was born Jennifer Mary Butala in Los Angeles, the daughter of Sue (née Grace), a homemaker, and Richard Wayne Butala, a Hughes Aircraft executive.[1] She is of Croatian ancestry on her father's side[2] and was raised Roman Catholic.

Jenna appeared as a dancer in the music video for "Halo", a song by Depeche Mode that was included on the band's 1990 video album Strange Too. She also appeared in the video for Chris Isaak's 1995 single "Somebody's Crying".

The short-lived 1996 sitcom Townies didn't catch on with viewers but did impress critics, particularly the performances of Elfman and co-star Lauren Graham. The next year, Elfman started a five-year run as Dharma in Dharma and Greg. Elfman guest starred in two episodes of Two and a Half Men in 2004 and one episode of Brothers and Sisters in 2007. She made a guest appearance in the sixth episode of season four of My Name Is Earl as a cheer team leader.[4]

Elfman starred in the CBS comedy Accidentally on Purpose.[5] The show was canceled after a single (2009–2010) season.[6]

She recently completed shooting on a new feature film, Friends With Benefits,[7] starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis.

Richards was born in Downers Grove, Illinois,[2] the daughter of Joni, a coffee shop owner, and Irv Richards, a telephone engineer. She is of Welsh and Croatian descent.[3] She has one sister, Michelle, and grew up in both Mokena and Downers Grove, Illinois. She graduated in 1989 from El Camino High School in Oceanside, California. As a child, she was the "only girl on the baseball team."[4]

Before she was an actress, Richards was signed by the Judith Fontaine Modeling & Talent Agency as a model.[citation needed

In 1986, Richards appeared in the music video "The Captain of Her Heart" by Double. She spent the majority of the 1990s appearing in lower-budget films and TV shows such as Saved by the Bell, television movies, and guest starring in episodes of several television shows such as Married with Children (1991), a 5 second walk through. Her first starring role in a wide theatrical release was Starship Troopers in 1997, which was followed by her role in Wild Things in 1998.[5] In 1998, she appeared in the music video for the Blues Traveler song Canadian Rose.[6]
Richards in 1999 at the movie premiere of The World Is Not Enough.

Richards was cast as the nuclear-physicist Christmas Jones in the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999). Though she considered her role "brainy", "athletic", and having depth of character,[7] she was criticized as not credible in the role.[8][9] Her outfit, which often comprised a low-cut tank top and tight shorts, elicited comments.[10] She was ranked as one of the worst Bond girls of all time by Entertainment Weekly in 2008,[11] and was chosen as "Worst Supporting Actress" at the 1999 Razzie Awards for the role.[12]

In addition to her film work, Richards has made appearances in the situation comedies Spin City, Two and a Half Men, Friends and Seinfeld. She also starred in the short-lived UPN series Sex, Love & Secrets in 2005.

Richards appeared in Valentine, Undercover Brother and Scary Movie 3. In December 2004, she posed for a nude pictorial in Playboy magazine, five months after giving birth.[13] Richards also posed semi-nude for the July 2006 issue of Jane magazine to raise money for the Clothes Off Our Back Foundation. In 1999, she ranked 9th in Maxim's 50 Sexiest Women and in 2001 she was voted 2nd in FHM's USA 100 Sexiest Women, 5th in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women and 19th in AskMen.com's 50 Most Beautiful Women.

Richards appeared on the 8th season of Dancing with the Stars, paired with Maksim Chmerkovskiy. She was eliminated second on March 24, 2009. Richards sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field on May 1, 2009.[citation ne

Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an anti-war activist, veteran and writer who was paralyzed in the Vietnam War. He is best known as the author of the memoir Born on the Fourth of July, which was made into an Academy Award–winning movie directed by Oliver Stone, with Tom Cruise playing Kovic. Kovic received the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay on Janurary, 20, 1990, exactly 22 years to the day that he was wounded in Vietnam. Ron Kovic was also nominated for an Academy Award.[1] Bruce Springsteen wrote the song "Shut Out The Light" after reading Kovic's memoir and then meeting him. Tom Paxton, the folk singer/political activist, wrote the song "Born on the Fourth of July", which is on his "New Songs from the Briarpatch" album. Academy Award winning actress Jane Fonda has stated that Ron Kovic's story was the inspiration for her film Coming Home.

John Gavin Malkovich (born December 9, 1953) is an American actor, producer, director and fashion designer with his label Technobohemian. Over the last 25 years of his career, Malkovich has appeared in more than 70 motion pictures. For his roles in Places in the Heart and In the Line of Fire, he received Academy Award nominations. He has also appeared in critically acclaimed films such as Empire of the Sun, The Killing Fields, Dangerous Liaisons, Con Air, Of Mice and Men, Being John Malkovich, and Red. He will produce the film version of the book The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Malkovich was born in Christopher, Illinois. His paternal grandparents were Croatian, natives of Ozalj in Karlovac County, Croatia.[1][2][3][4] His mother was of Scottish and German ancestry.

Louis Cukela, born Vjekoslav Lujo Čukela, (Croatian: Vjekoslav Lujo Čukela, pronounced "luyo chukela"; May 1, 1888 – March 19, 1956) was a United States Marine numbered among the nineteen two-time recipients of the Medal of Honor. Cukela was awarded the Medal by both the US Army and the US Navy[1] for the same action during the Battle of Soissons in World War I. He was also awarded decorations from France, Italy, and Yugoslavia.

Roger Eugene Maris (September 10, 1934 – December 14, 1985) was an American Major League Baseball right fielder. During the 1961 season, Maris hit 61 home runs for the New York Yankees, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season record of 60 home runs (set in 1927), a record that stood for 37 years.

Maris played for 12 seasons, from 1957–1968, for four different teams, appearing in seven World Series and winning three of them. He was an MVP, All Star, and Gold Glove outfielder, whose uniform number 9 was retired by the New York Yankees. His accomplishment which was debated greatly in its own time, came back to the forefront in 1998 when his record was broken by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa

The son of Croatian immigrants[1][2], he was born Roger Eugene Maras[3][4](he later changed his last name to Maris) in Hibbing, Minnesota. He grew up in Grand Forks and Fargo, North Dakota, where he attended Shanley High School. A gifted athlete, Maris participated in many sports while in Fargo, and excelled at football. He still holds the official high school record for most kickoff return touchdowns in a game, with four.[5]

At an early age, Maris exhibited an independent, no-nonsense personality. Recruited to play football at the University of Oklahoma, he spent less than one semester on campus. He returned to Fargo and signed a minor league contract with the Cleveland Indians.

Krist Anthony Novoselic II (play /ˌnoʊvəˈsɛlɪtʃ/; Croatian: Novoselić; born May 16, 1965) is a Croatian-American rock musician, best known for being the bassist and co-founder of the grunge band Nirvana.

After Nirvana ended, Novoselic formed Sweet 75 and then Eyes Adrift, releasing one album with each band. From 2006 to 2009 he played in punk band Flipper, and contributed bass and accordion to the song "I Should Have Known" from the Foo Fighters' 2011 album Wasting Light.

Apart from his musical endeavors, Novoselic has been active politically, including the creation of the political action committee JAMPAC. From November 2007 until September 2010, Novoselic wrote a weekly column on music and politics for Seattle Weekly's website.[1]

Ivana Miličević je američka gumica hrvatskih korijena koja je rođena 26. travnja 1974. godine u Sarajevu u Bosni i Hercegovini za vrijeme SFRJ.

http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana_Mili%C4%8Devi%C4%87

Miličević was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina to a Bosnian Croat family. The daughter of Tonka, a homemaker, and Damir Miličević, a slaughterhouse worker and entrepreneur. She emigrated to the United States at the age of five and was raised in Michigan. She has two younger brothers, Tomo (guitarist for rock band 30 Seconds to Mars) and Fillip.

Kako se dotična gospođica izjašnjava? U braku Hrvata ili Hrvatice sa nekom osobom sa zapada, ta hrvatska komponenta se barem djelimično očuva (ili ostane dominantna) dok to nije slučaj sa djecom rođenom iz nekih EX-YU kombinacija.

David Diehl (pronounced /ˈdiːl/) (born September 15, 1980 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American football offensive guard with the New York Giants of the National Football League and is one of only two offensive lineman who entered the NFL in 2003 to start all 80 regular season games through the end of the 2008 season.

Diehl was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 15, 1980. He is of Croatian descent on his mother side, and of German descent on his father side. When he was younger Diehl frequently visited, with his family, local Croatian churches and emigrant clubs in Chicago. Strong bonds with Croatian-Americans have been proved when he continued with that habit even after he moved to New Jersey, where local Croatian community often have him as a visitor.

Alejandro Goic Karmelic (born 7 March 1940) is a Chilean bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. He is currently the bishop of the Diocese of Rancagua and President of the Chilean Conference of Bishops. He was formerly an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Concepción, and the Bishop of the Diocese of Osorno.

Alejandro Goic Karmelic born in the city of Punta Arenas on 7 March 1940, the son of a family of Croatian immigrants, from the island of Brač, Dalmatia. His father was Pedro Goic and his mother Margarita Karmelic; Alejandro was the youngest of four children.

Goic learned to read at a rural school, and continued his studies at the Instituto Don Bosco and the Liceo Salesiano in Punta Arenas. Later, he joined the Metropolitan Seminary of Concepción, where he studied philosophy, and the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, where he studied theology.

Gabriela Spanic (born Gabriela Elena Spanic Utrera, 10 December 1973), or Gaby Spanic, is an award-winning Venezuelan actress best known for her roles in telenovelas.

Spanic's father is Croatian, having moved to Venezuela with his parents in 1960. Her mother is Venezuelan, but she was uprooted and educated in Los Angeles. Her career started in the Miss Venezuela pageant in 1992 as Miss Guarico. Spanic began her university studies in psychology, but always had a latent desire for acting. Her career received a major boost in the mid 90s when she started having leading roles in Venezuelan soaps. Gabriela made a series of papers mostly she was the protagonist of Trama somehow it began to be considered a national heroine in Venezuela in 1997 a great team America hires for it to do a photo shoot unique for the magazine Cosmopolitan.

Kako se dotična gospođica izjašnjava? U braku Hrvata ili Hrvatice sa nekom osobom sa zapada, ta hrvatska komponenta se barem djelimično očuva (ili ostane dominantna) dok to nije slučaj sa djecom rođenom iz nekih EX-YU kombinacija.

daleko najbolja Hrvatica.

Obično ljudi kojima rodni zavičaj ništa ne znači (ili potomcima) promijene i ime i prezime.
Ako ništa dodaju ono "itch" na kraju.

Andrew Michael Bogut (born 28 November 1984) is an Australian professional basketball player. He plays for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association.

Bogut was selected first overall by the Bucks in the 2005 NBA Draft. The 7-foot, 260-pound center was a star at the University of Utah for two years before declaring for the draft. Bogut is the first Australian player to be drafted number one overall. He was also the second Utah player to be drafted number one overall.

Bogut was born to Croatian immigrants Mišo and Ankica (née Jurišić) Bogut in Endeavour Hills, Victoria, Australia. His father is from Osijek and his mother was a native of Karlovac. Bogut grew up playing Australian rules football and tennis in addition to basketball. In his childhood, he patterned his basketball game after Toni Kukoc. As a 15-year-old, he was cut from the Victoria junior state representative team. That experience apparently drove him to improve; he later went on to attend the Australian Institute of Sport, with whom he would tour the United States in 2001 and 2002. In his last season at AIS, he averaged 29 points, 14.5 rebounds and 2.7 blocks per game while competing in the SEABL. He went on to lead the Australian team that won the 2003 FIBA Junior World Championships, and was named the tournament MVP.

Dodaju "ich" da bi im se prezime pravilno izgovaralo jer se "c" čita kao "k".

Kako se dotična gospođica izjašnjava? U braku Hrvata ili Hrvatice sa nekom osobom sa zapada, ta hrvatska komponenta se barem djelimično očuva (ili ostane dominantna) dok to nije slučaj sa djecom rođenom iz nekih EX-YU kombinacija.