 List of presidents of Croatia

This is a list of heads of state of the republic of Croatia (as distinct from the preceding hereditary monarchs), since the introduction of a republican system in 1943/45.Historically, the first republican heads of state of Croatia (then a constituent republic of the SFR Yugoslavia) were the Presidents of the Presidium of the Croatian Parliament, an office notably distinct from the Speaker of the Parliament ("Predsjednik Sabora").