5. Severina Vučković
Croatian pop singer popular across the entire former Yugoslavia.
Severina Kojić, known professionally as Severina, is a Croatian pop singer. In 2006, the Croatian weekly Nacional listed her among the 100 most influential Croats, calling her “the only bona fide Croatian celebrity”.
She represented Croatia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, held in Athens, Greece, with the song Moja Štikla, finishing 12th.
She won the award “Zlatna ptica” for the best selling artist of the decade in Croatia. In 2015, she was the most googled person in Croatia and Slovenia.