Juraj Baraković (1548 – 1 August 1628) was a Croatian Renaissance poet from Zadar. Baraković was born in the village of . He wrote several distinguished pieces ("Jarula", Venice 1618 - Old and New Testament in storytelling form; "Draga, rapska pastirica"), but one work excels in his literary opus: complicated and the most explicitly manneristic epic in 13 books "Vila slovinka" (Venice, 1613). Baraković died in Rome, the city he visited three times in his life.