Ante Šprlje (born 20 August 1979) is a Croatian lawyer who served as the Minister of Justice in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Tihomir Orešković and Andrej Plenković from 22 January 2016 until being dismissed by Plenković on 27 April 2017.

After finishing high school he enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the University of Split from which he graduated in 2002.

[citation needed] Šprlje got his first job in October 2003 when he was appointed research assistant in the government of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County.

In January 2016 he became Minister of Justice in the Bridge of Independent Lists quota for the Cabinet of Tihomir Orešković.

[1][2] He served, in most cases as a volunteer, in the following: leading the campaign for the "[d]evelopment and protection of the natural heritage of the valley of the Neretva river" (2006), as consultant for the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (2007-2009), as a volunteer in the Fire Department of Kula Norinska municipality (2012-2016), as editor of the Kula Norinska municipality official website (2012-2015), as a school board member in the Kula Norinska elementary school system, as vice-president (2008-2009) and, later, as president (2009) of the Neretva Boat Marathon Association, as Vice President/Secretary of the Neretva Delta forum (2008-2013), as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Association of Neretva Boatmen (2012-2014), President of the association "Nora", and four years rower on the marathon (2007-2015), moderator of criminal and misdemeanor law sub-forum (2007-2012), and as editor of the regulations of Legalis.hr, an online legal portal (2007-2012), as president of the election commission of Kula Norinska municipality (2007-2010), as a member of the election commission of Metković, and as presiding judge of the Civil Service Tribunal in Dubrovnik-Neretva County.