Ante Mandić (2 June 1881 – 15 September 1959) was a lawyer and Croatian and Yugoslavian politician born in Trieste.

Mandić was visiting his wife's family in the area of Kyiv in summer of 1914 and he remained there following the outbreak of the World War I.

[2] In 1920 and 1921, Mandić also helped organise and lead several political associations in Zagreb before moving to then Italian Volosko to pursue a career law.

[3] Mandić moved to the territory held by the Yugoslav Partisans led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia against the Axis occupation.

A year later, in 1944, he was appointed the head of the district National Liberation Committee for Istria and the Federal State of Croatia's Commission for War Crimes.