Dragan Markovina (born 6 February 1981) is a Croatian historian, author and former president of the New Left of Croatia party.

In December 2004, he started working at the University of Split and later he enrolled in the postgraduate studies of Croatian history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb.

He defended his master's thesis in 2009 on the subject: The Šibenik port in the commercial-cultural exchanges between the two Adriatic coasts in the 18th and 19th century.

In 2011, Markovina defended his doctor's thesis on the subject: Dalmatia in the Republic of Venice reform projects during the 18th century.

He gained public attention in April 2013 when he started a petition for the removal of Franjo Tuđman's statue in Split.

[6] He was later offered a job by Milorad Pupovac to work with the archives at the Serb National Council which he accepted and then left after a few months.

As a teenager, Markovina was a sympathizer and friend of Stipe Šuvar and his Socialist Labour Party of Croatia in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

[citation needed] In 2014, he said on a TV talk show that he is not a member of any party but he believes that the Workers' Front has a perspective and that he wishes them all the best.