Fran Barac (26 August 1872 – 20 September 1940) was a Croatian and Yugoslavian politician, a theologian and a priest.
Barac taught religion at the Požega Gymnasium in two periods between 1895 and 1909, completing post-graduate study and obtaining a doctoral degree at the University of Leuven in the meantime.
[1] During the World War I, Barac acted as an intermediary between the Mile Starčević faction of the Party of Rights (he supported) and the Yugoslav Committee, an ad-hoc group of activists and politicians working towards dissolution of Austria-Hungary and specifically political unification of the South Slavs.
Subsequently, he was also appointed a member of the Temporary National Representation as a provisional legislative body of the newly proclaimed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
Barac was appointed the kingdom's expert at the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920) tasked with preparing a study of political attitudes of Croats and Slovenes during the war.