Franjo (Fran) Novljan (7 August 1879 – 12 January 1977) was a Croatian educator, andragogue, and Esperantist.
In 1901, during his studies, he founded with I. Ivančić the Istrian Committee of the Croatian Academic Society Zvonimir.
participating in the establishment of the National Council of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, of which he was a commissioner in Zagreb and Prague.
[1] Novljan had been collecting, writing and describing ethnographic material in and about the Boljun region since he was young.
He wrote the work Gospodarstvo, prosvjeta, politika with Josip Predavec and Stjepan Radić, and published it in Zagreb in 1907.