Luciano Sušanj (10 November 1948 – 14 April 2024) was a Croatian politician, sports worker and track athlete who competed for Yugoslavia.

Luciano Sušanj started athletics as a junior competitor for AK Kvarner in Rijeka, his native city.

[5][6] In 1969 he became a Yugoslav champion over 400 meters and won the gold medal in the same event at the Balkan Games.

[9] In his most famous race, the 800 meters final at the 1974 European Championships in Athletics in Rome, Sušanj used his speed to outsprint the opposition in the last 200 meters, and won the race by more than a second-and-a-half, beating a home crowd favorite and the reigning world record holder Marcello Fiasconaro, as well as the then-18-year-old Steve Ovett.

[3] In the first democratic election in Croatia, he obtained a seat in the Croatian Parliament and served as an MP until 1992.

[17] In 2003, Sušanj left the Alliance of Primorje-Gorski Kotar over disagreements with its president Nikola Ivaniš, and entered the newly formed Autonomous Regional Party (Croatian: Autonomna regionalna stranka), of which he was a co-founder.