Mate Ujević (13 July 1901 – 6 January 1967) was a Croatian poet and encyclopedist.
Ujević was born in Krivodol (part of Podbablje near Imotski) in the Kingdom of Dalmatia (present-day Croatia).
He received his secondary education in Sinj and Split and studied literature in Zagreb.
He bachelored in Ljubljana and finished his doctoral dissertation on poet Jovan Hranilović in Zagreb.
[citation needed] During World War II, Ujević rescued Manko Berman, a Jewish encyclopedist and close friend, as well as two Jewish sisters from being deported to the Jasenovac concentration camp.