Miroslav Kurelac (25 May 1926 – 7 October 2004) was a Yugoslav and Croatian historian.
He received a degree in history in 1954 at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, and a Ph.D. at the University of Zadar in 1987.
In 1954 he took a specialist training at the Archives Nationales de France where he attended courses in paleography at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne.
In 1956 he became an assistant at the Historical Institute of the Academy in Zagreb, where he worked since 1988 as a research associate, and since 1990 as a scientific advisor.
[1] In his scientific papers Kurelac studied the Croatian historiography of the period of Humanism and the Renaissance, especially the historiographical work of Ivan Lučić.