Rajko Grlić (born 2 September 1947) is a Croatian film director, producer and screenwriter.

[1] Rajko Grlić was born in 1947 in Zagreb, SR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia.

His father was Danko Grlić, famous Croatian philosopher.

Grlić's (Gerlich) family by father's side came to Zagreb from Schwarzwald, Germany in the 19th century, while his mother Eva (née Izrael) is from Jewish family of Sarajevo.

In 2017, Grlić signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.