Rudolf Arapović (December 8, 1937 – August 3, 2007) was a Croatian writer and dissident who was born in the Central Bosnian town of Busovača and died near Samobor.

[1] Due to his brother Pero being a part of the Crusaders, Rudolf and his family were interned to the city of Zavidovići where he would attend elementary school.

In the city of Visoko, Rudolf Arapović would attend schooling at the Monastery of Saint-Bonaventure during the years 1955 to 1959, graduating and learning Latin in the process.

Roughly four months after being released from prison, Rudolf would escape Yugoslavia with his friend and fellow convict Bruno Bušić to Vienna, Austria.

He would then proceed to move from Canada back to Vienna before he decided to leave for the United States of America, going from New York City to Washington, D.C., on June 24, 1969, where 2 years later he would have a child.