Vatroslav Mimica (25 June 1923 – 15 February 2020) was a Croatian film director and screenwriter.

Born in Omiš, Mimica had enrolled at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine before the outbreak of World War II.

[2] He had his directorial and screenwriting debut in the 1952 Yugoslav film In the Storm (Croatian: U oluji) which starred Veljko Bulajić, Mia Oremović and Antun Nalis.

In 1963 he directed Typhoid Sufferers (Tifusari), a short experimental film based on Jure Kaštelan's poem of the same title.

Mimica made several other films through the 1970s, most notably the period films Anno Domini 1573 (Peasant revolt of 1573) - Seljačka buna 1573. in Croatian - depicting the 16th century Croatian-Slovenian peasant revolt, and The Falcon (Banović Strahinja), set in 14th century Serbia, before retiring from filmmaking in 1981.