| Hrvoje Hitrec | |
| Office: | Minister of Information |
| Term Start: | 4 March 1991 |
| Term End: | 17 July 1991 |
| Primeminister: | Josip Manolić |
| Predecessor: | Milovan Šibl |
| Successor: | Branko Salaj |
| Birth Date: | 14 July 1943 |
| Birth Place: | Zagreb, Independent State of Croatia |
| Party: | Croatian Democratic Union |
| Alma Mater: | University of Zagreb (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences) |
| Residence: | Samobor |
| Nationality: | Croatian |
Hrvoje Hitrec (born 14 July 1943) is a Croatian writer, screenwriter, and politician. He is notable for his works for children and youth, most famous of his works being the novel (and later a very popular 1980s/90s TV series) Smogovci [<nowiki/>[[:hr:Smogovci|hr]]], but Hitrec also wrote novels, film and TV scripts, dramas. He received several notable Croatian literary awards: "Ksaver Šandor Gjalski," "Ivana Brlić Mažuranić" and "Grigor Vitez."[1]
Hitrec was also a close associate of Franjo Tuđman, the first President of Croatia and an early member of his nationalist Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party.[2] In the early 1990s he served as director of the state broadcaster Croatian Radiotelevision, information minister in the government of Josip Manolić, and also a member of Croatian Parliament.
Hitrec headed a right-wing independent list in the 2007 parliamentary elections.[3] He identified himself as eurosceptic, and won 709 votes, or 0.26% of the vote in the VII district.[4]