Stjepan Kovačić I


 * For his grandson, please see "Stjepan Kovačić II".

Stjepan Kovačić (I) (1855 — 1930) was a Croatian man and a resident of Sveti Matej, village in Hrvatsko zagorje.

Biography
Stjepan was born in 1855. His parents are unknown today. He was baptised in the Roman Catholic Church as a child. Later in his life, he married woman named Ana, who was born in 1863. She bore him a son, Nikola Kovačić, in 1881. Stjepan died in 1930 and was buried at the old cemetery in Sveti Matej. He became related to the Koščević family and thus he was an ancestor of many people. His grandchildren included Marica Koščević and Stjepan Kovačić II.

Etymology
Stjepanʻs name means "crown" (Greek word: στέφανος), and it is a name of the famous saint, whilst his surname means "smithʻs son".