Katarina Matanović-Kulenović (18 March 1913 in Vuka – 24 April 2003 in Zagreb) was the first female Croatian pilot and parachutist. Born near Osijek in 1913, she lived in Zagreb from 1918. She became a graduated pilot in the Yugoslav Royal Air Force in 1936. She parachuted at an air show in Zemun in 1938. She received the Order of Danica Hrvatska from Croatian president Franjo Tuđman in 1998. In 2000 Boris Puhlovski wrote a biography on Matanović-Kulenović titled Katarina na krilima. Matanović-Kulenović died in 2003.