Dinko Ranjina

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Dinko Ranjina or Domenico Ragnina (1536 – 1607) was a poet in Croatian and Italian languages from the Republic of Ragusa. In 1556 he was accepted into the Republic's ruling Grand Council. He was married to the sister of Francesco Luccari Burina (Frano Lukarević).

Ranjina was born and died in Ragusa. He travelled to Messina in the hopes of taking up trade and eventually made his way to Florence. It was in Florence that he began to write. His main works are 27 Italian sonnets in the collection Rime scelte da diversi eccelenti autori from 1563 and the Croatian songbook Pjesni razlike.

Cosimo de' Medici admitted Ranjina to the Order of St. Stephen.