Pavle "Pavao" Jurina (2 January 1955 – 2 December 2011) was a Croatian handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics. He was elected three times as best Yugoslav player (1979, 1980 and 1982). Jurina was born in Našice. Standing at 1.94 m, he debuted as a handball player with the local team Partizan Našice; in 1976 he moved to Partizan Bjelovar, winning the Yugoslav national championship in 1977 and 1979. The same year, he won gold at the Mediterranean Games with the Yugoslav national team. In 1980 he finished sixth in the Olympic tournament: he played