IVAN RAOS rodio se 1. siječnja 1921. u Medovu Docu (Imotski). Godine 1932. upisuje Biskupsku klasičnu gimnaziju i sjemenište u Splitu, odakle ga izbacuju nakon šestog razreda (1938.). Maturirao je 1940. Doživljaj djetinjstva, dječaštva i mladenaštva ispričao je na stranicama trilogijeVječno žalosni smijeh. Član Društva hrvatskih književnika postaje 1956., a član Matice hrvatske 1963. godine. Kao slobodni književnik djeluje od 1961. do 1967., kad preuzima komercijalni odjel Nakladnog zavoda Matice hrvatske, u kojemu radi iduće tri godine. Od 1971., pa sve do iznenadne smrti u splitskoj bolnici 8. srpnja 1987. (od posljedica moždanog udara koji ga je nekoliko dana prije zadesio upravo u njegovu Medovu Docu, gdje je i pokopan) definitivno se vratio nesigurnom životu slobodnog književnika.

Od srpnja 1994. na dan Raosove smrti u Medovu Docu održavaju se Raosovi dani, trodnevni skup posvećen uspomeni na pisca, čije djelo - i ne samo za njegov uži zavičaj - ima trajnu književnu vrijednost.

IVAN RAOS was born on 1st January, 1921 in Medov Dolac (Imotski). In 1932 he starts attending the Bishop's Classical Gymnasium and Seminary in Split but he is expelled after the sixth grade in 1932. He graduated in 1940. He told about the experiences of his childhood, boyhood and adolescence on the pages of the trilogy Eternal Wailful Laughter. He becomes a member of the Society of Croatian Poets in 1956, and a member of Matrix Croatica in 1963. Raos works as an independent writer from 1961 to 1967 when he takes over the commercial department of the Circulation Institut of the Matrix Croatica where he works for the next three years. From 1971 to his suddden death in the hospital in Split on 8th July, 1987 (as a consequence of a stroke which he had suffered a few days earlier in Medov Dolac, where he was buried) he definitely returns to an insecure life of an independent writer. Since July 1994, on the day of the death of Raos a commemoration, called Raos's Days, is held in Medov Dolac, which is a three day convention in the honor of the writer whose work, , has a permanent literary value, and not only for his close home town.

MATE MARAS (Studenci kod Imotskog, 2. travnja 1939.), hrvatski prevoditelj i pjesnik. Prevodi s engleskoga, talijanskoga, francuskoga i rumunjskoga jezika, a osobito se istaknuo prijevodom cjelokupnog književnog opusa Williama Shakespearea. Objavio je prvi rimarij hrvatskoga jezika. Njegova majka Ruža bila je pučka pjesnikinja, rodom iz Krivodola.

U Zagrebu je diplomirao matematiku i fiziku na Prirodoslovno-matematičkom fakultetu. Radio je kao srednjoškolski profesor, urednik u nakladničkim kućama i glavni urednik Trećeg programa Hrvatskog radija te kao tajnik središnjice Matice hrvatske. Sedam godina proveo je u hrvatskoj diplomaciji kao ataše za kulturu.

Za svoje prijevode dobio je niz važnih nagrada između ostalih i Veliku nagradu Francuske akademije. Dobio je počasni doktorat Filozofskog fakulteta u Splitu 2017. godine.

Objavio je zbirku pjesama Kasna berba (2005.), a roman Pisma od smrti (2013.) govori o ocu emigrantu. Zbirku majčinih pisama, objavljenu 2015., naslovio je Pisma od života.

MATE MARAS (Studenci near Imotski, 2nd April, 1939), Croatian translator and poet. He translates from the English, Italian, French and Romanian languages, but he is most noted for translating the entire literary opus of William Shakespeare. He published the first lexicon of rhyming words in the Croatian language. His mother Ruža was a folk poet with origins in Krivodol. He graduated Mathematics and Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics in Zagreb. Maras worked as a high school teacher, an editor in publishing companies and the head director of the Third Programme of the Croatian Radio and as a secretary of the headquarters of the Matrix Croatica. He spent seven years in Croatian diplomacy as a cultural attaché. He received many important awards for his translations such as the French Academy Great Award. He received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Philosophy in Split in 2017. He published a collection of poems Late Harvest (2005) and a novel Letters of Death (2013) which tells the story of an emigrant father. He named a collection of his mother's letters, published in 2015, Letters of Life.