Rajko Grlić (born 2 September 1947) is a Croatian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of film theory at Ohio University and artistic director of the Motovun Film Festival in Motovun, Croatia.

Rajko Grlić was born in 1947 in Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia. His father was Danko Grlić, a famous Croatian philosopher. Grlić's family by his father's side came to Zagreb from Schwarzwald, Germany in the 19th century, while his mother Eva (née Izrael) is from a Jewish family in Sarajevo.