This research is a contrastive analysis of phraseological units in English and Croatian which contains names of people. It is based on a corpus which consists of 29 selected PUs from a total of 12 dictionaries. It consists of a brief theoretical overview which explains what phraseology, phraseological units, as well as the crucial characteristics of PUs are. Besides that, it briefly discusses the techniques can be used in translating, as well as the problems which often occur thereby. The central part of the research is the analysis of the corpus, which consists of the identification of a PU and a paraphrase in the source language – English, and dictionary equivalents in the target language – Croatian. After the analysis, the etymology of an expression is explained in order to show why we use certain people’s names in describing different occurrences, as well as the influence of specific cultures on our languages. The three appendices represent an overview of data found in the dictionaries used for this analysis. Therefore, the first appendix is an overview of all the dictionaries along with the statistics of how frequent these expressions occur in individual dictionaries. The second appendix contains a list of all the PUs used in this research: their version in the source language, their translation, and the method of translation. Finally, the third appendix contains a list of the translating techniques which were used in translating expressions from English into Croatian, as well as information about how many times a certain technique was used in the translation.