Mladen () is a South Slavic masculine given name, derived from the Slavic root ''mlad'' (, ), meaning "young".
It is present in Bulgarian, Serbian, and Croatian society since the Middle Ages.
Notable people with the name include:
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Mladen (vojvoda)
Mladen ( sr-cyr, Младен; 1323–26) was a Serbian magnate that served King Stefan Dečanski ( 1322–1331), holding the titles of ''župan'' (count), and later '' vojvoda'' (general). He was the father of Branko Mladenović, a later magnate. ...
( 1323–26), Serbian magnate
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Mladen Bartolović
Mladen Bartolović (born 10 April 1977) is a Bosnian retired football player. A Bosnian Croat by descent, Bartolović opted to play for Bosnia and Herzegovina national team internationally.
Club career
Bartolović never played football before ...
, Bosnian footballer
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Mladen Dolar
Mladen Dolar (born 29 January 1951) is a Slovene philosopher, psychoanalyst, cultural theorist and film critic.
Dolar was born in Maribor as the son of the literary critic Jaro Dolar. In 1978 he graduated in Philosophy and French language at ...
, Slovenian philosopher
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Mladen Erjavec, Croatian basketball coach
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Mladen Krstajić, Serbian footballer
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Mladen Milicevic
Mladen Milicevic (born 1958) is a composer of experimental music, sound installation, and film music. He is a professor and has been for many years the Chair of the Recording Arts Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is b ...
, composer of music
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Mladen Petrić, Croatian footballer
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Mladen Plakalović, Bosnian cross-country skier
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Mladen Rudonja
Mladen Rudonja () (born 26 July 1971) is a retired Slovenian footballer. He most often played as a winger (usually on the left) or striker. Despite this, he did not score a goal for the Slovenian national team until his 53rd cap – in the seco ...
, Slovenian footballer
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Mladen Šekularac
Mladen Šekularac ( sr-cyrl, Младен Шекуларац; born January 29, 1981) is a Montenegrin basketball coach and former professional player.
Playing career
At one point Šekularac was considered to be one of the biggest European talent ...
, Montenegrin basketball player
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Mladen George Sekulovich
Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an American actor. He was primarily a character actor, who according to Robert Berkvist, "for more than 60 years brought an intelligent intensity and a homespun aut ...
, American actor best known as Karl Malden
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Mladen Solomun, Bosnian-born German DJ and producer best known as Solomun
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Mladen Stanev
Mladen Stanev ( bg, Младен Станев) (born 1974) is a Bulgarian conductor.
Early life and education
Mladen was born in 1974 in Kotel, Bulgaria, Kotel (Bulgaria). He was a conductor at the National High School for folk music in Kotefro ...
, Bulgarian conductor and chorus master
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Mladen Stojanović, Bosnian Serb leader of
Yugoslav Partisans
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Mladen Vasilev, Bulgarian footballer
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Mladen Vladojević ( 1330–48), Serbian magnate
See also
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Mladenov
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Mladenović
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Slavic names
Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic countries.
The main types of Slavic names:
* Two-basic names, often ending in mir/měr (''Ostromir/měr'', ''Tihomir/měr'', '' Němir/měr''), *voldъ (''Vsevolod'', ...
References
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Slavic masculine given names
Bosnian masculine given names
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Croatian masculine given names
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Macedonian masculine given names