Ranko is a Slavic and Japanese given name.
People
People with the name Ranko include:
Slavic name "Ranko" (
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...
: Ранко)
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Ranko Borozan
Ranko Borozan (25 July 1933 – 2 April 2020) was a Yugoslav footballer.
Club career
Born in Mostar, he played as a defender in the Yugoslav First League for FK Velež Mostar, FK Partizan, Red Star Belgrade and OFK Belgrade during the 1950s. He ...
, footballer
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Ranko Despotović
Ranko Despotović ( sr-Cyrl, Ранко Деспотовић, ; born 21 January 1983) is a Serbian former professional Association football, footballer who played as a forward (association football), forward.
Club career
Born in Loznica, Serbia, ...
, Serbian footballer
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Ranko Đorđić
Ranko Đorđić (Serbian Cyrillic: Paнкo Ђopђић; born 1 January 1957) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian football manager and former player.
Club career
After playing several years in Yugoslav First League clubs FK Željezničar Sarajevo and NK � ...
, Serbian football player and manager
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Ranko Golijanin
Ranko Golijanin ( sr-Cyrl, Ранко Голијанин; born January 18, 1975) is a retired professional Association football, footballer who played in the First League of FR Yugoslavia, Segunda División, USL A-League, and the Canadian Soccer L ...
, footballer
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Ranko Krivokapić
Ranko Krivokapić (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Ранко Кривокапић; born August 17, 1961) is a Montenegrin politician who served as the minister of foreign affairs in 2022. He is a former long-term President of the Parliament of Montenegro ...
, Speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro and the President of the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro
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Ranko Marinković
Ranko Marinković (22 February 1913 – 28 January 2001) was a Croatian novelist and dramatist.
Born in Komiža on the island of Vis (then a part of Austria-Hungary), Marinković's childhood was marked by World War I. He later earned a degree in ...
, Croatian novelist and dramatist
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Ranko Markovic
Ranko Markovic is an Australian film and television producer and is the company director and producer of Templar Entertainment. Markovic's career started out in property development and investment before moving into film. Since then Markovic ha ...
, film and television producer
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Ranko Matasović, Croatian linguist
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Ranko Moravac
Ranko Moravac ( Serbian: Ранко Моравац, born 25 January 1995) is a Serbian football midfielder who plays for FK Jedinstvo Rumenka.
Club career
Moravac came to Slovenia with his father in summer 2010, when he was on a trial with Mari ...
, footballer
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Ranko Ostojić, Croatian politician
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Ranko Popović
Ranko Popović (; born 26 June 1967) is a Serbian football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of Japanese club Machida Zelvia.
Playing career
Born in Peć, SAP Kosovo, SR Serbia, Popović started out at local club B ...
, Serbian football player/coach
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Ranko Radović
Ranko Radović (August 18, 1935 – February 16, 2005) was a Montenegrin and Yugoslav architect, professor and theoretician of architecture. He taught contemporary architecture and urbanism at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture be ...
, architect
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Ranko Stojić
Ranko Stojić (; born 18 January 1959) is a Serbs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbian former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. He earned 14 caps for Yugoslavia national foot ...
, footballer
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Ranko Veselinović
Ranko Veselinović ( sr-Cyrl, Ранко Веселиновић; born 24 March 1999) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays for Major League Soccer club Vancouver Whitecaps.
Club career Vojvodina
Born in Novi Sad, Veselinović came throu ...
, footballer
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Ranko Žeravica
Ranko Žeravica ( sr-cyr, Ранко Жеравица; 17 November 1929 – 29 October 2015) was a Serbian professional basketball coach. With a career that spanned over 50 years, he is most noted for his work with the senior Yugoslav national t ...
, Serbian basketball coach
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Ranko Zirojević
Ranko Zirojević ( sr-Cyrl, Ранко Зиројевић; born 1 September 1967) is a former Montenegrin footballer who played as a midfielder.
Playing career Club
He played in the juvenile ranks of FK Sutjeska Nikšić and was about to make ...
, footballer
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Ranko Jurjević Ranko is a Slavic and Japanese given name.
People
People with the name Ranko include:
Slavic name "Ranko" (Cyrillic script: Ранко)
*Ranko Borozan, footballer
* Ranko Despotović, Serbian footballer
*Ranko Đorđić, Serbian football player a ...
, Multimedijalni umetnik
Japanese name "Ranko"
Written 乱子,蘭子,らんこ,ランコ
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Ranko Hanai (1918-1961), actress
*, Japanese fashion model, television personality and singer
Fictional Characters
*Ranko, an alternate persona for
Ranma Saotome in ''Ranma ½''
*Ranko, a character from ''
A Mother Should be Loved
is a 1934 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, the first and last reels of which have been lost. Ozu had wanted to name the film ''Tokyo Twilight'', but studio executives preferred a title that referenced motherhood, a popular theme in Japane ...
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*Ranko, a character from ''
SS''
*Ranko, a gorilla who features in the ''Tintin'' adventure ''
The Black Island
''The Black Island'' (french: link=no, L'Île noire) is the seventh volume of ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper for its children's supplement , it ...
'' by Hergé
*Ranko Yagyuu, a character from ''
Fūma no Kojirō''
*Ranko Saōji, a character from ''
Sankarea: Undying Love''
*Ranko Saegusa, a character from ''
Binbō Shimai Monogatari''
*Ranko Mikogami, a secondary character in ''
Sky Girls''
*Ranko Midorikawa, a character from ''
Aim for the Ace!''
*Ranko Hata, a character from ''
Seitokai Yakuindomo
is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Tozen Ujiie. It ran in Kodansha's ''Magazine Special'' from May 2007 to June 2008. It was then transferred to Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'', where it ran from July ...
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*Ranko Kanzaki, a character from ''
The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls''
See also
* ''Isolepis ranko'' (I. ranko), see
List of Isolepis species
List of ''Isolepis'' species — a cosmopolitan genus of flowering plants in the sedge family, Cyperaceae.
Species
The genus ''Isolepis'' contains around 70 recognised species, they include:
*'' Isolepis alpina'' Hook.f.
*'' Isolepis angelic ...
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Ranković Ranković (Cyrillic script: Ранковић) is a Serbian patronymic surname derived from a masculine given name Ranko. Notable people with the surname include:
* Aleksandar Leka Ranković (1909–1983), leading Yugoslav Communist of Serbian orig ...
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