Zoran ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран) is a common South
Slavic name
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'', ...
, the masculine form of
Zora, which means ''dawn, daybreak''. The name is especially common in
Serbia
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North Macedonia
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Croatia
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Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), officially the Republic of Slovenia (Slovene: , abbr.: ''RS''), is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Croatia to the southeast, and ...
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Notable people with this given name include:
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Zoran Bečić, Bosnian Serb actor
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Zoran Baldovaliev
Zoran Baldovaliev ( mk, Зоран Балдовалиев; born 4 March 1983) is a Macedonian footballer who plays as a forward for Tikvesh Kavadarci.
Club career
Baldovaliev started his career in the Macedonian club Belasica, and played for ...
, Macedonian football player
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Zoran Cvijanović
Zoran "Zoki" Cvijanović ( sr-cyr, Зоран "Зоки" Цвијановић; born 25 January 1958) is a Serbian actor and producer. He has starred in over 70 films and television series with his most notable role coming in the drama series '' Si ...
, Serbian actor
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Zoran Ćirić, Serbian writer
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Zoran Đerić, Bosnian Serb politician
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Zoran Đinđić
Zoran Đinđić ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран Ђинђић, ; 1 August 1952 – 12 March 2003) was a Serbian politician who served as the prime minister of Serbia from 2001 until his assassination in 2003. He was the mayor of Belgrade in 1997. Đinđi� ...
, Serbian politician
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Zoran Dukić
Zoran Dukić (born 1969 in Zagreb) is a Croatian classical guitarist. Between 1990 and 1997, Dukić won more competitions than any other guitarist.
Life
He started to play the guitar at the age of six. He graduated from the Music Academy of Za ...
, Croatian classical guitarist
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Zoran Džorlev, Macedonian violinist
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Zoran Erić
Zoran Erić ( sr, Зоран Ерић / ''Zoran Erić'', ) (born 6 October 1950) is a Serbian composer based in Belgrade. He teaches composition, orchestration, theater and film music at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Se ...
, Serbian composer
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Zoran Erceg
Zoran Erceg ( Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Ерцег; born 11 January 1985) is a Serbian former professional basketball player. He represented the Serbian national basketball team internationally. Standing at , he played the power forward posit ...
, Serbian basketball player
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Zoran Filipović
Zoran Filipović ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран Филиповић, ; born 6 February 1953) is a Montenegrin former football coach and player, best known for his playing stints with Red Star Belgrade and S.L. Benfica.
Club career
Filipović, born 6 Feb ...
, Montenegrin football coach
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Zoran G. Jančić, Bosnian Croat pianist
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Zoran Janjetov
Zoran Janjetov ( sr-cyr, Зоран Јањетов; born 23 June 1961) is a Serbian comics artist. Janjetov is among most prominent comics creators of former Yugoslavia, published worldwide. He is best known as the illustrator of '' Avant l'Incal' ...
, Serbian comic artist
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Zoran Janković (disambiguation) Zoran Janković may refer to:
* Zoran Janković (politician) (born 1953), Slovenian businessman and politician
*Zoran Janković (footballer)
Zoran Janković ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран Јанковић, ; bg, Зоран Янкович, Zoran Yankovi ...
, several people
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Zoran Jovanovski
Zoran Jovanovski (born 21 August 1972 in Skopje) is a Macedonian retired football defender.
International career
He made his senior debut for Macedonia in an October 1993 friendly match away against Slovenia, which was his country's first ever ...
, Macedonian football player
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Zoran Jolevski
Zoran Jolevski ( mk, Зоран Јолевски; born 16 July 1959) is a Macedonian diplomat and the former Minister of Defense of the Republic of Macedonia. Prior to his appointment as Minister of Defense, he served as Macedonia's Ambassador t ...
, Macedonian Ambassador to the US
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Zoran Knežević (astronomer)
Zoran Knežević ( sr-cyr, Зоран Кнежевић, born 23 August 1949 in Osijek) is a Serbian astronomer, who has been publishing since 1982. His major scientific contributions are in the field of movement of small Solar System bodies, th ...
, Serbian astronomer
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Zoran Knežević (politician)
Zoran Knežević ( sr-cyrl, Зоран Кнежевић; 13 February 1948 – 12 September 2014) was a Montenegrin politician
A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. ...
, Serbian politician
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Zoran Krušvar
Zoran Krušvar is a Croatian psychologist and science fiction and fantasy writer, born on April 9, 1977, in Rijeka. He won 4 SFERA awards, in 2002 (for ''Igra''), in 2003 (for ''Brodovi u tami''), in 2007 (for ''Izvršitelji nauma Gospodnjeg'') ...
, Croatian writer
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Zoran Ladicorbic
Zoran Ladicorbic (born 1947), known as Zoran, is an American fashion designer who launched his business in 1976. He is particularly known for extremely minimalist, understated garments following the American sportswear principle, in neutral colo ...
, Yugoslavian-born American fashion designer, professionally known as Zoran.
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Zoran Lilić
Zoran Lilić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Лилић; born 27 August 1954) is a Serbian and former Yugoslav politician. He served as President of the National Assembly of Serbia from 1992 to 1994, and as President of the Federal Republic o ...
, Serbian politician
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Zoran Lončar
Zoran Lončar ( sr-cyr, Зоран Лончар; born 1965) is a Serbian politician. He served as the Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government from 2004 to 2007, and as the Minister of Education from 2007 to 2008.
He holds ...
, Serbian politician
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Zoran Mamić
Zoran Mamić (; born 30 September 1971) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player, and convicted fraudster. He was most recently the manager of Croatian First Football League club Dinamo Zagreb. He is a wanted criminal i ...
, Croatian football player
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Zoran Milanović
Zoran Milanović (; born 30 October 1966) is a Croatian politician serving as President of Croatia since 19 February 2020. Prior to assuming the presidency, he was prime minister from 2011 to 2016 and president of the Social Democratic Party f ...
, Croatian politician
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Zoran Milinković (politician), Serbian politician
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Zoran Mirković
Zoran "Bata" Mirković ( sr-cyrl, Зоран Бата Мирковић, ; born 21 September 1971) is a retired Serbian footballer and current manager.
Playing career Club career
Mirković made his first appearance for FK Rad during the 1990– ...
, Serbian football player
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Zoran Mušič
Zoran Mušič (12 February 1909 – 25 May 2005), baptised as Anton Zoran Musič, was a Slovene painter, printmaker, and draughtsman. He was the only painter of Slovene descent who managed to establish himself in the elite cultural circles of I ...
, Slovenian painter
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Zoran Pavlovič, Slovenian football player
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Zoran Planinić, Croatian basketball player
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Zoran Pešić (rugby league), Serbian rugby player
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Zoran Predin
Zoran Predin (born 16 June 1958) is a Slovenian singer-songwriter from Maribor. In the 1980s, he was the front man of the new wave rock band ''Lačni Franz''. He also writes music for film, television, and theatre.
In the late 1990s and early 20 ...
, Slovenian musician
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Zoran Radmilović
Zoran Radmilović ( sr-cyr, Зоран Радмиловић; 11 May 1933 – 21 July 1985) was a Serbian actor who had some of the most memorable roles in the history of former Yugoslav cinema.
He studied law, architecture and philology at the ...
, Serbian actor
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Zoran Radović
Zoran Radović (born February 17, 1961 in Belgrade, PR Serbia, FPR Yugoslavia) is a retired Serbian basketball player and current FIBA administrator.
Early career and college
Known for tenacious defensive skills, Radović started playing bask ...
, Serbian basketball player
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Zoran Rankić, Serbian actor
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Zoran Rant
Zoran Rant (14 September 1904 – 12 February 1972) was a Yugoslav mechanical engineer, scientist and professor, associate member of SAZU. Rant invented the terms exergy
In thermodynamics, the exergy of a system is the maximum useful wo ...
, Slovenian scientist
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Zoran Redžić
Zoran Redžić (born 29 January 1948) is a Bosnian musician, best known for playing the bass guitar in the popular Yugoslav rock band Bijelo Dugme.
Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, he is a younger brother of another Bosnia ...
, Bosnian musician
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Zoran Savić
Zoran Savić ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран Савић; born November 18, 1966) is a Serbian professional basketball executive and former professional player who is currently the sports director for Partizan Belgrade of the Serbian KLS, the Adriatic Le ...
, Serbian basketball player
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Zoran Simjanović, Serbian musician
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Zoran Simović, Montenegrin football player
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Zoran Stanković
Zoran Stanković ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран Станковић, ; 9 November 1954 – 5 October 2021) was a Serbian major-general and politician. He served as the Minister of Defence in the Government of Serbia and the Council of Ministers of Serbia ...
, Serbian politician
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Zoran Stojković, Serbian politician
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Zorán Sztevanovity (Zoran Stefanović), Serbian-Hungarian musician
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Zoran Šami
Zoran Šami ( sr-Cyrl, Зоран Шами; 2 November 1948 – 4 September 2016) was the speaker of the Parliament of Serbia and Montenegro from Democratic Party of Serbia.
Šami was born on 2 November 1948 in Valjevo. He graduated from the Facu ...
, Serbian Politician
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Zoran Terzić
Zoran Terzić ( sr-cyr, Зоран Терзић, born 9 July 1966) is a Serbian volleyball coach. He was the coach of the Serbia women's national volleyball team between 2002 and 2022, and under his leadership the team won 20 European, World and ...
, Serbian volleyball player and coach
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Zoran Tošić, Serbian footballer
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Zoran Urumov, Serbian footballer
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Zoran Vanev
Zoran "Zoki" Vanev ( Serbian/Macedonian: Зоран Ванев) is a Macedonian pop-folk singer.
He was born in Štip, Macedonia, Yugoslavia and began his career in 1993 with the release of his song ''"Angela"''. He enjoyed moderate success i ...
, Macedonian musician
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Zoran Vujović
Zoran Vujović (; born 26 August 1958) is a Croatian retired footballer who played as a defender.
His twin brother, Zlatko, is also a former professional footballer. They were both Yugoslav internationals, and both spent a large part of the ...
, Croatian football player
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Zoran Vuković, Bosnian Serb
war crime suspect
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Zoran Vulić, Croatian football player
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Zoran Zaev
Zoran Zaev ( mk, Зоран Заев, ; born 8 October 1974) is a Macedonian economist and politician who served as prime minister of North Macedonia from May 2017 to January 2020, and again from August 2020 to January 2022.
Prior to entering ...
, Macedonian politician
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Zoran Žigić, Bosnian Serb war crime suspect
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Zoran Živković (politician)
Zoran Živković ( sr-cyr, Зоран Живковић, ; born 22 December 1960) is a Serbian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Serbia from 2003 to 2004 and as the Mayor of Niš from 1997 to 2000.
Živković served as mayor of Ni� ...
, Serbian politician
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Zoran Živković (handballer), Serbian handball player
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Zoran Živković (writer)
Zoran Živković ( Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Живковић, pronounced , born October 5, 1948) is a Serbian writer, university professor, essayist, researcher, publisher and translator. Žiković's works have been translated to 20 languages ...
, Serbian writer
See also
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