Drago
Drago is a variant of the male first names Dragan and Dragomir in Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian , in Italian a family name that was used as a nickname in the Middle Ages and ultimately goes back to the Latin draco 'dragon'.
Name bearer
First name
- Drago Druškovič (* 1950), Austrian-Slovenian painter
- Drago Grubelnik (1976–2015), Slovenian ski racer
- Drago Jančar (* 1948), Slovenian writer
- Drago Papa (* 1984), Croatian football player
- Drago Tršar (* 1927), Slovenian sculptor
- Drago Trumbetaš (1937–2018), German painter, graphic artist and author of Croatian origin
family name
- Billy Drago ( William Eugene Burrows ; 1945-2019), American actor
- Gago Drago (* 1985), Dutch-Armenian Thai boxer and K-1 fighter
- Luigi Del Drago (1776–1845), Italian clergyman and cardinal to the Curia
- Luis María Drago (1859–1921), Argentine lawyer and statesman
- Mario del Drago (1899–1981), Italian nobleman
- Tony Drago (* 1965), Maltese snooker player
- Ugo Drago (1915–2007), Italian fighter pilot of the Second World War
stage name
- Drago (wrestler) , ring name of Víctor Manuel Soto Flores (* 1975), Mexican wrestler
See also
Web links
Frequency, regional distribution and age cohort distribution of the name Drago in Slovenia
Individual evidence
- ^ For the Italian name, see Emilio De Felice: Dizionario dei cognomi italiani. Arnoldo Mondadori, Milano 1992 (1st edition, ibid. 1978), p. 116.