Milan (first name)
Milan ( Cyrillic Милан, Hungarian spelling : Milán) is a Slavic male given name. The feminine form is Milana or Milena. Milan is mostly used in the successor states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia .
Origin and meaning
The name was originally a diminutive for other Slavic first names that began with " Milo- " (Slavic for dear, nice ). Examples are Milobrat, Milogost, Miloslav, Miloš .
Name days
- Czech Republic , Poland : May 19, June 18
- Slovenia : September 11, October 11, November 12 (Emilijan)
- Croatia : November 13th
- Slovakia : November 27th
Well-known namesake
- Milan I. Obrenović (1819–1839), Prince of Serbia
- Milan II. Obrenović (1854–1901), King of Serbia
- Milan Bandić (* 1955), Croatian politician, mayor of Zagreb
- Milan Baroš (* 1981), Czech football player
- Milan Biševac (* 1983), Serbian football player
- Milan Chalupa (* 1953), Czechoslovak ice hockey player
- Milan Drageljević (* 1977), Serbian football player
- Milan Đuričić (* 1945), Croatian football player and coach
- Milan Dudić (* 1979), Serbian football player
- Milan Frýda (* 1965), Czech football player
- Milan Gajic (ice hockey player) (* 1981), Canadian-Serbian ice hockey player
- Milan Gajić (soccer player, 1986) (* 1986), Serbian soccer player
- Milan Gajić (soccer player, 1996) (* 1996), Serbian soccer player
- Milan Hodža (1878–1944), Slovak Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia
- Milan Ivana (* 1983), Czech football player
- Milan Jovanović (strength athlete) ( strongman ; * 1970), Serbian strength athlete
- Milan Jovanović (soccer player, 1981) (* 1981), Serbian soccer player
- Milan Jovanović (soccer player, July 1983) (* 1983), Montenegrin soccer player
- Milan Jovanović (soccer player, October 1983) (* 1983), Serbian soccer player
- Milan Jovanović (athlete) (born 1984), Serbian shot putter
- Milan Jovanović (soccer player, 1991) (* 1991), Serbian soccer player
- Milan Jovanović-Batut (1847–1940), Serbian doctor and publicist
- Milan Jovanović Morski (1834–1896), Serbian writer and physician
- Milan Kangrga (1923–2008), Yugoslav or Croatian philosopher and politician
- Milan Kučan (* 1941), President of Slovenia
- Milan Kundera (* 1929), Czech writer
- Milan Linzer (1937–2019), Austrian politician, notary and entrepreneur
- Milan Lucic (* 1988), Canadian ice hockey player
- Milan Mačvan (* 1989), Serbian basketball player
- Milan Madaj (* 1970), Slovak ski mountaineer
- Milan Marcus (* 1987), German actor
- Milan Mokroš (* 1957), Czech-German ice hockey player
- Milan Orlić (* 1962), Serbian poet, writer and publisher
- Milan Peschel (* 1968), German actor
- Milan Pešl (* 1974), German actor, musician and author
- Milan Rasinger (* 1977), Austrian soccer player
- Milan Richter (* 1948), Slovak writer, playwright, translator and publisher
- Milan Rúfus (1928–2009), Slovak poet
- Milan Sládek (* 1938), Slovak pantomime, director and author
- Milan Šašić (* 1958), Yugoslav soccer player and Croatian coach
- Milan Stanković (* 1987), Serbian singer
- Milan Rastislav Štefánik (1880–1919), Slovak politician, astronomer, diplomat, officer, French military pilot and general
- Milan Turković (* 1939), Austrian-Croatian bassoonist and conductor
- Milan Uhde (* 1936), Czech writer and politician
- Milan Vidmar (1885–1962), Slovenian electrical engineer, university teacher and chess grandmaster
- Milan Zaviačič (1940–2010), Slovak physician