Dragoslav

Dragoslav
Pronunciation	Serbo-Croatian: [drâɡoslaʋ]
Gender	Male
Language	South Slavic
Origin
Word/name	drag ("dear, beloved") and slava ("glory, fame")
Region of origin	Eastern Europe
Other names
Alternative spelling	Cyrillic: Драгослав
Variant forms	Dragislav, Dragoslava (f)
See also	Drago

Dragoslav (Cyrillic: Драгослав) is a South Slavic masculine given name. The name is composed of the Slavic elements drag ("dear, beloved") and slava ("glory, fame"), both common in Slavic dithematic names.¹

Notable people with the name include:

Dragoslav Pavle Aksentijević (born 1942), Serbian painter and singer
Dragoslav Avramović (1919–2001), Serbian economist
Dragoslav Bokan (born 1961), Serbian film director and writer
Dragoslav Čakić (born 1965), Croatian footballer
Dragoslav Ćirković (born 1954), Serbian politician
Dragoslav Jakovljević (1932–2012), Serbian boxer
Dragoslav Jevrić (born 1974), Serbian footballer
Dragoslav Jovanović (born 1937), Serbian politician
Dragoslav Jovanović (born 1951), Serbian politician
Dragoslav Marković (1920–2005), Serbian politician
Dragoslav Mihailović (1930–2023), Serbian writer
Dragoslav Mihajlović (1906–1978), Yugoslav footballer
Dragoslav Miljković (1883–1953), Yugoslav army general
Dragoslav Mitrinović (1908–1995), Serbian mathematician
Dragoslav Ognjanović (1961–2018), Serbian lawyer
Dragoslav Papić (born 1987), Serbian basketball player
Dragoslav Pejić (1929–2016), Yugoslav diplomat
Dragoslav Poleksić (born 1970), Montenegrin footballer
Dragoslav Račić (1905–1945), Serbian military commander
Dragoslav Ražnatović (born 1941), Serbian basketball player
Dragoslav Šekularac (1937–2019), Serbian footballer
Dragoslav D. Šiljak (born 1933), Serbian-American academic and university professor
Dragoslav Srejović (1931–1996), Serbian archaeologist
Dragoslav Stepanović (born 1948), Serbian football player and coach

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