Dejan
South Slavic male name
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Dejan (Cyrillic: Дејан) is a South Slavic masculine given name, derived from the Slavic verb dejati, meaning "to act, to do".[1] The name and the derived surname Dejanović are common among South Slavs.
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The name is first recorded in 1325 (1333) for a voevod of king Stefan Uroš.[2]
Notable people
- Dejan (fl. 1346-66), Serbian magnate
- Dejan Bodiroga (born 1973), Serbian basketball player
- Dejan Dabović (1944–2020), Yugoslav water polo player
- Dejan Damjanović (born 1981), Montenegrin footballer
- Dejan Dimitrovski (born 1979), Macedonian footballer
- Dejan Gluščević (born 1967), Serbian footballer and manager
- Dejan Iliev (born 1995), Macedonian footballer
- Dejan Janković (born 1986), Serbian footballer
- Dejan Judež (born 1990), Slovenian ski jumper
- Dejan Kelhar (born 1984), Slovenian footballer
- Dejan Kulusevski (born 2000), Swedish footballer of Macedonian descent
- Dejan Lovren (born 1989), Croatian footballer
- Dejan Medaković (1922–2008), Serbian art historian, writer and academician
- Dejan Meleg (born 1994), Serbian footballer
- Dejan Milojević (1977–2024), Serbian basketball player and coach
- Dejan Milovanović (1984–2025), Serbian footballer
- Dejan Petković (born 1972), Serbian footballer
- Dejan Petković (born 1958), Serbian singer
- Dejan Ristanović (1963–2025), Serbian writer and computer publicist
- Dejan Savić (born 1975), Serbian water polo player and coach
- Dejan Savićević (born 1966), Montenegrin footballer
- Dejan Stanković (born 1978), Serbian footballer and manager
- Dejan Stefanović (born 1974), Serbian footballer
- Dejan Stojanović (born 1959), Serbian poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman and journalist
- Dejan Tomašević (born 1973), Serbian basketball player
- Dejan Udovičić (born 1970), Serbian water polo coach
- Dejan Đedović (born 1973), Serbian futsal coach
See also
- All pages with titles containing Dejan
- Dejana, feminine given name
