Drago (given name)

Drago^[1] (Cyrillic: Драго^[1]) is a Bulgarian, Serbian, Slovene, Croatian male given name, usually short for the other names with the root drag- (lit. a "dear one"), such as Dragan, Dragutin, etc. The feminine version is Draga. A Romanian version is Dragoș.

Notable people bearing it include:

• Drago Bregar (1952–1977), Slovenian mountaineer
• Drago Marin Čerina (born 1949), Croatian sculpting artist
• Drago Došen (1943–2019), Serbian painter
• Drago Dumbović (born 1960), Croatian football player
• Drago Gabrić (born 1986), Croatian football player
• Drago Gervais (1904–1957), Croatian Istrian poet and playwright
• Drago Grdenić (1919–2018), Croatian chemist
• Drago Grubelnik (1976–2015), Slovenian alpine skier
• Drago Hedl (born 1950), Croatian journalist
• Drago Hmelina (1932–2004), Croatian football player
• Drago Horvat (born 1958), Slovenian ice hockey player
• Drago Husjak (1926–1987), Croatian rower
• Drago Ibler (1894–1964), Croatian architect
• Drago Jančar (born 1948), Slovenian writer
• Drago Jelić (1914–1990), Croatian gymnast
• Drago Jovanović (1916–1983), Serbian-American helicopter designer and inventor
• Drago Jovović (1954–2002), Serbian handball player
• Drago Jurak (1911–1994), Croatian painter
• Drago Karalić (born 1965), Bosnian Serb basketball coach
• Drago Kolar (1932–2000), Slovenian ceramics artist
• Drago Kovačević (1953–2019), Croatian Serb politician and writer
• Drago Lovrić (born 1961), Croatian general
• Drago Mamić (born 1954), Serbian-born Croatian football player and manager
• Drago Marušič (1884–1964), Slovenian and Yugoslav politician and jurist
• Drago Matanović, Slovenian electrical engineer
• Drago Matulaj (1911–1996), Croatian rower
• Drago Miličić, perpetrator of a 1992 mass shooting in Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Drago Milović (born 1994), Montenegrin football player
• Drago Mlinarec (ice hockey) (born 1960), Slovenian international hockey player
• Drago Mlinarec (musician) (born 1942), Croatian pop/rock scriptwriter and composer
• Drago Nikolić (1957–2015), Bosnian Serb war criminal
• Drago Papa (born 1984), Croatian football player
• Drago Pašalić (born 1984), Croatian basketball player
• Drago Pilsel (born 1962), Argentine Croatian journalist
• Drago Prgomet (born 1965), Croatian physician and politician
• Drago Pudgar (born 1949), Slovenian ski jumper
• Drago Savić (born 1949), Slovenian ice hockey player
• Drago Siliqi (1930–1963), Albanian poet, literary critic and publisher
• Drago Supančič (1903–1964), Slovene special-needs teacher
• Drago Šoštarić (born 1943), Slovenian gymnast
• Drago Štajnberger (1916–1942), Croatian Jewish war hero
• Drago Štambuk (born 1950), Croatian physician, writer and diplomat
• Drago Štritof (1923–2014), Croatian runner
• Drago Vabec (born 1950), Croatian football player
• Drago Vuković (born 1983), Croatian handball player
• Drago Žigman (1924–1983), Croatian football player
• Drago Žiljak (born 1960), Croatian handball player and coach

• All pages with titles beginning with Drago
• All pages with titles containing Drago
• Drago (surname)
• Dragović (surname)

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