Jovanović
Jovanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Јовановић) is the most common Serbian surname.[1] It derives from Jovan, which is comparable to John in English. The part ov designates possession: Jovanov means John's. The suffix ić is a diminutive designation, or descendant designation. So, the last name can be translated as John's son leading to the English equivalent last name of Johnson.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Ana Jovanović (born 1984), Serbian tennis player
- Anastas Jovanović (1817–1899), Serbian photographer
- Arso Jovanović (1907–1948), Montenegrin soldier and Partisan
- Boris Jovanović, Serbian footballer
- Borislav Jovanović (writer), a Montenegrin writer
- Borislav Jovanović (footballer), a Serbian footballer
- Borivoje Jovanović-Brana (1883–1905), Serbian guerrilla
- Boro Jovanović (born 1939), a former Yugoslav tennis player
- Boyan Jovanovic (born 1951), a Serbian-American economist
- Čedomir Jovanović, (born 1971), Serbian politician
- Đorđe Jovanović (1861–1953), Serbian sculptor
- Dragutin Jovanović-Lune (1892–1932), Serbian guerrilla
- Ilija Jovanović-Pčinjski (1878–1913), Serbian guerrilla
- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833–1904), Serbian poet
- Ljubomir Jovanović (1865–1928), Serbian politician and historian
- Ljubomir S. Jovanović (1877–1913), Serbian guerrilla
- Marko Jovanović (footballer born 1978), Serbian footballer
- Marko Jovanović (footballer born 1988), Serbian footballer
- Mihailo Jovanović (born 1975), Serbian footballer
- Milan Jovanović (photographer), Serbian photographer
- Milan Jovanović (footballer born 1981), Serbian footballer
- Milan Jovanović (born 1983), Montenegrin footballer
- Milan Jovanović (Powerlifting), Serbian powerlifter
- Nemanja Jovanović (born 1984), Serbian footballer
- Nikola Jovanović (footballer) (born 1952), Montenegrin footballer
- Paja Jovanović (1859–1957), Serbian realist painter
- Sanja Jovanović (born 1986), Croatian swimmer
- Slobodan Jovanović (1869–1958), Serbian prime minister
- Suzana Jovanović, a popular Serbian pop-folk singer
- Toša Jovanović (1846–1893), Serbian actor
- Vesna Jovanovic (born 1976), Serbian-American artist
- Vasa Jovanović (1874–1970), lawyer, politician, founder of the Chetnik movement
- Vladimir Jovanović (1833–1922), Serbian political theorist and politician
- Željko Jovanović (born 1965), Croatian politician of Serbian ethnicity
See also
References
- ↑ Најчешћа имена и презимена (in Serbian). Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. 2011.
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