Dušan

Dušan
Gender	male
Origin
Meaning	Spiritual
Region of origin	Slavic
Other names
Related names	Dušica, Dušanka, Duška

Dušan (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан) is a Slavic name predominantly used by Serbs, Montenegrins, Czechs, Slovaks and Slovenes. Its meaning is soul, spirit. Ethymologically it derives from the name 'spirit', first used by Stephen Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia in the 14th century. Feminine form is "Duša".

People

• Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia, Serbian medieval emperor, the author of Dušan's Code
• Dušan Bajević, Serbian footballer and football manager
• Dušan Basta, Serbian footballer
• Dušan Bogdanović, Serbian-born American composer and classical guitarist
• Dusan Djuric, Swedish international footballer of Serbian descent
• Dušan Džamonja, Croatian sculptor
• Dušan Fitzel, Slovak footballer and football manager
• Dušan Galis, Slovak footballer and football manager
• Dušan Kalmančok, Slovak astronomer
• Dušan Kerkez, Serb footballer
• Dušan Kovačević, Serbian playwright
• Dušan Matić, Serbian poet
• Dušan Makavejev, Serbian film director
• Dušan Mihajlović, Serbian footballer
• Dušan Otašević, Serbian painter and sculptor
• Dušan Petković, Serbian footballer
• Dušan Petronijević, Serbian footballer
• Dušan Pirjevec, Slovenian literary historian, philosopher and resistance fighter
• Dušan Radović, Serbian journalist and writer
• Dušan Repovš, Slovenian mathematician
• Dušan Ristanović, Serbian biophysicists
• Dušan Salfický, Czech ice hockey player
• Dušan Slobodník, Slovak literary theoretician, translator and politician.
• Dušan Švantner, Slovak politician
• Dušan Uhrin, Czech footballer and football manager
• Dušan Vemić, Serbian tennis player
• Dušan Vukotić, Croatian author and director of short animated films, winner of 1961 Academy Award for short animated film Surogat (Substitute).

In other languages

• Hungarian: Dusán
• Polish: Duszan
• Serbian: Dušan / Душан
• German: Duschann
• French: Dushan
• Slovak: Dušan
• Czech: Dušan

See also

• Slavic names