Biljana ( sr, Биљана ; mk, Билјана; bg, Биляна ) is a feminine South Slavic name derived from бела, бяла ("white", "fair") or билка, биле ("medicinal herb"). It is usually found in Serbia, Croatia, North Macedonia and Bulgaria. Notable people with the surname include: * Biljana Borzan (born 1971), Croatian physician and politician * Biljana Bradić (born 1991), Serbian footballer * Biljana Coković (1982–2007), Macedonian swimmer * Biljana Crvenkoska (born 1983), Macedonian handball player *

Biljana Dekic Biljana Dekić (born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia) is a chess Woman International Master who has represented Australia in eleven Chess Olympiads. Chess career Dekic was a member of the national Women's Chess Team representing Yugoslav ...

, Yugoslav-born Australian chess Woman International Master *

Biljana Dojčinović Biljana Dojčinović-Nešić ( sr-Cyrl, Биљана Дојчиновић; born 1963) is a Serbian feminist academic, who specialises in Serbian literature and Gender Studies, and who co-founded the Center for Women's Studies in Belgrade. She is ...

(born 1963), Serbian feminist academic * Biljana Dragić (born 1984), Serbian politician *

Biljana Filipović Biljana Filipović-Bandelier (born 12 January 1986) is a retired Serbian handball player who was a member of the Serbia women's national handball team, Serbian national team. References

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(born 1986), Serbian handball player *

Biljana Gligorović Biljana Gligorović (born 31 January 1982 in Pula) is a Croatian former professional international volleyball player, who played as setter. During her career so far she has played in the championships of Italy, Russia, Greece, Romania and Azerbai ...

(born 1982), Croatian volleyball player *

Biljana Golić Biljana "Biba" Golić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Биљана "Биба" Голић) (born 9 November 1977) is a Serbian table tennis player. Early career Biba Golic began playing table tennis at age 9, becoming a member of the Serbian National Cad ...

(born 1977), Serbian table tennis player * Biljana Ilić Stošić (born 1964), Serbian politician * Biljana Jakovljević (born 1988), Serbian politician * Biljana Jovanović (1953–1996), Serbian author, peace activist and feminist *

Biljana Kovačević-Vučo Biljana Kovačević-Vučo (May 21, 1952 – April 20, 2010) was a Serbian human rights and anti-war activist. She was President of the Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights (YUCOM) from 1997 until her death in 2010. A lifelong antifascist, antinatio ...

(1952–2010), Serbian human rights and anti-war activist * Biljana

Bilja Krstić Biljana "Bilja" Krstić (Serbian Cyrillic: Биљана "Биља" Крстић, Serbo-Croatian pronunciation: ǐʎana bǐːʎa kř̩ːstitɕ born 9 November 1955) is a Serbian singer. She was born in 1955 in Niš and brought up on the folk trad ...

(born 1955), Serbian singer *

Biljana Majstorović Biljana Majstorović (born 31 December 1959 in Belgrade) is a former basketball player who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympia ...

(born 1959), Serbian basketball player *

Biljana D. Obradović Biljana D. Obradović is a Serbian-American poet, critic, translator, and professor of English who has lived in Yugoslavia, Greece, India and the United States. Early life Obradoviċ was born in Bitola, Macedonia of Serbian parents, Dragosla ...

(born 1961), Serbian-American poet, critic, translator and professor * Biljana Pantić Pilja (born 1983), Serbian politician * Biljana Pavićević (disambiguation), multiple people *

Biljana Pawlowa-Dimitrova Biljana Pawlowa-Dimitrova (Bulgarian: Биляна Павлова-Димитрова; born 20 January 1978) is a Bulgarian former professional tennis player. Her career-high WTA singles ranking is 490, which she reached on 16 October 2006. On 20 ...

(born 1978), Bulgarian tennis player * Biljana Petrović (born 1961), Serbian retired high jumper * Biljana Plavšić (born 1930), Bosnian Serb former politician, university professor and convicted war criminal * Biljana Relić (born 1998), Serbian sprint canoer *

Biljana Rubaković Biljana Rubaković ( sr-Cyrl, Биљана Рубаковић; born 1960) is a Serbian politician. She briefly served in the National Assembly of Serbia in 2016 as a member of the right-wing Dveri party. Private career Rubaković is a profess ...

(born 1960), Serbian politician * Biljana Savović (born 1960), Serbian politician * Biljana Šljivić-Šimšić (1933–2019), Yugoslavian-American professor * Biljana Srbljanović (born 1970), Serbian playwright and university professor * Biljana Stojković (born 1972), Serbian biologist, activist, professor and politician *

Biljana Stanković Biljana Stanković ( Serbian Cyrillic: Биљана Станковић; born 11 September 1974 in Vršac, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian basketball coach and former Serbian and Yugoslavian basketball player. She played at the point guard positi ...

(born 1974), Serbian basketball coach and player * Biljana Topić (born 1977), Serbian triple jumper and sprinter *

Biljana Vraneš Biljana Vraneš ( sr-cyr, Биљана Вранеш; born 3 February 1999) is afootballer who plays as a midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, brea ...

(born 1999), Montenegrin footballer

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