South Slavic languages
The South Slavic languages are one of three branches of the Slavic languages. There are approximately 30 million speakers, mainly in the Balkans. These are separated geographically from speakers of the other two Slavic branches (West and East) ...
. It also occasionally appears in Central Asia and Turkic regions of Russia.
It is of Slavic origin, with ''da'' meaning "give"/"take", and ''mir'', meaning "peace".
It can also be a variation of a Turkish name "Demir", which means "iron".
In
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s, DAMIR is also an acronym for "Да здравствует мировая революция", meaning "Long live the world revolution".
In Croatia, the name Damir was among the most common masculine given names in the decades between 1960 and 1979.
Notable people with the name include:
* Damir Bajs, Croatian politician
* Damir Bičanić, Croatian handball player
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Damir Bjelopoljak
Damir Bjelopoljak is a Bosnian volleyball player at the highest national level. He was born in Kakanj, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and oft ...
, Bosnian volleyball player
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Damir Botonjič
Damir Botonjič (born 14 September 1981) is a retired Slovenian football goalkeeper.
Club career
Botonjič started his career at local side Svoboda. After one year in Gorica, he signed with Turkish side Gençlerbirliği. The first two season ...
Damir Čakar
Damir Čakar ( Cyrillic: Дамир Чакар; born 28 June 1973) is a Montenegrin former professional footballer who played as either a striker or an attacking midfielder. He is mostly known for his powerful shots and set pieces.
Club career
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, Montenegrin football player
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Damir Čeković
Damir Čeković (Serbian Cyrillic: Дамир Чековић; born 19 March 1990 in Novi Sad) is a Serbian football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the ...
, Serbian football player
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Damir Čerkić
Damir Čerkić (born 14 February 1969 in Mostar) is a former Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player, from the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s.
Club career
Čerkić was product of Velež Mostar youth system and after spending two and a ...
, Bosnian football player
* Damir Desnica, Croatian football player
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Damir Dokić
Damir Dokić ( sr, Дамир Докић, born 1950s) is the father and ex-coach of the former professional tennis player Jelena Dokic.Damir Doma, German fashion designer of Croatian descent
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Damir Drinić
Damir Drinić ( sr-cyrl, Дамир Дринић; born 20 July 1989) is a Serbian former football goalkeeper.
External links
Profile and statsat Srbijafudbal
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1989 births
People from Bački Jarak
Living people
Serbian footballers
Asso ...
, Serbian football player
* Damir Dugonjič, Slovenian swimmer
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Damir Duvelek
Damir is a common male given name in South Slavic languages. It also occasionally appears in Central Asia and Turkic regions of Russia.
It is of Slavic origin, with ''da'' meaning "give"/"take", and ''mir'', meaning "peace".
It can also be a v ...
, Swedish hitman of Bosnian descent
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Damir Džidić
Damir Džidić (born 15 February 1987) is a Bosnian and Croatian retired professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is the younger brother of Ivica Džidić.
Honours Player
Zrinjski Mostar
*Bosnian Premier League: 2008–09
Širo ...
, Croatian football player of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent
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Damir Džombić
Damir Džombić (born 3 January 1985 in Srebrenik, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Bosnian retired football player who played as defender.
Club career
Džombić played his early youth football by Wangen bei Olten. In 2002 he joined the youth department ...
, Bosnian football player
* Damir Džumhur, Bosnian tennis player
* Damir Ervin, American cartoonist, artist, animator
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Damir Fejzić
Damir Fejzic ( sr-cyr, Дамир Фејзић, born April 16, 1994 in Vršac) is a Serbian taekwondo
''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean martial arts, Korean form of martial arts involv ...
, Serbian taekwondo practitioner
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Damir Glavan
Damir Glavan (born 2 March 1974) is a water polo player from Croatia, who was a member of the national team that won the silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
See also
* List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
Me ...
, Croatian water polo player
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Damir Hadžić (footballer, born 1978)
Damir Hadžić (born 2 October 1978) is a retired Bosnian-Herzegovinian professional footballer who played as a winger and spent most of his career with Bosnian-Herzegovinian Premier League club Sarajevo
Sarajevo ( ; cyrl, Сараје ...
, Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
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Damir Hadžić (footballer, born 1984)
Damir Hadžič (born 1 October 1984) is a Slovenian Association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football), defender for MNK Izola, Izola.
References
External linksPrvaLiga profile
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1984 births
Living people
Peo ...
, Slovenian footballer
* Damir Ibrić, Bosnian football player
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Damir Jurković
Damir Jurković (born 8 June 1970) is a Croatian former professional association football, footballer who played as a defender (association football), defender.
External links
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1970 births
Living people
Yugoslav men's f ...
, Croatian football player
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Damir Kahriman
Damir Kahriman ( sr-Cyrl, Дамир Кахриман; born 19 November 1984) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He was a member of the Serbia national under-21 football team, especially during the 2007 UEFA European ...
, Serbian footballer of Romani descent
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Damir Kajin
Damir Kajin (born 3 February 1962) is a Croatian politician.
Born in Koper, he grew up in Buzet.
Kajin was the Istrian Democratic Assembly
The Istrian Democratic Assembly ( hr, Istarski demokratski sabor, it, Dieta democratica istriana or ...
, Croatian politician
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Damir Kaletović Damir Kaletović is a multiple-award-winning investigative journalist from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a former reporter foFTV the public-service broadcasting organization of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina entity of Bosnia and He ...
Damir Keretić
Damir Keretić (born 26 March 1960) is a ex-professional tennis player who represented West Germany in Davis Cup in the 1980s.
Biography
The only title he won during his career was the Challenger tournament in Naples, Italy in 1981. By getting ...
, German tennis player of Croatian descent
* Damir Kreilach, Croatian football player
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Damir Krupalija
Damir Krupalija (born June 13, 1979) is a Bosnian-American professional basketball executive and former player. He played college basketball at University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Early years
Krupalija fled his war-torn country in 1992, ...
, Bosnian basketball player
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Damir Krznar
Damir Krznar (born 10 July 1972) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of the Slovenian PrvaLiga side Maribor.
Playing career Club
Krznar spent his career playing for Varteks, Dinamo Zagreb ...
, Croatian football player
* Damir Kukuruzović, Croatian jazz guitarist
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Damir Lesjak
Damir Lesjak (born 31 March 1967) is a former Croatian footballer who played for Dinamo Zagreb, Israeli side Hapoel Haifa and Belgian club Mouscron.
Club career
Born in Čakovec, Lesjak joined Dinamo Zagreb's academy as a promising young playe ...
, Croatian football player
* Damir Maričić, Croatian football player
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Damir Markota
Damir Markota (born December 26, 1985 as Damir Omerhodžić) is a Croatian professional basketball player currently playing for Dinamo in the Croatian League. Standing at , he plays at the power forward position.
Professional career
Markota, b ...
, Bosnian basketball player
* Damir Martin, Croatian rower
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Damir Matovinović
Damir Matovinović (born April 6, 1940) is a Croatian retired football referee. He is mostly known for supervising one match (between Brazil and New Zealand) at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain
, image_flag = Bandera de España.svg
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, Croatian football referee
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Damir Mehić
Damir Mehić (born 18 April 1987) is a Bosnian-born Swedish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper
In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated ...
, Swedish footballer of Bosnian descent
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Damir Memišević
Damir Memišević (born 22 January 1984) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian retired professional footballer who played as a centre back or defensive midfielder.
Club career
Born in Banja Luka, Memišević started his career in his hometown with the loca ...
, Bosnian football player
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Damir Mikec
Damir Mikec ( sr-Cyrl, Дамир Микец; born 31 March 1984) is a Serbian Shooting sports, sport shooter.
Biography
Mikec represented Serbia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. He earned his qualification by f ...
, Serbian sport shooter of Croatian descent
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Damir Milinović
Damir Milinović (born 15 October 1972) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player. He was named manager of Dubrava in June 2022.
Club career
Born in Rijeka, Milinović spent most of his career in his local club, Rijeka, b ...
, Croatian football player and manager
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Damir Mirvić
Damir Mirvić (born 30 November 1982) is a Bosnian football defender, who plays in the Belgian amateur leagues.
Club career
After spending time at FK Sarajevo, KAA Gent, KSV Roeselare and Wezet (Visé) he joined SK Maldegem Wezet in January ...
, Bosnian football player
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Damir Mršić
Damir Mršić (born 25 October 1970) is a retired Bosnian professional basketball player. He also holds Turkish citizenship, under the name Demir Kaan, since 2003. He is one of Fenerbahçe's legendary club players, and was mostly known for his sup ...
, Bosnian basketball player
* Damir Mulaomerović, Croatian basketball player of Bosnian descent
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Damir Nikšić
Damir Nikšić (born 6 December 1970) is a Bosnian conceptual artist, standup comedian, blogger and politician. One of his best known art works is a seven-minute-long video entitled "If I wasn't muslim" (2005).
Since 2022, Nikšić has been a me ...
, Bosnian conceptual artist
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Damir Pekič
Damir Pekič (born 15 January 1979) is a former Slovenian association football, football player who played as a Forward (association football), forward
Club career
Pekič started his senior career in NK Maribor, Maribor. Before he was given a r ...
, Slovenian football player
* Damir Pertič, Slovenian futsal player
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Damir Petravić
Damir Petravić (born 17 July 1963) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who is currently the manager of Zagorec Krapina.
Playing career
During his career, he played for NK Zagreb, Šibenik and Istra Pula. Petravić gra ...
, Croatian football player and manager
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Damir Polančec
Damir Polančec (born 25 June 1967) is a Croatian politician who served as Ministry of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship (Croatia), Minister of Economy, Labour and Entrepreneurship from 2008 to 2009, and as Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia fro ...
, Croatian politician
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Damir Puškar
Damir Puškar (born 3 September 1987) is a retired Slovenian futsal player who played as a goalkeeper. Between 2009 and 2020, he represented the Slovenia national futsal team, Slovenia national team, making 115 appearances.
References
External ...
, Slovenian futsal player
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Damir Rančić
Damir Rančić (born 23 June 1983) is a Croatian basketball coach and former professional player who currently coaches Ribola Kaštela of the Prva liga.
Pro career
Rančić was born in Split and began his professional career in 2000 with Solin. ...
, Croatian basketball player
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Damir Rastić
Damir Rastić ( sr-Cyrl, Дамир Растић, ; born July 23, 1988) is Serbian biathlete.
He represents Serbia at the Biathlon World Championships, Biathlon World Cup
The Biathlon World Cup is a top-level biathlon season-long competition ...
, Serbian biathlete
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Damir Rašić
Damir Rašić (born 5 October 1988 in Split) is a Croatian football player who plays for HNK Zmaj Makarska
HRNK Zmaj is a professional Croatian football club based in the town of Makarska.
History
HRNK Zmaj was founded in 1921. The first c ...
, Croatian football player
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Damir Rilje
Damir Rilje (born 9 May 1958) is a Croatian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia, he is the current mayor of Trogir and a member of the 7th assembly of the Croatian Parliament
The Croatian Parliament ( hr, Hrvatski ...
, Croatian politician
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Damir Sadikov
Damir Maratovich Sadikov (russian: Дамир Маратович Садиков; born 12 July 1991) is a Russian former professional football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a ...
, Russian football player
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Damir Salimov
Damir Salimov (russian: Дамир Салимов; 19 July 1937 – 28 March 2019) was an Uzbek film director who was credited with introducing animation to Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекис ...
, Uzbek film director
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Damir Shadaev
Damir Ravilevich Shadaev (russian: Дамир Равильевич Шадаев; born November 3, 1967, in Leningrad, Russian SFSR) is a member of the State Duma of Russia. He is a member of the LDPR, and is Deputy Chairman of the State Duma's Com ...
, Russian politician
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Damir Siraciev
Damir Siraciev ( tt-Cyrl, Дамир Сираҗиев, russian: Дамир Сиразиев ''Damir Siraziev'', born October 17, 1954) was a Volga Tatars, Volga Tatar theatre director and actor. He was born Siraziev Raid Ravilovich (russian: Сир ...
, Tatar theatre director and actor
* Damir Skomina, Slovenian football referee
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Damir Stojak
Damir Stojak (; born 22 May 1975) is a Serbian former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football)#Striker, striker.
Club career
After his promising performances at FK Vojvodina, Vojvodina, Stojak m ...
, Serbian football player
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Damir Škaro
Damir Škaro (born 2 November 1959) is a former Croatian amateur Boxing, boxer who won the Olympic medalists in boxing, Light Heavyweight Bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics, 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul for Socialist Federal Republic of Yug ...
, Croatian boxer
* Damir Šolman, Croatian basketball player
* Damir Šovšić, Croatian football player of Bosnian descent
* Damir Špica, Bosnian football player
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Damir Šutevski
Damir Šutevski (28 September 1954 – 29 October 2020) was an association football player from Yugoslavia who played for Canadian and American clubs.
Career
Šutevski came from Zagreb, at the time in Yugoslavia, and originally played in the Na ...
, Yugoslavian-Canadian association football player
* Damir Urban, Croatian musician
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Damir Vitas
Damir Vitas (born 11 March 1981) is a Croatian-Macedonian retired footballer who last played for SC Schönau.
Club career
Vitas previously played for Serbian club FK Radnički Bajmok, Macedonian FK Sileks and NK Međimurje in the Croatian Fi ...
, Croatian footballer
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Damir Vrabac
Damir Vrabac (born 10 May 1962) is a former Bosnian football player
Player may refer to:
Role or adjective
* Player (game), a participant in a game or sport
** Gamer, a player in video and tabletop games
** Athlete, a player in sports
** Pla ...
, Bosnian football player
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Damir Vrančić
Damir Vrančić (born 4 October 1985) is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder.
Club career
Vrančić made his professional debut for German Bundesliga side 1. FSV Mainz 05 in 2006. After his club's relegation ...
, Bosnian footballer of Croatian descent
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Damir Yusupov
Damir is a common male given name in South Slavic languages. It also occasionally appears in Central Asia and Turkic regions of Russia.
It is of Slavic origin, with ''da'' meaning "give"/"take", and ''mir'', meaning "peace".
It can also be a v ...
, Russian pilot known for safely crash landing
Ural Airlines Flight 178
Ural Airlines Flight 178 was an Ural Airlines scheduled passenger flight from Moscow–Zhukovsky to Simferopol, Crimea. On 15 August 2019, the Airbus A321 operating the flight carried 226 passengers and seven crew. The flight suffered a bird s ...
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Damir Zaynullin Damir Tahir ulı Zaynullin (russian: Дамир Тагирович Зайнуллин, tt-Cyrl, Дәмир Таһир улы Зайнуллин, translit=Dämir Tahir ulı Zaynullin ; ~ - 1 July 2007), was a 23-year-old Saint-Petersburg-born ethnic ...
, Russian murder victim of Tatar descent
* Damir Zlomislić, Bosnian football player