Hrvoje is a Croatian male ethnic
first name
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derived from "Hrvat" meaning "
Croat
The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, Ge ...
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Hrvoje Čale
Hrvoje Čale (born 4 March 1985) is a former Croatian international footballer.
Club career
Čale began his career at age nine in the youth ranks of Dinamo Zagreb. He made his break into the first team in 2003. However, he was mostly used as a ...
(born 1985), Croatian football back
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Hrvoje Horvat
Hrvoje Horvat (born 22 May 1946) is a Croatian handball coach and player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics for SFR Yugoslavia.
International career
He was part of the Yugoslav team which won the gold medal ...
(born 1946), Croatian handball back
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Hrvoje Klasić
Hrvoje Klasić (born 6 December 1972) is a Croatian historian. Since 2003, Klasić is a professor at the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb. His work focuses on contemporary Croati ...
(born 1972), Croatian historian
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Hrvoje Kovačević
Hrvoje Kovačević (born 12 July 1982) is a Croatian association football player currently playing for NK Lučko.
He began his career playing for HNK Cibalia in the Croatian Prva HNL, before signing a contract with Israeli team Bnei Yehuda Tel ...
(born 1982), Croatian football midfielder
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Hrvoje Panžić
Hrvoje Panžić (born 25 October 1978) is a Croatian judoka.
Achievements
See also
* European Judo Championships
* History of martial arts
* Judo in Croatia
*List of judo techniques
This is a list of judo techniques. They are categorized int ...
(born 1978), Croatian judoka
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Hrvoje Perić
Hrvoje Perić (born October 25, 1985) is a Croatian professional basketball player currently playing for Benedetto XIV Cento of the Italian second-tier Serie A2 Basket. Standing at 2.01 m, he plays at the power forward position.
Professional c ...
(born 1985), Croatian basketball forward
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Hrvoje Petek
Hrvoje Petek (born January 13, 1958) is a Croatian-born American physicist and the Richard King Mellon Professor of Physics and Astronomy, at the University of Pittsburgh, where he is also a professor of chemistry.
Education
Petek received his ...
(born 1958),
Croatian American
Croatian Americans or Croat Americans ( hr, Američki Hrvati) are Americans who have full or partial Croatian ancestry. In 2012, there were 414,714 American citizens of Croat or Croatian descent living in the United States as per revised 2010 Un ...
physicist
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Hrvoje Šarinić
Hrvoje Šarinić (; 17 February 1935 – 21 July 2017) was a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 1992 to 1993.
Šarinić was born in Sušak and graduated from the University of Zagreb then-Faculty of Architecture, C ...
(1935–2017), Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister
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Hrvoje Slovenc
Hrvoje Slovenc (born 1976, Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian-American fine art photographer based in New York City. He holds an MS in biochemistry from the University of Zagreb and an MFA in photography from Yale University School of Art.
His phot ...
, (born 1976) Croatian-American fine-art photographer
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Hrvoje Vejić
Hrvoje Vejić (born 8th June, 1977) is a Croatian retired footballer who is the president of NK Jadran Luka Ploče. He plays at the center-back position.
Club career
In 1998, Vejić started his football career in the Croatian capital with NK Za ...
(born 1977), Croatian footballer
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Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić
Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić (ca. 1350–1416) was a medieval Bosnian nobleman and magnate, Grand Duke of Bosnia, Knyaz of Donji Kraji, and Duke of Split. He was the most prominent member of the Hrvatinić noble family, and one of the major feudal ...
(c. 1350–1416), Bosnian nobleman, duke of medieval Bosnia
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Slavic names
Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic countries.
The main types of Slavic names:
* Two-basic names, often ending in mir/měr (''Ostromir/měr'', ''Tihomir/měr'', '' Němir/měr''), *voldъ (''Vsevolod'', ...
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External links
*http://www.behindthename.com/name/hrvoje
Croatian masculine given names
Slavic masculine given names