Petek is a

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. It means "

Friday Friday is the day of the week between Thursday and Saturday. In countries that adopt the traditional "Sunday-first" convention, it is the sixth day of the week. In countries adopting the ISO-defined "Monday-first" convention, it is the fifth day ...

" in Slovene and Serbo-Croatian (Kajkavian). Notable people with this surname include: *

Božo Petek Božo Petek was the author of two books on model aircraft building published in Slovene in 1946 and 1953. In 1954 he won the Levstik Award for '' Letalsko modelarstvo: motorni modeli'' (Model Aircraft Building: Motor Planes). Published works ...

, Slovenian author *

Damjan Petek Damjan Petek (born 19 March 1973) is a Slovenian judo is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電� ...

(born 1973), Slovenian judoka *

Franci Petek Franci Petek (born 15 June 1971) is a Slovenian former ski jumper and geographer who represented Yugoslavia during his ski jumping career. Career At the 1991 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Val di Fiemme, Petek won a gold medal for Yugosla ...

(born 1971), Slovenian ski jumper and geographer *

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-born American physicist

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