Ranko is a Slavic and Japanese given name.
People
People with the name Ranko include:
Slavic name "Ranko" (
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking co ...
: Ранко)
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Ranko Borozan
Ranko Borozan (25 July 1933 – 2 April 2020) was a Yugoslav footballer.
Club career
Born in Mostar, he played as a defender in the Yugoslav First League for FK Velež Mostar, FK Partizan, Red Star Belgrade and OFK Belgrade during the 1950s. He ...
, footballer
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Ranko Despotović, Serbian footballer
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Ranko Đorđić, Serbian football player and manager
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Ranko Golijanin, footballer
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Ranko Krivokapić, Speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro and the President of the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro
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Ranko Marinković, Croatian novelist and dramatist
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Ranko Markovic, film and television producer
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Ranko Matasović
Ranko Matasović (born 14 May 1968) is a Croatian linguist, Indo-Europeanist and Celticist.
Biography
Matasović was born and raised in Zagreb, where he attended primary and secondary school. In the Faculty of philosophy at the University of ...
, Croatian linguist
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Ranko Moravac, footballer
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Ranko Ostojić
Ranko Ostojić (; born 3 October 1962) is a Croatian lawyer and centre-left politician who served as the 11th Interior Minister in the Cabinet of Zoran Milanović from December 2011 to January 2016.
Ostojić graduated from the Split Faculty o ...
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Ranko Popović, Serbian football player/coach
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Ranko Radović, architect
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Ranko Stojić, footballer
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Ranko Veselinović, footballer
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Ranko Žeravica
Ranko Žeravica ( sr-cyr, Ранко Жеравица; 17 November 1929 – 29 October 2015) was a Serbian professional basketball coach. With a career that spanned over 50 years, he is most noted for his work with the senior Yugoslav national t ...
, Serbian basketball coach
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Ranko Zirojević, footballer
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Ranko Jurjević Ranko is a Slavic and Japanese given name.
People
People with the name Ranko include:
Slavic name "Ranko" (Cyrillic script: Ранко)
* Ranko Borozan, footballer
* Ranko Despotović, Serbian footballer
* Ranko Đorđić, Serbian football player ...
, Multimedijalni umetnik
Japanese name "Ranko"
Written 乱子,蘭子,らんこ,ランコ
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Ranko Hanai
was a Japanese actress. Her birth name was Shimizu Yoshiko. She appeared in more than 190 films between 1931 and 1961. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1961 at the age of 42.
Selected filmography
* '' The Million Ryo Pot'' (1935)
* '' Falle ...
(1918-1961), actress
*, Japanese fashion model, television personality and singer
Fictional Characters
*Ranko, an alternate persona for
Ranma Saotome
is a fictional character and the titular protagonist of the manga series ''Ranma ½'', created by Rumiko Takahashi. Ranma is a Japanese teenage boy who has trained in martial arts since early childhood. As a result of falling into an enchanted ...
in ''Ranma ½''
*Ranko, a character from ''
A Mother Should be Loved''
*Ranko, a character from ''
SS''
*Ranko, a gorilla who features in the ''Tintin'' adventure ''
The Black Island
''The Black Island'' (french: link=no, L'Île noire) is the seventh volume of ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper for its children's supplement , it ...
'' by Hergé
*Ranko Yagyuu, a character from ''
Fūma no Kojirō''
*Ranko Saōji, a character from ''
Sankarea: Undying Love''
*Ranko Saegusa, a character from ''
Binbō Shimai Monogatari
, also known as ''Flat Broke Sisters'', is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Izumi Kazuto. It was serialized in Shogakukan's ''seinen'' manga magazine ''Monthly Sunday Gene-X'' from April 2004 to October 2006, with its chapte ...
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*Ranko Mikogami, a secondary character in ''
Sky Girls
is a Japanese anime franchise produced by Konami and animated by J.C.Staff. A 30-minute OVA episode was released on August 25, 2006 and a television series adaptation aired on Chiba TV from July 5, 2007, to December 27, 2007.
Plot
In th ...
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*Ranko Midorikawa, a character from ''
Aim for the Ace!
''Aim for the Ace!'', known in Japan as , is a manga series written and illustrated by Sumika Yamamoto. The series tells the story of Hiromi Oka, a high school student who wants to become a professional tennis player as she struggles ag ...
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*Ranko Hata, a character from ''
Seitokai Yakuindomo''
*Ranko Kanzaki, a character from ''
The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls
is a Japanese free-to-play simulation video game co-developed by Cygames and Bandai Namco Studios for the Mobage social network platform for mobile phones. It was first released on November 28, 2011, for feature phones, and compatibilit ...
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See also
* ''Isolepis ranko'' (I. ranko), see
List of Isolepis species
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Ranković
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