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 languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...
: Ранко)

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 * Ranko Despotović, Serbian footballer *

Ranko Đorđić Ranko Đorđić (Serbian Cyrillic: Paнкo Ђopђић; born 1 January 1957) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian football manager and former player. Club career After playing several years in Yugoslav First League clubs FK Željezničar Sarajevo and NK � ...

, Serbian football player and manager *

Ranko Golijanin Ranko Golijanin ( sr-Cyrl, Ранко Голијанин; born January 18, 1975) is a retired professional Association football, footballer who played in the First League of FR Yugoslavia, Segunda División, USL A-League, and the Canadian Soccer L ...

, footballer *

Ranko Krivokapić Ranko Krivokapić (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Ранко Кривокапић; born August 17, 1961) is a Montenegrin politician who served as the minister of foreign affairs in 2022. He is a former long-term President of the Parliament of Montenegro ...

, Speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro and the President of the Social Democratic Party of Montenegro *

Ranko Marinković Ranko Marinković (22 February 1913 – 28 January 2001) was a Croatian novelist and dramatist. Born in Komiža on the island of Vis (then a part of Austria-Hungary), Marinković's childhood was marked by World War I. He later earned a degree in ...

, Croatian novelist and dramatist *

Ranko Markovic Ranko Markovic is an Australian film and television producer and is the company director and producer of Templar Entertainment. Markovic's career started out in property development and investment before moving into film. Since then Markovic ha ...

, film and television producer *

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 * Ranko Moravac, footballer *

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 ...

, Croatian politician *

Ranko Popović Ranko Popović (; born 26 June 1967) is a Serbian football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of Japanese club Machida Zelvia. Playing career Born in Peć, SAP Kosovo, SR Serbia, Popović started out at local club B ...

, Serbian football player/coach *

Ranko Radović Ranko Radović (August 18, 1935 – February 16, 2005) was a Montenegrin and Yugoslav architect, professor and theoretician of architecture. He taught contemporary architecture and urbanism at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Architecture be ...

, architect * Ranko Stojić, footballer * Ranko Veselinović, footballer *

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 * Ranko Zirojević, footballer *

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 a ...

, Multimedijalni umetnik

Japanese name "Ranko"

Written 乱子,蘭子,らんこ,ランコ *

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) * ''Fallen ...

(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 is a 1934 Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, the first and last reels of which have been lost. Ozu had wanted to name the film ''Tokyo Twilight'', but studio executives preferred a title that referenced motherhood, a popular theme in Japane ...

'' *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 chapt ...

'' *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 the ...

'' *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 ...

'' *Ranko Hata, a character from ''

Seitokai Yakuindomo is a Japanese four-panel manga series written and illustrated by Tozen Ujiie. It ran in Kodansha's ''Magazine Special'' from May 2007 to June 2008. It was then transferred to Kodansha's ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'', where it ran from July ...

'' *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 compatibility ...

People

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 languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...: Ранко)

Japanese name "Ranko"

Fictional Characters

See also