Stjepan is a Croatian masculine

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, variant of

Stephen Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; ...

, used by

ijekavian Shtokavian or Štokavian (; sh-Latn, štokavski / sh-Cyrl, italics=no, штокавски, ) is the prestige dialect of the pluricentric Serbo-Croatian language and the basis of its Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin standards. It ...

speakers. In

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, the name Stjepan was among the top ten most common masculine given names in the decades up to 1969. Notable people with the name include: *

Stjepan Držislav of Croatia Stjepan is a Croatian masculine given name, variant of Stephen, used by ijekavian speakers. In Croatia, the name Stjepan was among the top ten most common masculine given names in the decades up to 1969. Notable people with the name include: * S ...

, Croatian monarch *

Stjepan II of Croatia Stephen II ( hr, Stjepan II) was the last member of the Trpimirović dynasty and last native king of Croatia to rule the entire medieval Croatian Kingdom.

, Croatian monarch * Stjepan Svetoslavić, Croatian nobleman *

Stjepan Andrijašević Stjepan "Stipe" Andrijašević (born 7 February 1967) is a Croatian retired Association football, football player. Club career Andrijašević made his debut for local club HNK Hajduk Split, Hajduk Split in 1983 and played in the 1994–95 UEFA C ...

, Croatian footballer *

Stjepan Babić Stjepan Babić (29 November 1925 – 27 August 2021) was a Croatian linguist and academic. Biography Babić was born in the small town of Oriovac in Brod-Posavina County, even though his biological parents are from Hrvatsko Zagorje. He attende ...

, Croatian linguist * Stjepan Babić (footballer), Croatian footballer *

Stjepan Bobek Stjepan Bobek (; 3 December 1923 – 22 August 2010) was a Croatian and Yugoslav professional football striker and later football manager. Usually a forward or attacking midfielder, Bobek was renowned for his technique, vision and goalscoring ...

, Croatian footballer *

Stjepan Božić Stjepan Božić (born October 23, 1974 in Brežice, Slovenia) is a Croatian super middleweight boxer. He won the title of World Boxing Foundation (WBFo) world champion on June 6, 2005 fighting against Australian Nader Hamdan. He successfully defe ...

, Croatian boxer *

Stjepan Brodarić Stephanus Brodericus ( hr, Stjepan Brodarić; hu, Brodarics István; c. 1480 – 17 November 1539) was a Croatian– Hungarian bishop, diplomat, chancellor and humanist writer. He started his studies in Pécs and continued at the universities of ...

, Croatian cleric *

Stjepan Deverić Stjepan Deverić (born 20 August 1961) is a Yugoslav and later Croatian retired professional footballer and former football manager. Club career Deverić began his career with Dinamo Zagreb in the Yugoslav First League in 1979. He stayed at the ...

, Croatian footballer *

Stjepan Damjanović Stjepan Damjanović (born 2 November 1946) is a Croatian linguist, philologist and paleoslavist. He worked as a regular professor at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. He is a former President of Matica hrva ...

, Croatian linguist *

Stjepan Đureković Stjepan Đureković (8 August 1926 – 28 July 1983) was a Croatian political dissident and businessman who was assassinated by the Yugoslavian State Security Administration (UDBA) in West Germany in 1983. He was previously the CEO of the state-o ...

, Croatian businessman *

Stjepan Filipović Stjepan Filipović (27 January 1916 – 22 May 1942) was a Yugoslav communist who led the Kolubara Company of the Valjevo Partisan Detachment during the 1941 Partisan uprising. He was captured and executed in 1942 in Valjevo. A photo of him ...

, Croatian partisan * Stjepan Gomboš, Croatian architect *

Stjepan Gradić Stjepan Gradić, also known as Stefano Gradi (Latin: Stephanus Gradius; 6 March 1613 – 2 May 1683) was a philosopher, scientist and a patrician of the Republic of Ragusa. Biography Stijepo's parents were Miho Gradi (Gradić) and Marija Benessa ...

, Croatian polymath *

Stjepan Hauser Stjepan Hauser (; born 15 June 1986), known professionally as HAUSER, is a Croatian cellist. He is a member of 2CELLOS, along with Luka Šulić. Early life and musical training Hauser was born in Pula, Croatia, into a musical family, where h ...

, Croatian cellist *

Stjepan Horvat Stjepan Horvat (November 29, 1895 – March 12, 1985) was a Croatian geodesist and professor, dean of the Technical Faculty in Zagreb, head of the University of Zagreb, editor of the journals ''Geodetski list'' and ''Hrvatska državna izmjera' ...

, Croatian geodesist * Stjepan Ivšić, Croatian linguist * Stjepan Janić, Croatian canoer * Stjepan Jukić, Croatian footballer * Stjepan Kljuić, Bosnian Croat politician * Stjepan Kovačević, Croatian politician * Stjepan Lamza, Croatian footballer * Stjepan Mesić, Croatian politician * Stjepan Meštrović, Croatian-American sociologist * Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša, Serbian-Montenegrin politician * Stjepan Mohorovičić, Croatian physicist *

Stjepan Musulin Stjepan Musulin (1885 in Sremska Mitrovica – 1969) was a Croatian linguist, comparative Slavicist, philologist, lexicographer and translator. Life Musulin translated from the Polish and Czech languages. He is recognized as one of the gre ...

, Croatian linguist *

Stjepan Perestegi Stjepan Perestegi (born 20 August 1973) is a Croatian slalom canoeist who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a silver medal in the C-1 team event at the 1995 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Nottingham. Perestegi also finished 2 ...

, Croatian canoer *

Stjepan Planić Stjepan Planić (27 December 1900 – 26 December 1980) was a Croatian architect. His style can be described as a synthesis of functionalist and organic architecture. Biography From 1920 to 1922 he worked for the architect Rudolf Lubinsky and, ...

, Croatian architect *

Stjepan Poljak Stjepan Poljak (born 17 November 1983 in Zabok, Croatia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Croatian association football, football midfielder, who plays for NK Zagorec Krapina. Career Poljak signed a three-year cont ...

, Croatian footballer *

Stjepan Radić Stjepan Radić (11 June 1871 – 8 August 1928) was a Croat politician and founder of the Croatian People's Peasant Party (HPSS), active in Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He is credited with galvanizing Cro ...

, Croatian politician *

Stjepan Sarkotić Stjepan Freiherr Sarkotić von Lovćen (also ''Stefan Sarkotić'', ''Stjepan Sarkotić'', or ''Stephan Sarkotić''; 4 October 1858 – 16 October 1939) was an Austro-Hungarian Army generaloberst of Croatian descent who served as Governor of Bosni ...

, Croatian soldier * Stjepan Spevec, Croatian educator *

Stjepan Šejić Stjepan Šejić (born November 27, 1981) is a Croatian American comic book, comic book writer and artist, known for his work on the series ''Witchblade'', ''Aphrodite IX'', ''Sunstone (comics), Sunstone'', and ''The Darkness (comics), The Darknes ...

, Croatian comic book artist *

Stjepan Šiber Stjepan Šiber (20 August 1938, Gradačac – 25 August 2016, Sarajevo) was a wartime general of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. After finishing high school in Gradačac, he went to Ljubljana, where he finished schooling at the m ...

, Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina of Croat origin *

Stjepan Šulek Stjepan Šulek (5 August 1914 in Zagreb, Austria-Hungary – 16 January 1986 in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) was a Croatian composer, conductor, violinist and music teacher. Biography Born in Zagreb in 1914, Šulek began his music stu ...

, Croatian composer *

Stjepan Tomas Stjepan Tomas (born 6 March 1976) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player. His previous clubs include Dinamo Zagreb, Vicenza Calcio, Como, Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray and Rubin Kazan. He played as centre-back, and at one poi ...

, Croatian footballer *

Stjepan Vrbančić Stjepan Vrbančić (29 November 1900 – 12 December 1988) was a Croatian footballer. He played with Zagreb's top football clubs: with HAŠK from 1918 to 1926 and HŠK Concordia Zagreb from 1926 to 1935. International career Vrbančić made hi ...

, Croatian footballer *

Stjepan Vukčić Kosača Stjepan Vukčić Kosača ( sr-Cyrl, Стјепан Вукчић Косача; 1404–1466) was the most powerful Bosnian nobleman whose active political career spanned the last three decades of medieval Bosnian history, from 1435 to 1465. D ...

, Bosnian nobleman

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