Zlatko ( sr-Cyrl, Златко, ) is a South Slavic masculine given name. The name is derived from the word ''zlato'' meaning
gold
Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile me ...
with hypocoristic suffix ''-ko'' common in
South Slavic languages.
Zlatko is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Zlatko Ćosić, experimental filmmaker and video artist
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Zlatko Čajkovski
Zlatko "Čik" Čajkovski (24 November 1923 – 27 July 1998) was a Croatian and Yugoslavian football player and coach. His brother, Željko Čajkovski, was a footballer as well. Normally a defensive midfielder, Čajkovski was renowned for hi ...
(1923–1998), Croatian and Yugoslavian football (soccer) player and coach
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Zlatko Đorić (born 1976), Serbian footballer
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Zlatko Škorić
Zlatko Škorić (27 July 1941 – 23 May 2019) was a Croatian football goalkeeper. He got eight caps for the Yugoslavia national team.
Club career
He played a total of 221 matches for Dinamo Zagreb and won the he won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup ...
(born 1941), former Croatian football player
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Zlatko Šugman
Zlatko Šugman (28 August 1932 – 16 December 2008) was one of Slovenia's best known theater, television and film actors.
Šugman was born in Gorišnica, which is located near Ptuj, in what was then Yugoslavia on 28 August 1932. He was a gr ...
(1932–2008), one of Slovenia's best known theater, television and film actors
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Zlatko Arambašić (born 1969), former Australian football (soccer) player
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Zlatko Baloković
Zlatko Baloković (March 31, 1895 – March 29, 1965) was a Croatian violinist.
Early years
He was born in Zagreb, Croatia (at the time part of Austria-Hungary), and began violin lessons at age ten. He made such progress that, after three years, ...
(1895–1965), Croatian violinist
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Zlatko Burić (born 1953), Croat-Danish actor
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Zlatko Crnković, several people
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Zlatko Dalić
Zlatko Dalić (; born 26 October 1966) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player. He is the manager of the Croatia national team since 2017 and led them to a runners-up finish at the 2018 FIFA World Cup and third place at the ...
(born 1966), Croatian football coach and former player
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Zlatko Dedič (born 1984), Slovenian football forward
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Zlatko Gall (born 1954), Croatian journalist, commentator and rock critic from Split
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Zlatko Grgić (1931–1988), Croatian animator who emigrated to Canada in the late 1960s
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Zlatko Horvat
Zlatko Horvat (born 25 September 1984) is a Croatian handball player for Dabas KK and the Croatia national team.
Career
Since 2003 Horvat's Zagreb has not lost a match in the domestic league and cup. Horvat has reached the quarter final of the ...
(born 1984), Croatian handball player
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Zlatko Ivanković, Croatian football coach current Head Coach of NK Sloboda Varaždin
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Zlatko Janjić
Zlatko Janjić (born 7 May 1986) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian former professional footballer who played a forward.
Club career
Janjić made his Bundesliga debut for Arminia Bielefeld in 2008.
He joined MSV Duisburg for the 2014–15 season.
In ...
(born 1986), Bosnian footballer
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Zlatko Jovanović (born 1984), Bosnian professional basketball player
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Zlatko Junuzović
Zlatko Junuzović (, ; born 26 September 1987) is an Austrian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. From 2006 to 2017 he represented the Austria national football team. He was known as a free-kick specialist.
Early life
Ju ...
(born 1987), Austrian footballer of Bosnian descent
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Zlatko Komadina
Zlatko Komadina (born 24 October 1958) is a Croatian politician who has been prefect of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County
Primorje-Gorski Kotar County ( hr, Primorsko-goranska županija, ) is a county in western Croatia that includes the Bay of Kv ...
(born 1958), Croatian politician, vice-president of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia
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Zlatko Kramarić
Zlatko Kramarić (born 5 February 1956) is a Croatian liberal politician from Osijek.
Kramarić was born in Osijek and graduated in philology (Macedonian literature) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Late ...
(born 1956), Croatian liberal politician from Osijek
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Zlatko Kranjčar
Zlatko "Cico" Kranjčar (; 15 November 1956 – 1 March 2021) was a Croatian professional football manager and player.
Kranjčar started his career as a player with Dinamo Zagreb where he won the Yugoslav First League in 1981–82, then Yugosl ...
(born 1956), Croatian football manager and former striker
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Zlatko Krasni Zlatko Krasni ( sr, Златко Красни, (born 1951, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia—died 31 October 2008) was a Serbian poet of Czech origin who resided in Belgrade for most of his life. He held a BA and an MA in Germanic Languages from the Philology ...
(1951–2008), Serbian poet of Czech origin, lived in Belgrade for most of his life
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Zlatko Krmpotić
Zlatko Krmpotić (; born 7 August 1958) is a Serbian former player and manager.
Club career
Between 1977 and 1986, Krmpotić spent nine seasons with Red Star Belgrade, making over 200 appearances in all competitions and winning five major troph ...
(born 1958), Serbian football manager and former defender
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Zlatko Lagumdžija
Zlatko Lagumdžija (born 26 December 1955) is a Bosnian former politician who served as the 4th Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2001 to 2002. He also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2001 to 2002 and ...
(born 1955), Bosniak politician
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Zlatko Manojlović
Zlatko Manojlović (Serbian Cyrillic: Златко Манојловић; born 1951) is a Serbian guitarist and singer. He is known as the leader of the progressive rock band Dah and the heavy metal band Gordi, as well as for his eclectic solo ...
(born 1951), Serbian musician
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Zlatko Mateša
Zlatko Mateša (; born 17 June 1949) is a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 1995 to 2000. A member of the Croatian Democratic Union, Mateša is currently the president of the Croatian Olympic Committee and honorary ...
(born 1949), the Prime Minister of Croatia from late 1995 until January 31, 2000
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Zlatko Nastevski
Zlatko Nastevski (Macedonian: Златкo Hacтeвcки; born 4 August 1957) is a retired Macedonian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
In October 2009, he played in the Australian "Olderoos" squad in the World Masters Games. Nast ...
(born 1957), Macedonian retired football (soccer) player
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Zlatko Papec
Zlatko Papec (17 January 1934 – 3 February 2013) was a Croatian footballer.
Club career
He began his career playing as a left winger at Zagreb's Lokomotiva, at the time when the club was a regular member of the Yugoslav First League, and wa ...
(born 1934), former Croatian footballer
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Zlatko Pejaković
Zlatko Pejaković (born 29 August 1950) is a Croatian singer. He has released 27 albums over his five decade long career. He started his music career in 1967 with local bands in Osijek. In 1972 he joined Korni Grupa, who in turn reached their peak ...
, Croatian singer
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Zlatko Perica (born 1969), guitarist
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Zlatko Portner
Zlatko Portner (; 16 January 1962 – 23 September 2020) was a Serbian handball coach and player who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Club career
After playing for Crvenka, Portner joined Yugoslav champions Metaloplastika, be ...
(born 1962), former Yugoslav handball player
*Zlatko Prangasevic (born 1987), Serbian-Swedish hiphop artist and music producer known as
Meta Four
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Zlatko Runje (born 1979), Croatian goalkeeper
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Zlatko Saračević (born 1961), Croatian former handball player
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Zlatko Sedlar, Croatian slalom canoeist who competed in the mid-1990s
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Zlatko Sudac (born 1971), Roman Catholic diocesan priest for the diocese of Krk, Croatia
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Zlatko Tanevski (born 1983), Macedonian footballer (defender)
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Zlatko Tesanovic (1956–2012), Bosnian-American physics professor
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Zlatko Tomčić
Zlatko Tomčić (; born 10 July 1945) is a Croatian politician who served as President of the Croatian Peasant Party from 1994 to 2005, as Speaker of the Croatian Parliament from 2000 to 2003, as a representative in the Croatian Parliament, and as ...
(born 1945), Croatian politician, former leader of the Croatian Peasant Party
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Zlatko Topčić
Zlatko Topčić (born 30 April 1955) is a Bosnian screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He has written a number of films, including: ''Remake'', '' The Abandoned'', ''Miracle in Bosnia''; theater plays: ''Time Out'', '' I Don't Like Mondays'', ' ...
(born 1955), famous multiple award-winning Bosnian writer and screenwriter
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Zlatko Tripić (born 1992), Norwegian-Bosnian footballer
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Zlatko Vitez (born 1950), Croatian theatre and film actor
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Zlatko Vujović
Zlatko Vujović (; born 26 August 1958) is a Croatian retired footballer who played as a striker.
His twin brother, Zoran, was also a professional footballer. They were both Yugoslav internationals, and both spent a large part of their profes ...
(born 1958), former Bosnian footballer who played as a striker
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Zlatko Yankov
Zlatko Georgiev Yankov ( bg, Златко Георгиев Янков; born 7 June 1966) is a Bulgarian footballer manager and former player, who played as a midfielder.
Career
Yankov was capped 79 times and scored four goals for the Bulgaria n ...
(Bulgarian: Златко Янков) (born 1966), retired Bulgarian football midfielder
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Zlatko Zahovič
Zlatko Zahovič (; born 1 February 1971) is a Slovenian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
After making a name for himself in Europe in Portugal, most notably with Porto and Benfica where he amassed Primeira ...
(born 1971), retired Slovenian footballer, who played as an attacking midfielder
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Zlatko Zebić (born 1979), Serbian football player
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