Stjepan is a Croatian masculine

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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; ...

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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. I ...

speakers. In

Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = " Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , map_caption = , capi ...

, 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, 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 Stjepan was a son of Croatian King Svetoslav Suronja, member of Trpimirović dynasty. As his father was allied with Venetian Republic in Croatian civil wars and Croatian-Bulgarian wars, as well as in campaign of Pietro Orseolo II against Croatia ...

, Croatian nobleman *

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

, Croatian footballer * Stjepan Babić, Croatian linguist * Stjepan Babić (footballer), Croatian footballer * Stjepan Bobek, Croatian footballer * Stjepan Božić, Croatian boxer * Stjepan Brodarić, Croatian cleric * Stjepan Deverić, Croatian footballer * Stjepan Damjanović, Croatian linguist * Stjepan Đureković, Croatian businessman * Stjepan Filipović, Croatian partisan *

Stjepan Gomboš Stjepan Gomboš (1895–1975) was a Croatian Jewish Ha-Kol (Glasilo Židovske zajednice u Hrvatskoj); Aleksander Laslo, Nataša Maksimović Subašić; Graditelji novog Zagreba; stranica 22; broj 108, siječanj / veljača 2009. architect responsib ...

, Croatian architect * Stjepan Gradić, Croatian polymath * Stjepan Hauser, Croatian cellist * Stjepan Horvat, Croatian geodesist *

Stjepan Ivšić Stjepan Ivšić (; 13 August 1884 – 14 January 1962) was a Croatian linguist, Slavic specialist, and accentologist. Biography After finishing primary school in Orahovica, he attended secondary school in Osijek and Požega. At the Faculty of Ph ...

, Croatian linguist *

Stjepan Janić Stjepan Janić ( sr, Стјепан Јанић; born 24 November 1980 in Bačka Palanka, Serbia), is a Serbian and Croatian sprint canoer. In 1998, he won his first silver medal as a member of the Serbia and Montenegro (then under Yug ...

, Croatian canoer *

Stjepan Jukić Stjepan Jukić (; born 10 December 1979) is a Croatian retired football player. Club career Jukić has previously played for NK Osijek, HNK Šibenik and Inter Zapresic in the Croatian First League. In 2008, he played for Sanfrecce Hiroshima ...

, Croatian footballer *

Stjepan Kljuić Stjepan Kljuić (born 19 December 1939) is a Bosnian Croat former politician who was the Croat Member of the Presidency of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina before and during the Bosnian War. Kljuić was also the President of the Croatian D ...

, Bosnian Croat politician *

Stjepan Kovačević Stjepan Kovačević ( Hungarian: ''István Kovacsevics''; 1841 – 25 April 1913) was a Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = " Lijepa naša do ...

, Croatian politician *

Stjepan Lamza Stjepan Lamza (23 January 1940 – 12 January 2022) was a Croatian footballer who played as a midfielder. He is considered one of the greatest Croatian players of all time and played for much of his career for Dinamo Zagreb, whom he helped in win ...

, Croatian footballer *

Stjepan Mesić Stjepan "Stipe" Mesić (; born 24 December 1934) is a Croatian lawyer and politician who served as President of Croatia from 2000 to 2010. Before serving two five-year terms as president, he was prime minister of SR Croatia (1990) after the fir ...

, Croatian politician *

Stjepan Meštrović Stjepan Gabriel Meštrović (born 1955) is an American sociologist. He is professor of sociology at Texas A&M University. Meštrović has served as an expert witness in war crimes trials, including at the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse case. ...

, Croatian-American sociologist *

Stjepan Mitrov Ljubiša Stjepan (modernist: Stefan) Mitrov Ljubiša ( sr-cyr, Стјепан Митров Љубиша; 29 February 1824 – 11 November 1878), was a Serbian and Montenegrin writer and politician. He is famous for his unique short stories, generally ra ...

, Serbian-Montenegrin politician *

Stjepan Mohorovičić Stjepan Mohorovičić (August 20, 1890 – February 13, 1980) was a Croatian physicist, geophysicist and meteorologist. Biography Mohorovičić was born in the town of Bakar. His father is the world-famous geophysicist Andrija Mohorovičić. He ...

, 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 ...

, Croatian canoer * Stjepan Planić, Croatian architect * Stjepan Poljak, Croatian footballer * Stjepan Radić, Croatian politician * Stjepan Sarkotić, Croatian soldier *

Stjepan Spevec Stjepan Spevec (June 14, 1839, Vukanci - January 28, 1905,Zagreb) was a Croatian university professor and rector. He graduated law at the Law Academy in Zagreb. Since Academy didn't have the right to give Ph.Ds, he received his Ph.D. in Vienna i ...

, Croatian educator *

Stjepan Šejić Stjepan Šejić (born November 27, 1981) is a Croatian comic book writer and artist, known for his work on the series ''Witchblade'', ''Aphrodite IX'', ''Sunstone'', and '' The Darkness'' among others. Career Šejić was born in Vinkovci and res ...

, Croatian comic book artist * Stjepan Šiber,

Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina The Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( bs, Armija Republike Bosne i Hercegovine or ARBiH), often referred to as Bosnian Army, was the military force of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was established by the government of ...

of Croat origin * Stjepan Šulek, 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, 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. ...

, Bosnian nobleman

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