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Serbo-Croatian Serbo-Croatian ( / ), also known as Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian (BCMS), is a South Slavic language and the primary language of Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Montenegro. It is a pluricentric language with four mutually i ...

masculine given name, derived from

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root '' drag'' ("dear, beloved"). Notable people with the name include: *

Dražen Besek Dražen Besek (born 10 March 1963) is a Croatian football coach and a former professional football midfield player. As a player he spent most of his career playing for Croatian teams Varteks and Dinamo Zagreb before moving abroad and appearing ...

(born 1963), Croatian football player and manager *

Dražen Biškup Dražen Biškup (born 28 December 1965 in Zagreb) is a Croatian football manager and retired professional footballer who currently manages Vrbovec. Club career NK Zagreb Biškup played for NK Dinamo Zagreb in the Yugoslav First League and f ...

(born 1965), Croatian football player and manager * Dražen Bolić (born 1971), Serbian football player * Dražen Brnčić (born 1971), Croatian football player and manager *

Dražen Budiša Dražen Budiša (born 25 July 1948) is a Croatian politician who used to be a leading opposition figure in the 1990s and a two-time presidential candidate. As president of the Croatian Social Liberal Party through the 1990s he remains to date the ...

(born 1948), Croatian politician *

Dražen Dalipagić Dražen "Praja" Dalipagić (; 27 November 1951 – 25 January 2025) was a Serbian professional basketball player and head coach. He was selected the best athlete of Yugoslavia in the year 1978, and is one of the most decorated athletes in Yugos ...

(1951–2025), Serbian basketball player and manager of Bosnian-Herzegovinian origin *

Dražen Erdemović Dražen Erdemović (born 25 November 1971) was a soldier who fought during the Bosnian War for the Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) and was later sentenced for his participation in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. Background Erdemović was born in T ...

(born 1971), Bosnian soldier and war criminal of Serb and Croat descent * Dražen Gović (1981–2022), Croatian football player * Mirko Dražen Grmek (1924–2000), Croatian and French historian of medicine * Dražen Funtak (born 1975), Croatian sprint canoer *

Dražen Ladić Dražen Ladić (; born 1 January 1963) is a Croatian professional football coach and former player and who is the current Analyst of the Croatia national team. Playing career Club Ladić was born in Čakovec, but grew up in the nearby village o ...

(born 1963), Croatian football player and manager *

Dražen Lalić Dražen Lalić (born 15 June 1960, Makarska) is a Croatian educator and academic at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb and one of the better known sociologists in the country. Lalić graduated from the Faculty of Polit ...

(born 1960), Croatian sociologist *

Dražen Marović Dražen Marović (born January 14, 1938, in Split) is a Croatian chess grandmaster who was active in former Yugoslavia, later a trainer, journalist, writer and broadcaster. Biography Despite learning the game at the relatively late age of sixt ...

(born 1938), Croatian chess player *

Dražen Mužinić Dražen Mužinić (born 25 January 1953) is a Croatian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Mužinić spent most of his career in his native Yugoslavia. With Hajduk Split he won four league titles, five cups and he was cap ...

(born 1953), Croatian football player *

Dražen Petrović Dražen Petrović (; 22 October 1964 – 7 June 1993) was a Yugoslav and Croatian professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s with Cibona and Real Madri ...

(1964–1993), Yugoslav and Croatian basketball player *

Dražen Prćić Dražen Prćić (Subotica, November 1, 1967) is a Croatian novelist from area of Bačka, autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. He's the son of Croatian writer Milivoj Prćić. Until March 2020, he wrote fourteen novels and two historic boo ...

(born 1967), Serbian Croat novelist *

Dražen Ričl Dražen Ričl, known under nicknames "Zijo" and "Para", (12 March 1962 – 1 October 1986) was a SFR Yugoslavia, Yugoslav Rock music, rock musician, best known as the original frontman of popular pop rock band Crvena Jabuka. Ričl started his mu ...

(1962–1986), Bosnian rock musician and comedian of Czech and Bosniak descent *

Dražen Žerić Dražen "Žera" Žerić (born 20 July 1964) is a Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian and SFR Yugoslavia, Yugoslav musician currently based in Croatia, best known as the vocalist for the popular pop rock band Crvena Jabuka. Žerić started his career ...

(born 1964), Bosnian singer of Bosniak descent

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