Gordana () is a Slavic female first name, mostly used in

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. The name is derived from

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''*gъrdъ'' (''gȏrd'') 'proud'.

Notable people

* Gordana Baric, international lawn bowls competitor for Australia * Gordana Boban (born 1967), Bosnian actress * Gordana Bogojević (1974–2009), Serbian basketball player * Gordana Božinovska (born 1965), Serbian singer * Gordana Čomić (born 1958), Serbian politician *

Gordana Ćulibrk Gordana Ćulibrk (1952) is a Serbian writer. She lives and works in Belgrade Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at t ...

(born 1952), Serbian writer * Gordana Đilas (born 1958), Serbian poet *

Gordana Dukovic Gordana Dukovic is a physical chemist. She is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder. Life and education Gordana Dukovic earned her B.A. at Rutgers University in 2001, majoring in chemistry and ...

, American physical chemist *

Gordana Gadžić Gordana Gadžić ( sr-Cyrl, Гордана Гаџић; born 21 August 1955) is a Serbian actress. She has appeared in more than 30 films since 1981. Selected filmography References External links * 1955 births Living people Actre ...

(born 1955), Serbian actress *

Gordana Garašić Brigadier General Gordana Garašić is a Croatian army officer and that country's first female general officer. A human resources expert, she has been posted to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. Garašić has also ser ...

, Croatian army officer and Croatia's first female general officer *

Gordana Grubin Gordana Grubin (Serbian Cyrillic:Гордана Грубин, born August 20, 1972, in Zrenjanin, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Serbian professional basketball player who played in Europe and the United States. WNBA career Grubin played six seasons ...

(born 1972), Serbian basketball player *

Gordana Jankuloska Gordana Jankuloska (, ; born 12 October 1975) is the former 10th Interior Minister of the Government of Macedonia (now North Macedonia). She was a Minister in four cabinets of Nikola Gruevski. During the 2015 Macedonian protests, activists demand ...

(born 1975), Macedonian politician *

Gordana Jurčan Gordana Jurcan (born ) is a retired Croatian female volleyball player. She was a member of the Croatia women's national volleyball team. Jurcan was part of the Croatian national team at the Volleyball at the 1993 Mediterranean Games, 1993 Mediterr ...

(born 1971), Croatian volleyball player *

Gordana Kamenarović Gordana Kamenarović (born 1958) is a Serbian actress. Life Kamenarović was born in Novi Sad, in what was then Yugoslavia, she graduated acting from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad in 1984, and became a member of the Serbian National Theatre ...

(born 1958), Serbian actress *

Gordana Knezević Gordana () is a Slavic female first name, mostly used in Slavic countries such as Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The name is derived from Proto-Slavic ''*gъrdъ'' (''gȏrd'') 'proud'. Notable pe ...

(born 1950), Serbian journalist *

Gordana Komadina Gordana Komadina (born 20 April 1976 Šibenik, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Croatia Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slo ...

(born 1976), Croatian basketball player *

Gordana Kozlovački Gordana Kozlovački ( sr-cyr, Гордана Козловачки; born 21 March 1958) is a politician, medical doctor, and administrator in Serbia. She served in the Assembly of Vojvodina from 2016 to 2020 as a member of the Democratic Party ('' ...

(born 1958), Serbian politician, medical doctor, and administrator * Gordana Kuić (1942–2023), Serbian novelist * Gordana Predić, Serbian politician, administrator, and journalist * Gordana Pop Lazić (born 1956), Serbian politician * Gordana Marković (born 1951), Serbian chess player * Gordana Matic, Croatian-American mathematician *

Gordana Matković Gordana Matković ( sr-cyr, Гордана Матковић; born 15 March 1960) is a Serbian politician. She served as general adviser of the former president of Serbia Boris Tadić from 2004 to 2012. Previously, she served as the minister of so ...

(born 1960), Serbian politician *

Gordana Perkučin Gordana Perkučin (born 7 May 1962 in Novi Kneževac) is a Yugoslav and Serbian table tennis player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics and in the 1992 Summer Olympics. Table tennis career In 1988 she won the bronze medal in the women's d ...

(born 1962), Serbian table tennis player *

Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova ( born 11 May 1953) is a Macedonian university law professor and jurist serving as the president of North Macedonia since May 2024. She was a candidate for the 2019 presidential elections, losing to Stevo Pendarovski ...

(born 1953), Macedonian jurist and 6th President of North Macedonia *

Gordana Suša } Gordana Suša (2 February 1946 – 22 June 2021) was a Serbian journalist. She wrote a weekly Saturday column for the daily ''Blic (newspaper), Blic'' and from 2010 until her death sat on the board of the (RRA), the country's electronic media ...

(1946–2021), Serbian journalist * Gordana Marinković (born 1974), Serbian singer * Gordana Turuk (born 1974), Slovak artist with Croatian heritage * Gordana Vlajić (born 1959), Serbian author and political activist *

Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic ( sr-cyr, Гордана Вуњак Новаковић) FRSC is a Serbian American biomedical engineer and university professor. She is a University Professor at Columbia University, as well as the Mikati Foundation Prof ...

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