Nenad (;
Cyrillic script
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: Ненад) is a masculine
given name
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of
Slavic origin. It is common in countries that speak South Slavic languages, especially in
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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,
Croatia
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Serbia
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. The name is derived from the word ''nenadan'', which means "unexpected".
This name is often given to the younger of twins, in this case usually paired with the name
Predrag, from the Serbian folk song "Predrag i Nenad".
Original text of "Predrag i Nenad"
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Notable people with the name
A-J
* Nenad Adamović
Nenad Adamović (; born 12 January 1989) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Bežanija.
At the age of 18, Adamović was selected to represent the European side at the 2007 UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup.
Club career
Adamov ...
(born 1989), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Babović (born 1976), Serbian rower
* Nenad Bach (born 1954), Croatian-American composer
* Nenad Ban (born 1966), Croatian biochemist
* Nenad Baroš
Nenad Baroš ( sr-Cyrl, Ненад Барош; born 1986) is a politician in Serbia. He has served in the local government of Vršac and was elected to the National Assembly of Serbia in the 2020 Serbian parliamentary election. Baroš is a membe ...
(born 1986), Serbia politician
* Nenad Baćina
Nenad Baćina (born July 29, 1971) is a Croatian football manager and former player, Baćina holds a UEFA PRO Coaching License.
Club career
Baćina was born in 1971 in Split, Croatia. As a professional football player he played with several C ...
(born 1971) is a Croatian football manager
* Nenad Begović
Nenad Begović (; born January 6, 1980) is a Serbian retired football player who played in the First League of Serbia and Montenegro, Second League of Serbia and Montenegro, Ligue 1, Kazakhstan Premier League, Russian Premier League, Azerbaijan ...
(born 1980), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Beđik
Nenad Beđik ( sr-cyr, Ненад Беђик, born 14 April 1989 in Subotica, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian rower. He won 6th place in double sculls at the 2007 Junior World Championship. He represented Serbia at the 2012 Summer Olympic ...
(born 1989), Serbian rower
* Nenad Bijedić
Nenad "Ćeća" Bijedić ( Turkish: ''Nejat Biyediç'' or ''Nejat Vardar''; 24 September 1959 – 15 August 2011) was a Bosnian and naturalized Turkish football manager and player. He began playing football in FK Velez Mostar.
Playing career Cl ...
(1959–2011), Bosnian-Turkish football player and manager
* Nenad Bilbija
Nenad Bilbija (born 6 February 1984) is a professional handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players a ...
(born 1984), Slovenian handball player
* Nenad Bjeković (footballer born 1974)
Nenad Bjeković (, ; born 5 November 1947) is a Serbian football administrator and former player and manager.
Club career
Born in Lazarevo, a village near Zrenjanin, Bjeković started out at his local club Zadrugar Lazarevo, before switching t ...
, Serbian footballer
* Nenad Bjeković
Nenad Bjeković (, ; born 5 November 1947) is a Serbian football administrator and former player and manager.
Club career
Born in Lazarevo, a village near Zrenjanin, Bjeković started out at his local club Zadrugar Lazarevo, before switching t ...
(born 1947), Serbian football administrator and former player
* Nenad Bjelica
Nenad Bjelica (; born 20 August 1971) is a Croatian professional Association football, football manager and former player. He was most recently the manager of Croatian club GNK Dinamo Zagreb, Dinamo Zagreb.
Club career
Born in Osijek, Bjelica st ...
(born 1971), Croatian football player and coach
* Nenad Bogdanović
Nenad Bogdanović ( sr-cyr, Ненад Богдановић, ; 12 May 1954 – 27 September 2007) was a Serbian politician who served as the mayor of Belgrade from 2004 to 2007.
Education and career
Bogdanović was born on 12 May 1954. He comple ...
(1954–2007), Serbian politician, former mayor of Belgrade
* Nenad Borović (born 1964), Serbian politician
* Nenad Borovčanin (born 1979), Serbian boxer
* Nenad Božić (born 1971), Serbian politician
* Nenad Brnović
Nenad Brnović (Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic: Ненад Брновић; born 18 January 1980) is a Montenegrin football manager and former Association football, footballer.
His older brother Bojan Brnović, Bojan is also a footballer.
Cl ...
(born 1980), Montenegrin footballer
* Nenad Buljan (born 1978), Croatian swimmer
* Nenad Čanak (basketball) (born 1976), Serbian basketball player and coach
* Nenad Čanak (born 1959), Serbian politician
* Nenad Ćirković (born 1973), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Cvetković, multiple people
* Nenad Dedić (born 1990), Croatian footballer
* Nenad Delić (born 1984), Croatian basketball player
* Nenad Dimitrijević (born 1998), Macedonian basketball player
* Nenad Dizdarević (born 1955), Bosnian film director, screenwriter and producer
* Nenad Đorđević
Nenad Đorđević ( sr-Cyrl, Ненад Ђорђевић; born 7 August 1979) is a Serbian professional association football, football coach and former player who played as a defender (association football), defender. He is the assistant coach of ...
(born 1979), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Đukanović (born 1971), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Đurović
Nenad Đurović (Cyrillic: Ненад Ђуровић; born 17 January 1986) is a Montenegrin retired football defender who mostly played for Sutjeska Nikšić.
Club career
The first club for which he played for was FK Sutjeska Nikšić from hi ...
(born 1986), Montenegrin footballer
* Nenad Đurđević (born 1987), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Džodić (born 1977), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Erić (born 1982), Serbian-Kazakh footballer
* Nenad Filipović (footballer) (born 1987), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Filipović (racewalker) (born 1978), Serbian racewalker
* Nenad Firšt
Nenad Firšt (born November 6, 1964, in Zagreb), is a Slovene composer, conductor and violinist.[Biografija](_blank) (born 1964), Slovene composer, conductor and violinist
* Nenad Gagro (born 1975), Bosnian footballer
* Nenad Gajić (born 1983), Serbian-Canadian lacrosse player
* Nenad Gavrić (born 1991), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Gračan (born 1962), Croatian football player and manager
* Nenad Grozdić (born 1974), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Injac (born 1985), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Ivanković (born M1948), Croatian author, journalist and politician
* Nenad Jakovljević (born 1988), Serbian professional basketball coach
* Nenad Jakšić (born 1965), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Janković (born 1962), Bosnian Serb musician, composer and actor
* Nenad Jestrović (born 1976), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Jezdić (born 1972), Serbian actor
* Nenad Joldeski, Macedonian writer
* Nenad Jovanović (footballer, born 1979), Austrian-Serbian footballer
* Nenad Jovanović (footballer, born 1988), Serbian footballer
* Nenad M. Jovanovich (born 1974), Serbian Orthodox deacon
K-P
* Nenad Kecmanović (born 1947), Bosnian Serb political scientist and sociologist
* Nenad Kiso (born 1989), Bosnian footballer
* Nenad Kitanović (born 11 June 1968), Serbian politician
* Nenad Kljaić (born 1966), Croatian handball player and coach
* Nenad Knežević Knez (born 1967), Montenegrin singer
* Nenad Kovačević (born 1980), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Kočović (born 1995), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Krstić (politician) (born 1980), Serbian politician
* Nenad Krstić
Nenad Krstić ( sr-Cyrl, Ненад Крстић, born July 25, 1983) is a Serbian basketball executive and former professional player.
Krstić represented and captained the Serbian national basketball team internationally. Standing at 2.12 m ...
(born 1983), Serbian basketball player
* Nenad Krstičić (born 1990), Serbian footballer
* Nenad "Ned" Kuruc, Canadian politician
* Nenad Lalatović (born 1977), Serbian professional football player and manager
* Nenad Lalović (born 1958), Serbian businessman
* Nenad Lazarevski (born 1986), Serbian-Macedonian footballer
* Nenad Lončar (born, 1981), Serbian hurdler
* Nenad Lukić (born 1992), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Lukić (1968–2014), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Maksić (born 1972), Serbian handball player and coach
* Nenad Manojlović (1954–2014), Serbian water polo player
* Nenad Marinković (born 1988), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Marjanović, Croatian musician
* Nenad Marković (born 1968), Bosnian footballer
* Nenad Maslovar (born 1967), Montenegrin footballer
* Nenad Medić (born 1982), Serbian-Canadian poker player
* Nenad Medvidović, American computer scientist and university professor
* Nenad Mijatović (born 1987), Montenegrin basketball player
* Nenad Milenković (born 1972), Serbian politician
* Nenad Milijaš (born 1983), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Miljenović (born 1993), Serbian basketball player
* Nenad Milojičić (born 1978), Serbian politician
* Nenad Milosavljević (born 1954), Serbian singer and songwriter
* Nenad Milovanović (born 1969), Serbian football manager
* Nenad Miloš (born 1955), Serbian-Croatian swimmer
* Nenad Mirosavljević (born 1977), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Mitrović, multiple people
* Nenad Mišanović (born 1984), Serbian basketball player
* Nenad Mišković
Nenad Mišković (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Мишковић; born 13 October 1975) is a Bosnian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
Club career
During his playing career, Mišković represented numerous clubs, namely Ra ...
(born 1975), Bosnian Serb footballer
* Nenad Mišović, Serbian-Swedish criminal
* Nenad Mladenović (born 1976), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Nastić (born 1981), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Nedeljković (born 1986), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Nenadović (1964– 2021), Serbian actor and television host
* Nenad Nerandžić (born 1996), Serbian basketball player
* Nenad Nešić (born 1978), Bosnian Serb politician
* Nenad Nikolić, several people
* Nenad Nonković (born 1970), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Novaković (born 1982), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Okanović (born 1980), Serbian actor
* Nenad Pagonis (born 1987), Serbian kickboxer
* Nenad Panić (born 1984), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Perović (born 2002), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Peruničić (born 1971), Serbian handball player and coach
* Nenad Petrović (chess problemist) (born 1907–1989), Croatian chess player
* Nenad Petrović (writer)
Nenad Petrović (Serbian language, Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Петровић) (Zagreb, 30 May 1925 – London, 21 March 2014) was a Serbian writer, and one of numerous displaced persons after World War II and Communism, revolution in Yugoslavia ...
(1925–2014), Serbian writer
* Nenad Polimac (born 1949), Croatian film critic
* Nenad Popović (born 1966), Bosnian Serb politician and businessman
* Nenad Pralija
Nenad Pralija (born 11 December 1970) is a Croatian former professional association football, football midfielder, who most notably played for HNK Hajduk Split, Hajduk Split and the Croatia national football team, Croatia national team.
Club ca ...
(born 1970), Croatian footballer
* Nenad Prodanović (born 1954), Bosnian bobsledder
* Nenad Prokić, Serbian playwright, theatre director and politician
* Nenad Protega (born 1969), Slovenian footballer
* Nenad Puhovski (born 1949), Croatian film director and producer
* Nenad Puljezević (born 1973), Serbian-Hungarian handball player
R-Z
* Nenad Radonjić (born 1996), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Radosavljević (born 1961), Kosovo Serb politician, administrator, and media owner
* Nenad Radulović (1959–1990), Serbian musician, songwriter and actor
* Nenad Rajić (born 1982), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Rašić (born 1973), Kosovo Serb politician
* Nenad Sakić
Nenad Sakić (; born 15 June 1971) is a Serbian football manager and former player. He is the assistant manager of Russian club Spartak Moscow.
Club career
Sakić came to Napredak Kruševac in 1989 and spent five seasons with the club. He was ...
(born 1971), Serbian football player and coach
* Nenad Šalov (born 1955), Croatian footballer
* Nenad Šarić (1947–2012), Croatian musician
* Nenad Savić (born 1981), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Sestan (born 1970), Croatian neuroscientist
* Nenad Sević (born 1996), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Simić (born 1984), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Šljivić (born 1985), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Šoštarić (born 1959), Croatian handball player and coach
* Nenad Srećković (born 1988), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Stamenković (born 1977), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Stankov (born 1992), Macedonian basketball player
* Nenad Starovlah
Nenad Starovlah (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Старовлах; Greek: Νέναντ Στάροβλαχ; born 29 July 1955) is a Bosnian professional football manager and former player. He also holds Cypriot citizenship.
Club career
Born in S ...
(born 1955), Bosnian footballer
* Nenad Stavrić (1963–2007), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Stefanović (born 1985), Serbian basketball player and coach
* Nenad Stekić (1951–2021), Serbian long jumper
* Nenad Stevandić (born 1966), Bosnian Serb politician
* Nenad Stojaković (born 1980), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Stojanović (born 1979), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Stojković (born 1956), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Studen (born 1979), Bosnian footballer
* Nenad Sudarov (born 1975), Serbian triathlete
* Nenad Šulović (born 1985), Serbian basketball player
* Nenad Todorović (born 1982), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Tomović (born 1987), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Trajković (basketball) (born 1961), Serbian basketball coach
* Nenad Trajković (poet) (born 1982), Serbian poet, essayist and literary critic
* Nenad Trinajstić (1936–2021), Croatian chemist
* Nenad Trpovski (born 1978), Macedonian slalom canoer
* Nenad Trunić (born 1968), Serbian professor of basketball
* Nenad Vanić (born 1970), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Vasilić (born 1975), Serbian bassist
* Nenad Vasić (born 1979), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Veličković (born 1962), Bosnian playwright
* Nenad Veselji (born 1971), Maltese-Yugoslav footballer
* Nenad Vidaković (born 1957), Bosnian footballer
* Nenad Vidović (born 1939), Yugoslav gymnast
* Nenad Višnjić (born 1983), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Vorih (born 1963), Croatian artist
* Nenad Vučinić (born 1965), Serbian basketball coach
* Nenad Vučković (footballer) (born 1976), Croatian footballer
* Nenad Vučković (handballer) (born 1980), Serbian handball player
* Nenad Vujić (born 1966), Serbian politician
* Nenad Vukanić (born 1974), Montenegrin water polo player
* Nenad Vukasović (born 1952), Serbian politician and lawyer
* Nenad Vukčević
Nenad Vukčević (born 25 November 1974) is a Montenegrin association football, football manager and former player who recently served as a manager of FK Podgorica. A forward (association football), forward, he played for clubs in FR Yugoslavia, ...
(born 1974), Montenegrin football player and manager
* Nenad Zečević (born 1978), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Zimonjić
Nenad Zimonjić ( sr-Cyrl, Ненад Зимоњић, ; born 4 June 1976) is a Serbian former professional tennis player who was ranked world No. 1 in doubles.
He is an eight-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2008 and 2009 Wimbledon Ch ...
(born 1976), Serbian tennis player
* Nenad Zivčević (born 1986), Macedonian-Serbian basketball player
* Nenad Živanović (born 1980), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Živković (born 1989), Serbian footballer
* Nenad Zivkovic (born 2002), Swiss footballer
* Nenad Žvanut (born 1962), Croatian speed skater
See also
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* Nenadović, a surname
References
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