Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Петровић, ;) is a

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literally meaning ''Peter's son'', equivalent to the English last name of Peterson. In

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its counterpart is "Petrovich". The surname was notably used by the

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, and by

Karađorđe Petrović Đorđe Petrović (; ; – ), known by the sobriquet Karađorđe (; ), was a Serbian revolutionary leader who led a struggle against the Ottoman Empire during the First Serbian Uprising. He held the title of Grand Vožd of Serbia from 14 ...

. Petrović is the second most frequent surname in Serbia. It is also the 11th most common in Croatia, with 9,614 carriers (2011 census). It is the third most common surname in the

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, the fourth most common in the

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and ninth most common in the

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Notable people

Aleksandar Petrović (footballer, born 1914) Aleksandar Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Петровић; 8 September 1914 – 31 July 1987) was a Serbian football player and manager. Club career He was part of the famous SK Jugoslavia attack that become famous in the years befo ...

(1914–87), former Serbian football player and manager *

Aleksandar Petrović (film director) Aleksandar "Saša" Petrović (14 January 1929 – 20 August 1994) was a Serbian film director. He was one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Biography Two of his films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language F ...

(1929–1994), Serbian film director *

Aleksandar Petrović (basketball, born February 1959) Aleksandar "Aco" Petrović (; born 16 February 1959) is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the Brazil men's national basketball team, Brazil men's national team. Playing career A point ...

, Croatian professional basketball coach and former player *

Aleksandar Petrović (basketball, born October 1959) Aleksandar "Aco" Petrović ( sr-cyr, Александар Петровић; 14 October 1959 – 1 December 2014) was a Serbian basketball coach. Career Petrović started his coaching career in Radnički Belgrade, where he spent four years. A ...

(1959–2014), Serbian professional basketball coach *

Aleksandar Petrović (basketball, born 1972) Aleksandar Petrović is a Macedonian professional basketball coach. He is the head coach of Pelister of the Macedonian League and Adriatic League The ABA League, renamed the ABA League First Division in 2017, is the top-tier regional m ...

, Macedonian professional basketball coach *

Aleksandar Petrović (basketball, born 1987) Aleksandar Petrović ( sr-cyr, Александар Петровић; born December 8, 1987) is a Serbian professional basketball player who last played for Sveti Đorđe of the Second Basketball League of Serbia. Standing at he plays at the po ...

, Serbian professional basketball player *

Aleksandar Petrović (footballer, born 1983) Aleksandar Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Петровић; born 22 March 1983), is a Serbian retired footballer who played as a right-back. Career He had previously played with Serbian clubs FK Partizan, FK Teleoptik, FK B ...

(born 1983), Serbian professional football right-back currently playing for FK Čukarički Stankom in the Serbian SuperLiga *

Aleksandar Petrović (footballer, born 1985) Aleksandar or Saša Petrović may refer to: Basketball *Aleksandar Petrović (basketball, born February 1959), Croatian professional basketball coach and former player *Aleksandar Petrović (basketball, born October 1959) (1959–2014), Serbian ...

(born 1985), Serbian footballer currently playing for Serbian SuperLiga club FK Rad Belgrade *

Aleksandar R. Petrović Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are A ...

(born 1985), Serbian footballer who recently played for Hajduk Kula *

Aleksandro Petrović Aleksandro Petrović (born 16 March 1988) is a German footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for TSV Buchbach. Born in SFR Yugoslavia, he made one appearance for the Germany U17 national team. Career Born in Teslić, SR Bosnia and Herze ...

(born 1988), Bosnian/German footballer *

Alex Petrovic Alexander Petrovic (born March 3, 1992) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently playing for the Texas Stars in the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL) ...

(born 1992), Canadian ice-hockey player *

Biljana Petrović Biljana Petrović (née Bojović; born 28 February 1961) is a retired Serbian high jumper.Branimir Petrović Branimir Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Бранимир Петровић; born 26 June 1982) is a Serbian football coach and a former midfielder. Playing career He was part of the Serbia and Montenegro team at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where they exited ...

(born 1982), Serbian footballer *

Danilo II Petrović-Njegoš Danilo I Petrović-Njegoš ( sr-cyr, Данило I Петровић-Његош; 25 May 1826 – 13 August 1860) was the ruling Prince of Montenegro from 1851 to 1860. The beginning of his reign marked the transition of Montenegro from a tradi ...

(1826–60), Serbian Prince *

Danilo Petrović (tennis) Danilo Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Данило Петровић, ; born 24 January 1992) is a Serbian former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high Association of Tennis Professionals, ATP singles ranking of world No. 137 on 19 October 2 ...

(born 1992), Serbian tennis player *

Đorđe Petrović Đorđe Petrović may refer to: *Karađorđe (1762–1817), Serbian revolutionary *Đorđe Petrović (footballer) Đorđe Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Ђорђе Петровић; born 8 October 1999) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a ...

(born 1999), Serbian football goalkeeper currently playing for Chelsea *

Draško Petrović Draško Petrović, MSc ( sr-cyr, Драшко Петровић; born 1965 in Belgrade) is a Serbian politician and businessman. He graduated from the University of Belgrade's Law School before going on to obtain a master's degree from the Facult ...

(born 1965), current CEO of Telekom Srbija *

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 ...

(1964–93), Croatian basketball player *

Dušan Petrović Dušan Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Петровић, ; born 8 September 1966) is a Serbian former politician, a former long-time member of Democratic Party (Serbia), Democratic Party (DS) and the former Minister of Agriculture, Trade, Forest ...

(born 1966), Serbian politician *

Goran Petrović Goran Petrović (; 1 July 1961 – 26 January 2024) was a Serbian writer and academic. Biography Goran Petrović was born in Kraljevo, Serbia. He studied Yugoslav and Serbian literature at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology. He rece ...

(born 1961), Serbian writer *

Jovana Petrović Jovana Petrović ( sr-cyr, Јована Петровић; born ) is a Serbian women's football goalkeeper, who plays for Crvena zvezda. She is a member of the Serbia women's national team. Club career ;Serbia: Petrović played for the Se ...

(boen 2001), Serbian women's football goalkeeper *

(1768–1817), leader of the first Serbian uprising * Leo Petrović (1883–1945),

Herzegovinian Croat The Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina (), often referred to as Bosnian Croats () or Herzegovinian Croats (), are native to Bosnia and Herzegovina and constitute the third most populous ethnic group, after Bosniaks and Serbs of Bosnia and Herzego ...

historian *

Ljupko Petrović Ljubomir "Ljupko" Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Љубомир "Љупко" Петровић; born 15 May 1947) is a Serbian professional football manager and former player. He also holds a Bosnian passport. As a manager, Petrović's biggest success wa ...

(born 1947), Serbian football coach *

Madeleine Petrovic Madeleine Petrovic (; born 25 June 1956) is an Austrian politician. From 1994 to 1996 she was federal spokesperson of the Austrian Green Party. Biography Early life She attended Austrian gymnasium (school), gymnasium which she finished 1974, and ...

(born 1956), Austrian politician *

Mihailo Petrović (disambiguation) * Mihailo Petrović (1868–1943), Serbian mathematician and inventor. * Mihailo Petrović (Chetnik) (1871–1941), Serbian freedom fighter * Mihailo Petrović (footballer) (born 1957), Serbian footballer and coach * Mihailo Petrović (basketball) ...

, several people * Milovan Petrović (born 1990), Macedonian footballer * Miodrag "Čkalja" Petrović (1924–2003), Serbian actor *

Mirko Petrović (politician) Mirko Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Мирко Петровић; born 1965) is a Serbian businessman, sports executive and former politician. He was the CEO of one of the largest Serbian companies, the Dunav Insurance Company. Biography He was a member ...

(born 1965), Serbian politician and current CEO of Dunav osiguranje * Nadja Petrovic (born 1991), Macedonian painter *

Nataša Petrović Nataša Petrović (Macedonian language, Macedonian: Наташа Петровиќ; Serbian Cyrillic alphabet, Serbian Cyrillic: Наташа Петровић; born 31 August 1988), also known as Natasha Petrovic, is a North Macedonia, Macedonian ...

(born 1988), Macedonian actress of Serbian descent *

Nenad Petrović (chess composer) Nenad Petrović ( – ) was a Croatian chess problemist. Chess career Nenad Petrović was the first Croatian Grandmaster of chess composition and World Champion in 1947 in the solving of chess problems. In 1951, he started the chess problem maga ...

(1907–89), Croatian chess problemist *

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 *

Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš Nikola I Petrović-Njegoš ( sr-Cyrl, Никола I Петровић-Његош; – 1 March 1921) was the last monarch of Montenegro from 1860 to 1918, reigning as prince from 1860 to 1910 and as the country's first and only king from 1910 to ...

(1841–1921), Prince of Montenegro * Ognjen "Olja" Petrović (1948–2000), Serbian goalkeeper (football) *

Petar I Petrović-Njegoš Petar I Petrović-Njegoš (; 1748 – 31 October 1830) was the Prince-Bishop of Montenegro from 1784 to 1830 and Exarch (legate) of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro. He was the most popular spiritual and military leader from the Petro ...

(1747–1830), Prince-Bishop *

Petar II Petrović-Njegoš Petar II Petrović-Njegoš ( sr-cyrl, Петар II Петровић-Његош, ; – ), commonly referred to simply as Njegoš (), was a List of rulers of Montenegro, Prince-Bishop (''vladika'') of Montenegro, poet and philosopher whose ...

(1813–51), Prince-Bishop *

Radič Petrović Radič Petrović ( sr-cyr, Радич Петровић; 1738–1816), known as Captain Radič (''kapetan Radič''), was a Serbian Revolutionary commander (''vojvoda''), earlier a Military Frontier guard and volunteer in the Austro-Turkish War ( ...

(1738–1816), Serbian Revolutionary *

Radosav Petrović Radosav Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Радосав Петровић, ; born 8 March 1989) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Cypriot First Division club APOEL. He represented Serbia at the 2010 FIFA World Cup ...

(born 1989), Serbian footballer *

Roman Petrović Roman Petrović (1896, in Donji Vakuf – 1947) was a Yugoslav painter and writer. He belongs to the generation of artists who created the history of Bosnian-Herzegovinian (and Yugoslav) painting between the two world wars. Biography Born to an et ...

(1896–1947), Bosnian expressionist painter * Saša Petrović (actor) (born 1962), Bosnian actor *

Saša Petrović (footballer) Saša Petrović (, born 31 December 1966) is a Montenegrin football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper. Club career After playing for OFK Titograd, he moved to FK Budućnost Podgorica where he would spend almost a decade, bei ...

(born 1966), former Montenegrin football goalkeeper * Sava II Petrović-Njegoš (1702–82), Prince-Bishop of Montenegro *

Sava Petrović (botanist) Sava Petrović (1839–1889) was a botanist and Doctor of Medicine. He is considered to be one of the most important Serbian botanists of the 19th century. Petrović was active in phyto-pharmacology, botany and medicine simultaneously, writing an ...

(1839–1889), botanist *

Stanojlo Petrović Stanojlo Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Станојло Петровић; 13 February 1813 – 1893) was a Serbian officer, court secretary, advisor, and adjutant to both Prince Miloš Obrenović and his son Mihailo Obrenović III. Petrović and ...

(1813–1894) Serbian high-ranking officer and public benefactor *Hajduk

Veljko Petrović Veljko Petrović ( sr-cyr, Вељко Петровић, ; c. 1780 – 1813), known simply as Hajduk Veljko (Хајдук Вељко, ǎjduːk v̞ɛ̌ːʎkɔ, was one of the '' vojvodas'' (military commanders) of the Serbian Revolutionary force ...

(c. 1780–1813), known simply as Hajduk-Veljko, one of the vojvodas of the Serbian Revolutionary forces in the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire *

Veljko Petrović (poet) Veljko Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Вељко Петровић; Sombor, Serbia, 4 February 1884 - Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia, 27 July 1967) was a Serbian poet, short story writer, diplomat, and academic. Biography Veljko Petrović was born i ...

(1884–1967), Serbian poet * Vladimir "Pižon" Petrović (born 1955), Serbian footballer and coach *

Vladimir Petrović (footballer, born 1972) Vladimir Petrović (born 4 February 1972) is a Croatian football coach and former player who is coaching at the academy of Austrian club Kapfenberger SV.William Francis Petrovic (1913–1991), naval engineer and ship builder *

Željko Petrović Željko Petrović ( sr-Cyrl, Жељко Петровић; born 13 November 1965) is a Montenegrin professional football manager and former player. As a player, he represented the FR Yugoslavia national team at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Club car ...

(born 1965), Montenegrin footballer and current coach *

Zoran Petrović (referee) Zoran Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Петровић; 10 April 1952 – 8 August 2024) was a Serbian football referee. Career FIFA World Cup At the FIFA World Cup, Petrović refereed a total of four matches and served as linesman i ...

(born 1952), Serbian football referee *

Zoran Petrović (writer) Zoran Petrović (Serbian Cyrillic: Зоран Петровић; 5 March 1954 — 25 February 2018) was a Serbian poet, novelist, and screenwriter. He published a couple of poetry books, children books, novels, and two books as a publicist. He wa ...

(1954–2018), Serbian writer

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