Stanko or Stańko () is a variation of the Slavic masculine given name Stanislav. Nicknames in . Notable people with the name include: Given name: *

Stanko Abadžić Stanko Abadžić (born 1952 in Vukovar) is a Croatian photographer and photojournalist. He lives and works in Zagreb, Croatia. Stanko Abadžić began his professional career in photography as a photojournalist for the Croatian daily newspaper Vj ...

(born 1952), Croatian photographer and photojournalist *

Stanko Barać Stanko Barać (born 13 August 1986) is a retired Croatian professional basketball player. Professional career Early years Barać was born in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina and he started his basketball career with the team Široki Prima pivo, ...

(born 1986), Croatian professional basketball player *

Stanko Bloudek Stanko Bloudek (11 February 1890 – 26 November 1959) was a Slovenian aeroplane and automobile designer, a sportsman and a sport inventor, designer, builder and educator. Biography Stanko Bloudek was born on 11 February 1890 as son of a Czech ...

(1890–1959), Slovenian aeroplane and automobile designer, sportsman and sport inventor, designer, builder and educator *

Stanko Bubalo Stanko Bubalo (born 26 April 1973 in Široki Brijeg) is a Croatian retired footballer who played as a striker. International career He made two appearances for the Croatia national football team, making his debut against Mexico in a friendly g ...

(born 1973), Croatian football striker * Stanko Crnojević (1457–1528), Serbian lord and Ottoman vassal *

Stanko Karaman Stanko Luka Karaman (8 December 1889 – 17 May 1959) was a Yugoslav biologist of Bosnian Serb ancestry, researcher on amphipod and isopod crustaceans. In 1926 he founded the Museum of South Serbia (later - Macedonian Museum of Natural History) ...

(1889–1959), researcher on amphipods and isopods * Stanko Kotnik (1928–2004), Slovene professor of Slavic studies at the University of Maribor *

Stanko Lorger Stanko Lorger (14 February 1931 – 25 April 2014) was a Yugoslav hurdler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the 1956 Summer Olympics, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of th ...

(1931–2014), Slovenian former hurdler and Olympic competitor *

Stanko Mladenovski Stanko Mladenovski (born 9 November 1937) is a former Speaker of the People's Assembly of Socialist Republic of Macedonia.Stanko Mršić Stanko Mršić (born 12 September 1955) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player. Managerial career Mršić began his managerial career at Cibalia in 1993 and since then he also has managed other 1. HNL clubs, among them Z ...

(born 1955), Croatian football manager and a former player *

Stanko Poklepović Stanko "Špaco" Poklepović (19 April 1938 – 24 December 2018) was a Croatian professional Association football, football Football player, player and Manager (association football), manager. Poklepović managed a number of teams over 46 years, ...

(1938–2018), Croatian football coach * Stanko Prek (1915–1999), classical guitarist and composer from Slovenia *

Stanko Premrl Stanko Premrl (28 September 1880 – 14 March 1965) was a Slovene Roman Catholic priest, composer, and music teacher. He is best known as the composer of the music for the Slovene national anthem, "Zdravljica". Premrl was born in the village ...

(1880–1965), Slovenian Roman Catholic priest, composer and music teacher *

Stanko Subotić Stanko Subotić ( sr-Cyrl, Станко Суботић; born 9 September 1959) is a Serbian businessman and the founder and owner of the Luxembourg-based holding company EMI Group (Emerging Marketing Investments APS) which owns Moj Kiosk Group ...

(born 1959), Geneva-based Serbian businessman *

Stanko Svitlica Stanko Svitlica (Serbian Cyrillic: Станко Свитлица; born 17 May 1976) is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is best remembered for his time at Legia Warsaw, becoming the Polish Ekstraklasa top scor ...

, retired Serbian football player *

Stanko Tavčar Stanko Tavčar (2 February 1898 in Dobrova, Austro-Hungary – 11 July 1945 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia) was a Yugoslav footballer and later a medical doctor.

(1898–1945), Slovenian footballer and later a medical doctor *

Stanko Todorov Stanko Todorov Georgiev (; 10 December 1920 – 17 December 1996) was a Bulgarian communist politician. Todorov was born in Pernik Province. Before and during World War II he was a worker. He became interested in communism, first joining the ...

(1920–1996), Bulgarian communist politician *

Stanko Vraz Stanko Vraz (baptized Jakob Fraß; 30 June 1810 – 20 May 1851) was a Slovenian language, Slovenian-Croatian language, Croatian poet. He Slavicized his name to ''Stanko Vraz'' in 1836. Biography Born in the village of Cerovec Stanka Vraza, Cero ...

(born Jakob Frass) (1810–1851), Croatian-Slovenian poet * Stanko Yovchev (born 1988), Bulgarian footballer Surname: *

Betsy Stanko Elizabeth Anne Stanko (born December 30, 1950) is an American/British criminologist academic and researcher living and working in the UK. Stanko was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 Queens Birthday Honours for her servic ...

(born 1950), American criminologist academic *

Ewa Grajkowska-Stańko Ewa Grajkowska-Stańko (born 26 October 1948 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the early 1970s. She finished sixth in the K-2 500 m event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich Munich is the capital and ...

(born 1948), Polish sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1970s *

Stephen Stanko Stephen Christopher Stanko (January 13, 1968 – June 13, 2025) was an American prisoner who was convicted of the 2005 murders of two people in South Carolina, as well as the kidnapping and rape of the teenage daughter of one of his murder victim ...

(1968–2025), American executed murderer *

Tomasz Stańko Tomasz Ludwik Stańko (; 11 July 1942 – 29 July 2018) was a Polish trumpeter and composer associated with free jazz and the avant-garde. In 1962, Tomasz Stańko formed his first band, the Jazz Darings, with saxophonist Janusz Muniak, pianist ...

(1942–2018), Polish jazz trumpeter, composer, and improviser *

Zvezdelina Stankova Zvezdelina Entcheva Stankova (; born 15 September 1969) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at Mills College and a teaching professor at the University of California, Berkeley, the founder of the Berkeley Math Circle, an ...

(born 1969), Bulgarian-US mathematician

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