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Dejan (Cyrillic: Дејан) is a South Slavic masculine given name, derived from the Slavic verb dejati, meaning "to act, to do". The name and the derived surname Dejanović are common among South Slavs.
The name is first recorded in 1325 (1333) for a voevod of king Stefan Uroš.
Notable people
Dejan (fl. 1346-66), Serbian magnate
Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player
Dejan Dabović (1944–2020), Yugoslav water polo player
Dejan Damjanović, Montenegrin footballer
Dejan Dimitrovski, Macedonian footballer
Dejan Gluščević (born 1967), Serbian footballer and manager
Dejan Iliev (born 1995), Macedonian footballer
Dejan Janković, Serbian footballer
Dejan Judež (born 1990), Slovenian ski jumper
Dejan Kelhar, Slovenian footballer
Dejan Kulusevski, Swedish footballer of Macedonian descent
Dejan Lovren, Croatian footballer
Dejan Medaković (1922–2008), Serbian art historian, writer and academician
Dejan Meleg, Serbian footballer
Dejan Milojević (1977–2024), Serbian basketball player and coach
Dejan Petković (born 1972), Serbian football player
Dejan Petković (born 1958), Serbian singer
Dejan Savić, Serbian water polo player and coach
Dejan Savićević, Montenegrin footballer
Dejan Stanković, Serbian footballer and manager
Dejan Stefanović, Serbian footballer
Dejan Stojanović, Serbian poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman and journalist
Dejan Tomašević, Serbian basketball player
Dejan Udovičić, Serbian water polo coach
Dejan Đedović, Serbian futsal coach
See also
Dejana, feminine given name