Božo
Božo is a South Slavic masculine given name, cognate of the English Theo, and, similarly, a popular abbreviation of the name - Božidar, English Theodore.
Notable people with the name include:
- Božo Bakota, Croatian footballer
- Božo Biškupić, Croatian politician and lawyer
- Božo Broketa, Yugoslavian football player
- Božo Đumić, Serbian professional basketball player
- Božo Đurković, retired Serbian football player
- Božo Janković, Bosnian Serb football player
- Božo Koprivica, essayist, dramatic adviser and literary critic from Montenegro of Yugoslavian ethnicity
- Božo Kos, Slovene illustrator, caricaturist and comics artist
- Božo Kovačević (footballer), Austrian footballer of Serbian descent
- Božo Kovačević (politician), the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Croatia to the Russian Federation from 2004 to 2009
- Božo Ljubić, Croat politician of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Božo Milić, Montenegrin professional footballer
- Božo Nikolić, Croat politician from Montenegro representing the Croatian Civic Initiative
- Božo Petek, the author of two books on model aircraft building published in Slovene in 1946 and 1953
- Božo Petrov, Croatian politician and psychiatrist who currently serves as mayor of Metković
- Božo Škerlj, Slovene anthropologist, author of eleven books and over 200 scientific articles
- Božo Skoko, associate professor of public relations at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
- Božo Starčević, male Greco-Roman wrestler from Croatia
- Božo Vrećo, Bosnian musician
- Božo Vuletić, won an Olympic gold medal as a member of the Yugoslav water polo team at the 1984 Olympics