Dejan
Dejan 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 for a voevod of king Stefan Uroš.
Notable people
- Dejan, Serbian magnate
- Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player
- Dejan Dabović, Yugoslav water polo player
- Dejan Damjanović, Montenegrin footballer
- Dejan Dimitrovski, Macedonian footballer
- Dejan Gluščević, Serbian footballer and manager
- Dejan Iliev, Macedonian footballer
- Dejan Janković, Serbian footballer
- Dejan Judež, Slovenian ski jumper
- Dejan Kelhar, Slovenian footballer
- Dejan Kulusevski, Swedish footballer of Macedonian descent
- Dejan Lovren, Croatian footballer
- Dejan Medaković, Serbian art historian, writer and academician
- Dejan Meleg, Serbian footballer
- Dejan Milojević, Serbian basketball player and coach
- Dejan Milovanović, Serbian footballer
- Dejan Petković, Serbian footballer
- Dejan Petković, Serbian singer
- Dejan Ristanović, Serbian writer and computer publicist
- 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