Drago (given name)
Drago is a South Slavic masculine given name. It is derived from the common Slavic element drag meaning "dear, beloved".
It can be used as a shortened form for other names derived from drag like Dragan, Dragutin, etc. The feminine version is Draga. A Romanian version is Dragoș.
Notable people with the name
- Drago Bregar, Slovenian mountaineer
- Drago Marin Čerina, Croatian sculpting artist
- Drago Došen, Serbian painter
- Drago Dumbović, Croatian football player
- Drago Gabrić, Croatian football player
- Drago Gervais, Croatian Istrian poet and playwright
- Drago Grdenić, Croatian chemist
- Drago Grubelnik, Slovenian alpine skier
- Drago Hedl, Croatian journalist
- Drago Hmelina, Croatian football player
- Drago Horvat, Slovenian ice hockey player
- Drago Husjak, Croatian rower
- Drago Ibler, Croatian architect
- Drago Jančar, Slovenian writer
- Drago Jelić, Croatian gymnast
- Drago Jovanović, Serbian-American helicopter designer and inventor
- Drago Jovović, Serbian handball player
- Drago Jurak, Croatian painter
- Drago Karalić, Bosnian Serb basketball coach
- Drago Kolar, Slovenian ceramics artist
- Drago Kovačević, Croatian Serb politician and writer
- Drago Lovrić, Croatian general
- Drago Mamić, Serbian-born Croatian football player and manager
- Drago Marušič, Slovenian and Yugoslav politician and jurist
- Drago Matanović, Slovenian electrical engineer
- Drago Matulaj, Croatian rower
- Drago Miličić, perpetrator of a 1992 mass shooting in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Drago Milović, Montenegrin football player
- Drago Nikolić, Bosnian Serb war criminal
- Drago Papa, Croatian football player
- Drago Pašalić, Croatian basketball player
- Drago Pilsel, Argentine Croatian journalist
- Drago Prgomet, Croatian physician and politician
- Drago Pudgar, Slovenian ski jumper
- Drago Savić, Slovenian ice hockey player
- Drago Siliqi, Albanian poet, literary critic and publisher
- Drago Supančič, Slovene special-needs teacher
- Drago Šoštarić, Slovenian gymnast
- Drago Štajnberger, Croatian Jewish war hero
- Drago Štambuk, Croatian physician, writer and diplomat
- Drago Štritof, Croatian runner
- Drago Vabec, Croatian football player
- Drago Vuković, Croatian handball player
- Drago Žigman, Croatian football player
- Drago Žiljak, Croatian handball player and coach