Knežević

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Knežević (Serbian Cyrillic: Кнежевић) is a Christian Serbian, Montenegrin, and Croatian last name. In Croatia it is mostly found around the coastline, specially Zadar and other towns in Dalmatia, used predominantly by ethnic Serbs.

The Anglicized version of this name, is Knezevich or Knezevic, as typically seen in the United States. The Spanish version of this name is Knesevich, as typically seen in South America.

[edit] Notable individuals with last name Knežević

• Antun Knežević, Bosnian franciscan, historian and national worker
• Bogić Knežević, Designer of hydroelectric power stations
• Branko Knežević, Serbian narrator and feltonist
• Dario Knežević, Croatian footballer
• Desa Biogradlija, Montenegrin actress (born Desanka Knežević)
• Dinko Knežević, enigmatist
• Dragutin Knežević Krunica, Serbian musician and writer
• Đuro Knežević, enigmatist, anagramist
• Grozdan Knežević, Croatian bassist
• Ivan Knežević, Opera singer, bass
• Ivana Knežević, Miss Montenegro 2006
• Ivo Knežević, Knez from Semberija
• Jovan Knežević, actor
• Joko Knežević, painter and sculptor
• Lierka Knežević, Croatian religionist
• Ljubomir Knežević, enigmatist
• Milorad Knežević, chess master
• Milutin Knežević, Professor of the Woodsman faculty in Belgrade
• Nada Knežević, Serbian pop and jazz singer
• Nenad Knežević "Knez", Montenegrin singer
• Nikola Knežević, Serbian industrial designer
• Petar Knežević, Croatian writer (1702-1768)
• Rajko Knežević, Croatian poet (1958)
• Slađana Knežević, Croatian poet (1966)
• Slavica Knežević, Croatian actress
• Snješka Knežević, Croatian chronicler of the sciences and interpreter
• Srđan Knežević, Serbian footballer
• Stevan Knežević, Serbian painter and sculptor
• Stevan Knežević, graphic designer
• Svjetlana Knežević, Croatian actress
• Uroš Knežević, Serbian painter
• Zoran Knežević, Serbian astronomer
• Zoran Knežević, Serbian politician
• Zoran Knežević, Serbian defendant
• Zoran Knežević, enigmatist

[edit] Notable individuals with last name Knezevich or Knezevic

Knezevic

• Abel Knezevic, Croatian-American ActionScript programmer and game developer.
• Aleksandar Knezevic, Chief Technology Officer at The Marena Group, Inc.
• Nikola Knezevic, Serbian-American college basketball player
• Martin Knezevic- Classical pianist and financial planner.

Knezevich

• Al Knezevich director of quality at technology firm K&L Microvave Inc.
• Mildred Knezevich American film actress in the 1960s.
• Gus Knezevich American Republican politician from Winnemucca, Nevada (Humbolt County), who was the Nevada delegate to Republican National Convention in 1944.
• Joe Knezevich American film actor (2006).
• Stevan Knezevich Canadian accordionist and arranger of Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish, and Slavic Folk Music.
• Steve Knezevich American artist and alumnus of the California Institute of the Arts(MFA 96).

[edit] Notable individuals with last name Knesevich

• Juan Daniel Knesevich, mayor of General Madariaga Partido in Argentina (See also: Montenegrins in Argentina)
• Fernando Knesevich, disciple of Ramón Carrillo, Argentine neurosurgeon, neurobiologist, and public health physician.