Dalibor (name)
Dalibor is primarily a male given name of Slavic origin, but also a surname specifically in Czech Republic. The name is popular in some Western Slavic and Southern Slavic countries, such as: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Macedonia.It means: fighting far away and it's derived from Slavic elements daleko meaning "far away" and boriti meaning "to fight".
There is a Bedřich Smetana's eponymous opera, based on Slavonic mythology.
People with this given name
- Dalibor Bagarić (born 1980), Croatian basketball player
- Dalibor Brazda (1921–2005), Czech-Swiss composer and conductor
- Dalibor Brozović (born 1927), Croatian linguist
- Dalibor Medic (born 1979), Austrian national trainer of Taekwon-Do
- Dalibor Stevanovič (born 1984), Slovenian football player
- Dalibor Vačkář (1906–1984), Czech composer
- Dalibor Vesely (born 1934), Czech architect
- Dalibor Šamšal (born 1985), Croatian alpine ski racer
- Dalibor z Kozojed (died 1498), 15th century Czech knight, on whom Smetana based his 1868 opera Dalibor
- Dalibor Jedlička, Czech opera singer
People with this surname
- Jan and Vlasta Dalibor, Czech immigrants to the UK, puppeteers who made the original Pinky and Perky[1]
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