Slobodan

Slobodan (Serbian Cyrillic: Слободан) is a Serbian given name which means "free" (Serbian: Sloboda/Слобода means Freedom, Liberty) used to other South Slavs as well. It was coined by Serbian liberal politician Vladimir Jovanović who, inspired by John Stuart Mill's essay On Liberty baptised his son Slobodan in 1869 and his daughter Pravda (Justice) in 1871. It became popular in both Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1918-1945) and communist Yugoslavia (1945-1991) among other Yugoslav peoples and therefore today there are also Slobodans among Croats, Slovenes and other Yugoslav peoples.

Common derived nicknames are Sloba. Slobo, Boban, Boba, Bobi or Cobi.

Feminine counterpart is Slobodanka.

It may refer to:

• Slobodan Aligrudić (1934–1985), Serbian actor
• Slobodan Jovanović (1869–1958), Serbian politician during World War II
• Slobodan Kačar (born 1957), retired Serbian boxer
• Slobodan Komljenović (born 1971), retired German-born Yugoslav footballer
• Slobodan Lalović (born 1954), Serbian politician
• Slobodan Milošević (1941–2006), former president of Yugoslavia and Serbia
• Slobodan Novak (born 1924), Croatian writer
• Slobodan Obradov (born 1919 ), Serbian physician
• Slobodan Praljak (born 1945), one of the leaders of Bosnian Croats and Herzeg-Bosnia during the Civil War in Bosnia
• Slobodan Prosperov Novak (born 1951), Croatian writer
• Slobodan Rajković (born 1989), Serbian football player
• Slobodan Rakitić (born 1940), Serbian writer and politician
• Slobodan Santrač (born 1946), Serbian football manager
• Slobodan Šijan (born 1946), Serbian film director
• Slobodan Šnajder (born 1948), Croatian writer
• Slobodan Subotić (born 1956), Montenegro-born Slovenian basketball player
• Slobodan Uzelac (born 1947), Croatian politician representing Serbs of Croatia, member of Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor's cabinet
• Slobodan Vuksanović (born 1965), Serbian poet, essayist, translator and politician
• Slobodan Živojinović (born 1963), former Serbian tennis player

See also

• Slavic names