Miloš

Miloš
Pronunciation	/mîloʃ/ (sr) /mɪloʃ/ (cs)
Gender	male
Origin
Word/name	Slavic
Meaning	milost ("mercy")
Other names
Alternative spelling	Milosh
Variant form(s)	Miłosz

Miloš (Cyrillic: Милош, pronounced [mîloʃ]) (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪloʃ]) is a Slavic masculine given name common in Serbia and Montenegro, and to a lesser degree in the Czech Republic. In Polish, the name is spelled Miłosz. Miloš is a Slavic given name recorded from the early Middle Ages among the Serbs, Czechs and Poles. It is derived from the Slavic root mil-, "merciful" or "dear", which is found in a great number of Slavic given names.^[1]

People with given name

• Miloš Vojinović (fl. 1330), Tsar Dušan's court officer and Serbian Epic Folk Hero - the first known Miloš
• Miloš Obilić (fl. 1389), legendary knight - the most famous Miloš
• Miloš Bogunović, a Serbian footballer
• Miloš Budaković, a Serbian footballer
• Miloš Crnjanski, a poet of the expressionist wing of Serbian modernism, author, and a diplomat
• Miloš Dimitrijević, a Serbian footballer
• Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, an Albanian writer of Serbian background.
• Miloš Forman, a Czech film director, screenwriter, actor and professor
• Miloš Holuša, a Czech race walker who specialized in the 50 kilometres walk
• Miloš Karadaglić, a Montenegrin classical guitarist, also known by his mononym Miloš
• Miloš Krasić, a Serbian professional footballer who currently plays for Italian club Juventus and is a member of the Serbian national team.
• Miloš Marić, a Serbian football central midfielder
• Miloš Milošević, a Croatian swimmer of Serbian descent
• Miloš Milutinović, a Serbian footballer and manager
• Miloš Ninković, a Serbian footballer
• Miloš Obrenović I, Prince of Serbia
• Miloš Pavlović (racing driver)
• Milos Raonic, a Canadian professional Tennis player who was born in Podgorica, Montenegro.
• Miloš Šestić, a Serbian footballer
• Miloš Teodosić, a Serbian professional basketball player
• Miloš Tichý, a Czech astronomer
• Miloš Vujanić, a Serbian professional basketball player
• Miloš Zahradník, a Czech mathematician who works on statistical mechanics in Charles University in Prague
• Miloš Zeman, President of the Czech Republic

See also

• Miłosz
• Milošević

References

1. Miklosich, Franz (1860). Die Bildung der slavischen Personennamen (in German). Vienna: Aus der kaiserlich-königlichen Hoff- und Staatdruckerei. pp. 76–77.