Stanko Explained
Stanko or Stańko is a variation of the Slavic masculine given name Stanislav. Nicknames in sh|Ćane, Ćano. Notable people with the name include:
Given name:
- Stanko Abadžić (born 1952), Croatian photographer and photojournalist
- Stanko Barać (born 1986), Croatian professional basketball player
- Stanko Bloudek (1890–1959), Slovenian aeroplane and automobile designer, sportsman and sport inventor, designer, builder and educator
- Stanko Bubalo (born 1973), Croatian football striker
- Stanko Crnojević (1457–1528), Serbian lord and Ottoman vassal
- Stanko Karaman (1889–1959), researcher on amphipods and isopods
- Stanko Kotnik (1928–2004), Slovene professor of Slavic studies at the University of Maribor
- Stanko Lorger (1931–2014), Slovenian former hurdler and Olympic competitor
- Stanko Mladenovski (born 1937), Macedonian politician
- Stanko Mršić (born 1955), Croatian football manager and a former player
- Stanko Poklepović (1938–2018), Croatian football coach
- Stanko Prek (1915–1999), classical guitarist and composer from Slovenia
- Stanko Premrl (1880–1965), Slovenian Roman Catholic priest, composer and music teacher
- Stanko Subotić (born 1959), Geneva-based Serbian businessman
- Stanko Svitlica, retired Serbian football player
- Stanko Tavčar (1898–1945), Slovenian footballer and later a medical doctor
- Stanko Todorov (1920–1996), Bulgarian communist politician
- Stanko Vraz (born Jakob Frass) (1810–1851), Croatian-Slovenian poet
- Stanko Yovchev (born 1988), Bulgarian footballer
Surname:
- Betsy Stanko, (born 1950), American criminologist academic
- Ewa Grajkowska-Stańko (born 1948), Polish sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1970s
- Stephen Stanko (born 1968), convicted murderer, who killed two people and raped a teenage girl in South Carolina in 2005
- Tomasz Stańko (1942–2018), Polish jazz trumpeter, composer, and improviser
- Zvezdelina Stankova (born 1969), Bulgarian-US mathematician
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