Mihailo

Mihailo
Pronunciation\mi-hail\o
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameHebrew: מִיכָאֵל / מיכאל (mee-KHA-el)
Meaning"Who is like God"
Other names
Related names
  • Variants: Michael, Mihail, Mikhail
  • Nicknames (diminutives): Miha, Miki, Mića, Miča, Miša, Mišo
Michael the Archangel. A 13th-century Byzantine icon from the Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai.

Mihailo (Serbian Cyrillic: Михаило)[pronunciation?] is a South Slavic masculine given name. It is a variant of the Hebrew name Michael, and its cognates include Mihajlo and Mijailo. Common as a given name among Serbs, it is an uncommon surname.

Notable people with the name include:

  • Mihailo Vojislavljević (fl. 1050–d. 1081)), King of Duklja
  • Mihailo Ovčarević (fl. 1550–79), Habsburg Serb commander
  • Mihailo Đurić (1925–2011), Serbian philosopher, retired professor, and academic
  • Mihailo Janković (d. 1976), Serbian architect
  • Mihailo Jovanović (b. 1975), Serbian footballer
  • Mihailo Lalić (1914–1992), Montenegrin and Serbian novelist
  • Mihailo Marković (1927-2010), Serbian philosopher
  • Mihailo Merćep (1864–1937), Serb flight pioneer
  • Mihailo Obrenović (1823–1868), Prince of Serbia
  • Mihailo Petrović Alas (1868–1943), Serbian mathematician and inventor
  • Mihailo Petrović (Chetnik) (1871-1941), Serbian archpriest and freedom fighter
  • Mihailo Vukdragović (1900–1967), Serbian composer and conductor
  • Miraš Dedeić or Metropolitan Mihailo (b. 1938), head of the uncanonical Montenegrin Orthodox Church
  • Mihailo Tolotos (1855/1856-1938), Greek monk who lived 82 years not seeing a woman

See also

  • Mihailović

References

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