Kneževic
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Knežević is a Serbian
Serbs
The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

, Montenegrin and Croatian
Croats
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 last name
Family name
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. Its root is the noun knez.

The Anglicized version of this name, is Knezevich or Knezevic, as typically seen in the United States
United States
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. The Spanish version of this name is Knesevich, as typically seen in South America
South America
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Notable individuals with last name Knežević

  • Dario Knežević
    Dario Kneževic
    Dario Knežević is a Croatian football defender who currently plays for Italian club Livorno and the Croatian national team.-Club career:...

    , Croatian footballer
  • Goran Knežević
    Goran Kneževic
    Goran Knežević is a Serbian former professional basketball player and current politician. He was a mayor of Zrenjanin municipality 2004-2009.- Biography :...

    , Serbian politician, former mayor of Zrenjanin
  • Ivan Knežević, Opera singer, bass
  • Ivan Knežević, Montenegrin footballer
  • Ivana Knežević
    Ivana Kneževic
    Ivana Knežević is a beauty queen from the city of Bar, Montenegro who was Miss Crna Gora 2006. Her ambition is to work in a humanitarian organization in addition of becoming a supermodel...

    , Miss Montenegro 2006
  • Josip Knežević
    Josip Knežević
    Josip Knežević is a Croatian international footballer, currently playing for Amkar Perm.-Career:Josip Knežević has started his career in senior professional team of NK Osijek on 2005/2006 at the age of 17. He has regularly played for Croatian national team U-18, U-19, U-20 and U-21, has total 13...

    , Croatian footballer
  • Nada Knežević, Serbian pop and jazz singer
  • Nenad Knežević "Knez", Montenegrin singer
  • Srđa Knežević, Serbian footballer
  • Stevan Knežević
    Stevan Kneževic
    Stevan Knežević was a Serbian painter, sculptor, printmaker and performance artist. He was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade....

    , Serbian painter and sculptor
  • Stevan Knežević
    Stevan Kneževic
    Stevan Knežević was a Serbian painter, sculptor, printmaker and performance artist. He was a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade....

    , graphic designer
  • Uroš Knežević
    Uroš Kneževic
    Uroš Knežević was a Serbian painter. He was born on January 2, 1811 in the town of Sremski Karlovci , to father Teodor and mother Julijana...

    , Serbian painter
  • Zoran Knežević
    Zoran Kneževic (astronomer)
    Zoran Knežević is a Serbian astronomer, who has been publishing since 1982. His major scientific contributions are in the field of movement of small celestial bodies...

    , Serbian astronomer
  • Zoran Knežević
    Zoran Kneževic (footballer)
    Zoran Knežević is a Serbian footballer who is currently playing for FC Gazovik Orenburg.-External links:...

    , Serbian footballer
  • Zoran Knežević
    Zoran Kneževic (politician)
    Zoran Knežević is a Serbian politician. Born in 1948, he later received a degree in economics. He was Justice Minister of Yugoslavia and a Member of Parliament of the Yugoslav Parliament's Chamber of Citizens from 1997 to 1999. -References:...

    , Serbian politician
  • Luka Knežević, Canadian/Serbian/Montenegrin Basketball Prospect b.1996
  • Jovana Knežević Musician/Band,Actor/Director
  • Daniel Knežević Musician/Band,Actor/Director

Notable individuals with last name Knezevich or Knezevic

  • Stevan Knezevich, Canadian accordionist and arranger of Russian, Ukrainian
    Ukrainian folk music
    Ukrainian folk music includes a number of varieties of ethnic , folkloric, folk inspired popular and folk inspired classical traditions....

    , Jewish, and Slavic Folk Music.
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