Miloš

Miloš

Pronunciation	Czech: [ˈmɪloʃ] Serbo-Croatian: [mǐloʃ] (given name), [mîloʃ] (surname) Slovak: [ˈmiloʃ]
Gender	male
Language(s)	Slavic
Origin
Word/name	Slavic
Meaning	hypocorism of Miloslav, from Slavic mil-, "compassionate, dear",[1] and the hypocoristic suffix -oš (similar to the Latin suffix -us).[2]
Other names
Alternative spelling	Milosh, Cyrillic: Милош, Miłosz
Variant form(s)	female: Milena, Mileva, Milka, Milojka, Milica, Mila
Derived	Milošević
Related names	Mile, Milo, Bogomil, Milan, Miloje, Miliša, Miladin, Milat, Mileta, Milojko, Milasin, Milohna, Milovan, Milomir, Milutin, Milenko, Milinko, Milko, Milić, Miodrag, Miloslav, Milisav, Milosav, Miogost, Milman, Milorad, Milivoj, Milivoje

Surname

• Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004), poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1980.
• Oscar Milosz (1877–1939), poet and diplomat who wrote in French and a relative of Czesław Miłosz
• Stephen Milosz (born 1955), Australian cricket player
• Ljubo Miloš (1919–1948), Croatian World War II official and concentration camp commandant executed for war crimes
• Mato Miloš, Croatian footballer
• Nenad Miloš, Serbian swimmer
• Predrag Miloš, Serbian swimmer

Given name

• Milos Alcalay (born 1945), Venezuelan diplomat
• Miloš Vojinović (fl. 1330), Serbian nobleman
• Miloš Obilić (fl. 1389), possibly legendary Serbian knight
• Miloš Crnjanski, Serbian poet, author, diplomat
• Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (Miloš Đorđe Nikolić), Albanian poet
• Miloš Forman, Czech film director, screenwriter, actor and professor
• Miloš Karadaglić, Montenegrin classical guitarist
• Miloš Obrenović, Prince of Serbia
• Miloš Tichý, Czech astronomer
• Miloš Zahradník, Czech mathematician
• Miloš Zeman, current President of the Czech Republic
• Miłosz Magin, Polish composer and pianist
• Miłosz Biedrzycki, Polish poet, translator and geophysical engineer

Sportsmen

• Miłosz Bernatajtys, Polish rower
• Miloš Bogunović, Serbian footballer
• Miloš Budaković, Serbian footballer
• Miloš Ćuk, Serbian water polo player, Olympic champion
• Miloš Dimitrijević, Serbian footballer
• Miloš Holuša, Czech race walker
• Miloš Jojić, Serbian footballer
• Miloš Korolija, Serbian water polo player
• Miloš Krasić, Serbian footballer
• Miloš Marić, Serbian footballer
• Miloš Milošević, Croatian swimmer
• Miloš Milutinović, Serbian footballer and manager
• Miloš Nikić, Serbian volleyball player
• Miloš Ninković, Serbian footballer
• Miloš Pavlović, Serbian racing driver
• Miloš Raonić, Montenegrin-born Canadian tennis player
• Miloš Stanojević, Serbian rower
• Miloš Šestić, Serbian footballer
• Miloš Teodosić, Serbian basketball player
• Miloš Terzić, Serbian volleyball player
• Miloš Tomić, Serbian rower
• Miloš Vasić, Serbian rower
• Miloš Vemić, Serbian volleyball player
• Miloš Vujanić, Serbian basketball player

Other

• Miloš (unmanned ground vehicle), an unmanned ground vehicle developed by the Military Technical Institute Belgrade
• Milosz Point, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

References

1. Franz Miklosich (1860), Die Bildung der slavischen Personennamen, pp. 76–77
2. Petar Skok (1972), "-oš", Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, 2, p. 574