Sava (name)
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Sava is a common male personal name in south Slavic languages, and is also used in Romanian and Bosniak. Perhaps the most famous example is the Serbian medieval prince turned monk Saint Sava.[1] In Bosnia Sava could also be a female name, a result of the tradition of naming female children like rivers – in this case, after the river Sava. Saba is a popular Georgian variant.
People
- Saint Sava, Serbian saint
- Sava II Petrović-Njegoš, Montenegrin monarch
- Sava Antić, Yugoslav footballer
- Sava Athanasiu, Romanian geologist and paleontologist
- Sava Babić, Serbian writer
- Sava Bjelanović, Serbian politician
- Sava Caracaș, Romanian army general
- Sava Dobroplodni, Bulgarian writer
- Sava Dumitrescu, Romanian pharmacologist
- Sava Grujić, Serbian soldier, statesman and diplomat
- Sava Grozdev, Bulgarian mathematician
- Sava Henția, Romanian painter
- Sava Kovačević, Yugoslav partisan
- Sava Mrkalj, Serbian linguist
- Sava Mutkurov, Bulgarian officer and politician
- Sava Savanović, alleged vampire
- Sava Šumanović, Serbian painter
- Sava Tekelija, Serbian philanthropist
- Sava Vladislavich, Serbian merchant-adventurer in Russian service
- DJ Sava, Romanian DJ and record producer
- Facundo Sava, Argentinian footballer
See also
References
- ^ Charlotte Mary Yonge (2004). History of Christian Names. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 0-7661-8321-1.