Pešić or Pesic (Cyrillic script: Пешић) is a Serbian surname.
Geographical distribution
editAs of 2014, 86.5% of all known bearers of the surname Pešić were residents of Serbia (frequency 1:377), 5.4% of the Republic of Macedonia (1:1,783), 3.1% of Montenegro (1:910), 2.6% of Croatia (1:7,498), 1.3% of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1:12,277) and 1.1% of Kosovo (1:7,758).
In Serbia, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average (1:377) in the following districts:[1]
- Jablanica District (1:60)
- Pirot District (1:114)
- Pčinja District (1:119)
- Nišava District (1:155)
- Toplica District (1:206)
- Zaječar District (1:225)
- Podunavlje District (1:299)
People
edit- Aleksandar Pešić (born 1992), Serbian footballer
- Ante Pešić (born 1974), Croatian football player
- Branko Pešić (1922–1986), Yugoslav communist politician
- Dejan Pešić (born 1976), Serbian goalkeeper who currently plays for Shahin Bushehr F.C. in the Iranian Azadegan League
- Dragiša Pešić (1954–2016), politician from Montenegro who was the last Prime Minister of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Dušan Pešić (born 1955), Serbian former international footballer who played for midfield position
- Ivan Pešić (footballer, born 1989), Serbian footballer for FK Mladost Lučani
- Ivan Pešić (footballer, born 1992), Croatian footballer for RNK Split
- Ivan Pešić (handballer) (born 1989), Croatian handball goalkeeper
- Ivan Pesic (businessman), founder of Silvaco
- Jure Pešić, Croatian opera singer (baritone)[2]
- Iliya Pesic, chairman of Silvaco, son of Ivan Pesic
- Marko Pešić, German basketballer
- Miroljub Pešić (born 1993), Serbian football defender
- Nikola Pešić (born 1973), artist born in Belgrade
- Svetislav Pešić (born 1949), former Serbian professional basketball player and a present-day Serbian basketball coach
- Vesna Pešić (born 1940), Serbian politician, one of the leaders of opposition movement in Serbia
- Vladimir Pešić, Montenegrin biologist, expert in Gastropoda and entomology
- Zoran Pešić (born 1983), Serbian football player
- Zoran Pešić (born 1983), Serbian rugby league player
- Zoran Pešić (born 1951), Serbian football player
References
edit- ^ Pešić surname distribution
- ^ "HaGeZe – GLASILO HRVATSKOGA GLAZBENOG ZAVODA" (PDF). 2009-10-23. ISSN 1332-1129. Retrieved 2017-09-06.
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