Miloš

For other uses, see Miloš (disambiguation) and Milos (disambiguation).

Miloš, Milos, Miłosz or spelling variations thereof is a masculine given name and a surname. It may refer to:

Miloš

Pronunciation	Czech: [ˈmɪloʃ] Serbo-Croatian: [mǐloʃ] (given name), [mîloʃ] (surname) Slovak: [ˈmilɔʂ]
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

Given name

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 Đelmaš, 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 (racing driver), Serbian racing driver
• Milos Raonic, Montenegrin-born Canadian tennis player
• Miloš Stanojević (rower), 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

• 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, Albanian poet
• Miloš Forman, Czech film director, screenwriter, actor and professor
• Miloš Jakeš (1922–2020), Czechoslovak politician
• Miloš Karadaglić, Montenegrin classical guitarist
• Milos Milos (1941–1966), Serbian-born American actor, stunt double and bodyguard
• Miloš Obrenović, Prince of Serbia
• Miloš Tichý, Czech astronomer
• Miloš Zahradník, Czech mathematician
• Miloš Zeman, former President of the Czech Republic
• Miłosz Magin, Polish composer and pianist
• Miłosz Biedrzycki, Polish poet, translator and geophysical engineer
• Miloš Biković, Serbian actor

Surname

• Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004), Polish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1980.
• Andrzej Miłosz (1917–2002), brother of Czesław and a journalist, translator, and documentary film producer
• Oscar Milosz (1877–1939), poet and diplomat who wrote in French and a cousin of Czesław Miłosz
• Stephen Milosz (1955–2022), Australian cricket player
• Ljubo Miloš (1919–1948), Croatian World War II official and concentration camp commandant executed for war crimes
• Mato Miloš, Croatian footballer
• Milos Milos (1941–1966), Serbian-born American actor, stunt double and bodyguard
• Nenad Miloš, Serbian swimmer
• Predrag Miloš, Serbian swimmer

References

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