Stanko

Stanko or Stańko (Cyrillic script: Станко; nicknames in Serbo-Croatian: Ćane, Ćano) is a variation of the Slavic masculine given name Stanislav. Notable people with the name include:

Given name:

• Stanko Abadžić (born 1952), Croatian photographer and photojournalist
• Stanko Barać (born 1986), Croatian professional basketball player
• Stanko Bloudek (1890–1959), Slovenian aeroplane and automobile designer, sportsman and sport inventor, designer, builder and educator
• Stanko Bubalo (born 1973), Croatian football striker
• Stanko Crnojević (1457–1528), Serbian lord and Ottoman vassal
• Stanko Karaman (1889–1959), researcher on amphipods and isopods
• Stanko Kotnik (1928–2004), Slovene professor of Slavic studies at the University of Maribor
• Stanko Lorger (1931–2014), Slovenian former hurdler and Olympic competitor
• Stanko Mladenovski (born 1937), Macedonian politician
• Stanko Mršić (born 1955), Croatian football manager and a former player
• Stanko Poklepović (born 1938), Croatian football coach
• Stanko Prek (1915–1999), classical guitarist and composer from Slovenia
• Stanko Premrl (1880–1965), Slovenian Roman Catholic priest, composer and music teacher
• Stanko Subotić (born 1959), Geneva-based Serbian businessman
• Stanko Svitlica, retired Serbian football player
• Stanko Tavčar (1898–1945), Slovenian footballer and later a medical doctor
• Stanko Todorov (1920–1996), Bulgarian communist politician
• Stanko Vraz (born Jakob Frass) (1810–1851), Croatian-Slovenian poet
• Stanko Yovchev (born 1988), Bulgarian footballer

Surname:

• Ewa Grajkowska-Stańko (born 1948), Polish sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1970s
• Stephen Stanko (born 1968), convicted murderer, who killed two people and raped a teenage girl in South Carolina in 2005
• Tomasz Stańko (1942–2018), Polish jazz trumpeter, composer, and improviser
• Zvezdelina Stankova (born 1969), Bulgarian-US mathematician