Svetozar (Cyrillic script: Светозар) is a Slavic origin given name and may refer to: Svetozar Boroević (1856–1920), Austro-Hungarian Field Marshal Svetozar Čiplić (born 1965), Serbian politician Svetozar Đanić (1917–1941), Serbian footballer Svetozar Delić (1885–1967), the first communist mayor of Zagreb, Croatia Svetozar Gligorić (born 1923), Serbian chess grandmaster Svetozar Ivačković (1844–1924), post-Romantic Serbian architect Svetozar Koljević (born 1930), author, historian and translator Svetozar Marković (1846–1875), Serbian political activist Svetozar Marović (born 1955), lawyer and a Montenegrin politician Svetozar Mijin (born 1978), Serbian footballer Svetozar Miletić (1826–1901), advocate, politician, mayor of Novi Sad, and political leader of Serbs in Vojvodina Svetozar Pribićević (born 1875), Serbian politician from Croatia who worked hard for creation of unitaristic Yugoslavia Svetozar Ristovski (born 1972), Macedonian film director Svetozar Vujković (1899–1949), Serbian police officer and head of the Banjica Concentration Camp in German-occupied Serbia Svetozar Vujović (1940–1993), Bosnian-Serb football player Svetozar Vukmanović-Tempo (1912–2000), Montenegrin communist and member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia See also Slavic names Slavic masculine given names Serbian masculine given names Bulgarian masculine given names Masculine given names