Dalibor (name)
Dalibor is primarily a male given name of Slavic origin, mostly in Czech Republic. The name is popular in some Western Slavic and Southern Slavic countries, such as: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and North Macedonia. It means: fighting far away and it is derived from Slavic elements daleko meaning "far away" and boriti meaning "to fight". The first part can be also derived from "oddalovat", meaning "to delay", hence it can be also interpreted as "someone, who delays/avoids fight".
There is a Bedřich Smetana's eponymous opera, based on Slavonic mythology.People with this given name
- Dalibor Andonov, Serbian musician
- Dalibor Bagarić, Croatian basketball player
- Dalibor Brazda, Czech-Swiss composer and conductor
- Dalibor Brozović, Croatian linguist
- Dalibor Gatarić, footballer
- Dalibor Dragić, Bosnian Serb footballer
- , Austrian national trainer of Taekwon-Do
- Dalibor Milenković, Serbian football goalkeeper
- Dalibor Pauletić, Croatian football defender
- Dalibor Pešterac, Serbian footballer
- Dalibor Stevanovič, Slovenian football player
- Dalibor Stojanović, Slovenian footballer
- Dalibor Cyril Vačkář, Czech composer
- Dalibor Veselinović, Serbian footballer
- Dalibor Vesely, Czech architect
- Dalibor Višković, Croatian footballer
- Dalibor Šamšal, Croatian alpine ski racer
- , 15th century Czech knight, on whom Smetana based his 1868 opera Dalibor
- Dalibor Jedlička, Czech opera singer
- , Czech pop music singer
People with this surname
- Jan and Vlasta Dalibor, Czech immigrants to the UK, puppeteers who made the original Pinky and Perky
