Pešić

Pešić or Pesic (Cyrillic script: Пешић) is a Serbian surname.

Geographical distribution
As 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:
 * 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

 * 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)
 * 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