Venko (Esperanto for victory) is a male Slavic given name. Notable people with the name include: Venko Aleksandrov (born 1944), Bulgarian academic, medical doctor and politician Venko Andonovski (born 1964), Macedonian writer, essayist, critic and literary theorist Venko Filipče (born 1977), Macedonian neurosurgeon and former Health Minister Venko Markovski (1915–1988), Bulgarian-Macedonian writer, poet, partisan and Communist politician