Ratko Parežanin (Serbian: Ратко Парежанин) was Austrian, Yugoslav, British and Western German writer and journalist of Serb ethnic origin.

[4] In 1934 Parežanin was responsible for scholarly profile of newly founded [clarification needed] Institute for Balkan Studies.

When German occupying authorities approved publishing of the new daily newspaper "Our Struggle" (Serbian: Наша Борба) on 25 August 1941, Parežanin was appointed as its editor.

[10] At the beginning January,[10] when Parežanin realised that he failed to convince Đurišić to follow Ljotićs plan, he and members of his mission split with Đurišićs forces in Prijepolje and Parežanin and his mission reached Slovenia on 15 January 1945, after travelling through Sarajevo, Slavonski Brod and Zagreb.

[13] In March 1945, Đurišić regretted because he chose the wrong retreat route stating: "If I have followed advice of Parežanin I would already been in Slovenia with my people, probably even before Đujić.