List of Slovenes

This is a list of Slovenes and people from Slovenia that are notable.

Artists including performing arts

• Zvest Apollonio (1935–2009) – painter and graphic artist
• Stanislava Brezovar (1937–2003) – ballerina
• Avgust Černigoj (1898–1985) – painter
• Jože Ciuha (1924–2015) – painter, graphic artist and illustrator
• Ivan Grohar (1867–1911) – painter
• Herman Gvardjančič (born 1943) – painter
• Stane Jagodič (born 1943) – painter, graphic artist, montager and illustrator
• Božidar Jakac (1899–1989) – painter, graphic artist and illustrator
• Rihard Jakopič (1869–1943) – painter
• Matija Jama (1872–1947) – impressionist painter
• Ivana Kobilca (1861–1926) – realist painter
• Lojze Logar (1944–2014) – painter and graphic artist
• Adriana Maraž (1931–2015) – painter and graphic artist
• Pino Mlakar (1907–2006) – ballet dancer and choreographer
• Marko Mušič (born 1941) – architect
• Zoran Mušič (1909–2005) – painter
• Miki Muster (1925–2018) – illustrator
• Veno Pilon (1896–1970) – painter
• Jože Plečnik (1872–1957) – architect
• Marjetica Potrč (born 1953) – artist
• Jakob Savinšek (1922–1961) – sculptor
• Matej Sternen (1870–1949) – painter
• Vladimir Šubic (1894–1946) – architect
• Jožef Tominc (1790–1866) – painter
• Joseph Urbania (1877–1943) – sculptor
• Ivan Vurnik (1884–1971) – architect and town planner

Authors

• Frederic Baraga (1797–1868) – bishop, author
• Vladimir Bartol (1903–1967) – author
• France Bevk (1890–1970) – author
• Ivan Cankar (1876–1918) – author, poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist
• Matija Čop (1797–1835) – author
• Mate Dolenc (born 1945) – author
• Fran Saleški Finžgar (1871–1963) – author and priest
• France Forstnerič (1933–2007) – author, poet and journalist
• Peter Handke (born 1942) – author (Slovenian mother; born and raised in Austria and has never lived in Slovenia)
• Janez Jalen (1891–1966) – author
• Drago Jančar (born 1948) – author and dramatist
• Jože Javoršek (1920–1990) – author
• Branka Jurca (1914–1999) – author
• Josip Jurčič (1844–1881) – author
• Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926) – poet
• Tomo Križnar (born 1954) – world traveller, humanitarian, author
• Lovro Kuhar (1893–1950) – author
• Fran Levstik (1831–1887) – author
• Anton Tomaž Linhart (1756–1795) – playwright and historian
• Cvetka Lipuš (born 1959) – author
• Florjan Lipuš (born 1937) – author
• Franko Luin (1941–2005) – author, editor, typographer
• Mira Mihelič (1912–1985) – author
• Miha Mazzini (born 1961) – author
• Boris Pahor (born 1913) – author
• Ivan Potrč (1913–1993) – author
• Sebastijan Pregelj (born 1970) – author
• France Prešeren (1800–1849) – poet
• Benka Pulko (born 1967) – author and Guinness World Record setting world traveler
• Miha Remec (born 1928) – author
• Anton Martin Slomšek (1800–1862) – bishop, author, poet and national awakener
• Tomaž Šalamun (1941–2014) – poet
• Damijan Šinigoj (born 1964) - author and translator
• Josip Stritar (1836–1923) – poet, author, and editor
• Ivan Tavčar (1851–1923) – author, lawyer and politician
• Janez Trdina (1830–1905) – author
• Primož Trubar (1508–1586) – Protestant reformer and author

Inventors

• Ivo Boscarol (born 1956) – light aircraft designer and manufacturer
• Joseph Fuisz (born 1970) – inventor of thirty-five patents relating to drug delivery and computer fields
• Richard Fuisz (born 1939) – pharmaceutical inventor of controlled release drug beads, quick dissolve tablet systems, thin film drug delivery systems as well as various medical devices, diagnostic devices and electronic mail patents
• Japec Jakopin (born 1951) – yacht designer
• Alojz Knafelc (1859–1937) – creator of Slovenian trail blaze
• Herman Potočnik – Noordung (1892–1929), one of the founders of astronautics
• Johann Puch (Slovene: Janez Puh) (1862–1914) – inventor, innovator, industrial designer and manufacturer
• Johann Pucher (Slovene: Janez Auguštin Puhar) (1814–1864) – priest, photographer, painter and poet – invented a photography on the glass in 1842.
• Edvard Rusjan (1886–1911) – pilot and aeronautic pioneer

Military personnel

• Karel Destovnik Kajuh (1922–1944) – poet and Yugoslav people's hero
• Odilo Globočnik (1904–1945) – prominent Nazi and later an SS leader
• Anton Haus (1851–1917) – Grand Admiral of the Austro-Hungarian Navy
• Rudolf Maister (1874–1934) – general and poet
• Leon Rupnik (1880–1946) – Yugoslav general, Inspector-General of the Slovenian Home Guard
• Franc Rozman (1911–1944) – Partisan general and Yugoslav people's hero

Film, radio and television

• Vinci Vogue Anžlovar (born 1963) – film director
• Valentin Areh (born 1971) – war correspondent and TV journalist
• Miha Baloh (born 1928) – actor
• Matija Barl (1940–2018) – actor
• Polde Bibič (1933–2012) – actor
• Demeter Bitenc (1922–2018) – actor
• František Čap (1913–1972) – film director
• George Dolenz (1908–1963) – (born Jure Dolenc) movie/TV actor, father of actor/musician Micky Dolenz and grandfather of actress Ami Dolenz
• Karpo Godina (born 1943) – film director, cameraman and montage editor
• Andrej Hieng (1925–2000) – storyteller, dramatist, film director and stage editor
• Boštjan Hladnik (1929–2006) – film director, scenarist and montage editor
• Željko Ivanek – Hollywood actor
• Polona Juh (born 1971) – actress
• Damjan Kozole (born 1964) – film director and scenarist
• Janez Lapajne (born 1967) – film director
• Jože Pogačnik (1932–2016) – film director and scenarist
• Igor Pretnar (1924–1977) – film and theatre director
• Janko Ravnik (1891–1982) – film director, pianist, composer, pedagogue, and photographer
• Tanja Ribič (born 1968) – actress and singer
• Ita Rina (1907–1979) – actress
• Franci Slak (1953–2007) – film and TV director and scenarist
• Danijel Sraka (born 1975) – film director
• France Štiglic (1919–1993) – film director
• Zlatko Šugman (1932–2008) – actor
• Jonas Žnidaršič (born 1962) – actor and TV journalist

Musicians and composers

• Bojan Adamič (1912–1995) – composer and conductor
• Blaž Arnič (1901–1970) – composer
• Slavko Avsenik (1929–2015) – composer and musician
• Helena Blagne Zaman (born 1963) – singer
• Lojze Bratuž (1902–1937) – composer, choirmaster
• Ciril Cvetko (1920–1999) – composer, conductor, pedagogue, and journalist
• Micky Dolenz (born 1945) – drummer of The Monkees (Slovenian father; born and raised in the USA and has never lived in Slovenia)
• Jakob Gallus Petelin (1550–1591) – composer and conductor
• Jani Golob (born 1948) – composer and violinist
• Alenka Gotar (born 1979) – soprano singer
• Senida Hajdarpašić (known as Senidah) (born 1985) - singer and composer

• Božidar Kantušer (1921–1999) – composer
• Marjan Kozina (1907–1966) – composer
• Zala Kralj (born 1999) - singer
• Lina Kuduzović (born 2002) - singer
• Marijan Lipovšek (1910–1995) – composer, pianist, pedagogue, musical essayist
• Marjana Lipovšek (born 1946) – opera singer, mezzo-soprano
• Magnifico (born 1965) – composer and singer
• Mr. Doctor – vocalist and composer of the Devil Doll
• Tito in ekšn – punk rock band of the 1990s
• Tomaž Pengov – composer, musician and singer
• Zoran Predin (born 1958) – composer and singer
• Oto Pestner – composer, musician and singer
• Jože Privšek (1937–1998) – composer and musician
• Raay (Maraaya) (born 1984) - composer
• Anja Rupel (born 1966) – singer and radio announcer
• Gašper Šantl (born 1996) - singer and composer
• Nina Šenk (born 1982) – classical composer
• Majda Sepe – singer
• Lojze Slak (1932–2011) – composer and musician
• Adi Smolar – composer, musician and singer
• Karmen Stavec (born 1973) – musician and singer
• Dubravka Tomšič Srebotnjak (born 1940) – pianist and musical pedagogue
• Audrey Totter (1917–2013) – actress (Slovenian father; born and lived in the USA; never lived in Slovenia)
• Marjetka Vovk (Maraaya) (born 1984) - singer and composer
• Hugo Wolf (1860–1903) – composer

Philosophers

• Mladen Dolar (born 1951) – philosopher, co-founder of the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis
• Tine Hribar (born 1941) – philosopher
• Milan Komar (1921–2006) – philosopher
• Anton Strle (1915–2003) – theologian
• Ivo Urbančič (born 1930) – philosopher
• Slavoj Žižek (born 1949) – sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic
• Alenka Zupančič (born 1966) – philosopher and cultural critic

Politicians

• Andrej Bajuk (1943–2011) – third prime minister of independent Slovenia
• John Blatnik (1911–1991) – U.S. Congressman (Slovenian parents; born and raised in the USA, and never lived in Slovenia)
• Leonard J. Bodack (1932–2015)– former Pennsylvania State Senator (Slovenian ancestry; born and raised in the USA, and never lived in Slovenia)
• Jože Brilej (1910–1981) – Yugoslav politician, diplomat and ambassador, President of the United Nations Security Council (1956)
• Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980) – president of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1980 (son of a Slovenian mother, Marija Javeršek and of a Croat father, Franjo Broz)
• Leo von Caprivi (1831–1899) – German major general and statesman who served as German Chancellor from March 1890 to October 1894 (His family (complete surname: von Caprivi de Caprera de Montecuccoli) was of Italian and disputed Slovenian origin; born and raised in Germany, and never lived in Slovenia)
• Janez Drnovšek (1950–2008) – 2nd prime minister of independent Slovenia, third president of Slovenia, 2003–2008
• Tom Harkin – US Senator (Slovenian mother; born and raised in the USA and never lived in Slovenia)
• Janez Janša (born 1958) – fifth prime minister of independent Slovenia
• Edvard Kardelj (1910–1979) – prewar communist, politician, statesman, and journalist
• Boris Kidrič (1912–1953) – communist, politician, statesman and economist
• Amy Jean Klobuchar (born 1960) – United States Senator from Minnesota (Father's grandparents came from Slovenia; born and raised in USA, has never lived in Slovenia)
• Anton Korošec (1872–1940) – prominent Yugoslav politician
• Milan Kučan (born 1941) – first president of independent Slovenia, 1991–2002
• Frank Lausche (1895–1990)– former U.S. Senator, Governor of Ohio & Mayor of Cleveland (Parents of Slovenian origin; born and raised in the USA and never lived in Slovenia)
• Vladko Maček (1879–1964) – Croatian politician of Slovene origin from the first half of the 20th century. He led the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS)
• James Oberstar (1934–2014) – U.S. Representative from Minnesota (Partial Slovenian ancestry; born and raised in USA and never lived in Slovenia)
• Lojze Peterle (born 1948) – first prime minister of independent Slovenia
• Tanya Plibersek – Australian politician – House of Representatives
• Anton Rop (born 1960) – fourth prime minister of independent Slovenia
• Gregorij Rožman (1883–1959) – Bishop of Ljubljana (1930–1945), collaborator with Italian and German occupying forces during the Second World War
• Marjan Šarec (born 1977) – Slovene prime minister
• Danilo Türk (born 1952) – President elect of Slovenia
• Walter Veltroni (born 1955) – Mayor of Rome (Slovenian mother)
• George Voinovich – U.S. Senator, former Governor of Ohio and Mayor of Cleveland, (Slovenian mother; born and raised in the USA, never lived in Slovenia)
• Anton Vratuša (1915–2017) – politician and diplomat, who was the Prime Minister of Slovenia from 1978–80 and of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, also its ambassador to the United Nations

Scientists and scholars

• Robert Blinc (1933–2011) – physicist
• Ivan Bratko (born 1946) – computer scientist
• Srečko Brodar (1893–1987) – palaeontologist
• Andrej Čadež (born 1942) – astrophysicist
• Avrelija Cencič (1964–2012) – biochemist
• Lavo Čermelj (1889–1980) – physicist
• Dragotin Cvetko (1911–1993) – musicologist
• Davorin Dolar (1921–2005) – chemist
• Josip Globevnik (born 1945) – mathematician
• Pavel Grošelj (1883–1940) – biologist and belletrist
• Jovan Hadži (1884–1972) – biologist
• Anton Janežič (1828–1869) – Slavic specialist and grammarian
• Aleksandar Jurišić - mathematician and cryptographer
• Jernej Kopitar (1780–1844) – philologist
• Peter Kosler (1824–1879) – lawyer, geographer, cartographer, politician, and manufacturer
• Ivo Lah (1896–1979) – mathematician
• Tine Logar (1916–2002) – philologist and dialectologist
• Thomas Luckmann (1927–2016) – sociologist
• Anton Melik (1890–1966) – geographer
• Franz Miklosich (1813–1891) – philologist
• Avgust Pavel (1886–1946) – ethnologist
• Anton Peterlin (1908–1993) – physicist
• Josip Plemelj (1873–1967) – mathematician
• Herman Potočnik - Noordung (1892–1929) – pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics, and rocket engineer
• Fritz Pregl (1869–1930) – chemist, Nobel prize for chemistry 1923
• Janko Prunk (born 1942) – historian
• Fran Ramovš (1890–1952) – philologist and dialectologist
• Zoran Rant (1904–1972) – mechanical engineer
• Simon Rutar (1851–1903) – historian, geographer, archaeologist and geologist
• Ljubo Sirc (1920–2016) – economist
• Boris Sket (born 1936) – zoologist
• Branko Stanovnik (born 1938) – chemist
• Jožef Stefan (1835–1893) – physicist and mathematician
• Janez Strnad (1934–2015) – physicist and populariser of natural science
• Jože Toporišič (1926–2014) – philologist
• Denis Trček (born 1963) – computer scientist
• Anton Trstenjak (1906–1996) – psychologist and theologian
• Johann Weikhard von Valvasor (1641–1693) – nobleman and polymath
• Jurij Bartolomej Vega (1754–1802) – mathematician, physicist and artillery officer
• Ivan Vidav (1918–2015) – mathematician
• Milan Vidmar (1885–1962) – electrical engineer, chess player, and chess theorist
• Valentin Vodnik (1758–1819) – poet, journalist, philologist
• Egon Zakrajšek (1941–2002) – mathematician and computer scientist
• Miroslav Zei (1914–2006) – marine biologist

Athletes

• Vili Ameršek – football player
• Alenka Bikar – sprinter, Olympic athlete
• Vinko Bogataj – ski jumper, featured in the Wide World of Sports Agony of Defeat video
• Brigita Brezovac (born 1979) – IFBB professional bodybuilder
• Brigita Bukovec (born 1970) – athlete, Olympic athlete
• Anja Čarman – swimmer
• Jolanda Čeplak (born 1976) – Olympic athlete
• Miroslav Cerar (born 1939) – gymnast, Olympic athlete
• Iztok Čop (born 1972) – rower, Olympic athlete
• Ivo Daneu – basketball player
• Rajmond Debevec (born 1963) – shooter, Olympic athlete
• Luka Dončić – basketball player, No. 3 overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft, NBA player for the Dallas Mavericks[1][2]
• Goran Dragić – basketball player (NBA), Serbian father and Slovene mother[3]
• Zoran Dragić – basketball player (NBA), Serbian father and Slovene mother
• Jure Franko – alpine skier, Olympic athlete
• Urška Hrovat – alpine skier, Olympic athlete
• Sait Idrizi (born 1990) - football player
• Mima Jaušovec (born 1956) – female tennis player
• Simon Jecl (born 1986) - freestyle skier
• Davo Karničar (born 1962) – alpine and extreme skier
• Srečko Katanec (born 1963) – football player and selector, Olympic athlete
• Anže Kopitar – NHL hockey player, Olympic athlete
• Jure Košir – alpine skier, Olympic athlete
• Robert Kranjec – alpine ski jumper
• Bojan Križaj (born 1957) – alpine skier, Olympic athlete
• Petra Majdič – cross country skier, Olympic athlete
• Tina Maze – alpine skier
• Ariel McDonald – basketball player
• Marko Milič – basketball player
• Radoslav Nesterovič – basketball player (NBA)
• Bogdan Norčič – alpine ski jumper
• Branko Oblak (born 1947) – football player
• Jan Oblak – football player
• Bruno Parma (born 1941) – chess player
• Franci Petek – ski jumper, Olympic athlete
• Primož Peterka (born 1979) – ski jumper, Olympic athlete
• Borut Petrič (born 1961) – swimmer
• Darjan Petrič (born 1964) – swimmer
• Rok Petrovič (1966–1993) – alpine skier
• Vasja Pirc (1907–1980) – chess player
• Tadej Pogačar - cyclist
• Špela Pretnar – alpine skier
• Iztok Puc – handball player
• Jure Robič (1965–2010) – marathon cyclist
• Primož Roglič - cyclist
• Mladen Rudonja – football player
• Uroš Slokar – basketball player (NBA)
• Katarina Srebotnik – tennis player
• Elvis Stojko – figure skater
• Boris Strel – alpine skier, Olympic athlete
• Martin Strel (born 1954) – ultra marathon swimmer
• Leon Štukelj (1898–1999) – gymnast, Olympic athlete
• Mateja Svet (born 1968) – alpine skier, Olympic athlete
• Miran Tepeš – ski jumper, Olympic athlete
• Beno Udrih – basketball player (NBA)
• Primož Ulaga – ski jumper, Olympic athlete
• Peter Vilfan – basketball player
• Sasha Vujačić – basketball player (NBA), Serbian father and Slovene mother
• Zlatko Zahovič (born 1971) – football player
• Jure Zdovc – basketball player, Olympic athlete
• Peter Žonta – alpine ski jumper
• Matjaž Zupan – alpine ski jumper, Olympic athlete
• Denis Žvegelj – rower, Olympic athlete

Other people

• Danilo Dolci (1924–1997) – sociologist and political activist (Slovenian mother)
• Aleš Hlad – supermoto racer and 2005 European Champion
• Ivan Kramberger (1936–1992) – philanthropist
• Shenphen Rinpoche (born 1969) – abbot of first Buddhist Congregation in Slovenia
• Walter Wolf (born 1939) – businessman
• Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs, later changed to Knauss,[4] 1970) – model, spouse of U.S. President Donald Trump, First Lady of the United States of America

See also

• List of people by nationality
• List of Slovene writers and poets in Hungary
• List of Slovenian artists
• List of Slovenian computer scientists
• List of Slovenian playwrights
• List of Slovenian mathematicians
• List of Slovenian physicists
• Slovenian Americans
• Slovenian Canadians

References

1. "Luka Doncic". www.basketball-reference.com. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
2. "Luka Doncic, 19-year-old Slovenian wunderkind is already blowing away the NBA". www.businessinsider.com. Retrieved November 29, 2018.
3. "Goran Dragic". www.basketball-reference.com. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
4. Otterbourg, Ken (August 27, 2016). "The mystery that is Melania Trump". The State. Retrieved November 30, 2016.

External links

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