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
Janez Puh (German Johann Puch) (1862–1914) – inventor, innovator, industrial designer and manufacturer
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 Kozler (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
Jan Oblak – 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
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
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
Špela Pretnar – alpine skier
Iztok Puc – handball player
Jure Robič (1965–2010) – marathon 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
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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

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References

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

External links

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[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.