• Source: List of Slovenes

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




Artists including performing arts






Authors



Louis Adamic (1898–1951) – author and translator
Anton Aškerc (1856–1912) – poet and Roman Catholic priest
Frederic Baraga (1797–1868) – bishop, author
Vladimir Bartol (1903–1967) – author
France Bevk (1890–1970) – author
Franjo Bučar – writer of Slovenian descent
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
Alojz Gradnik (1882–1967) – poet and translator
Simon Gregorčič (1844–1906) – poet and Roman Catholic priest
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
Simon Jenko (1835–1869) – poet, lyricist, writer
Jože Javoršek (1920–1990) – author
Branka Jurca (1914–1999) – author
Josip Jurčič (1844–1881) – author
János Kardos (1801–1875) – writer, teacher and priest
Alma Karlin (1889–1950) – writer and poet
Dragotin Kette (1876–1899) – poet
Edvard Kocbek (1904–1981) – poet and writer
Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926) – poet
József Kossics (1788–1867) – writer, poet, historian, priest
Tomo Križnar (born 1954) – world traveller, humanitarian, author
Lovro Kuhar (1893–1950) – author
Miklós Küzmics (1737–1804) – writer and translator
Feri Lainšček (born 1959) – writer, poet
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
Rudolf Maister (1874–1934) – poet, military officer
Mira Mihelič (1912–1985) – author
Frane Milčinski (1914–1988) – poet, satirist, humorist
Miha Mazzini (born 1961) – author
Boris Pahor (1913–2022) – 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 (1928–2020) – 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
Josipina Urbančič (1508–1586) – poet, writer
Josip Vidmar (1895–1992) – essayist and literary critic
Vitomil Zupan (1914–1987) – writer




Inventors



Ivo Boscarol (born 1956) – light aircraft designer and manufacturer
Joseph Fuisz (born 1970) – filed 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 (a.k.a. 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






Film, radio and television






Musicians and composers






Philosophers



Mladen Dolar (born 1951) – philosopher, cofounder of the Ljubljana school of psychoanalysis
Herman of Carinthia (1105/1110 – after 1154) – philosopher, astronomer, astrologer, mathematician
Tine Hribar (born 1941) – philosopher
Milan Komar (1921–2006) – philosopher
Josip Križan (1841–1921) – mathematician, physicist, philosopher, astronomer
Leonid Pitamic (1885–1971) – philosopher of law
Avguštin Stegenšek (1875–1920) – philosopher, theologian, art historian
Anton Strle (1915–2003) – theologian
Ivo Urbančič (1930–2016) – philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) – philosopher, in part of Slovenian descent
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 United States, and never lived in Slovenia)
Leonard J. Bodack (1932–2015) – former Pennsylvania State Senator (Slovenian ancestry; born and raised in the United States, 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) – second prime minister of independent Slovenia, third president of Slovenia, 2003–2008
Robert Golob (born 1967) – Slovene prime minister
Tom Harkin – U.S. Senator (Slovenian mother; born and raised in the United States 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) – U.S. Senator from Minnesota (Father's grandparents came from Slovenia; born and raised in United States, 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 United States 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 the United States and never lived in Slovenia)
Lojze Peterle (born 1948) – first prime minister of independent Slovenia
Wolfgang Petritsch (born 1947) – Austrian diplomat of Slovene ethnicity (former OHR)
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
Kurt Schuschnigg (1897–1977) – Chancellor of Austria, of Slovenian descent
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 United States, 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






Athletes






Other people






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
Slovene Australians
Slovenian Canadians
Slovenes of Croatia




References






External links


https://archive.today/20130104154830/http://www.randburg.com/si/general/slo8.html

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