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 printmaker
Stanislava Brezovar (1937–2003) – ballerina
Franz Caucig (1755–1828) – Neoclassical painter
Anton Cebej (1722–1774) – Baroque painter
Avgust Černigoj (1898–1985) – painter
Jože Ciuha (1924–2015) – painter, printmaker, and illustrator
Ivan Grohar (1867–1911) – painter
Anton Gvajc (1865–1935) – painter
Herman Gvardjančič (born 1943) – painter
Stane Jagodič (born 1943) – painter, printmaker, montager and illustrator
Božidar Jakac (1899–1989) – painter, printmaker, and illustrator
Rihard Jakopič (1869–1943) – painter
Matija Jama (1872–1947) – impressionist painter
Laurenz Janscha (1749–1812) – landscape painter and engraver
Anton Karinger (1829–1870) – painter and poet
Ivana Kobilca (1861–1926) – realist painter
Lojze Logar (1944–2014) – painter and printmaker
Fredy Malec Koschitz(1914–2001) - painter and woodcarver
Adriana Maraž (1931–2015) – painter and printmaker
Julie Martini (1871–1943) – photographer
Špelca Mladič (1894–1981) – painter and designer
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
Mira Pintar (1891–1980) - artist and art collector
Jože Plečnik (1872–1957) – architect
Marjetica Potrč (born 1953) – artist
Jakob Savinšek (1922–1961) – sculptor
Zora Stančič (born 1956) – graphic and visual artist
Matej Sternen (1870–1949) – painter
Michael Stroy (1803–1871) – painter
Vladimir Šubic (1894–1946) – architect
Henrika Šantel (1874–1940) – painter
Avgusta Šantel (1876–1968) – painter, teacher, printmaker
Jožef Tominc (1790–1866) – painter
Joseph Urbania (1877–1943) – sculptor
Antonija Volk Krebelj (1908–2003) – farmer and folk artist
Ivan Vurnik (1884–1971) – architect and town planner

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
Krista Povirk (1938–2004) – catechist, poet, choir director
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
Marija Rus (1921–2019) – Romance philologist, professor of French, translator, poet.
Anton Martin Slomšek (1800–1862) – bishop, author, poet and national awakener
Tomaž Šalamun (1941–2014) – poet
Anka Salmič (1902–1969) - farmer, folk healer and 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

Karel Destovnik Kajuh (1922–1944) – poet and Yugoslav people's hero
Alenka Ermenc (born 1963) – officer in the Slovenian Armed Forces and NATO's Chief of defence
Karl Novak (1905–1975) – commander of the Slovene Chetniks during World War II
Odilo Globočnik (1904–1945) – prominent Nazi and later an SS leader
Anton Haus (1851–1917) – Grand Admiral of the Austro-Hungarian Navy
Pepca Kardelj (1914–1990) – partisan and political activist
Johann Katzianer (1491–1539) – aristocrat and Habsburg Imperial Army commander
Dušan Kveder (1915–1966) – soldier, military commander and diplomat
Rudolf Maister (1874–1934) – general and poet
Franjo Malgaj (1894–1919) – Austro-Hungarian military leader
Johann Mickl (1893–1945) – Austrian-born Generalleutnant of Slovenian descent
Leon Rupnik (1880–1946) – Yugoslav general, inspector-general of the Slovenian Home Guard
Franc Rozman (1911–1944) – Partisan general and Yugoslav people's hero
Valerija Skrinjar Tvrz (1928–2023) – Partisan codebreaker

Film, radio and television

Vinci Vogue Anžlovar (1963–2024) – film director
Valentin Areh (born 1971) – war correspondent and TV journalist
Miha Baloh (1928–2022) – actor
Matija Barl (1940–2018) – actor
Polde Bibič (1933–2012) – actor
Demeter Bitenc (1922–2018) – actor
David Boreanaz (born 1969) – actor, father of remote Slovenian descent
Špela Čadež (born 1977) – film director
František Čap (1913–1972) – film director
Anica Dobra (born 1963) – Serbian actress, Slovenian mother
George Dolenz (1908–1963) – (born Jure Dolenc) movie/TV actor, father of actor/musician Micky Dolenz and grandfather of actress Ami Dolenz
Micky Dolenz (born 1945) – actor and musician, son of George Dolenz
Rudi Dolezal (born 1958) – Austrian film producer and film director
Mira Furlan (1955–2021) – actress, father of Slovenian descent
Karpo Godina (born 1943) – film director, cameraman and montage editor
Frank Gorshin (1933–2005) – actor and comedian
Melissa Joan Hart (born 1976) – actress, mother of Slovenian descent
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
Anthony Jeselnik (born 1978) – comedian of Slovenian descent
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
Aleksandar Tesla [de] (born 1973) – German actor, Slovenian mother
Alice Tumler (born 1978) – TV presenter, father of Slovenian–Italian descent
Eka Vogelnik (1946–2024) – multi type artist (film, video and animation director and performer; scene, costume and puppet designer; book author and illustrator, music composer...)
Christoph Waltz (born 1956) – actor, mother of Slovenian descent
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 United States and has never lived in Slovenia)
Jakob Gallus Petelin (1550–1591) – composer and conductor
Jani Golob (born 1948) – composer and violinist
Irena Grafenauer (born 1957) – flautist
Alenka Gotar (born 1979) – soprano singer
Eliza Frančiška Grizold (1847–1913) – teacher, poet, organist and composer
Senida Hajdarpašić (known as Senidah) (born 1985) – singer and composer
Marija Hladnik Berden (1892–1924) – teacher, organist and composer
Karen Kamensek (born 1970) – conductor of Slovenian descent
Božidar Kantušer (1921–1999) – composer
Herbert von Karajan (1908–1989) – composer
Maja Keuc – singer
Marjan Kozina (1907–1966) – composer
Zala Kralj (born 1999) – singer
Minca Krkovič (1858–1933) – field labourer and folk singer
Lina Kuduzović (born 2002) – singer
Dragica Legat Košmerl (1883–1956) – zither player, zither teacher, and composer
Marijan Lipovšek (1910–1995) – composer, pianist, pedagogue, musical essayist
Marjana Lipovšek (born 1946) – opera singer, mezzo-soprano
Magnifico (born 1965) – composer and singer
Joey Miskulin (born 1949) – accordionist of Slovenian descent
Omar Naber – singer-songwriter, guitarist
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
Friderika Podgornik – pianist and music educator
Jože Privšek (1937–1998) – composer and musician
Raay (Maraaya) (born 1984) – composer
Ana Roner Lavrič (1869–1957) - organist
Anja Rupel (born 1966) – singer and radio announcer
Gašper Šantl (born 1996) – singer and composer
Nina Šenk (born 1982) – classical composer
Majda Sepe (1937–2006) – singer
September – Swedish singer of Slovenian descent
Lojze Slak (1932–2011) – composer and musician
Adi Smolar – composer, musician and singer
Ana Soklič – singer-songwriter
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 United States; never lived in Slovenia)
Marjetka Vovk (Maraaya) (born 1984) – singer and composer
Sare Havliček (born 1974) – musical producer
Hugo Wolf (1860–1903) – composer
"Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959) – singer and musician of Slovenian descent
Frankie Yankovic (1915–1998) – Grammy-award winning accordion player and polka musician of Slovenian descent

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
Franc Grafenauer [de] (1860–1935) – organ-builder, member of the Imperial Council and the State Parliament, People's Tribune of the Carinthian Slovenes
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

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
Bojan Čop (1923–1994) – linguist
Dragotin Cvetko (1911–1993) – musicologist
Davorin Dolar (1921–2005) – chemist
Josip Globevnik (born 1945) – mathematician
Bogo Grafenauer (1916–1995) – historian
Ivan Grafenauer (1880–1964) – literary historian and ethnologist
Stanko Grafenauer (1922–2010) – mineralogist
Pavel Grošelj (1883–1940) – biologist and belletrist
Jovan Hadži (1884–1972) – biologist
Anton Janežič (1828–1869) – Slavic specialist and grammarian
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 (a.k.a. Noordung, 1892–1929) – pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics, and rocket engineer
Fritz Pregl (1869–1930) – chemist, Nobel Prize in 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
Marija Šuštar (1905–1989) – ethnochoreologist and folklorist.
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
Valter Birsa (born 1986) – footballer
Jaka Blažič (born 1990) – basketball player
Fredi Bobic (born 1971) – footballer of Slovenian descent
Vinko Bogataj – ski jumper, featured in the Wide World of Sports Agony of Defeat video
Nataša Bokal (born 1967) – skier
Borut Božič – cyclist
Janez Brajkovič – cyclist
Primož Brezec (born 1979) – basketball player (NBA)
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
Alenka Cuderman (born 1961) – handball player, Olympic athlete
Rudolf Cvetko (1880–1977) – fencer, Olympic athlete
Ivo Daneu – basketball player
Matjaž Debelak (born 1965) – ski jumper, Olympic athlete
Rajmond Debevec (born 1963) – shooter, Olympic athlete
David Dedek – basketball coach
Luka Dončić – basketball player, No. 3 overall pick in the 2018 NBA draft, NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers
Polona Dornik – basketball player, Olympic athlete
Alenka Dovžan – alpine skier, Olympic athlete
Goran Dragić – basketball player (NBA), Serbian father and Slovene mother
Zoran Dragić – basketball player (NBA), Serbian father and Slovene mother
Ana Drev (born 1985) – alpine skier
Vital Eiselt (born 1941) – basketball player
Vesna Fabjan – cross-country skier
Saša Farič – freestyle skier
Maruša Ferk – alpine skier
Jure Franko – alpine skier, Olympic athlete
Damjan Fras – ski jumper, Olympic athlete
Tim Gajser (born 1996) – motocross racer (MXGP)
Janja Garnbret (born 1999) – rock climber
Samir Handanovic (born 1984) – goalkeeper and football trainer
Meta Hrovat (born 1998) – alpine skier
Urška Hrovat – alpine skier, Olympic athlete
Sait Idrizi (born 1990) – football player
Sara Isaković (born 1988) – swimmer
Milan Janša (born 1965) – rower
Mima Jaušovec (born 1956) – female tennis player
Simon Jecl (born 1986) – freestyle skier
Andrej Jerman – alpine skier
Marjan Kandus (born 1932) – basketball player
Davo Karničar (born 1962) – alpine and extreme skier
Srečko Katanec (born 1963) – football player and selector, Olympic athlete
Peter Kauzer (born 1983) – slalom canoeist, Olympic athlete
Jani Klemenčič (born 1971) – rower
Anže Kopitar – NHL hockey player, Olympic athlete
Jure Košir – alpine skier, Olympic athlete
Žan Košir – snowboarder
Katja Koren – alpine skier, Olympic athlete
Primož Kozmus – hammer thrower, Olympic athlete
Robert Kranjec – alpine ski jumper
Žan Kranjec – alpine skier
Rene Krhin (born 1990) – football player
Bojan Križaj (born 1957) – alpine skier, Olympic athlete
Miha Lokar (born 1935) – basketball player
Petra Majdič – cross country skier, Olympic athlete
Andreja Mali (born 1977) – biathlete
Tina Maze – alpine skier
Ariel McDonald – basketball player
Miha Mevlja – football player
Marko Milič – basketball player
Sašo Mirjanič (1968–1994) – rower
Matej Mohorič – cyclist
Jan Muršak - ice hockey 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
Nika Prevc (born 2005) – ski jumper female 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
Lucija Polavder (born 1984) – judoka, Olympic athlete
Klemen Prepelič (born 1992) – basketball player
Špela Pretnar – alpine skier
Peter Prevc (born 1992) – ski jumper
Josip Primožič (1900–1985) – gymnast, Olympic athlete
Iztok Puc – handball player
Jure Robič (1965–2010) – marathon cyclist
Primož Roglič – cyclist
Mladen Rudonja – football player
Benjamin Savšek – slalom canoeist, Olympic athlete
Ante Šimundža – football coach
Damir Skomina – football referee
Uroš Slokar – basketball player (NBA)
Luka Špik (born 1979) – rower, Olympic athlete
Andraž Šporar (born 1994) – football player
Katarina Srebotnik – tennis player
Elvis Stojko – figure skater
Boris Strel – alpine skier, Olympic athlete
Martin Strel (born 1954) – ultra marathon swimmer
Ilka Štuhec (born 1990) – alpine skier
Leon Štukelj (1898–1999) – gymnast, Olympic athlete
Mateja Svet (born 1968) – alpine skier, Olympic athlete
Miran Tepeš – ski jumper, Olympic athlete
Tina Trstenjak – judoka, Olympic athlete
Beno Udrih – basketball player (NBA)
Primož Ulaga – ski jumper, Olympic athlete
Andrej Urlep – basketball coach
Tadej Valjavec – cyclist
Andraž Vehovar – slalom canoeist, Olympic athlete
Anamari Velenšek – judoka
Benjamin Verbič – football player
Peter Vilfan – basketball player
Slavko Vinčić – football referee
Sasha Vujačić – basketball player (NBA), Serbian father and Slovene mother
Zlatko Zahovič (born 1971) – football player
Miha Zajc (born 1994) – football player
Vasilij Žbogar (born 1975) – sailor, Olympic athlete
Jure Zdovc – basketball player, Olympic athlete
Tamara Zidanšek – tennis player
Urška Žolnir (born 1981) – judoka, Olympic athlete
Peter Žonta – alpine ski jumper
Aljoša Žorga – basketball player
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
Pavla Hočevar (1889–1972) – teacher, writer, socialist and suffragist
Ivan Kramberger (1936–1992) – philanthropist
Pavla Jerina Lah (1915–2007) – surgeon and partisan
Klemen Pevec (Pylo) – software developer (creator of MCreator)
Shenphen Rinpoche (born 1969) – abbot of first Buddhist Congregation in Slovenia
Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs, later changed to Knauss, born 1970) – model, spouse of U.S. President Donald Trump, First Lady of the United States of America
Walter Wolf (born 1939) – businessman

References

↑ Rosen, Lisa. "'Downsizing' actor Christoph Waltz thinks the world needs to downsize its hubris to move forward". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
↑ "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.

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[LA_Times-1] Rosen, Lisa. "'Downsizing' actor Christoph Waltz thinks the world needs to downsize its hubris to move forward". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 19 March 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)

[2] "Luka Doncic". www.basketball-reference.com. Retrieved February 19, 2019.

[3] "Luka Doncic, 19-year-old Slovenian wunderkind is already blowing away the NBA". www.businessinsider.com. Retrieved November 29, 2018.

[4] "Goran Dragic". www.basketball-reference.com. Retrieved February 19, 2019.

[5] Otterbourg, Ken (August 27, 2016). "The mystery that is Melania Trump". The State. Retrieved November 30, 2016.

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