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List of Slovenes

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


Artists including performing arts

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Authors

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Vladimir Bartol
Simon Gregorčič
Alma Karlin
France Prešeren
Josipina Urbančič

Inventors

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Janez Puh
  • 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

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Film, radio and television

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Musicians and composers

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Philosophers

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Slavoj Žižek

Politicians

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Janez Janša
Leon Rupnik
Kurt Schuschnigg
Josip Broz Tito
  • 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

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Athletes

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Other people

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Rosen, Lisa. "'Downsizing' actor Christoph Waltz thinks the world needs to downsize its hubris to move forward". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 19 March 2021. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
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  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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