# List of Slovenes

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

## 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

## 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