List of people from Ljubljana

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This is a list of notable individuals who were born or lived in Ljubljana:

Coats of arms of Ljubljana

Authors[]

  • Anton Aškerc (1856–1912), poet
  • Vladimir Bartol (1903–1967), author
  • Adam Bohorič (1520–1598), Protestant preacher, author and philologist
  • Peter Božič (1932–2009), writer, playwright, journalist, and politician
  • Ivan Cankar (1876–1918), writer, playwright, and essayist
  • Peter Čeferin (born 1938), attorney, writer, playwright
  • Aleš Debeljak (1961–2016), poet, essayist and sociologist
  • Anton Funtek (1862–1932), writer, poet, editor and translator
  • Alojz Gradnik (1882–1967), poet
  • Drago Jančar (born 1948), writer and essayist
  • Jože Javoršek (1920–1990), author, essayist, playwright and translator
  • Taras Kermauner, literary historian and essayist
  • Mile Klopčič (1905–1984), poet and translator
  • Edvard Kocbek (1904–1981), poet, essayist, writer and politician
  • Srečko Kosovel (1904–1926), poet
  • Ferdo Kozak (1894–1957), writer, playwright, and politician
  • Juš Kozak (1892–1964), writer
  • Primož Kozak (1929–1981), playwright and essayist
  • Taja Kramberger (born 1970), poet, essayist and anthropologist
  • Anton Tomaž Linhart (1756–1795), playwright and historian
  • Janez Menart (1929–2004), poet and translator
  • Josip Murn (1879–1901), poet
  • Lili Novy (1885–1958), poet
  • Iztok Osojnik (born 1951), poet
  • Marko Pohlin (1735–1801), author, philologist
  • France Prešeren (1800–1849), poet
  • Alenka Puhar (born 1945), columnist, historian, political activist
  • Tomaž Šalamun (born 1941), poet
  • Dominik Smole (1929–1992), writer and playwright
  • Bojan Štih (1923–1986), stage director, literary critic and essayist
  • Gregor Strniša (1930–1987), poet and playwright
  • Veno Taufer (born 1933), poet
  • Ivan Tavčar (1851–1923), writer, editor and politician
  • Igor Torkar (1913–2004), writer and playwright
  • Primož Trubar (1508–1586), Protestant preacher and writer
  • Josip Vidmar (1895–1992), literary critic, essayist and politician
  • Anton Vodnik (1901–1956), poet, art historian, and critic
  • France Vodnik (1903–1986), literary critic, essayist, translator and poet
  • Valentin Vodnik (1758–1819), poet
  • Dane Zajc (1929–2005), poet
  • Vitomil Zupan (1914–1987), writer
  • Oton Župančič (1872–1949), poet and playwright

Architects and visual artists[]

Statesmen, politicians and diplomats[]

  • Juro Adlešič (1884–1962), politician, Mayor of Ljubljana
  • Fran Albreht (1889–1963), Mayor of Ljubljana, poet
  • Andrej Bajuk (born 1942), Prime minister of Slovenia (2000)
  • Joze Brilej (1910–1981), politician, diplomat, ambassador, chief justice of the supreme court of Slovenia until his death
  • France Bučar (1923–2015), first Chairman of the Slovenian National Assembly (1990–1992)
  • Philipp von Cobenzl (1741–1810), Austrian diplomat
  • Etbin Henrik Costa (1831–1875), Politician, Mayor of Ljubljana
  • Karel Dežman (1821–1889), Mayor of Ljubljana, historian
  • Anton Füster (1808–1881), Austrian radical activist
  • Anastasius Grün (1806–1876), Austrian politician
  • Ivan Hribar (1851–1941), politician and diplomat, mayor of Ljubljana
  • Edvard Kardelj (1910–1979), Communist leader
  • Boris Kidrič (1912–1953), Communist leader
  • Ciril Kotnik (1895–1948), Yugoslav diplomat and anti-fascist hero
  • Milivoj Lajovic (1921–2008), Australian politician
  • Janez Potočnik (born 1958), European Commissioner
  • Ciril Ribičič (born 1947), politician, jurist, and author
  • Anton Rop (born 1960), politician
  • Dimitrij Rupel (born 1946), politician and writer
  • Marjan Šarec (born 1977), Slovene prime minister
  • Matjaž Šinkovec (born 1951), diplomat, author, translator and politician
  • Gregor Virant (born 1969), public servant and politician

Journalists[]

Performing artists[]

Physicians[]

  • Slavko Ziherl (1945–2012), psychiatrist

Scientists and academics[]

  • Robert Blinc (born 1933), physicist
  • Katja Boh (1929–2008), sociologist, politician and diplomat
  • Miran Božovič (born 1957), philosopher
  • Božidar Debenjak (born 1935), philosopher
  • Mladen Dolar (born 1952), philosopher
  • Joannes Disma Floriantschitsch de Grienfeld (1691–1757), Carniolan astronomer, mathematician, geographer, and cartographer
  • Bogo Grafenauer (1916–1995), historian
  • Jovan Hadži (1884–1972), zoologist
  • Hermann Haus (1925–2003), scientist
  • Peter Jambrek (born 1940), jurist, sociologist, and public intellectual
  • Taras Kermauner (1930–2008), literary historian and essayist
  • Milan Komar (1921–2006), philosopher
  • Emil Korytko (1813–1839), Polish philologist and ethnographer
  • Ernst Mally (1879–1944), philosopher
  • Vasilij Melik (1921–2009), historian
  • Tamara Griesser Pečar (born 1947), historian
  • Anton Peterlin (1908–1993), physicist
  • Fritz Pregl (1869–1930), chemist, Nobel prize winner
  • Janko Prunk (born 1942), historian
  • Rado Riha (born 1948), philosopher
  • Renata Salecl (born 1961), philosopher, sociologist, legal theorist and columnist
  • Vasko Simoniti (born 1951), historian
  • Marko Snoj (born 1959), linguist
  • Janez Strnad (born 1934), physicist and populariser of natural science
  • Gregor Tomc (born 1952), sociologist and musician
  • Milan Vidmar (1885–1962), electrical engineer, chess player and philosopher
  • Josef Kalasanz von Erberg (1771–1843), botanist, historian, and collector
  • Johann Weikhard von Valvasor (1641–1693), scholar, polymath, member of the Royal Society
  • Egon Zakrajšek (1941–2002), mathematician and computer scientist
  • Slavoj Žižek (born 1949), sociologist and philosopher
  • Sigismund Zois (1747–1819), natural scientist
  • Alenka Zupančič, philosopher

Athletes[]

People who lived in Ljubljana temporarily[]

  • Miodrag Bulatović (born 1930), Serb-Montenegrin writer
  • Carlos, Duke of Madrid (1848–1909), claimant to the Spanish throne (born in Ljubljana)
  • Eugène de Beauharnais (1781–1824), Viceroy of Italy
  • Gabriel Gruber (1740–1805), Austrian Jesuit and engineer
  • Emil Korytko (1813–1839), Polish ethnographer, philologist and translator
  • Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), Austrian composer
  • Charles Nodier (1780–1844), French author
  • Joseph Radetzky (1766–1858), Austrian general

References[]

  1. ^ Slovenia's Best for Young Readers by the Slovenian Book AgencyArchived February 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
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