List Of People From Maribor

List of notable individuals who were born or lived in

Maribor Maribor ( , , , ; also known by other #Name, historical names) is the second-largest city in Slovenia and the largest city of the traditional region of Styria (Slovenia), Lower Styria. It is also the seat of the City Municipality of Maribor, th ...

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Tomaž Barada Tomaž Barada is a former Slovenian martial artist in kickboxing and taekwon-do ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean martial arts, Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicki ...

, taekwondo athlete *

Walter Wolf Walter Wolf (born 5 October 1939) is a Canadian oil-drilling equipment supplier who in the early 1970s made a fortune from the North Sea oil business and decided to join the world of Formula One (F1) motor racing. Life and career Wolf was bo ...

, tycoon, businessman person *

Sani Bečirovič Sani Bečirovič ( sh, Sani Bečirović, born 19 May 1981) is a Slovenian professional basketball coach, executive and former player, who is currently a sporting director for Cedevita Olimpija of the Slovenian League, ABA League and the EuroCup ...

, basketball player * Bernhard von Spanheim, founder of the city * Fredi Bobic, German-Slovene association football player * Urška Bračko, 2014 Miss Universe Slovenia *

Brigita Brezovac Brigita Brezovac (September 24, 1979) is a retired Slovenes, Slovenian professional bodybuilder. Early life and education Brezovac grew up Ljutomer, Slovenia. She attended the SETUAŠ school in Murska Sobota, Slovenia and the University of Mari ...

, IFBB professional bodybuilder * Aleš Čeh, football player *

Mladen Dolar Mladen Dolar (born 29 January 1951) is a Slovene philosopher, psychoanalyst, cultural theorist and film critic. Dolar was born in Maribor as the son of the literary critic Jaro Dolar. In 1978 he graduated in Philosophy and French language at ...

, philosopher * Filip Flisar, ski cross champion *

Vekoslav Grmič Vekoslav Grmič (4 June 1923 – 21 March 2005) was a Slovenian Roman Catholic bishop and theologian, known for his sympathy towards socialist ideas. Biography He was born in the Lower Styrian village of Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici in what was ...

, Roman Catholic bishop and theologian *

Herta Haas Herta Haas (29 March 1914 – 5 March 2010) was a Slovene and Yugoslav partisan during World War II and the second wife of Josip Broz Tito, leader of the partisans and a future president of Yugoslavia. Biography Haas was born 1914 in Slovens ...

, Yugoslav Partisan and second wife of

Josip Broz Tito Josip Broz ( sh-Cyrl, Јосип Броз, ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; sh-Cyrl, Тито, links=no, ), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman, serving in various positions from 1943 until his deat ...

* Polona Hercog, tennis player *

Israel Isserlin Israel Isserlin (ישראל איסרלן; Israel Isserlein ben Petachia; 1390 in Maribor, Duchy of Styria – 1460 in Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria) was a Talmudist, and Halakhist, best known for his ''Terumat HaDeshen'', which served as one ...

, Medieval rabbi *

Jure Ivanušič Jure Ivanušič (born 24 March 1973 in Maribor) is a Slovene theatre and film actor, director, playwright, concert pianist, composer, chansonnier and translator. He studied drama at the Ljubljana Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television ...

, actor and musician *

Archduke Johann of Austria Archduke John of Austria (german: Erzherzog Johann Baptist Joseph Fabian Sebastian von Österreich; 20 January 1782 – 11 May 1859), a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, was an Austrian field marshal and imperial regent (''Reichsverwes ...

, Habsburg nobleman and philanthropist * Drago Jančar, author * Mima Jaušovec, female tennis player *

Kevin Kampl Kevin Kampl (born 9 October 1990) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig. Born in Germany, he has represented the Slovenia national team at international level. Besides Germany, he has played in Au ...

, football player *

Janko Kastelic Janko Kastelic (born 10 January 1969) is a Canada, Canadian–Slovenes, Slovene conducting, conductor who was from September 2008 until June 2011 the music director for the Opera House of Maribor, Slovenia. Biography Born in Ljubljana, capital ...

, conductor and music director * Matjaž Kek, association football player and manager * Maja Keuc, singer who represented Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 *

Aleksander Knavs Aleksander Knavs (born 5 December 1975) is a Slovenian retired football defender. Club career Knavs was born in Maribor and started his professional career playing at the club Olimpija from the Slovenian capital city of Ljubljana in 1993. He ...

, football player * Edvard Kocbek, poet, essayist, and politician *

Jana Kolarič Jana Kolarič (born 17 September 1954) is a Slovene author and translator. She is the author of plays and novels for both children and adults, and has been recognised as an exceptional artist by the Ministry of Culture. She has won a number of lit ...

(born 1954), author and translator. * Katja Koren, alpine skier * Anton Korošec, politician *

Luka Krajnc Luka Krajnc (born 19 September 1994) is a Slovenian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Hannover 96. Club career Krajnc began his football career at the age of eight when his father took him on a trial with the Slovenian footba ...

, football player *

Bratko Kreft Bratko Kreft ( Maribor, 11 February 1905 – 17 July 1996, Ljubljana) was a Slovenian playwright, writer, literary and theater historian and director. Biography He grew up in Prlekija. He studied Slavic Studies in Vienna and Ljubljana. In Ljub ...

, author * Rene Krhin, football player *

Marko Letonja Marko Letonja (born 12 August 1961) is a Slovenian conductor. Biography Letonja studied piano and conducting at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, where his conducting teachers included Anton Nanut. He continued his conducting studies at the ...

, conductor * Rudolf Maister, military leader * Janez Menart, poet and translator *

Jan Muršak Jan Muršak (born 20 January 1988) is a professional Slovenian ice hockey player for Frölunda HC of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Muršak first played hockey in Slovenia as a member of HDK Maribor before he left to spend one season in the Cz ...

, second ever Slovenian NHL hockey player *

Tomaž Pandur Tomaž Pandur (19 February 1963 – 12 April 2016) was a Slovenian theatre director. Career as a director In Slovenia As a student of Maribor Grammar School No. 1 he established his own theatre group "Tespisov voz – Novo slovensko gledališč ...

, stage director *

Tone Partljič Tone Partljič (born 5 August 1940) is a Slovene writer, playwright and politician. Between 1990 and 2004 he was a member of the Slovenian National Assembly, from 1994 as a member of the LDS party. He was also president of the Slovene Writers' ...

, playwright, screenwriter, politician * Matjaž Perc, physicist *

Žarko Petan image:Žarko Petan (2007).jpg, Žarko Petan Žarko Petan (27 March 1929 – 2 May 2014) was a Slovenian writer, essayist, screenwriter, and theatre and film director. He is best known as a writer of aphorisms. Petan was born into a relatively wea ...

, writer, essayist, theatre and film director *

Janko Pleterski Janko Pleterski (1 February 1923 – 8 June 2018) was a Slovenian historian, politician and diplomat. He was born on 1 February 1923 in Maribor, Slovenia, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He attended high school in Ljublj ...

, historian *

Herman Potočnik Herman Potočnik (pseudonym Hermann Noordung; 22 December 1892 – 27 August 1929) was an ethnically Slovenian Austro-Hungarian Army officer, electrical engineer and astronautics theorist. He is regarded as a pioneer and visionary of modern space f ...

, rocket engineer and pioneer of astronautics *

Zoran Predin Zoran Predin (born 16 June 1958) is a Slovenian singer-songwriter from Maribor. In the 1980s, he was the front man of the new wave rock band ''Lačni Franz''. He also writes music for film, television, and theatre. In the late 1990s and early 20 ...

, singer *

Ladislaus von Rabcewicz Ladislaus von Rabcewicz (June 12, 1893 in Kungota, nearby Maribor – December 19, 1975) was an Austrian engineer and university professor at the Vienna University of Technology. He is notable for being one of three men who developed the Ne ...

, Austrian civil engineer * Anton Martin Slomšek, Roman Catholic bishop, author, poet, and advocate of Slovene culture * Ilka Štuhec, alpine skiing champion *

Leon Štukelj Leon Štukelj (; 12 November 1898 – 8 November 1999) was a Slovene professional gymnast. He was an Olympic gold medalist and athlete who represented Yugoslavia at the Olympics. He is a noted figure in Slovenian sporting history. Štukelj is o ...

, Olympic champion * Luka Šulić, cellist, member of the

2Cellos 2CELLOS (stylized 2CΞLLOS) were a Croatian cellist duo, consisting of classically trained cellists Luka Šulić and Stjepan Hauser. Signed to Sony Masterworks since 2011, they released six albums. They played instrumental arrangements of well ...

duo * Marcos Tavares, football player * Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Austrian admiral *

Jurij Toplak Jurij Toplak (born 1977) is a constitutional scholar, university administrator, election law, and human rights expert. He is a recurring visiting professor at the Fordham University School of Law in New York. From 2016 to 2022 he served as the p ...

, constitutional scholar, election law expert * Ludvik Toplak, lawyer, university rector, ambassador *

Anton Trstenjak Anton Trstenjak (8 January 1906 – 29 September 1996) was Slovene psychologist, theologian, and author. He is notable as a pioneer of Slovenian clinical psychology and was practicing his own Logotherapy-inspired psychotherapy. As author he wrot ...

, theologian, psychologist, essayist * Danilo Türk, former president of Slovenia *

Prežihov Voranc Prežihov Voranc (10 August 1893 – 18 February 1950) was the pen name of Lovro Kuhar, a Slovene writer and communist political activist. Voranc's literary reputation was established during the 1930s with a series of Slovene novels and short ...

, writer and political activist *

Sasha Vujačić Aleksander "Sasha" Vujačić ( sr-Cyrl, Александар Саша Вујачић; sl, Aleksander Saša Vujačič; often rendered in English as without diacritics; born March 8, 1984) is a Slovenian former professional basketball player. He ...

, basketball player *

Zlatko Zahovič Zlatko Zahovič (; born 1 February 1971) is a Slovenian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. After making a name for himself in Europe in Portugal, most notably with Porto and Benfica where he amassed Primeira L ...

, association football player {{Maribor