100 Notable alumni of
University of Ljubljana
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The University of Ljubljana is 269th in the world, 93rd in Europe, and 1st in Slovenia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Ljubljana sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Slavoj Žižek
- Enrolled in the University of Ljubljana
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in philosophy
- Occupations
- opinion journalistpoliticiancultural studies scholarsociologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian Marxist philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual.
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Aleksander Čeferin
- Occupations
- lawyersports official
- Biography
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Aleksander Čeferin is a Slovenian lawyer and football administrator. Between 2011 and 2016, he was president of the Football Association of Slovenia. Since September 2016, he has been the president of UEFA.
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Janez Janša
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ivan Janša, baptized and best known as Janez Janša ( Slovene: [ˈjàːnɛs]), is a Slovenian politician who served three times as a prime minister of Slovenia, a position he had held from 2004 to 2008, from 2012 to 2013, and from 2020 to 2022. Since 1993, Janša has led the Slovenian Democratic Party, which has emerged as the pre-eminent Slovenian conservative party. Janša lost his fourth bid for prime minister in April 2022, his party was defeated by the Freedom Movement party.
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Borut Pahor
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Borut Pahor is a Slovenian politician who served as President of Slovenia from 2012 to 2022. He previously served as Prime Minister of Slovenia from 2008 to 2012.
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Robert Golob
- Enrolled in the University of Ljubljana
- Graduated with doctorate in electrical engineering
- Occupations
- politicianelectrical engineer
- Biography
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Robert Golob is a Slovenian businessman and politician, serving as Prime Minister of Slovenia and leader of the Freedom Movement since 2022.
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Katarina Čas
- Occupations
- television presenterfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Katarina Čas is a Slovene actress.
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Milan Kučan
- Occupations
- political commissarpoliticianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Milan Kučan is a Slovenian former politician who served as the first President of Slovenia from 1991 to 2002. Before being president of Slovenia, he was the 13th President of the Presidency of SR Slovenia from 1990 to 1991.
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Nataša Pirc Musar
- Occupations
- public relations officerpoliticianjuristjournalist
- Biography
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Nataša Pirc Musar is a Slovenian attorney and author who has served since 2022 as the 5th president of Slovenia. She is the former information commissioner (2004–2014), a former journalist, and former president of the Slovenian Red Cross (2015–2016).
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Janez Drnovšek
- Enrolled in the University of Ljubljana
- In 1973 studied economics
- Occupations
- politicianwriterbusinesspersonpolitical commissarbanker
- Biography
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Janez Drnovšek was a Slovenian liberal politician, President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia (1989–1990), Prime Minister of Slovenia (1992–2002, with a short break in 2000) and President of Slovenia (2002–2007).
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Marjan Šarec
- Occupations
- politiciantelevision actorjournalistcomedian
- Biography
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Marjan Šarec is a Slovenian politician, actor and comedian who served as Prime Minister of Slovenia from 2018 to 2020. He also served as the Minister of Defence in the government of Prime Minister Robert Golob from June 2022 to July 2024 when he was elected to the European Parliament.
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Miro Cerar
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherlawyeraccordionistjurist
- Biography
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Miroslav Cerar Jr. is a Slovenian law professor and politician. He was Prime Minister of Slovenia, leading the 12th Government. He served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in the 13th Government. He is a full professor at the Chair of Theory and Sociology of Law at the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Law.
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Jela Krečič
- Occupations
- opinion journalistjournalistphilosopher
- Biography
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Jela Krečič Žižek is a Slovenian writer and journalist.
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Stane Dolanc
- Occupations
- political commissarpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Stane Dolanc was a Slovenian communist politician during SFR Yugoslavia. Dolanc was one of president Josip Broz Tito's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in Yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s. He was secretary of the Executive Bureau of the Presidency of the Central Committee (CC) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY) from 1971 to 1978, federal Secretary of the Interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989. He was regularly appointed a member of the Federal Council for Protection of the Constitutional Order and was chairing the body in late 1980s.
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Matjaž Kek
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Matjaž Kek is a Slovenian professional football manager and former player who is the manager of the Slovenia national team.
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Danilo Türk
- Occupations
- politicianhistoriandiplomatjuristuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Danilo Türk is a Slovenian diplomat, professor of international law, human rights expert, and political figure who served as President of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012. He was the first Slovene ambassador to the United Nations, from 1992 to 2000, and was the UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs from 2000 to 2005.
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Ivo Vajgl
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistdiplomat
- Biography
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Ivo Vajgl is a Slovenian politician and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Slovenia. In his second term in the European Parliament he was a member of DeSUS and an individual member of the European Democratic Party (EDP), while in the European Parliament he was a member of the ALDE Group. He has announced his candidacy in the 2022 Slovenian presidential election.
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Zoran Janković
- Occupations
- entrepreneurpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Zoran Janković is a Slovenian businessman and politician serving as Mayor of Ljubljana since April 2012. He previously served as mayor from 2006 to 2011.
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Lojze Peterle
- Occupations
- political commissarpoliticiandiplomat
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Alojz "Lojze" Peterle is a Slovenian politician. He is a member of New Slovenia, part of the European People's Party. He served as Prime Minister of Slovenia from 1990 to 1992, Leader of the Christian Democrats from the founding of the party in 1990 until it merged with the Slovenian People's Party in 2000, and was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1994 and again in 2000. He was a Member of the National Assembly from 1996 to 2004, and a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2019.
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Tone Pavček
- Occupations
- editorlinguistpoetwritertranslator
- Biography
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Tone Pavček was one of the most influential Slovene poets, translators, and essayists from the first post-war generation. He published numerous collections of poetry, well received by readers and critics alike. He also translated a number of Russian works into Slovene.
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Alenka Bratušek
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Alenka Bratušek is a Slovenian politician, who was the Prime Minister of Slovenia from March 2013 until May 2014 as the first woman in Slovenia to hold this position. She was president pro tempore of the Positive Slovenia party from January 2013 until April 2014. On 5 May 2014, Bratušek submitted her resignation as prime minister.
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Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova
- Occupations
- professorpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova is a Macedonian university law professor and jurist serving as the 6th president of North Macedonia since May 2024. She was a candidate for the 2019 presidential elections, losing to Stevo Pendarovski in the runoff. She ran again in the 2024 presidential elections and defeated Pendarovski by a landslide in a rematch election. She is North Macedonia's first female president.
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Vladimir Bartol
- Years
- 1903-1967 (aged 64)
- Occupations
- writerplaywrightnovelistessayist
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Vladimir Bartol was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel Alamut, the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has been translated into numerous languages.
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Tanja Fajon
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Tanja Fajon is a Slovenian politician, former leader of Social Democrats, part of the Party of European Socialists and former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Slovenia. She has been serving as the minister of foreign and european affairs in the government of Prime Minister Robert Golob since 1 June 2022.
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Svetlana Makarovič
- Occupations
- writerchildren's writeractorstage actorsinger
- Biography
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Svetlana Makarovič is a Slovenian writer of prose, poetry, children's books, and picture books, and is also an actress, illustrator and chanteuse. She has been called "The First Lady of Slovenian poetry." She is also noted for borrowing from Slovenian folklore to tell stories of rebellious and independent women. She is well-known adult and youth author. Her works for youth have become a part of modern classic and youth canon, which both hold a special place in history of the Slovenian youth literature. She won the Levstik Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2011.
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Nikola Šainović
- Enrolled in the University of Ljubljana
- In 1977 graduated with magister degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nikola Šainović is a Serbian politician. A close associate of Slobodan Milošević, he held several important state functions of Serbia and FR Yugoslavia during the 1990s. He has been a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia since the party's foundation.
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Klemen Slakonja
- Occupations
- actortelevision producertelevision presenterimpressionistcomedian
- Biography
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Klemen Slakonja is a Slovenian actor, singer, comedian, television host, and musician. He was employed at the Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Drama and acting between 2010 to 2018. He is set to represent Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 with the song "How Much Time Do We Have Left".
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Renata Salecl
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterphilosophersociologist
- Biography
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Renata Salecl is a Slovene philosopher, sociologist and legal theorist. She is a senior researcher at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana, and holds a professorship at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has been a visiting professor at London School of Economics, lecturing on the topic of emotions and law. Every year she lectures at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (New York), on Psychoanalysis and Law, and she has also been teaching courses on neuroscience and law. Since 2012 she has been visiting professor at the Department of Social Science, Heath and Medicine at King's College London. Her books have been translated into fifteen languages. In 2017, she was elected as a member of the Slovene Academy of Science.
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Luka Mesec
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Luka Mesec is a Slovenian politician and activist who has been the leader of the eco-socialist The Left party since June 2017. Mesec was elected to the Slovenian National Assembly for the first time at the 2014 parliamentary election, and reelected at the 2018 parliamentary election. He is the coordinator of the Council of the Initiative for Democratic Socialism, Labour-Punk University, and its successor, the Institute for Labour Studies.
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Niko Grafenauer
- Occupations
- translatorpoetessayistliterary historianlinguist
- Biography
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Niko Grafenauer is a Slovenian poet, essayist, literary historian, editor and translator. He is particularly known as author of popular children literature, and for his active participation in the Slovenian public life, especially in conservative and liberal conservative platforms.
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Violeta Bulc
- Occupations
- politicianbasketball playerbusinesspersonentrepreneur
- Biography
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Violeta Bulc is a Slovenian politician who served as the European Commissioner for Transport from 2014 to 2019.
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Edvard Kocbek
- Occupations
- politicianpartisanlinguistpolitical commissarwriter
- Biography
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Edvard Kocbek was a Slovenian Yugoslav poet, writer, essayist, translator, member of Christian Socialists in the Liberation Front of the Slovene Nation and Slovene Partisans. He is considered one of the best authors who have written in Slovene, and one of the best Slovene poets after Prešeren. His political role during and after World War II made him one of the most controversial figures in Slovenia in the 20th century.
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Feri Lainšček
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriterplaywrightpoet
- Biography
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Feri Lainšček is a Slovenian writer, poet, and screenwriter.
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Boris A. Novak
- Occupations
- translatordramaturgeplaywrightchildren's writereditor
- Biography
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Boris A. Novak, full name Boris Ante Novak, is a Slovene poet, dramaturge and editor.
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Mitja Ribičič
- Occupations
- political commissarpoliticianpartisan
- Biography
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Mitja Ribičič was a Slovenian and Yugoslav communist politician. He was the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia—the only Slovenian to hold the office—from 1969 to 1971.
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Milan Brglez
- Occupations
- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Milan Brglez is a Slovenian political scientist and politician who served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Slovenia from 2014 to 2018. He has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019. A member of the Social Democrats, part of the Party of European Socialists, Brglez was a candidate in the 2022 presidential election.
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Milan Vidmar
- Occupations
- philosopherwriternon-fiction writerelectrical engineeruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Milan Vidmar was a Slovenian electrical engineer, chess player, chess theorist, and writer. He was among the top dozen chess players in the world from 1910 to 1930 and in 1950, was among the inaugural recipients of the title International Grandmaster from FIDE. Vidmar was a specialist in power transformers and transmission of electric current.
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Karl Erjavec
- Occupations
- politicianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Karl Viktor Erjavec is a Slovenian lawyer and politician who served in the government of Slovenia as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2012 to 2018. He was the president of the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia, having held the position from 2005 to January 2020 and again from December 2020 until March 2021. He was Minister of Defense from 2004 to 2008 and 2018 to 2020 and Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning from 2008 to 2010.
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Vinko Möderndorfer
- Occupations
- film directortheatrical directorpoettelevision directorchildren's writer
- Biography
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Vinko Möderndorfer is a Slovene writer, poet, playwright and theatre and film director.
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Peter Čeferin
- Occupations
- politicianjournalistplaywrightjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Peter Čeferin is a Slovenian attorney and the author of articles on issues related to the legal profession (specifically the position and profession of practicing attorneys). He is the father of Aleksander Čeferin, the current president of UEFA and FIFA council member.
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Tomaž Šalamun
- Occupations
- writerart historianpoet
- Biography
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Tomaž Šalamun was a Slovenian poet who was a leading figure of postwar neo-avant-garde poetry in Central Europe and an internationally acclaimed absurdist. His more than 50 books of Slovene poetry have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. His work has been called a poetic bridge between old European roots and America. Šalamun was a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He lived in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and was married to the painter Metka Krašovec.
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Mladen Dolar
- Occupations
- philosopheruniversity teacherpsychoanalyst
- Biography
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Mladen Dolar is a Slovene philosopher, psychoanalyst, cultural theorist and film critic.
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Manca Košir
- Occupations
- philologistpoliticianopinion journalistfilm actorsociologist
- Biography
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Manca Košir was a Slovenian journalist, philologist, politician, and film actress. She began her career as a film actress and a mathematics instructor. She then began to work as a journalist, while also studying journalism academically, as a professor of journalism studies and the chair of the journalism department at The University of Ljubljana. She was one of the first people in Slovenia to engage in the academic study of journalism. In 2011, she co-founded the political party Movement for Sustainable Development of Slovenia (sl), and was elected as the party's first president.
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Matej Tonin
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Matej Tonin is a Slovenian politician.
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Mitja Okorn
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Mitja Okorn is a Slovenian film director and screenwriter. Most known as director of Letters to Santa, Planet Single and his Hollywood debut Life in a Year.
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Miha Baloh
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
- Biography
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Miha Baloh was a Slovene actor. He started participating in local theatre productions after the Second World War and eventually enrolled in the AGRFT in Ljubljana, from where he graduated in 1952. In 1953, he began collaboration with the Permanent Slovene Theatre in Trieste. There he worked with the director Jože Babič who also offered him his first major film role. From 1967, he also worked on international productions on projects such as the Austrian TV comedy series Leni, German films on Winnetou and a French-German series on Omer Pasha. He continued to work in the theatre throughout his career.
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Aleksandra Pivec
- Enrolled in the University of Ljubljana
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Aleksandra Pivec is a Slovenian chemical engineer and politician who served as the country's Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food from 2018 to 2020 and Deputy Prime Minister from March to October 2020.
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Anton Vratuša
- Occupations
- ambassadoruniversity teacherpoliticiandiplomatslavist
- Biography
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Anton Vratuša was a Slovenian politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Slovenia from 1978 to 1980, and Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United Nations.
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Goran Vojnović
- Occupations
- film directorjournalistscreenwriterpoetdirector
- Biography
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Goran Vojnović is a Slovenian writer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his 2008 novel Southern Scum Go Home (Slovene: Čefurji raus!) which won him numerous awards as well as a lawsuit filed by the Slovenian Police that was withdrawn a day later after media attention and public outrage at police filing charges for a work of fiction brought embarrassment to the Slovenian Ministry of Interior.
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Jelko Kacin
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- politician
- Biography
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Jelko Kacin is a Slovenian politician.
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Peter Bossman
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- mayorpoliticianphysician
- Biography
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Peter Bossman is a Ghanaian-born Slovenian physician and politician. He was mayor of Piran, a city and municipality in Slovenian Istria in south-western Slovenia. A member of the centre-left Social Democrats, he defeated the incumbent mayor Tomaž Gantar in the October 2010 mayoral election to become Slovenia's first black mayor. In 2011 he was also appointed to the Committee of the Regions of the European Union.
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Dimitrij Rupel
- Occupations
- editorpoliticianplaywrightliterary historianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Dimitrij Rupel is a Slovenian politician.
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Janez Lenarčič
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Janez Lenarčič is a Slovenian diplomat who has been serving as European Commissioner for Crisis Management in the First von der Leyen Commission 2019–2024. He is a former director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights within the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
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Spomenka Hribar
- Occupations
- essayistpoliticianwritersociologistcolumnist
- Biography
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Spomenka Hribar is a Slovenian author, philosopher, sociologist, politician, columnist, and public intellectual. She was one of the most influential Slovenian intellectuals in the 1980s, and was frequently called "the First Lady of Slovenian Democratic Opposition", and "the Voice of Slovenian Spring" She is married to the Slovenian Heideggerian philosopher Tine Hribar.
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Jure Leskovec
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 45)
- Occupations
- university teachercomputer scientistacademicentrepreneur
- Biography
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Jure Leskovec is a Slovenian-American computer scientist, entrepreneur and associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University focusing on networks. He was the chief scientist at Pinterest and co-founder / chief scientist AI graph-ML startup Kumo.
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Miki Muster
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- film directorcomics artistillustratorjournalistanimator
- Biography
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Nikolaj Muster, known as Miki Muster, was a Slovenian academic sculptor, illustrator, cartoonist, and animator. He is viewed as a pioneer in the field of comics and animation in Slovenia, known for the series of comics featuring the characters Zvitorepec, Trdonja, and Lakotnik, and animated TV commercials.
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Kajetan Kovič
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- translatorwriterchildren's writerlinguistjournalist
- Biography
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Kajetan Kovič was a Slovene poet, writer, translator, and journalist. In 1978, he received the Prešeren Award, the highest artistic award in Slovenia, for his poetry collection Labrador.
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Fran Saleški Finžgar
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- editorCatholic priestplaywrightlinguistwriter
- Biography
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Fran Saleški Finžgar was perhaps the most popular Slovene folk writer. He is particularly known for his novels and short stories, although he also wrote poems and plays.
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Aleš Hojs
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- politiciancivil engineer
- Biography
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Aleš Hojs is a Slovenian politician, who most recently served as the Minister of the Interior in 14th Government of Slovenia from March 2020 to June 2022. Prior to this, he served as the Minister of Defence from February 2012 to March 2013.
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Aleš Debeljak
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- editorliterary criticwritertranslatorcultural critic
- Biography
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Aleš Debeljak was a Slovenian cultural critic, poet, and essayist.
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Bina Štampe Žmavc
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- directorpoetwritertranslatorchildren's writer
- Biography
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Bina Štampe Žmavc is a Slovene writer, poet, director and translator.
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Miša Molk
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- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Miša Molk is a Slovenian journalist and television personality. Her professional career has always been tied to the television business and RTV Slovenija.
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Miško Kranjec
- Enrolled in the University of Ljubljana
- Studied in 1930-1934
- Occupations
- politicianprose writerwriterplaywrightopinion journalist
- Biography
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Miško Kranjec, baptized Mihály Krányecz, was a Slovene writer.
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Vitomil Zupan
- Occupations
- essayistscreenwriterwriterplaywrightliterary
- Biography
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Vitomil Zupan was a post-World War II modernist Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor. Because of his detailed descriptions of sex and violence, he was dubbed the Slovene Hemingway and was compared to Henry Miller. He is best known for Menuet za kitaro (A Minuet for Guitar, 1975), describing the years he spent with the Slovene Partisans. In Titoist Yugoslavia he was sentenced to 18 years in a show trial, and upon his release in 1955 his works could only be published under his pseudonym Langus. He is considered one of the most important Slovene writers.
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Polde Bibič
- Occupations
- actorfilm actoruniversity teacherstage actorwriter
- Biography
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Polde Bibič was a Slovenian stage and film actor, a writer, and an academic professor, best known for his role in the film Flowers in Autumn and his work in theater, Bibič was a recipient of several top awards in the field of arts in Slovenia.
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Anton Rop
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Anton Rop is a Slovenian politician. He was Prime Minister of Slovenia, from 2002 to 2004. Until 2005 he was also the president of the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberalna Demokracija Slovenije – LDS), the legal successor of the Slovenian Association of Socialist Youth. On 20 March 2007 he left the party and joined the Social Democrats. In 2010, he was appointed a vice-president of the European Investment Bank.
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Tomaž Pandur
- Occupations
- theatre managertheatrical director
- Biography
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Tomaž Pandur was a Slovenian theatre director.
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Janez Menart
- Occupations
- translatorpoetscreenwriterdirectorlinguist
- Biography
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Janez Menart was a Slovene poet, best known for his Intimist poetry. He translated a number of classic French and English poetry and drama works into Slovene, including Shakespeare's sonnets.
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Dušan Jovanović
- Occupations
- directorwritertheatrical directorplaywrighttheatre manager
- Biography
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Dušan Jovanović was a Slovene theatre director, playwright and essayist, known for his experimental and grotesque satirical theatre. Since 2005 he was also the president of the Prešeren Foundation.
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Iztok Mlakar
- Occupations
- composersinger-songwriterrecording artistactor
- Biography
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Iztok Mlakar is a Slovenian singer-songwriter and theatre actor. Styled as the "bard of the Slovenian Littoral", he is best known for his ironic chansons in the Littoral dialect of Slovene. Together with Adi Smolar, Mlakar is among the best-known singer-songwriters in Slovenia since 1990.
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Dejan Jović
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Dejan Jović is a political scientist from Croatia. He is a full-time professor at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb. From 2012 to 2020, Jović was editor-in-chief of the Croatian Political Science Review, one of the leading academic journals of political science and social science in Southeast Europe. He is also one of the founders and editor-in-chief of the peer reviewed journal Tragovi: Journal for Serbian and Croatian Topics published by the Serb National Council and the Archive of Serbs in Croatia.
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Janez Potočnik
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianeconomistminister
- Biography
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Janez Potočnik is a Slovenian politician who served as European Commissioner for Environment from 2009 until 2014. He was formerly Slovenia's Minister for European Affairs. In November 2014, he became co-chair of the International Resource Panel (IRP), a forum of scientists and experts working on natural resources management.
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Edvard Ravnikar
- Occupations
- opinion journalistuniversity teacherart criticarchitecturban planner
- Biography
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Edvard Ravnikar was a Slovenian architect.
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Ciril Zlobec
- Occupations
- translatorpoliticianwriterlinguistopinion journalist
- Biography
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Ciril Zlobec was a Slovene poet, writer, translator, journalist and former politician. He is best remembered for his poems, publishing several volumes of poetry in his lifetime. In 1990 he became a member of the Presidency of Slovenia at a critical time for Slovene independence.
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Katarina Kresal
- Occupations
- politicianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Katarina Kresal is a Slovenian politician. She was the Minister of the Interior in the government of Borut Pahor from 24 November 2008 till 19 August 2011.
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Violeta Tomič
- Occupations
- actorfilm actortelevision presenterstage actorpolitician
- Biography
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Violeta Tomić, sometimes known in Slovenian as Violeta Tomič is a Slovenian television presenter and actress, serving as a deputy in the National Assembly. A member of Party Our Future, founded by Ivan Gale. She was chosen as the lead candidate of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group ahead of the 2019 European Parliament election but was not elected.
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Bojan Adamič
- Occupations
- photographerfilm score composerconductorcomposerpianist
- Biography
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Bojan Adamič a.k.a. Master, Slovene Partisans nom de guerre Gregor, was a well-known Slovene composer of jazz, the Slovenian song festival music, and particularly film scores. He was also an avid photographer, interested particularly in carnival figures from Ptuj.
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Andrej Rozman-Roza
- Occupations
- playwrightactorpoetwritertranslator
- Biography
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Andrej Rozman is a Slovene poet, writer, actor, and street theatre producer. He writes poems and creates plays for children and also writes satirical poetry for adults.
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Franci Petek
- Occupations
- geographerski jumper
- Biography
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Franci Petek is a Slovenian former ski jumper and geographer who represented Yugoslavia during his ski jumping career.
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Miha Mazzini
- Occupations
- film actorscreenwriterfilm directoropinion journalistcolumnist
- Biography
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Miha Mazzini is a Slovenian writer, screenwriter and film director with thirty published books, translated in ten languages. He has a PhD in anthropology from the Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis and has MA in Creative Writing for Film and Television at the University of Sheffield. He is a voting member of the European Film Academy.
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Romana Tomc
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Romana Tomc is a Slovenian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Slovenia. She is a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party, part of the European People's Party.
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Peter Lovšin
- Occupations
- pop singerediting staffcomposerlyricistjournalist
- Biography
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Peter "Pero" Lovšin is a Slovenian musician, songwriter and singer, best known as a frontman of the first Yugoslav punk rock group Pankrti. After a period with Pankrti in the 1980s, he formed a successful rock band Sokoli and later continued with a great solo career.
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Jonas Žnidaršič
- Occupations
- actorradio personalitymusiciantelevision presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Jonas Žnidaršič is a Slovenian television personality and journalist. He is best known for hosting the Slovenian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. He has appeared on Late Night Poker in Great Britain.
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Mitja Ferenc
- Occupations
- university teacherhistoriansinger
- Biography
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Mitja Ferenc is a Slovenian historian, educator, and author.
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Nina Ivanišin
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- stage actorfilm actor
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Nina Ivanišin is a Slovenian film and theatre actress. She was born in 1985 in Maribor, Slovenia. She graduated from Ljubljana Film and Theatre Academy.
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Igor Bavčar
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- politicianeconomistpolitical scientist
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Igor Bavčar is a Slovenian politician and manager. He rose to prominence during the Slovenian spring, when he served as chairman of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, the largest independent civil society movement in the Socialist Republic of Slovenia. He was the Slovenian Minister of Interior during the Slovenian war of independence in June 1991, and coordinated Slovenian defence forces together with the Minister of Defence Janez Janša. He remained one of the most influential political figures in Slovenia until 1992, and remained an important member of the political establishment until 2002, when he left politics to engage in the private sector.
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Matej Bor
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- partisanjournalistmilitary officerlinguistwriter
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Matej Bor was the pen name of Vladimir Pavšič, who was a Slovene poet, translator, playwright, journalist and Partisan.
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Alojz Rebula
- Occupations
- translatorpoetphilologistwriterbiblical scholar
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Alojz Rebula was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, and translator, and a prominent member of the Slovene minority in Italy. He lived and worked in Villa Opicina in the Province of Trieste, Italy. He was a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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Dejan Židan
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- veterinarianpolitician
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Dejan Židan is a Slovenian politician, former leader of the Social Democrats, and the former speaker of the National Assembly of Slovenia.
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Slavko Pregl
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- editorwriterpublisherediting staff
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Slavko Pregl, full name Vekoslav Pregl, is a Slovene writer, editor and publisher best known for his youth literature. He is the current director of the Slovenian Book Agency.
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Karmen Stavec
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Karmen Stavec is a Slovene musician and pop singer.
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Hasan Muratović
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- entrepreneurpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Hasan Muratović was a Bosnian politician, entrepreneur and professor who served as the last Prime Minister of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1996 to 1997. He also served as Minister without portfolio in all of the governments of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina throughout the Bosnian War. Muratović was the first post-war Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations, serving from 1997 to 1999. He was a member of the Party of Democratic Action.
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Ela Peroci
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- writerjournalistchildren's writer
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Ela Peroci was a Slovene children's writer, author of numerous children's stories that are considered classics in Slovene children's literature. Her best known story is Muca Copatarica (Slipper Keeper Kitty), illustrated by Ančka Gošnik Godec, which has seen numerous reprints and has sold over 140,000 copies.
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Ivan Sivec
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- opinion journalistwriterethnologistslavistlyricist
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Ivan Sivec is a Slovenian writer, author, lyricist and storyteller. He lives and works in Mengeš.
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Eva Irgl
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- columnistpoliticiantelevision presentertheologian
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Eva Irgl is a Slovenian politician and former TV host, currently serving as member of the Slovenian National Assembly.
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Irena Grafenauer
- Occupations
- musicianflautist
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Irena Grafenauer is a Slovenian flute player and soloist, a pupil of Boris Čampa, Karlheinz Zöller and Aurèle Nicolet.
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Janez Zemljarič
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- political commissarpoliticianjurist
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Janez Zemljarič was a Yugoslavian Slovenian politician who served as the president of the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia from July 1980 to 23 May 1984.
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Igor Šoltes
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- politicianjuristlawyerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Igor Šoltes is a Slovenian lawyer and politician.
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Žarko Petan
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- theatrical directorscreenwriteraphoristfilm directorjournalist
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Žarko Petan was a Slovenian writer, essayist, screenwriter, and theatre and film director. He is best known as a writer of aphorisms.
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Ivan Jurkovič
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- Catholic priestuniversity teachertheologian
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Ivan Jurkovič is a Slovenian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Apostolic Nuncio to Canada since June 2021. He has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1984 and previously served as the Nuncio to Belarus, Ukraine, Russia and Uzbekistan.
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Zlatko Šugman
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actorstage actoractor
- Biography
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Zlatko Šugman was one of Slovenia's best known theater, television and film actors.
