List of people from Maribor

List of notable individuals who were born or lived in Maribor:

• Tomaž Barada, taekwondo athlete
• Walter Wolf, tycoon, businessman person
• Sani Bečirovič, basketball player
• Bernhard von Spanheim, founder of the city
• Fredi Bobic, German-Slovene association football player
• UrÅ¡ka Bračko, 2014 Miss Universe Slovenia
• Brigita Brezovac, IFBB professional bodybuilder
• AleÅ¡ Čeh, football player
• Mladen Dolar, philosopher
• Filip Flisar, ski cross champion
• Vekoslav Grmič, Roman Catholic bishop and theologian
• Herta Haas, Yugoslav Partisan and second wife of Josip Broz Tito
• Polona Hercog, tennis player
• Israel Isserlin, Medieval rabbi
• Jure IvanuÅ¡ič, actor and musician
• Archduke Johann of Austria, Habsburg nobleman and philanthropist
• Drago Jančar, author
• Ludmila Janovská, Czech painter; as a girl she lived for several years in Maribor, where her parents, both painters, were members of the Grohar art club
• Mima JauÅ¡ovec, female tennis player
• Kevin Kampl, football player
• Janko Kastelic, 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, football player
• Edvard Kocbek, poet, essayist, and politician
• Jana Kolarič (born 1954), author and translator.
• Katja Koren, alpine skier
• Anton KoroÅ¡ec, politician
• Luka Krajnc, football player
• Bratko Kreft, author
• Rene Krhin, football player
• Marko Letonja, conductor
• Rudolf Maister, military leader
• Janez Menart, poet and translator
• Å pelca Mladič, painter, teacher and designer; she lived and worked in Maribor for more than a decade
• Jan MurÅ¡ak, second ever Slovenian NHL hockey player
• Tomaž Pandur, stage director
• Tone Partljič, playwright, screenwriter, politician
• Matjaž Perc, physicist
• Žiga PeÅ¡ut, professional ice hockey player
• Žarko Petan, writer, essayist, theatre and film director
• Janko Pleterski, historian
• Herman Potočnik, rocket engineer and pioneer of astronautics
• Zoran Predin, singer
• Ladislaus von Rabcewicz, Austrian civil engineer
• Anton Martin SlomÅ¡ek, Roman Catholic bishop, author, poet, and advocate of Slovene culture
• Ilka Å tuhec, alpine skiing champion
• Leon Å tukelj, Olympic champion
• Luka Å ulić, cellist, member of the 2Cellos duo
• Marcos Tavares, football player
• Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Austrian admiral
• Jurij Toplak, constitutional scholar, election law expert
• Ludvik Toplak, lawyer, university rector, ambassador
• Anton Trstenjak, theologian, psychologist, essayist
• Danilo Türk, former president of Slovenia
• Prežihov Voranc, writer and political activist
• Sasha Vujačić, basketball player
• Zlatko Zahovič, association football player
• Vito Žuraj, composer