title: List of people from Maribor
text: # 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
  * Urška Bračko, 2014 Miss Universe Slovenia
  * Brigita Brezovac, IFBB professional bodybuilder
  * Aleš 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 Ivanušič, actor and musician
  * Archduke Johann of Austria, Habsburg nobleman and philanthropist
  * Drago Jančar, author
  * Mima Jaušovec, 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 Korošec, politician
  * Luka Krajnc, football player
  * Bratko Kreft, author
  * Rene Krhin, football player
  * Marko Letonja, conductor
  * Rudolf Maister, military leader
  * Janez Menart, poet and translator
  * Jan Muršak, second ever Slovenian NHL hockey player
  * Tomaž Pandur, stage director
  * Tone Partljič, playwright, screenwriter, politician
  * Matjaž Perc, physicist
  * 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 Slomšek, Roman Catholic bishop, author, poet, and advocate of Slovene culture
  * Ilka Štuhec, alpine skiing champion
  * Leon Štukelj, Olympic champion
  * Luka Šulić, 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
  