Notable Residents
- Matej Bor, poet
- Diego de Brea, theatre director
- Zvonko Fišer, State General Prosecutor of Slovenia
- Jure Franko, ski champion
- Aleš Kokot, football player
- Jimmy Mac Hayne, musician
- Branko Marušič, historian
- Tomaž Marušič, politician, former Minister of Justice of Slovenia
- Iztok Mlakar, singer-songwriter
- Borut Pahor, politician, Prime Minister of Slovenia
- Dušan Pirjevec Ahac, philosopher and literary critic
- Senko Pličanič, lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice of Slovenia
- Vojteh Ravnikar, architect
- Uroš Seljak, physicist, cosmologist
- Jani Šturm, football player
- Igor Vidmar, rock musician
- Danilo Zavrtanik, physicist and academic scholar
- Samuel Žbogar, politician and diplomat, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia
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