Politicians
- Leo von Caprivi (1831–1899) – was a German major general and statesman who served as German Chancellor from March 1890 to October 1894 (His family (original surname Kopriva) was of Slovenian and Italian origin)
- Vladko Maček (1879–1964) – Croatian politician of Slovene origin from the first half of the 20th century. He led the Croatian Peasant Party (HSS)
- Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980) – president of the Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia between 1945 and 1980 (son of a Croat father, Franjo Broz, and a Slovenian mother, Marija Javeršek)
- George Voinovich – US Senator – Fmr. Governor of Ohio and Mayor of Cleveland – (Slovenian Mother)
- Edvard Kardelj Sperans (1910–1979) – prewar communist, politician, statesman and publicist.
- Boris Kidrič (1912–1953) – communist, politician, statesman and economist.
- Frank Lausche – Fmr. US Senator, Governor of Ohio & Mayor of Cleveland
- James Oberstar – US Representative from Minnesota
- John Blatnik – Fmr. US Congressman
- Tom Harkin – US Senator
- Leonard J. Bodack – Fmr. Pennsylvania State Senator
- Tanya Plibersek – Australian politician – House of Representatives
- Walter Veltroni (1955–) – Mayor of Rome (Slovenian mother)
- Anton Vratuša (1915–) – politician and diplomat, who was the Prime Minister of Slovenia from 1978–80 and of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, also its ambassador to the United Nations
- Aleš Bebler (1907–1981) – diplomat, communist, politician and lawyer.
- Amy Jean Klobuchar (1960–) – United States Senator from Minnesota.
- Anton Korošec (1872–1940), prominent Yugoslav politician.
- Milan Kučan (1941–) – 1st and 2nd president of independent Slovenia 1991–2002.
- Ivan Maček Matija (1908–1993) – communist, chief of secret police, responsible for many killings of civils after second world war.
- Miha Marinko (1900–1983) – Secretary of the central committee of the communist party of Slovenia, president of the peoples assembly, prime minister of former peoples socialist republic of Slovenia (1947–1991).
- Lojze Peterle (1948–) – 1st prime minister of independent Slovenia.
- Antal Rogán (1973–) – Hungarian politician of Hungarian Slovenian descent, mayor of Budapest's Inner City.
- Andrej Bajuk (1943–2011) – 3rd prime minister of independent Slovenia.
- Anton Rop (1960–) – 4th prime minister of independent Slovenia.
- Janez Drnovšek (1950–2008) – 2nd prime minister of independent Slovenia, 3rd president of Slovenia 2003–2008.
- Janez Janša (1958–) – 5th prime minister of independent Slovenia.
- Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti (1948–) – leader of the Slovenian national party (SNS).
- Gregorij Rožman (1883–1959) – Bishop of Ljubljana (1930–1945), collaborator with Italian and German occupying forces during the Second World War.
- Danilo Türk (1952–) – President elect of Slovenia
- France Tomšič (1937–2010) - One of the key figures in the process of Slovenia's democratisation.
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