Notable Residents
In 1860, the composer Hugo Wolf was born in the town. The house in which he was born is now a music school.
Slovenj Gradec is also the birthplace of skier Tina Maze, tennis player Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenia national football team footballers Marko Šuler and Mirnes Šišić, top handball player Iztok Puc, critical theorist Renata Salecl, and writer, theatre critic, and literary historian Lado Kralj.
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