List of Slovenian Americans
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This is list of notable Slovenian Americans.
| Lists of Americans |
| by U.S. state |
| by ethnicity: |
| African | Albanian | Arab |
| Argentine | Armenian | Austrian |
| Bahamian | Bangladeshi | Belgian |
| Brazilian | Bulgarian | Cajun |
| Cambodian | Chinese | Croatian |
| Cuban | Czech | Danish |
| Dutch | English |
| Estonian | Filipino |
| Finnish | French | German |
| Greek | Haitian | Hispanic |
| Hmong | Hungarian | Indian |
| Indonesian | Iranian |
| Irish | Israeli | Italian |
| Jamaican | Japanese | Jewish |
| Korean | Laotian | Louisiana Creole |
| Mexican | Native American | Hawaiian |
| Nicaraguan | Nigerian |
| Norwegian | Polish |
| Portuguese | Romanian | Russian |
| Rusyn | Salvadoran | Scots-Irish |
| Scottish | Serbian |
| Slovak | Slovenian |
| Spanish | Swedish | Swiss |
| Taiwanese | Turkish | Ukrainian |
| Vietnamese | Welsh |
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- Louis Adamič - author
- Mike Adamle - American football player - Northwestern Wildcats and NFL - also a television and radio sports reporter and WWE wrestling announcer
- Tony Adamle - American football star - Ohio State Buckeyes and Cleveland Browns(member of 1950 and 1954 NFL Championship teams)
- Friderik Irenej Baraga - bishop
- John Blatnik - Congressman United States House of Representatives
- Frank Brimsek - ice hockey player
- Ferdinand J. Chesarek - general
- Joe Cimperman - Cleveland, Ohio City Councilman and 2008 candidate for the United States House of Representatives
- Ami Dolenz - actress
- Micky Dolenz - musician (Drummer/Singer of "The Monkees")
- Edward Gobetz - author
- Bob Golic - American football star (Notre Dame Fighting Irish and NFL - Cleveland Browns, among other teams) - also an actor Saved by the Bell: The College Years
- Mike Golic - American football star (Notre Dame Fighting Irish and NFL - Philadelphia Eagles, among other teams) - also ESPN radio personality and host on Mike and Mike in the Morning
- Frank Gorenc - general
- Stanley Gorenc - general
- Randy Gradishar - American football star (Ohio State Buckeyes and Denver Broncos)
- Tom Harkin - United States Senator
- Eric Heiden - Olympic Speed Skating, winner of five gold medals at the Winter Olympics of 1980
- Wally Judnich - Baseball player
- Amy Klobuchar - United States Senator
- Jim Klobuchar - author and journalist
- Raymond P. Kogovsek - Congressman
- Joe Kuhel - Baseball player and manager
- Charles Kuralt - journalist
- Frank Lausche - United States Senator and Governor of Ohio
- John Stephan Lekson - general
- Jerry Michael Linenger - astronaut
- Anton Mavretič - NASA
- Joey Miskulin - (Grammy Award-winning Musician / Record Producer)
- Ignatius Mrak - Roman Catholic bishop
- Ken Novak - American football player
- James Oberstar - Congressman
- Dušan Petrač - NASA
- F. William Petrovic - admiral
- Warren Joseph Pezdirtz - general
- Francis Xavier Pierz - Roman Catholic bishop
- August Pust, a retired functionary of the Ohio government
- Janez Repar - NASA
- Jerome Edward Rupnik - admiral
- Philip Ruppe - Congressman
- Ronald Sega - astronaut
- George Voinovich[1][2] - Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, United States Senator, and Governor of Ohio
- Peter Vidmar - gymnast, U.S. team captain and winner of two gold medals and a silver medal in the 1984 Olympics, was the highest scoring gymnast in U.S. history (with a 9.89 average)
- Sunita Williams - astronaut
- Frankie Yankovic - musician, known as "America's Polka King", popularized Slovenian-style polka
- Fritzie Zivic - boxer
- Ronald Zlatoper - admiral
