independent Slovenia Gregorij Rožman (1883–1959) – Bishop of Ljubljana (1930–1945), collaborator with Italian and German occupying forces during the Second World War Marjan Šarec (born 1977) – Slovene prime minister Kurt Schuschnigg (1897–1977) – Chancellor of Austria, of Slovenian descent Danilo Türk (born 1952) – President elect of Slovenia Walter Veltroni (born 1955) – Mayor of Rome (Slovenian mother) George Voinovich – U.S. Senator, former Governor of Ohio and Mayor of Cleveland, (Slovenian mother; born and raised in the United States, never lived in Slovenia) Anton Vratuša (1915–2017) – 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 Scientists and scholars Robert Blinc (1933–2011) – physicist Ivan Bratko (born 1946) – computer scientist Srečko Brodar (1893–1987) – palaeontologist Andrej Čadež (born 1942) – astrophysicist Avrelija Cencič (1964–2012) – biochemist Lavo Čermelj (1889–1980) – physicist Dragotin Cvetko (1911–1993) – musicologist Davorin Dolar (1921–2005) – chemist Josip Globevnik (born 1945) – mathematician Pavel Grošelj (1883–1940) – biologist and belletrist Jovan Hadži (1884–1972) – biologist Anton Janežič (1828–1869) – Slavic specialist and grammarian Jernej Kopitar (1780–1844) – philologist Peter Kosler (1824–1879) – lawyer, geographer, cartographer, politician, and manufacturer Ivo Lah (1896–1979) – mathematician Tine Logar (1916–2002) – philologist and dialectologist Thomas Luckmann (1927–2016) – sociologist Anton Melik (1890–1966) – geographer Franz Miklosich (1813–1891) – philologist Avgust Pavel (1886–1946) – ethnologist Anton Peterlin (1908–1993) – physicist Josip Plemelj (1873–1967) – mathematician Herman Potočnik (a.k.a. Noordung, 1892–1929) – pioneer of astronautics and cosmonautics, and rocket engineer Fritz Pregl (1869–1930) – chemist, Nobel prize for chemistry 1923 Janko Prunk (born 1942) – historian Fran Ramovš (1890–1952) – philologist and dialectologist Zoran Rant (1904–1972) – mechanical engineer Simon Rutar (1851–1903) – historian, geographer, archaeologist and geologist Ljubo Sirc (1920–2016) – economist Boris Sket (born 1936) – zoologist Branko Stanovnik (born 1938) – chemist Jožef Stefan (1835–1893) – physicist and mathematician Janez Strnad (1934–2015) – physicist and populariser of natural science Jože Toporišič (1926–2014) – philologist Denis Trček (born 1963) – computer scientist Anton Trstenjak (1906–1996) – psychologist and theologian Johann Weikhard von Valvasor (1641–1693) – nobleman and polymath Jurij Bartolomej Vega (1754–1802) – mathematician, physicist and artillery officer Ivan Vidav (1918–2015) – mathematician Milan Vidmar (1885–1962) – electrical engineer, chess player, and chess theorist Valentin Vodnik (1758–1819) – poet, journalist, philologist Egon Zakrajšek (1941–2002) – mathematician and computer scientist