List of Slovene Americans

This is a list of notable Slovene Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Slovene American or must have references showing they are Slovene American and are notable.

Actors

 * Ami Dolenz – actor
 * George Dolenz – actor
 * Micky Dolenz – actor, musician (Drummer/Singer of The Monkees)
 * Frank Gorshin – actor
 * Melissa Joan Hart – actress
 * Željko Ivanek – Emmy Award-winning actor
 * Lana Rhoades – actress
 * Audrey Totter – actress
 * Patrick Warburton – actor (his father is of Slovenian ancestry)

Comedy

 * Anthony Jeselnik – comedian

Musicians

 * Karen Kamensek – orchestral and operatic conductor
 * Joey Miskulin – Grammy Award-winning musician and record producer
 * Frankie Yankovic – Grammy Award-winning musician, known as "America's Polka King", popularized Slovenian-style polka
 * "Weird Al" Yankovic – comedy performer known for his parodies of popular music
 * Emily Kokal – musician from rock band Warpaint

Sports

 * Mike Adamle – American football player – Northwestern Wildcats and NFL – also a television and radio sports reporter and WWE wrestling announcer
 * Tony Adamle – American football player – Ohio State Buckeyes and Cleveland Browns (member of 1950 and 1954 NFL Championship teams)
 * Jeff Blatnick – Olympic champion in freestyle wrestling
 * Frank Brimsek – ice hockey player
 * Bryant Dunston – professional basketball player for the Slovenian national team since he acquired Slovenian citizenship in 2015
 * Bob Golic – American football player (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 player (Notre Dame Fighting Irish and NFL – Philadelphia Eagles, among other teams) – also ESPN radio personality and host on Mike and Mike in the Morning
 * Randy Gradishar – American football player (Ohio State Buckeyes and Denver Broncos)
 * John Gruden – ice hockey player
 * Eric Heiden – Olympic speed skater, winner of five gold medals at the 1980 Winter Olympics
 * Luke Hochevar – Major League Baseball pitcher
 * Frank Hribar – NFL Washington Redskins
 * Wally Judnich – baseball player
 * Joe Kuhel – baseball player and manager
 * Les Kuntar – ice hockey player
 * Sepp Kuss – professional cyclist
 * Trajan Langdon – basketball (NBA and Europe) player
 * Dan Majerle – basketball (NBA) player
 * Ariel McDonald – former basketball player who played for the Slovenian national team in 2001 since he acquired citizenship, 2000 Israeli Basketball Premier League MVP
 * Ken Novak – American football player
 * Anton Peterlin – soccer player
 * Anthony Randolph – basketball (NBA and Europe) player
 * 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)
 * Fritzie Zivic – boxer
 * Mark Zupan – athlete, wheelchair rugby team captain

Journalists

 * Jim Klobuchar – author and journalist
 * Charles Kuralt – journalist

Academic and scientific

 * Richard Carl Fuisz – inventor
 * Rado Lenček – linguist, ethnologist, cultural historian
 * Jerry Michael Linenger – astronaut
 * Ronald Sega – astronaut
 * Joseph Velikonja – professor of geography
 * Sunita Williams – astronaut

Military

 * Ferdinand J. Chesarek – general
 * Frank Gorenc – general
 * Stanley Gorenc – general
 * John S. Lekson – United States Army Major General
 * Rudolf Perhinek – captain
 * Ronald Zlatoper – admiral
 * Joshua S. Kunch - Major

Politicians

 * John Blatnik – Congressman United States House of Representatives
 * Joe Cimperman – Cleveland, Ohio City Councilman and 2008 candidate for the United States House of Representatives
 * Dennis Eckart – public and cultural worker; US Congressman
 * Paul Gosar – Congressman
 * Tom Harkin – United States Senator
 * Amy Klobuchar – United States Senator
 * Raymond P. Kogovsek – Congressman
 * Frank Lausche – Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, United States Senator and Governor of Ohio
 * James Oberstar – Congressman
 * Philip Ruppe – Congressman
 * Ron Suster – Ohio state representative and judge
 * George Voinovich – Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, United States Senator, and Governor of Ohio
 * Cheri Pierson Yecke – politician, academic.
 * Joseph Stodola – mayor of Little Rock, AR

Religious

 * Friderik Irenej Baraga (Frederic Baraga) – Roman Catholic Bishop and Missionary
 * Elden Francis Curtiss – former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Omaha, Nebraska and former Bishop of Helena, Montana
 * Antonija Höffern – missionary and educator
 * Ignatius Mrak – Roman Catholic bishop
 * Francis Xavier Pierz – Roman Catholic bishop

Writers

 * Louis Adamič – author
 * Tea Obreht – author
 * Rose Mary Prosen – poet

Others

 * Joe Kenda – detective lieutenant and TV producer
 * Santino William Legan – perpetrator of the Gilroy Garlic Festival Shooting
 * Joe Sutter – manager of the design team for the Boeing 747
 * Melania Trump – former First Lady of the United States, wife of 45th U.S. President Donald Trump and fashion model