Melania Trump is a Slovenian who is the talk of the world at the moment. But the Slovenia club, despite the fact that there are only two million of us, still has many individuals who have gained world fame with their achievements and put Slovenia on the world map for better reasons than plagiarism. Among them are athletes, innovators, philosophers and even a musical group. See who are world-famous Slovenians who are not Melania Trump.
Melania Trump. Everywhere you turn, they are Donald Trump or Pokemons. Melania is in her last period Put Slovenia on the world map again. Her husband is running for the position of probably the most influential world leader in the world, and of course the media cannot ignore the Slovenian woman Melanie Knavs, today known as Melania Trump, but Slovenia with her recent speaking at the convention in Cleveland brought more than nothing to Slovenia negative publicity.
If foreigners may not envy Melanie, Slovenia has many other individuals who certainly do, because their results or achievements are visible and worth a lot. on a global scale.
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You must have met someone abroad, told them where you were from, and they blurted out a name like Tina Maze, Peter Prevc, Slavoj Žižek or Martin Strel. So see who they all are in the sequel world-famous Slovenians, who are not Melania Trump.
World-famous Slovenians who are not Melania Trump:
Martin Strel – marathon swimmer
Opinions about Martin Strel are divided among Slovenians. Some consider him a hero, others a clown. Foreign countries are united - Martin Strel is a hero! The numbers also speak in his favor. He is a multiple world record holder in long distance swimming. Among his most notable achievements is swimming the course of the world's largest rivers - he swam the Mississippi River from its source to its mouth and swam 4,000 kilometers of the Yangtze River. He was nominated for a sports Oscar, a Laureus sports award, namely in the category of alternative sports person of the year, and in 2009 he even won his own documentary film entitled Big River Man.
Tina Maze – alpine skier
Tina Maze is the most successful Slovenian alpine skier of all time. She is one of the magnificent six female skiers to win all five disciplines, and one of only three to do so in one season. He also holds the record for most World Cup points scored in a single season (2,141). You can read more about Tina Maze in the article Tina Maze's most glorious victories.
Matevž Lenarčič – pilot, alpinist, photographer and adventurer
Matevž Lenarčič has so far flown around the world three times with an ultralight aircraft, namely in 2004 and 2012 (with the Slovenian Pipistrel aircraft) and in 2016, when he took off from the Sečovlje airport in Portorož with the Aerospool Dynamic aircraft as part of the GreenLight WorldFlight project. In 2013, at the Flightglobal Achievement Awards in Paris, he was chosen as the best aviator of 2013 in fierce competition. He even beat superstar Felix Baumgartner, who impressed with a spectacular parachute jump from space during the same evaluation period.
Benka Pulko – world traveler, writer and photographer
In the middle of June 1997, Benka Pulko went around the world on a motorcycle and returned to her homeland in December 2002. In 2000 days, she traveled over 180 thousand kilometers and entered the Guinness Book of Records several times. She holds the following records: the longest motorcycle journey by a woman in terms of travel time, the longest motorcycle journey by a woman in terms of distance traveled, the first continuous solo motorcycle journey across all seven continents of the world, and the first solo drive by a woman in Saudi Arabia. She also published many books and received many awards for them.
Davo Krničar – mountaineer and extreme alpine skier
Since 1980, Davo Karničar has completed over a thousand mountaineering tours. He has skied many large alpine faces, both in Slovenia (Triglav, Jalovec, Špik...) and abroad (northeast face of the Eiger, east face of the Matterhorn...). In 2000, he became the first person in the world to ski from the top of Everest (8,848 meters above sea level), and by 2006 he had added the descent from the other highest peaks on all continents.
Peter Florjančič – inventor
The elder of Slovenian inventors, Peter Florjančič, is one of the most famous Slovenian inventors, and certainly the most prolific. He is the only one who has been doing this professionally all his life. He has about 400 patents, of which 41 "became flesh". Among his biggest innovations are the sprayer on a perfume bottle, frames for slides, a plastic zipper, a lighter with ignition on the side and a ski toboggan. In 1957, he also invented a car airbag, but he did not perfect it.
Peter Prevc – ski jumper
Peter Prevc became the first person to fly 250 meters on skis. He became the first ski jumper to collect all the most important laurels in one season and in the meantime broke many records. Like Tina Maze, you own the record for most points scored in a season (2,303). You can read more about Petar Prevec in the article All the victories of Petr Prevac.
Slavoj Žižek – philosopher and cultural critic
Slavoj Žižek, the eccentric philosopher, has many nicknames. It is The Elvis of philosophy, an academic rock star, well the coolest philosophyf Marx's brother, too Borat of philosophy and a serious revolutionary and an absurd entertainer. Renowned universities and world media fight for the lectures and interviews of this world-renowned ultra-leftist philosopher. He speaks many languages fluently. After the publication of his first book in English, The Sublime Object of Ideology, in 1989, he made a remarkable breakthrough in the international scientific sphere in 1990. Everything else is history. Žižek flooded the philosophical world like a monsoon rain and published a veritable colony of books during his career.
Laibach – music group
The avant-garde music group Laibach was formed long ago in 1980 and belongs to the art collective Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK). It attracts attention mainly with provocative reminders of totalitarian regimes and is better known and recognized on the international scene than in our country. It is the first foreign music group to perform in hermetically sealed North Korea. To date, the band has performed over 800 concerts worldwide and sold over a million records. Laibach gained international recognition with their own interpretations of songs by groups such as Queen, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. With their albums, they often comment on current political events. They reveal the dark sides of humanity, indirectly or directly, through music, rhetoric and also visually.
