List of people from Maribor
List of notable individuals who were born or lived in Maribor:
- Tomaž Barada, taekwondo athlete
 - Walter Wolf, tycoon, businessman person
 - Sani Bečirovič, basketball player
 - Bernhard von Spanheim, founder of the city
 - Fredi Bobic, German-Slovene association football player
 - Urška Bračko, 2014 Miss Universe Slovenia
 - Brigita Brezovac, IFBB professional bodybuilder
 - Aleš Čeh, football player
 - Mladen Dolar, philosopher
 - Filip Flisar, ski cross champion
 - Vekoslav Grmič, Roman Catholic bishop and theologian
 - Herta Haas, Yugoslav Partisan and second wife of Josip Broz Tito
 - Polona Hercog, tennis player
 - Israel Isserlin, Medieval rabbi
 - Jure Ivanušič, actor and musician
 - Archduke Johann of Austria, Habsburg nobleman and philanthropist
 - Drago Jančar, author
 - Mima Jaušovec, female tennis player
 - Kevin Kampl, football player
 - Janko Kastelic, conductor and music director
 - Matjaž Kek, association football player and manager
 - Maja Keuc, singer who represented Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011
 - Aleksander Knavs, football player
 - Edvard Kocbek, poet, essayist, and politician
 - Jana Kolarič (born 1954), author and translator.
 - Katja Koren, alpine skier
 - Anton Korošec, politician
 - Luka Krajnc, football player
 - Bratko Kreft, author
 - Rene Krhin, football player
 - Marko Letonja, conductor
 - Rudolf Maister, military leader
 - Janez Menart, poet and translator
 - Jan Muršak, second ever Slovenian NHL hockey player
 - Tomaž Pandur, stage director
 - Tone Partljič, playwright, screenwriter, politician
 - Matjaž Perc, physicist
 - Žiga Pešut, professional ice hockey player
 - Žarko Petan, writer, essayist, theatre and film director
 - Janko Pleterski, historian
 - Herman Potočnik, rocket engineer and pioneer of astronautics
 - Zoran Predin, singer
 - Ladislaus von Rabcewicz, Austrian civil engineer
 - Anton Martin Slomšek, Roman Catholic bishop, author, poet, and advocate of Slovene culture
 - Ilka Štuhec, alpine skiing champion
 - Leon Štukelj, Olympic champion
 - Luka Šulić, cellist, member of the 2Cellos duo
 - Marcos Tavares, football player
 - Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Austrian admiral
 - Jurij Toplak, constitutional scholar, election law expert
 - Ludvik Toplak, lawyer, university rector, ambassador
 - Anton Trstenjak, theologian, psychologist, essayist
 - Danilo Türk, former president of Slovenia
 - Prežihov Voranc, writer and political activist
 - Sasha Vujačić, basketball player
 - Zlatko Zahovič, association football player
 - Vito Žuraj, composer
 
