13 19th century Carniolan writers

Jakob Alešovec was an ethnic Slovene-Austrian writer and playwright. Until 1866, Alešovec wrote in German, but later switched to Slovenian. He wrote travelogues, tales, folk plays, and satires, as well as the first Slovenian detective story.

Janez Bleiweis was a Slovene conservative politician, journalist, physician, veterinarian, and public figure. He was the leader of the so-called Old Slovene political movement. Already during his lifetime, he was called father of the nation.

Matija Čop, also known in German as Matthias Tschop, was a Slovene linguist, polyglot, literary historian and critic.

Josip Jurčič was a Slovene writer and journalist. He was born in Muljava, Austrian Empire. He died from tuberculosis in Ljubljana.

Janez Evangelist Krek was a Slovene Christian Socialist politician, priest, journalist, and author.

Fran Levstik was a Slovene writer, political activist, playwright and critic. He was one of the most prominent exponents of the Young Slovene political movement.

Josip Murn, also known under the pseudonym Aleksandrov was a Slovene symbolist poet. Together with Ivan Cankar, Oton Župančič, and Dragotin Kette, he was regarded as one of the beginners of modernism in Slovene literature. After France Prešeren and Edvard Kocbek, Murn was probably the most influential Slovene poet of the last two centuries.

Francis Xavier Pierz was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary to the Ottawa and Ojibwe Indians in present-day Michigan, Ontario, and Minnesota. Because he attracted numerous Catholic German Americans to settle in Central Minnesota, he is referred to as the "Father of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Cloud."

France Prešeren was a 19th-century Romantic Slovene poet whose poems have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Slovak, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Bengali, as well as to all the languages of former Yugoslavia, and in 2013 a complete collection of his "Poezije" (Poems) was translated into French.

Johann Augustin Pucher was a Slovene priest, scientist, photographer, artist, and poet who invented an unusual process for making photographs on glass.

Ivan Tavčar was a Slovenian writer, lawyer, and politician.

Janez Vesel, known by his pen name Jovan Koseski was a Slovene lawyer and poet.

Valentin Vodnik was a Carniolan priest, journalist and poet of Slovene descent. He was active in the late Enlightenment period.