List of Famous people with last name Jurkovic

Dušan Samo Jurkovič was a Slovak architect, furniture designer, artist and ethnographer. One of the best-known promoters of Slovak art in 20th century Czechoslovakia, he is remembered mostly due to his projects of numerous World War I cemeteries in Galicia and thanks to his wooden works of spa complex in Luhačovice and mountain cottage hotel Maměnka and canteen Libušín Pustevny na Radhošti. Thanks to his artistic work with wood, he is referred to as "the poet of timber". His architectonic style was a unique fusion of folk architecture and then-popular architectonic styles, mostly associated with Art Nouveau. Jurkovič repeatedly stressed: "The work of art is rooted in the time. I also have always cautiously listened to its voice."

Ivan Jurkovič is a Slovenian prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva since February 2016. He has worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See since 1984 and was the Nuncio to Russia and Nuncio to Uzbekistan from 2011 to 2016.