Spomenka Štimec (born 4 January 1949) is a Croatian writer, one of the most acclaimed contemporary writers in Esperanto, and also significant to Esperanto in Croatia. She shared a FAME Award.
Spomenka Hribar (born 25 January 1941) is a Slovenian author, philosopher, sociologist, politician, columnist, and public intellectual. She was one of the most influential Slovenian intellectuals in the 1980s, and was frequently called "the First Lady of Slovenian Democratic Opposition", and "the Voice of Slovenian Spring". She is married to the Slovenian Heideggerian philosopher Tine Hribar.