List of Austrian Americans
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This is a list of notable Austrian Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
Please note: To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Austrian American or must have references showing they are Austrian American and are notable.
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List
- Woody Allen - actor, director, screenwriter, comedian, author, playwright, musician
- Gabrielle Anwar - actress (Austrian Jewish paternal grandmother)
- Godfrey Edward Arnold - medical doctor and researcher
- Maria Altmann - art collector
- Adele Astaire - dancer, actress, sister of Fred
- Fred Astaire - dancer, actor (father of Austrian Jewish descent)[1]
- Sean Astin - actor
- Peter L. Berger - sociologist
- Gustav Bergmann - philosopher
- Bibi Besch - actress[2]
- Bruno Bettelheim - child psychologist, psychoanalyst and concentration camp survivor
- Ricardo Cortez - silent film actor, of Austrian Jewish descent[3]
- Robert von Dassanowsky - academic, writer and film producer[4]
- Felix de Weldon - sculptor, best known for the Marine Corps War Memorial.
- Carl Djerassi - chemist, novelist, and playwright
- Daniel DeWeldon - actor, son of Felix de Weldon.
- Henry Ellenbogen - US Congressman from Pennsylvania[5]
- Max Fleischer - cartoonist
- Felix Frankfurter - US Supreme Court Justice
- Teri Garr - actress, comedian, dancer and voice artist[6]
- Kurt Gödel - logician, mathematician, philosopher
- Friedrich von Hayek - Austrian-born economist and philosopher
- Alex Hafner - actor
- Audrey Hepburn - actor, both of her parents British subjects of Austrian descent
- Fred F. Herzog - the only Jewish judge in Austria between the world wars, he fled to America and became Dean of two different law schools.
- Raul Hillberg - political scientist and historian, who is widely considered to be one of the world's preeminent scholars of the Holocaust
- Heinz von Foerster - scientist combining physics and philosophy, originator of Second-order cybernetics
- Eric Kandel - neuroscientist
- David Karfunkle - painter, muralist
- Kurt Kasznar - Austrian born American actor
- Hans Kelsen - jurist[7]
- Greta Kempton - artist[8]
- Joseph Keppler - cartoonist, best known for the illustrated magazine Puck[9]]]
- John Kerry - politician, former Senator from Massachusetts, US presidential candidate of 2004 (D), former US Secretary of State
- Corey Kluber - Major League Baseball Pitcher, 2014 Cy Young Pitcher
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold - composer[10]
- Stanley Kubrick - director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer
- Hedy Lamarr - actress, from an Austrian Jewish family[11]
- Elissa Landi - actress[12]
- Karl Landsteiner - biologist and physician, best known for having distinguished the main blood groups
- Fritz Lang - director
- Erich Leinsdorf - conductor
- Peter Lorre - actor
- Ernst Mahler - chemist and industrialist
- Samantha Mathis - actress, daughter of Bibi Besch
- Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises - Austrian economist, philosopher, author and classical liberal
- Arthur Murray - dancer, entrepreneur
- Richard Neutra - architect[13]
- Frederick Burr Opper - cartoonist
- Emily Osment - actress, sister of Haley Joel
- Haley Joel Osment - actor, brother of Emily
- Wolfgang Pauli - physicist[14]
- Natalie Portman, actress, born to a Jewish family, some of whom came from Austria
- Otto Preminger - director
- Wolfgang Puck - celebrity chef, restaurateur[15]
- Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist[16]
- Leah Remini - actress, mother has Austrian Jewish descent[17][18]
- Martin Roscheisen - entrepreneur
- Bobby Schayer - musician
- Fritzi Scheff - actress
- Joseph Schildkraut - actor
- Arnold Schoenberg - composer[19]
- Kurt von Schuschnigg - Austrian federal Chancellor 1936-1938 and professor of political sciences at St. Louis University 1948-1967
- Alfred Schütz - philosopher/sociologist[20]
- Arnold Schwarzenegger - actor and 38th Governor of California[21]
- Katherine Schwarzenegger - author, daughter of Arnold, sister of Patrick
- Patrick Schwarzenegger - actor, son of Arnold, brother of Katherine
- Lilia Skala - actress[22]
- Walter Slezak - actor[23]
- Georg Ludwig von Trapp - headed the Austrian singing family portrayed in The Sound of Music. His exploits at sea in World War I earned him numerous decorations, including elevation to the Austrian nobility
- Agathe von Trapp - the eldest daughter of Baron Georg von Trapp and Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, The von Trapp Family from The Sound of Music
- Maria F. von Trapp - the second-oldest daughter of Baron Georg von Trapp and Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, The von Trapp Family from The Sound of Music
- Werner von Trapp - second-oldest son of Georg Ritter von Trapp and Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, The von Trapp Family from The Sound of Music
- Ken Uston - blackjack player, strategist, and author
- Markus Wagner - business angel and founder of i5invest.com
- Joseph Warkany - pediatrician
- Paul Watzlawick - psychologist, communications theorist, and philosopher[24]
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908 - 2002) physicist. During World War II, he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons; medal received in 1979[25]
- Billy Wilder - director[26]
- Ernst Florian Winter - diplomat
- Matthew Winter - journalist
- Elijah Wood - actor
- Joe Zawinul - jazz pianist
- Fred Zinnemann - director
See also
References
- ^ [1] "Fritz Austerlitz, the Austrian American who went to Hollywood and emerged as Fred Astaire."
- ^ [2] "Bibi Besch was an Austrian actress."
- ^ [3] "Though his professional name was suggestive of a Latin Lover type, actor Ricardo Cortez was actually an Austrian Jew, born Jacob Krantz. He arrived in Hollywood in 1922, at a time when the Rudolph Valentino craze was at its height."
- ^ [4] regarding an Austrian decoration: "I have focused on Austrian studies most of my academic life. As an Austrian-American, it makes me especially proud."
- ^ [5] "Born and educated in Vienna. Immigrated to the United States and served in the 33rd Congressional District (Pittsburgh, PA)."
- ^ Speedbumps: Flooring It Through Hollywood By Teri Garr, Henriette Mantel
- ^ [6] "Austrian-American legal philosopher, teacher, jurist, and writer on international law..."
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2004-11-09. Retrieved 2006-05-17.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "sat for Austrian native Greta Kempton five times in 1947..." - ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-01-22. Retrieved 2008-01-24.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Joseph Keppler was born in Vienna, Austria, on 1st February, 1838." - ^ [7] "A study of the life and work of Austrian composer Korngold..."
- ^ [8] "Austrian born film star, Hedy Lamarr, of the 1930 and 40s was also a gifted electrical engineer."
"Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-02-28. Retrieved 2006-04-13.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Hedy Lamarr had been an American citizen since 1953." - ^ [9] "Elissa Landi Austrian/Italian leading lady."
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-04-24. Retrieved 2006-05-17.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Austrian-American modernist architect Richard Neutra." - ^ Wolfgang Pauli: "… in 1946 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Following World War II he returned to Zurich."
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-09-12. Retrieved 2006-08-31.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help)CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "The Austrian-born Puck began..."; WolfgangPuck.com (2005); retrieved 2006-08-31 - ^ [10] "Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian-Ukrainian of Jewish background."
- ^ Brady, James (October 26, 2003). "Leah Remini (TV and film actress)". Parade. Archived from the original on March 23, 2010.
- ^ Remini, Leah; Paley, Rebecca (2015). Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology. Ballantine Books. p. 4. ISBN 978-1-2500-9693-7.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - ^ Rudhyar, Dane (1982). The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music. Shambhala Publications, Inc.
- ^ Alfred schutz, Austrian Economists and the Knowledge Problem - Knudsen 16 (1): 45 - Rationality and Society
- ^ [11] "Arnold Schwarzenegger, "The Austrian Oak", was a bodybuilding prodigy who won the..." [12] "Arnold was the embodiment of the American (a naturalized citizen since 1983) dream..."
- ^ [13] "Galvanizing, stern-featured Viennese character actress with extensive Broadway experience..."
- ^ [14] "That's Erika Slezak, daughter of the famous Austrian-American actor Walter Slezak..."
- ^ Wendel, Ray A. (2007). "In Honor Of Paul Watzlawick". Journal Of Marital & Family Therapy. 33.3 (2007): 293-294.
- ^ [15] "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family..." [16] "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution..."
- ^ [17] "Wilder, Austrian-born, but in the US since 1934, directed his last film in 1981."