List of Austrians

Famous or notable Austrians include:

Arts/culture

• Pauline von Metternich, patron of music and culture

Actors/Actresses

• Leon Askin, actor
• Helmut Berger, actor
• Senta Berger, actress
• Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor
• Käthe Gold, stage actress
• Liane Haid, first Austrian movie star.
• Attila Hörbiger, actor
• Christiane Hörbiger, actress
• Paul Hörbiger, actor
• Hedy Lamarr, actress; also co-inventor of spread spectrum radio technology; became U.S. citizen
• Karl Merkatz, actor (most notable for his role as a Viennese in "Mundl")
• Birgit Minichmayr, actress
• Hans Moser, comedy actor
• Maximilian Schell, actor
• Romy Schneider, actress
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder, actor, became U.S. citizen, governor of the U.S. state of California (2003–2011)
• Erich von Stroheim, actor and film director
• Christoph Waltz, actor
• Heinz Weixelbraun, actor
• Oskar Werner, actor

Artists/Architects

Main article: List of Austrian artists and architects

• Albin Egger-Lienz, painter
• Karl Ehn, architect, designer of the Karl-Marx-Hof.
• Ernst Fuchs, artist
• Gottfried Helnwein, artist, born in Vienna
• Adolf Hitler, An artist and a ruler of Germany. Started World War II
• Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist
• Gustav Klimt, artist, helped found Vienna Secession
• Oskar Kokoschka, painter
• Alfred Kubin, graphic artist
• Adolf Loos, architect, born in Brno (Moravia, present-day Czech Republic)
• Hans Makart, history painter, designer and decorator
• Inge Morath, photographer
• Richard Neutra, architect
• Willy Puchner, photographer
• Arnulf Rainer, painter
• Johann Michael Rottmayr, Baroque painter
• Egon Schiele, painter
• Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, architect and political activist
• De Es Schwertberger, artist
• Harry Seidler, architect
• Aloys Wach, painter
• Otto Wagner, Jugendstil architect behind much of turn-of-the-century Viennese architecture
• Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, painter
• Franz West, artist
• Olga Wisinger-Florian, painter

Composers/Musicians

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Joseph Haydn

Johann Strauss II

Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948

Main article: List of Austrians in music

• Louie Austen, composer and musician
• Alban Berg, composer
• Alfred Brendel, pianist
• Anton Bruckner, composer
• Carl Czerny, pianist and composer
• Anton Diabelli, publisher, editor and composer
• Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer
• Karlheinz Essl, composer and electronical musician
• Falco, pop musician
• Wolfgang Ambros, pop musician
• Christian Fennesz, electronic musician
• Bernhard Gál, composer and artist
• Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor
• Joseph Haydn, composer
• Michael Haydn, composer, younger brother of Joseph Haydn
• Udo Jürgens, singer-songwriter
• Herbert von Karajan, conductor
• Bernhard Lang, composer
• Elisabeth Leonskaja, pianist. Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class, in 2006.
• Gustav Mahler, composer
• Penny McLean, singer with the disco group Silver Convention
• Leopold Mozart, composer and musician
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer and musician
• Gerhard Potuznik, electronic musician
• Arnold Schönberg, composer
• Sissi Schulmeister, musician with the punk band Alice Donut
• Franz Schubert, composer and musician
• Johann Strauss, Sr., composer
• Johann Strauss, Jr., composer
• Josef Strauss, composer
• Franz von Suppé, composer
• Anton Webern, composer
• Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
• Hugo Wolf, composer
• Joe Zawinul, jazz musician, composer
• Eric Zeisl (1905–1959) composer
• Alexander von Zemlinsky, composer

Entrepreneurs

• Ignaz Glaser, entrepreneur
• Gaston Glock, inventor, founder of Glock Ges.m.b.H.
• Niki Lauda, Formula One race car driver and aviation entrepreneur
• Richard Lugner, entrepreneur and society figure
• Dietrich Mateschitz, businessman behind the Red Bull brand
• Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer, designed the Volkswagen (the "people's car"), born in Vratislavice nad Nisou (Austria-Hungary, Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic), 1875–1951
• Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, automotive engineer and entrepreneur, he expanded the sports car manufacturer Porsche AG to what it is now
• Johann Puch, inventor, mechanic, co-founder of Steyr-Daimler-Puch.
• Robert Schlumberger, entrepreneur
• Frank Stronach, (born in Austria), entrepreneur
• Daniel Swarovski, founder of Swarovski AG, world famous crystals, born in Jiřetín pod Bukovou, (Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic), 1862–1956
• Hannes Androsch, former minister of finance in the government of Bruno Kreisky
• Albert Salomon von Rothschild, banker
• Anselm von Rothschild, banker
• Ferdinand James von Rothschild, investor
• Ludwig (Louis) von Nathaniel, banker
• Nathaniel Mayer Anselm von Rothschild, banker
• Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, banker

Filmmakers

• Amir Esmann, director, director of photography, writer
• Barbara Albert, film director, producer and writer
• Franz Antel, director, actor and writer
• Axel Corti, director
• Elfi von Dassanowsky, film producer, singer, pianist
• Andrea Maria Dusl, film director and writer
• Michael Haneke, film director (born in Germany, however lives and works in Austria)
• Fritz Lang, film director
• Otto Preminger, film director
• Stefan Ruzowitzky, film director and writer
• Ulrich Seidl, film director and writer
• Josef von Sternberg, film director
• Erich von Stroheim, director
• Hans Weingartner, film director, producer and writer
• Virgil Widrich, film director, producer and writer
• Billy Wilder, film director, born in Austria-Hungary
• Fred Zinnemann, film director

Mountaineers

Main article: List of Austrian mountaineers

• Peter Aufschnaiter, mountaineer and co-traveller of Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet)
• Karl Blodig, mountaineer (first to climb all alpine mountains above 4000m)
• Hermann Buhl, first ascent of Nanga Parbat 1953, first ascent of Broad Peak
• Kurt Diemberger, first ascents of Broad Peak (1957) and Dhaulagiri (1960)
• Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer (first ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid) and writer (Seven Years in Tibet)
• Peter Habeler, first ascent of Mount Everest without oxygen (together with Reinhold Messner)
• Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, first woman to ascend all Eight-thousanders without oxygen (2011)
• Ludwig Purtscheller, first ascent of Kilimanjaro in 1889
• Marcus Schmuck, first ascent of Broad Peak in 1957 as expedition leader
• Herbert Tichy, geologist, journalist and mountaineer (first ascent of Cho Oyu)
• Luis Trenker, mountaineer, film director and writer (born in the southern part of Tyrol then Austrian-Hungarian)
• Fritz Wintersteller, first ascent of Broad Peak in 1957

Military leaders

Radetzky

• Haim Bar-Lev, Israeli general and government minister
• Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Field marshal
• Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, military leader
• Prince Eugene of Savoy, general in the war against the Turks (17th–18th century)
• Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, admiral
• Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, general
• Archduke Charles of Austria, fight against Napoleon

Politicians

Main article: List of Austrian Politicians

• Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni, statesman and diplomat
• Count Leopold von Berchtold, foreign minister at the outbreak of the First World War
• Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, politician and writer
• Engelbert Dollfuß, Chancellor 1932–1934 (First Republic), established Austrofascism
• Leopold Figl, Chancellor 1945–1953, foreign minister 1953–1959
• Heinz Fischer, current President (elected 2004)
• Werner Faymann, current Chancellor (since 2008), chairman of the Austrian Socialdemocrats
• Jörg Haider, politician, governour of Carinthia until his death in 2008
• Adolf Hitler, head of state in the Third Reich 1933–1945, gained German citizenship in 1932
• Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, statesman and historian
• Theodor Innitzer, cardinal archbishop of Vienna 1932–1955, minister of social affairs 1929–1930
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner, NSDAP politician
• Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, statesman
• Rudolf Kirchschläger, judge, diplomat and President 1974–1986
• Thomas Klestil, diplomat, President 1992–2004

Teddy Kollek

• Teddy Kollek, Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem
• Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, diplomat and statesman
• Julius Raab, Chancellor 1953–1961
• Karl Renner, Chancellor 1918–1920 and 1945, first President of the Second Republic 1945–1950
• Adolf Schärf, President 1957–1965
• Anton von Schmerling, statesman (liberal movement of the 19th century)
• Kurt Schuschnigg, Chancellor 1934–1938
• Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor 2000–2007
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor of California
• Ignaz Seipel, Catholic priest, Chancellor 1922–1924 and 1926–1929
• Arthur Seyß-Inquart, NSDAP politician, last Chancellor before the Anschluss in 1938
• Johann Philipp von Stadion, statesman, foreign minister and diplomat 1763- 1824
• Alexander van der Bellen, former chairman of the Austrian Green Party
• Kurt Waldheim, diplomat and politician, Secretary-General of the United Nations 1972–1982, President of Austria 1986–1992

Religious leaders

• Ignaz Seipel, Catholic priest, Chancellor 1922–1924 and 1926–1929
• Theodor Innitzer, cardinal archbishop of Vienna 1932–1955, minister of social affairs 1929–1930
• Franz König, 1905–2004, Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna (1956–1985)
• Christoph Schönborn, archbishop and cardinal

Royalty

Main article: List of rulers of Austria

Franz Joseph I

• Elisabeth, Empress-Consort of Austria, wife of Francis Joseph I.
• Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria
• Franz Ferdinand, Archduke (assassinated in 1914)
• Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria
• Francis II/I, Holy Roman Emperor, first Emperor of Austria
• Frederick II of Austria, last Babenberger duke of Austria
• Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, reformer (abolished the death penalty) 1780–1790
• Karl V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500–1558
• Karl I, last Emperor of Austria
• Leopold V, Babenberg duke of Austria, participated in the Third Crusade
• Maria Leopoldina, Archduchess, became Empress of Brazil
• Maria Theresia, Archduchess of Austria, Holy Roman Empress-Consort, last male-line Habsburg
• Marie Antoinette, Archduchess, became Queen of France
• Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459–1519
• Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico, Archduke of Austria
• Rudolph I, King of Germany, first Habsburg king
• Rudolf IV of Austria, Duke of Austria, self-styled archduke 1358–1365 (Privilegium Maius)

Science

Main article: list of Austrian scientists

Economists

• Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics
• Friedrich von Wieser, economist of the Austrian School
• Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk economist and early member of the Austrian School of Economics
• Ludwig von Mises, free-market economist
• Friedrich Hayek, economist and social scientist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974 (became a British citizen in 1938)
• Fritz Machlup
• Oskar Morgenstern, co-founder of game theory
• Otto Neurath, socialist, economist and philosopher
• Joseph Schumpeter, economist, born in Triesch, Austria-Hungary
• Leopold Kohr, (1909–1994), economist, jurist and political scientist, Best known for both for his opposition to the "cult of bigness" in social organization and as one of those who inspired the 'small is beautiful movement'. His most influential work was 'The Breakdown of Nations'.

Engineers/Inventors

• Anselm Franz, pioneer in jet engine engineering, designed the world's first turbojet
• Gaston Glock, inventor, founder of firearms company GLOCK GmbH
• Eduard Haas, inventor of the Pez candy
• Hedy Lamarr, co-inventor of spread spectrum wireless communications, along with George Antheil
• Viktor Kaplan, inventor of turbines for river power plants
• Wilhelm Kress, aviation pioneer, inventor of the stick control for airplanes
• Josef Madersperger, invented the sewing machine in 1818
• Siegfried Marcus, automobile pioneer, inventor of the first gasoline powered automobile (vehicles of 1870 and 1889)
• Alois Negrelli, engineer and railroad pioneer (created the plans for the Suez Canal)
• Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer, designed the Volkswagen (the "people's car"), inventor of the hybrid car, contributed to the design of the tiger I and tiger II tanks. Born in Austria-Hungary
• Josef Ressel, inventor of the marine screw propeller, pneumatic post and ball bearing
• Alois Senefelder, inventor of the printing technique of lithography
• Max Valier, rocketry pioneer
• Auer von Welsbach, inventor of gaslight

Philosophers

• Franz Brentano, philosopher and psychologist
• Martin Buber, philosopher
• Christian von Ehrenfels, philosopher
• Herbert Feigl, philosopher (member of the Vienna Circle)
• Paul Feyerabend, philosopher (died 1994)
• Philipp Frank, philosopher and physicist(member of the Vienna Circle)
• Edmund Husserl, philosopher (born in Prossnitz, Austria-Hungary)
• Wilhelm Jerusalem, philosopher, born 1854 in Drenitz, died in 1923 in Vienna
• Georg Kreisel, philosopher and mathematician
• Hans Köchler, philosopher (born in Schwaz, 1948)
• Alexius Meinong, philosopher (theory of objects) 1853–1920
• Otto Neurath, socialist, economist and philosopher
• Karl Popper, philosopher (born in Austria, became British)
• Otto Weininger, philosopher
• Friedrich Waismann, mathematician, philosopher and physicist (member of the Vienna Circle)
• Felix Weltsch, journalist, philosopher, student of Christian von Ehrenfels
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher, born 1889 in Vienna

Physicists, mathematicians and chemists

• Emil Artin, mathematician (Artin's conjecture)
• Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, 1844–1906, born in Vienna
• Fritjof Capra
• Carl Cori, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947
• Christian Andreas Doppler, physicist, 1803–1853, born in Salzburg (See Doppler effect)
• Paul Ehrenfest, physicist & mathematician
• Felix Ehrenhaft, maverick physicist, 1879–1952
• Kurt Gödel, mathematician (born in Austria-Hungary, became naturalized U.S. citizen)
• Hans Hahn, mathematician (member of the Vienna Circle)
• Friedrich Hasenöhrl, physicist
• Victor Franz Hess, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
• Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, chemist
• Georg Kreisel, philosopher and mathematician
• Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998
• Richard Kuhn, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938
• Johann Josef Loschmidt, physicist and chemist
• Ernst Mach, physicist and philosopher (Mach number)
• Lise Meitner, physicist
• Richard von Mises, physicist (younger brother of Ludwig von Mises)
• John von Neumann, mathematician (Hungarian, Budapest-born)
• Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1945
• Max Ferdinand Perutz, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962
• Fritz Pregl, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923
• Erwin Schrödinger, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
• Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze, mathematician
• Carl Auer von Welsbach, chemist
• Gernot Zippe, physicist (developed Zippe-type centrifuge to extract Uranium-235 for nuclear weapons)
• Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925 (Hungarian origin)
• Josef Finger, physicist and mathematician.

Physicians

• Alfred Adler, psychiatrist, father of Individual Psychology
• Hans Asperger, pediatrician who studied autism, person for whom Asperger syndrome is named
• Leopold Auenbrugger, physician 1722–1809 (method of percussion)
• Robert Bárány, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Josef Breuer, physician (forerunner in psychoanalysis)
• Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, physician and physiologist (studies of nerves and the brain)
• Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist, father of logotherapy
• Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, father of psychoanalysis
• Karl von Frisch, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Leo Kanner, child psychiatrist
• Karl Landsteiner, physician, serologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1886–1943
• Otto Loewi, pharmacologist (born in Germany, but spent 40 years (age 25–65) of his life in Austria) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Franz Mesmer, physician, developed an early form of hypnotism 1734–1815
• Paracelsus, (real name: Theophrast von Hohenheim), alchemist and physician
• Clemens von Pirquet, pediatrician and scientist in bacteriology and immunology
• Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist, (1897–1957)
• Erwin Ringel, Austrian psychiatrist (presuicidal syndrome)
• Ignaz Semmelweis, physician (born in Hungary, Austria-Hungary)
• Julius Wagner-Jauregg, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927

Psychologists

• Paul Watzlawick, communication theory

Other scientists

• Othenio Abel, paleontologist
• Hans Hass, biologist and diving pioneer
• Hans Kelsen, jurist (father of the Austrian constitution)
• Konrad Lorenz zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Gregor Mendel, pioneer of genetics
• Julius Pokorny, linguist
• Rupert Riedl, zoologist

Sports

Main article: List of Austrians in Sports

• Margarete "Grete" Adler, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-meter (m) freestyle relay)
• Gerhard Berger, racing driver
• Richard Bergmann, 7-time world table tennis champion, ITTF Hall of Fame
• Albert Bogen (Albert Bógathy), saber fencer, Olympic silver
• Fritzi Burger, figure skater, Olympic 2-time silver, World Championship 2-time silver
• Michaela Dorfmeister, alpine skier
• Erich Eliskases, chess grandmaster
• Siegfried "Fritz" Flesch, sabre fencer, Olympic bronze
• Toni Fritsch, soccer and football player who won the Super Bowl in 1972
• Ernst Grünfeld, chess grandmaster
• Hans Haas, Olympic champion weightlifter (lightweight), silver
• Tunc Hamarat, correspondence chess world champion (2004)
• Ernst Happel, football player and coach
• Judith Haspel (born "Judith Deutsch"), held every Austrian women's middle and long distance freestyle record in 1935
• Dr. Otto Herschmann, Olympic 2-silver (in saber fencing/team sabre and 100-m freestyle)
• Hansi Hinterseer, skier, singer, actor, entertainer
• Nickolaus "Mickey" Hirschl, 2-time Olympic bronze wrestler (heavyweight freestyle and Greco-Roman), Shotput and Discus Junior Champion, Weightlifting Junior Champion, and Pentathlon Champion
• Felix Kasper, figure skater, Olympic bronze
• Franz Klammer, Olympic alpine ski champion
• Werner Schlager, 2003 Table Tennis World Champion
• Hans Krankl, football player and coach
• Niki Lauda, Formula One race car driver and aviation entrepreneur
• Hermann Maier, Olympic alpine ski champion
• Klara Milch, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-m freestyle relay)
• Annemarie Moser-Pröll, alpine skier
• Thomas Muster, tennis champion
• Paul Neumann, Olympic champion swimmer (500 m freestyle)
• Fred Oberlander, wrestler; world champion (freestyle heavyweight); Maccabiah champion
• Eva Pawlik, European figure skating Champion
• Felix Pipes, Olympic silver tennis player (doubles)
• Maxim Podoprigora, Olympic swimmer
• Ellen Preis, foil fencer, 3-time world champion (1947, 1949, and 1950), Olympic champion, 17-time Austrian champion
• Herbert Prohaska, football player and coach
• Jochen Rindt, race car driver, Formula One World Champion of 1970
• Toni Sailer, 1956 Olympic Games – won all three gold medals earning himself the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing; born 1935
• Otto Scheff (born "Otto Sochaczewsky"), Olympic champion swimmer (400 m freestyle) and 2-time bronze (400 m freestyle, 1,500-m freestyle)
• Wilhelm Steinitz, winner of first ever world chess championship in 1886
• Carl Schlechter, chess grandmaster
• Josephine Sticker, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-m freestyle relay)
• Nicole Trimmel, kickboxing champion
• Matthias Sindelar, regarded by many as Austria's greatest ever footballer.
• Rudolf Spielmann, chess grandmaster
• Herma Szabo, Olympic and five-time World figure skating champion
• Thomas Vanek, NHL Hockey player for the Buffalo Sabres.
• Anita Wachter, Olympic alpine ski champion, born 1967 in Schruns.
• Otto Wahle, 2-time Olympic silver swimmer (1,000 m freestyle, 200-m obstacle race) and bronze (400 m freestyle); International Swimming Hall of Fame

Writers

Main article: List of Austrian writers

• Ingeborg Bachmann, poet, 1926–1973
• Hermann Bahr, playwright, novelist 1863–1934
• Ludwig Bemelmans, author of the Madeline books, 1898–1962.
• Thomas Bernhard, dramatist, novelist, poet, 1931–1989, born in Cloister Heerlen, Netherlands
• Max Brod, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, (Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic) 1884–1968, wrote in German
• Heimito von Doderer, writer, 1896–1966, born in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau near Vienna
• Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer (style: psychological novelist)
• Franz Grillparzer, poet, 1791–1872, Vienna
• Robert Hamerling, poet 1830–1889
• Peter Handke, author, born in 1942 in Griffen (Carinthia)
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal, dramatist, writer
• Karl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner, poet, writer, 1800–1890, born in Graz
• Alexander Lernet-Holenia, novelist, poet, dramtist, critic, 1897–1976
• Robert Musil, writer
• Johann Nestroy, famous playwright
• Christine Nöstlinger, writer (especially literature for children)
• Christoph Ransmayr, writer
• Ferdinand Raimund, writer and dramatist
• Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and novelist, born in Prague, (Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic) 1875–1926
• Peter Rosegger, writer, teacher & Styrian hero & visionary 1843–1918
• Adalbert Stifter, poet and artist (died 1869)
• Bertha von Suttner, writer and pacifist Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Prague, (Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic) 1843–1914
• Georg Trakl, poet
• Josef Weinheber, poet and essayist
• Oswald von Wolkenstein, writer and composer 1376–1445

Personalities of the Nazi Party and regime

• Aribert Heim, physician ("Dr. Death") in the Mauthausen concentration camp
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner
• Amon Leopold Göth

Other notables

Simon Wiesenthal

• Maria Altmann, niece of Adele Bloch-Bauer
• Oscar Baumann, explored the interior of German East Africa (present-day Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi)
• Robert Bernardis, resistance fighter during WW2 (July 20 Plot)
• Rudolph Bing, opera manager
• Adele Bloch-Bauer, subject of famous painting by Gustav Klimt
• Josef Fritzl, notorious rapist
• Amon Göth, commander of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
• HI & RH Otto Von Habsburg-Lothringen Politician, writer, heir to the thrones of Austria-Hungary
• Theodor Herzl, "father of Zionism," lived most of his life in Austria
• Andreas Hofer, Tyrolian freedom fighter (against Napoleon)

• Heinrich Kanner, journalist and editor of the newspaper "Die Zeit" in the k.u.k. Monarchy
• Alma Mahler, wife and muse to Mahler, Gropius, Werfel
• Andreas Maislinger, founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
• Julius von Payer, polar explorer

• Wolfgang Puck, celebrity chef and restaurateur
• Max Reinhardt, renowned theatre director
• Sister Maria Restituta, nun and nurse murdered by the Nazis
• Günther Schifter, radio personality
• Oskar Schindler, industrialist and famous WWII hero (saved his Jewish factory workers from Auschwitz), born in Svitavy, Moravia, 1908–1974
• Otto Skorzeny, Nazi commando (rescuer of Benito Mussolini)
• Carl Szokoll, resistance fighter ("saviour of Vienna"), author and film producer
• Georg Ludwig von Trapp, head of The Sound of Music family
• Franz Viehböck, cosmonaut
• Karl Weyprecht, polar explorer
• Simon Wiesenthal, 1908–2005, pre-eminent Nazi hunter

See also

• List of Austrian Jews
• List of Germans
• List of Slovenians
• List of Hungarians
• List of Croatians
• List of Serbs
• List of Czechs
• List of Slovaks
• List of Poles
• List of people by nationality