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.
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
- Christoph Waltz - actor, lives most of his time in Europe but has a house in Los Angeles
- Woody Allen - actor, director, screenwriter, comedian, author, playwright, musician
- Stanley Kubrick - director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer
- Gabrielle Anwar - actress (Austrian Jewish paternal grandmother)
- Godfrey Edward Arnold - medical doctor and researcher
- Fred Astaire - dancer/actor (father of Austrian Jewish descent)[1]
- Bibi Besch - actress[2]
- 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.
- Daniel DeWeldon - actor, son of Felix de Weldon.
- Henry Ellenbogen - US Congressman from Pennsylvania[5]
- Max Fleischer - cartoonist
- Felix Frankfurter - US Supreme Court Justice
- Friedrich von Hayek - Austrian-born economist and philosopher
- Alex Hafner - actor
- 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.
- Eric Kandel - neuroscientist
- David Karfunkle - painter, muralist
- Hans Kelsen - jurist[6]
- Greta Kempton - artist[7]
- Joseph Keppler - cartoonist, best known for the illustrated magazine Puck[8]
- Corey Kluber - Major League Baseball Pitcher, 2014 Cy Young Pitcher
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold - composer[9]
- Kurt Kasznar - Austrian born American actor
- Hedy Lamarr - actress, from an Austrian Jewish family[10]
- Elissa Landi - actress[11]
- Fritz Lang - director
- Erich Leinsdorf - conductor
- Peter Lorre - actor
- Ernst Mahler - chemist and industrialist
- Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises - Austrian economist, philosopher, author and classical liberal
- Arthur Murray - dancer, entrepreneur
- Richard Neutra - architect[12]
- Frederick Burr Opper - cartoonist
- Wolfgang Pauli - physicist[13]
- Kurt Gödel - logician, mathematician, philosopher
- Natalie Portman, actress, born to a Jewish family, some of whom came from Austria
- Otto Preminger - director
- Wolfgang Puck - celebrity chef, restaurateur[14]
- Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist[15]
- Martin Roscheisen - entrepreneur
- Bobby Schayer - musician
- Fritzi Scheff - actress
- Joseph Schildkraut - actor
- Arnold Schoenberg - composer[16]
- Kurt von Schuschnigg - Austrian federal Chancellor 1936-1938 and professor of political sciences at St. Louis University 1948-1967
- Alfred Schütz - philosopher/sociologist[17]
- Arnold Schwarzenegger - actor and 38th Governor of California[18]
- John Kerry - politician, former Senator from Massachusetts, US-presidental candidate of 2004 (D), current US-Secretary of State
- Lilia Skala - actress[19]
- Walter Slezak - actor[20]
- 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
- Joseph Warkany - pediatrician
- 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[21]
- Billy Wilder - director[22]
- Ernst Florian Winter - diplomat
- Matthew Winter - journalist
- Elijah Wood - actor[23]
- Sean Astin - actor
- Joe Zawinul - jazz pianist
- Fred Zinnemann - director
- Emily Osment - actress[24]
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)."
- ^ [6] "Austrian-American legal philosopher, teacher, jurist, and writer on international law..."
- ^ [7] "sat for Austrian native Greta Kempton five times in 1947..."
- ^ [8] "Joseph Keppler was born in Vienna, Austria, on 1st February, 1838."
- ^ [9] "A study of the life and work of Austrian composer Korngold..."
- ^ [10] "Austrian born film star, Hedy Lamarr, of the 1930 and 40s was also a gifted electrical engineer." [11] "Hedy Lamarr had been an American citizen since 1953."
- ^ [12] "Elissa Landi Austrian/Italian leading lady."
- ^ [13] "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."
- ^ [14] "The Austrian-born Puck began..."; WolfgangPuck.com (2005); retrieved 2006-08-31
- ^ [15] "Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian-Ukrainian of Jewish background."
- ^ 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
- ^ [16] "Arnold Schwarzenegger, "The Austrian Oak", was a bodybuilding prodigy who won the..." [17] "Arnold was the embodiment of the American (a naturalized citizen since 1983) dream..."
- ^ [18] "Galvanizing, stern-featured Viennese character actress with extensive Broadway experience..."
- ^ [19] "That's Erika Slezak, daughter of the famous Austrian-American actor Walter Slezak..."
- ^ [20] "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family..." [21] "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution..."
- ^ [22] "Wilder, Austrian-born, but in the US since 1934, directed his last film in 1981."
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