List of Austrians
Famous or notable Austrians include:
Legends
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
- Melanie Kogler, television and theatre actress
- 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
- Reggie Nalder, 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
- Oskar Werner, actor
Artists/architects
- Maria Auböck, landscape architect
- Bernhard Cella, conceptual artist
- Albin Egger-Lienz, painter
- Karl Ehn, architect, designer of the Karl-Marx-Hof
- Trude Fleischmann, photographer
- Ernst Fuchs, artist
- Xenia Hausner, painter
- Gottfried Helnwein, artist, born in Vienna
- 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
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- Wolfgang Ambros, pop musician
- 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
- Christian Fennesz, electronic musician
- Bernhard Gál, composer and artist
- Georg Friedrich Haas, composer
- 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
- Thomas Lang, drummer and composer
- Joseph Lanner, 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
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musician and composer
- Gerhard Potuznik, electronic musician
- Franz Schmidt, composer
- Arnold Schoenberg, composer
- Franz Schubert, composer and musician
- Sissi Schulmeister, musician with the punk band Alice Donut
- Parov Stelar, electronic musician
- Eduard Strauss, composer
- Johann Strauss, Jr., composer
- Johann Strauss, Sr., composer
- Josef Strauss, composer
- Franz von Suppé, composer
- Anton Webern, composer
- Franz Welser-Möst, conductor
- Hugo Wolf, composer
- Conchita Wurst, pop musician
- Joe Zawinul, jazz musician, composer
- Eric Zeisl (1905–1959) composer
- Alexander von Zemlinsky, composer
Entrepreneurs
- Hannes Androsch, former minister of finance in the government of Bruno Kreisky
- 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
- Ludwig (Louis) von Nathaniel, banker
- 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
- Albert Salomon von Rothschild, banker
- Anselm von Rothschild, banker
- Ferdinand James von Rothschild, investor
- Nathaniel Mayer Anselm von Rothschild, banker
- Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, banker
- 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
Filmmakers
- 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
- Amir Esmann, director, director of photography, writer
- Michael Haneke, film director (born in Germany, however lives and works in Austria)
- Fritz Lang, film director
- Francis Lawrence, Austrian-American 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
- Wolfgang Suschitzky, director of photography.
- 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
- Peter Aufschnaiter, mountaineer and co-traveller of Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet)
- Karl Blodig, mountaineer (first to climb all alpine mountains above 4000 m)
- Hermann Buhl, first ascent of Nanga Parbat 1953, first ascent of Broad Peak
- Kurt Diemberger, first ascents of Broad Peak (1957) and Dhaulagiri (1960)
- Peter Habeler, first ascent of Mount Everest without oxygen (together with Reinhold Messner)
- Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer (first ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid) and writer (Seven Years in Tibet)
- 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
- 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
- Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni, statesman and diplomat
- Leopold Graf 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, former President
- Werner Faymann, former Chancellor
- 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, and became German dictator 1938, annexed Austria through the Anschluß
- 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, Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem
- Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor 1970–1983, foreign minister 1959–1966
- 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, UN Secretary-General 1972–1982, President of Austria 1986–1992
Religious leaders
- 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
- Ignaz Seipel, Catholic priest, Chancellor 1922–1924 and 1926–1929
Royalty
- Elisabeth, Empress-Consort of Austria, wife of Francis Joseph I
- Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria
- Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria
- Francis II/I, Holy Roman Emperor, first Emperor of Austria
- Franz Ferdinand, Archduke (assassinated in 1914)
- Frederick II of Austria, last Babenberger duke of Austria
- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, reformer (abolished the death penalty) 1780–1790
- Karl I, last Emperor of Austria
- Karl V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500–1558
- 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)
Scientists
Economists
- Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk economist and early member of the Austrian School of Economics
- 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)
- Leopold Kohr, (1909–1994), economist, jurist and political scientist
- Fritz Machlup
- Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics
- Ludwig von Mises, free-market economist
- Oskar Morgenstern, co-founder of game theory
- Otto Neurath, socialist, economist and philosopher
- Joseph Schumpeter, economist, born in Triesch, Austria-Hungary
- Friedrich von Wieser, economist of the Austrian School
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
- Hans Köchler, philosopher (born in Schwaz, 1948)
- Georg Kreisel, philosopher and mathematician
- Alexius Meinong, philosopher (theory of objects) 1853–1920
- Otto Neurath, socialist, economist and philosopher
- Karl Popper, philosopher (born in Austria, became British)
- Friedrich Waismann, mathematician, philosopher and physicist (member of the Vienna Circle)
- Otto Weininger, philosopher
- 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 Doppler, physicist, 1803–1853, born in Salzburg (See Doppler effect)
- Paul Ehrenfest, physicist & mathematician
- Felix Ehrenhaft, maverick physicist, 1879–1952
- Josef Finger, physicist and mathematician
- Heinz von Foerster, cyberneticist, 1911–2002
- 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
- Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998
- Georg Kreisel, philosopher and mathematician
- 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)
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
- Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis
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
- Margarete Adler, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-meter (m) freestyle relay)[1]
- David Alaba, footballer, winner of 2012-13 UEFA Champions League with FC Bayern Munich
- Felix Baumgartner, world record setting skydiver
- 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 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[2]
- Dr. Otto Herschmann, Olympic 2-silver (in saber fencing/team sabre and 100-m freestyle)
- Hansi Hinterseer, skier, singer, actor, entertainer
- Nickolaus 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
- Hans Krankl, football player and coach
- Niki Lauda, Formula One race car driver and aviation entrepreneur
- Hermann Maier, Olympic alpine ski champion
- Alex Manninger, professional footballer for Arsenal F.C., winner of 1997-98 FA Premier League title
- 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
- Jakob Pöltl, basketball player; played two seasons of U.S. college basketball at Utah before declaring for the 2016 NBA draft
- Ellen Preis, foil fencer, 3-time world champion (1947, 1949, and 1950), Olympic champion, 17-time Austrian champion
- Herbert Prohaska, football player and coach
- Roland Ratzenberger, race car driver, Formula One driver
- 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)
- Werner Schlager, 2003 Table Tennis World Champion
- Carl Schlechter, chess grandmaster
- Gregor Schlierenzauer, Olympic bronze medalist,world and 4 Hills Tournament champion ski jumper
- Matthias Sindelar, regarded by many as Austria's greatest ever footballer
- Wilhelm Steinitz, winner of first ever world chess championship in 1886
- Josephine Sticker, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-m freestyle relay)
- Rudolf Spielmann, chess grandmaster
- Herma Szabo, Olympic and five-time World figure skating champion
- Dominic Thiem, top-20 tennis player
- Nicole Trimmel, kickboxing champion
- Thomas Vanek, NHL hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens
- 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
- 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
- Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer, born 1936, novelist, poet
- Karl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner, poet, writer, 1800–1890, born in Graz
- Alexander Lernet-Holenia, novelist, poet, dramatist, critic, 1897–1976
- Robert Musil, writer
- Johann Nestroy, famous playwright
- Christine Nöstlinger, writer (especially literature for children)
- Ferdinand Raimund, writer and dramatist
- Christoph Ransmayr, writer
- 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
- Amon Leopold Göth
- Aribert Heim, physician ("Dr. Death") in the Mauthausen concentration camp
- Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party and regime
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Other notables
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- 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)
- Rudolf Bing, opera manager
- Adele Bloch-Bauer, subject of famous painting by Gustav Klimt
- Josef Fritzl, notorious rapist
- Otto von Habsburg, 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
References
- ^ The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes: An Illustrated Compendium of Sports History and The 150 Greatest Jewish Sports Stars. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
- ^ "Diving into troubled waters", Paul Kalina, The Age, November 24, 2005. Retrieved January 1, 2011.