List of Austrians

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Location of Austria

This is a list of notable Austrians.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

## Contents

* 1 Actors/actresses
* 2 Artists/architects
* 3 Composers/musicians
* 4 Entrepreneurs
* 5 Filmmakers
* 6 Mountaineers
* 7 Military leaders
* 8 Politicians
* 9 Religious leaders
* 10 Royalty
* 11 Scientists
* 11.1 Economists
* 11.2 Engineers/inventors
* 11.3 Philosophers
* 11.4 Physicists, mathematicians and chemists
* 11.5 Physicians
* 11.6 Psychologists
* 11.7 Other scientists
* 12 Sports
* 13 Writers
* 14 People of the Nazi Party and regime
* 15 Other notables
* 16 See also
* 17 References

## Actors/actresses[edit | edit source]

* Helmut Berger (born 1944), actor
* Senta Berger (born 1941), actress
* Klaus Maria Brandauer (born 1943), actor
* Marie Geistinger (1836–1903), actress and opera singer
* Käthe Gold (1907-1997), stage actress
* Liane Haid (1895-2000), first Austrian movie star
* Attila Hörbiger (1896-1987), actor
* Christiane Hörbiger (born 1938), actress
* Paul Hörbiger (1894-1981), actor
* Boris Kodjoe (born 1973), actor
* Melanie Kogler (born 1985), television and theatre actress
* Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000), actress; also co-inventor of spread spectrum radio technology; became U.S. citizen
* Karl Merkatz (born 1930), actor (most notable for his role as a Viennese in "Mundl")
* Birgit Minichmayr (born 1977), actress
* Hans Moser (1880-1964), comedy actor
* Reggie Nalder (1907-1991), actor
* Maximilian Schell (1930-2014), actor
* Romy Schneider (1938-1982), actress
* Arnold Schwarzenegger (born 1947), bodybuilder, actor, became U.S. citizen, governor of the U.S. state of California (2003–2011)
* Erich von Stroheim (1885-1957), actor and film director
* Christoph Waltz (born 1956), actor
* Maria Weiss, mezzo-soprano and actress
* Oskar Werner (1922-1984), actor
* Gilla (born 1950), also known as Gisela Wuchinger. She's a singer and actor from the disco era

## Artists/architects[edit | edit source]

Main article: List of Austrian artists and architects

See also: List of Austrian women artists

* Felix de Weldon, sculptor
* Maria Auböck, landscape architect
* Bernhard Cella, conceptual artist
* Karl Duldig (1902–1986), Austrian-Australian sculptor
* 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
* Kurt Hentschlager, new media artist
* Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist
* Gustav Klimt, artist, helped found Vienna Secession
* Oskar Kokoschka,[1] 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

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Falco with the Swiss singer Ursela Monn

## Composers/musicians[edit | edit source]

Joseph Haydn

Johann Strauss II

Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948

Main article: List of Austrians in music

* Wolfgang Ambros, pop musician
* Louie Austen (born 1946), composer and musician
* Ernst Bachrich (1892/1893-1942), composer and conductor
* Caroline Bayer (1758-1803), 18th-century violinist and composer
* Alban Berg[2] (1885-1935), composer
* Alfred Brendel (born 1931), pianist
* Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), composer
* Friedrich Cerha (born 1926), composer and conductor
* Carl Czerny (1791-1857), pianist and composer
* Anton Diabelli (1781-1858), publisher, editor and composer
* Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799), composer
* Karlheinz Essl (born 1960), composer and electronical musician
* Falco (1957-1998), pop musician
* Christian Fennesz (born 1962), electronic musician
* Bernhard Gál (born 1971), composer and artist
* Georg Friedrich Haas (born 1953), composer
* Natascha Hagen, singer-songwriter
* Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929-2016), conductor
* Joseph Haydn[2] (1732-1809), composer
* Michael Haydn (1737-1806), composer, younger brother of Joseph Haydn
* Udo Jürgens (1934-2014), singer-songwriter
* Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989), conductor
* Bernhard Lang (born 1957), composer
* Thomas Lang (born 1967), drummer and composer
* Joseph Lanner (1801-1843), composer
* Left Boy (born 1988), singer
* Elisabeth Leonskaja (born 1945), pianist, Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class, in 2006
* Gustav Mahler[2] (1860-1911), composer
* Penny McLean (born 1948), singer with the disco group Silver Convention
* Marianne von Martinez (1744-1812), composer, singer
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart[2][3] (1756-1791), musician and composer
* Gerhard Potuznik, electronic musician
* Franz Schmidt (1874-1939), composer
* Arnold Schoenberg[2] (1874-1951), composer
* Franz Schubert[2][3] (1797-1828), composer and musician
* Parov Stelar (born 1974), electronic musician
* Eduard Strauss (1835-1916), composer
* Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899), composer
* Johann Strauss, Sr. (1804-1849), composer
* Josef Strauss (1827-1870), composer
* Franz von Suppé (1819-1895), composer
* Anton Webern[2] (1883-1945), composer
* Franz Welser-Möst (born 1960), conductor
* Hugo Wolf (1860-1903), composer
* Conchita Wurst (born 1988), pop musician
* Joe Zawinul (1932-2007), jazz musician, composer
* Eric Zeisl (1905-1959), composer
* Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871-1942), composer

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Ferdinand James von Rothschild

## Entrepreneurs[edit | edit source]

* Hannes Androsch (born 1938), former minister of finance in the government of Bruno Kreisky
* Hikmet Ersek, CEO of The Western Union Company, a Fortune 500 company.
* Ignaz Glaser (1853-1916), entrepreneur
* Gaston Glock (born 1929), inventor, founder of Glock Ges.m.b.H.
* Niki Lauda (1949-2019), Formula One race car driver and aviation entrepreneur
* Richard Lugner (born 1932), entrepreneur and society figure
* Dietrich Mateschitz (1944-2022), businessman behind the Red Bull brand
* Ludwig (Louis) von Nathaniel (1882-1955), 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 (1909-1998)
* Johann Puch (1862-1914), inventor, mechanic, co-founder of Steyr-Daimler-Puch
* Albert Salomon von Rothschild (1844-1911), banker
* Anselm von Rothschild (1803-1874), banker
* Ferdinand James von Rothschild (1839-1898), investor
* Nathaniel Mayer Anselm von Rothschild (1836-1905), banker
* Salomon Mayer von Rothschild (1774-1855), banker
* Robert Schlumberger (1814-1879), entrepreneur
* Frank Stronach (born 1932), (born in Austria), entrepreneur
* Daniel Swarovski (1862-1956), founder of Swarovski AG, world-famous crystals, born in Jiřetín pod Bukovou, (Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic)

Fritz Lang

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Hans Weingartner

## Filmmakers[edit | edit source]

* 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
* Max Fleischer, animator
* Michael Haneke,[4] film director (born in Germany, however lives and works in Austria)
* Fritz Lang,[5][6] film director
* Francis Lawrence, Austrian-American film director
* Otto Preminger, film director
* Stefan Ruzowitzky, film director and writer
* Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor and politician
* Ulrich Seidl, film director and writer
* Josef von Sternberg, film director
* Erich von Stroheim,[5][7] film director
* Wolfgang Suschitzky, director of photography
* Edgar G. Ulmer, film 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[edit | edit source]

Main article: List of Austrian mountaineers

Peter Aufschnaiter

* 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 on the 1953 German–Austrian Nanga Parbat expedition, 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)
* Fritz Moravec, first ascent of Gasherbrum II (1956)
* 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[edit | edit source]

Joseph Radetzky von Radetz

* 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)
* Philipp von Stadion und Thannhausen, field marshal
* Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, admiral
* Georg von Trapp, navy officer
* Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, general
* Archduke Charles of Austria, fight against Napoleon

## Politicians[edit | edit source]

Main article: List of Austrian Politicians

Adolf Hitler

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Sebastian Kurz

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Karl Renner

* Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni, statesman and diplomat
* Leopold Graf Berchtold, foreign minister at the outbreak of the First World War
* Brigitte Bierlein, Chancellor 2019–2020
* Richard von 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, leader of Nazi Germany 1933–1945, gained German citizenship in 1932, and became German Chancellor in 1933. In 1938, he annexed Austria with 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
* Christian Kern, Chancellor 2016–2017
* 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
* Sebastian Kurz, Chancellor 2017–2019, 2020–2021
* 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 and President since 2017
* Kurt Waldheim, diplomat and politician, UN Secretary-General 1972–1982, President of Austria 1986–1992

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Ignaz Seipel

## Religious leaders[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

Main article: List of rulers of Austria

Franz Joseph I of Austria

* 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
* Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, 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[edit | edit source]

For a more comprehensive list, see List of Austrian scientists.

Joseph Schumpeter

### Economists[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

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Thomas Feichtner

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Josef Ressel

* Thomas Feichtner, industrial designer
* 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
* Alexander Habianitsch, certified wheelchair virtuoso
* Ernst Lauda (1859-1932), hydraulic and bridge engineer
* 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
* Josef Singer (1923-2009), Israeli aeronautical engineer and President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
* Max Valier, rocketry pioneer
* Auer von Welsbach, inventor of gaslight
* Theodor Scheimpflug, inventor of Scheimpflug photography

Ludwig Wittgenstein

### Philosophers[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

Erwin Schrödinger

Walter Kohn

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Emil Artin

* Emil Artin, mathematician (Artin's conjecture)
* Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, 1844–1906, born in Vienna
* Stefan Brünner, physicist, person of the year.
* 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
* Johanna Piesch (1898–1992), physicist, mathematician, pioneer in switching algebra
* 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[edit | edit source]

Josef Breuer

* 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
* Karol Ignacy Lorinser, physician
* 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

Sigmund Freud

### Psychologists[edit | edit source]

* Paul Watzlawick, communication theory
* Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis

### Other scientists[edit | edit source]

* Othenio Abel, paleontologist
* Karl von Czyhlarz, Czech-Austrian jurist
* Martin Gerzabek, ecologist and soil scientist
* Hans Hass, biologist and diving pioneer
* Max Hecker (born 1879), Austrian-born Israeli President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
* 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
* Eric Kandel, neuroscientist

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Ernst Grünfeld

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Niki Lauda

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Dominic Thiem

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Michaela Dorfmeister

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Otto Wahle

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Eva Pawlik

## Sports[edit | edit source]

Main article: List of Austrians in Sports

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Eva Duldig

* Margarete Adler, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-meter (m) freestyle relay)[8]
* 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
* Hans Dobida, inductee into the IIHF Hall of Fame
* Michaela Dorfmeister, alpine skier
* Eva Duldig (born 1938), Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
* Erich Eliskases, chess grandmaster
* Otto Fischer (1901–1941), footballer and coach
* Siegfried Flesch, sabre fencer, Olympic bronze
* Marcel Sabitzer, footballer
* Toni Fritsch, soccer and football player who won the Super Bowl in 1972
* Michael Grabner, NHL player
* 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[9]
* 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), shot put and discus junior champion, weightlifting junior champion, and pentathlon champion
* Felix Kasper, figure skater, Olympic bronze
* Franz Klammer, Olympic alpine ski champion
* Alfred König (1913-1987), Austrian-Turkish Olympic sprinter
* Hans Krankl, football player and coach
* Niki Lauda (1949–2019), 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)
* Uberto De Morpurgo (1896–1961), Austrian-born Italian tennis player
* 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 (1960–1994), race car driver, Formula One driver
* Jochen Rindt (1942–1970), 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)
* Max Scheuer, footballer; national team
* Werner Schlager, 2003 Table Tennis World Champion
* Carl Schlechter, chess grandmaster
* Gregor Schlierenzauer, Olympic bronze medalist, world and 4 Hills Tournament champion ski jumper
* Heinrich Schönfeld (born 1900), football player
* Matthias Sindelar, 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 and Grand Slam Champion (Men’s Singles, US Open 2020)
* 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
* Walter Wasservogel, inductee into the IIHF Hall of Fame

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Joseph Roth

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Christine Nöstlinger

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Hugo von Hofmannsthal

## Writers[edit | edit source]

Main article: List of Austrian writers

See also: List of Austrian women writers

* Ingeborg Bachmann,[10] poet, 1926–1973
* Hermann Bahr, playwright, novelist 1863–1934
* Ludwig Bemelmans, author of the Madeline books, 1898–1962
* Thomas Bernhard,[10] dramatist, novelist, poet, 1931–1989, born in Cloister Heerlen, Netherlands
* Hermann Broch,[10] novelist
* 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,[10] author, born in 1942 in Griffen (Carinthia)
* Hugo von Hofmannsthal,[10] dramatist, writer
* Martin Horváth, writer
* Franz Kafka, novelist, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, 1883-1924
* Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer, born 1936, novelist, poet
* Werner Kofler, novelist and dramatist
* Karl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner, poet, writer, 1800–1890, born in Graz
* Alexander Lernet-Holenia, novelist, poet, dramatist, critic, 1897–1976
* Robert Musil,[10][11] writer
* Johann Nestroy, famous playwright
* Christine Nöstlinger, writer (especially literature for children)
* Ferdinand Raimund, writer and dramatist
* Christoph Ransmayr, writer
* Rainer Maria Rilke,[10] poet and novelist, born in Prague, (Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic) 1875–1926
* Peter Rosegger, writer, teacher & Styrian hero and visionary 1843–1918
* Joseph Roth,[10] novelist
* Arthur Schnitzler,[10] novelist and playwright
* Adalbert Stifter,[12] 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,[10] poet
* Josef Weinheber, poet and essayist
* Stefan Zweig, novelist and playwright, 1881-1942

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Amon Göth

## People of the Nazi Party and regime[edit | edit source]

* Amon Göth, commandant of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp and executed Nazi war criminal
* Aribert Heim, physician ("Dr. Death") in the Mauthausen concentration camp
* Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party and Nazi Germany
* Ernst Kaltenbrunner, high ranking SS officer and Nazi war criminal
* Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Reich Commissioner of the Netherlands

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Otto von Hapsburg

## Other notables[edit | edit source]

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Julius von Payer

* Maria Altmann, niece of Adele Bloch-Bauer
* Walter Wolf, business person
* Oscar Baumann, explored the interior of German East Africa (present-day Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi)
* Robert Bernardis, resistance fighter during WW2 (July 20 Plot)
* Edward Bernays, Austrian-American pioneer in public relations, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations".
* 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
* Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler
* Klara Hitler, mother of Adolf Hitler
* 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
* Erna Patak (1871–1955), Zionist, social worker
* 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
* Hede von Trapp, painter artist

## See also[edit | edit source]

* List of Austrian Jews
* List of Austrian inventors and discoverers
* 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

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