List of Austrians

The following list is an election of famous Austrians. For full lists of all famous Austrians please view the sublists.

Note: This list is rather inclusive -- some people on this list can also claim other nationalities; some were born in Austria, but spent the most important part of their lives outside Austria (e.g. Hitler, Schwarzenegger), others were born outside Austria or even outside of Austria-Hungary, but spent the most important part of their lives in Austria (e.g. Beethoven, Elisabeth of Austria).

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Actors

Artists&Architects

Monarchs

Mountaineers

Music

Politicians

Scientists

Sports

Writers

Contents

1 Actors/Actresses 2 Artists/Architects 3 Composers/Musicians 4 Entrepreneurs 5 Filmmakers 6 Mountaineers 7 Nobility 8 Politicians 9 Royalty 10 Science 10.1 Economists 10.2 Engineers/Inventors 10.3 Philosophers 10.4 Physicists, mathematicians and chemists 10.5 Physicians 10.6 Psychologists 10.7 Other scientists 11 Sports 12 Writers 13 Other notables 14 See also

Actors/Actresses

Main article: List of Austrian actors

• Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor
• Käthe Gold (1907-1997)
• Liane Haid, first Austrian movie star
• Hedy Lamarr (1913-2000), actress; also co-inventor of spread spectrum radio technology; became U.S. citizen
• Karl Merkatz, actor (most notable for his role as a Vienniese in "Mundl")
• Hans Moser
• Maximilian Schell, actor (played a defending lawyer in Judgment at Nuremberg)
• Romy Schneider, actress (starring in Orson Wells' The Trial)
• Arnold Schwarzenegger, (born 1947), bodybuilder, actor, Governor of California; became U.S. citizen
• Erich von Stroheim, actor and film director
• Oskar Werner, actor

Artists/Architects

Main article: List of Austrian artists and architects

• Gottfried Helnwein, artist, born in Vienna, 1948
• Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist, 1928-2000, born in Vienna
• Gustav Klimt, artist, helped found Vienna Secession
• Oskar Kokoschka, painter, 1886-1980, born in Pöchlarn (Lower Austria)
• Alfred Kubin, painter (graphics)
• Hans Makart, history painter, designer and decorator 1840-1884
• Inge Morath, photographer
• Richard Neutra, architect
• Arnulf Rainer, painter, born 1929
• Johann Michael Rottmayr, painter (baroque)
• Egon Schiele, painter, 1890-1918
• Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, architect and political activist
• Otto Wagner, Jugendstil architect behind much of turn-of-the-century Viennese architecture
• Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, painter 1793 to 1865

Composers/Musicians

Main Article: List of Austrians in music

• Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (born in Germany he spent nearly all his creative life in Vienna, Austria)
• Alban Berg, composer, 1885-1935, born in Vienna
• Alfred Brendel, pianist, born 1931
• Anton Bruckner, composer, 1824-1896
• Carl Czerny, pianist and composer
• Falco, (1957-1998), pop musician
• Nikolaus Harnoncourt, famous, contempourous conductor
• Joseph Haydn, composer with Croatian connections. Author of "Imperial Hymn" now German Hymn
• Udo Jürgens, singer-songwriter
• Herbert von Karajan, conductor, 1908-1989
• Franz Liszt, composer (born in Raiding, then Austria-Hungary, now Austria)
• Gustav Mahler, composer, 1860-1911
• Leopold Mozart, composer & musician, 1719-1787
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer & musician, 1756-1791
• Arnold Schoenberg, composer, 1874-1951
• Franz Schubert, composer & musician, 1797-1828
• Johann Strauss, Sr., composer 1809-1849
• Johann Strauss, Jr., composer 1825-1899
• Josef Strauss, composer 1827-1870
• Franz von Suppé, composer (born in Split, Austria-Hungary 1819)
• Anton Webern, composer, 1883-1945
• Joe Zawinul, jazz musician, composer, born in Vienna, 1932

Entrepreneurs

• Gaston Glock, inventor, founder of GLOCK
• Niki Lauda, (born 1949), 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 Austria-Hungary
• Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, automotive engineer and entrepreneur, he expanded the sportscar manufacturer Porsche AG to what it is now
• Robert Schlumberger, entrepreneur
• Frank Stronach, (born in Austria), entrepreneur
• Daniel Swarovski, founder of Swarovski AG

Filmmakers

• Franz Antel, director, actor and writer
• Axel Corti, director
• Elfi von Dassanowsky, film producer, singer, pianist
• Michael Haneke, film director (born in Germany, however his mother was Austrian)
• Fritz Lang, film director, December 05, 1890 - August 02, 1976
• Otto Preminger, film director
• Josef von Sternberg, film director, 1894-1969
• Erich von Stroheim, director
• Billy Wilder, film director, 1906-2002, 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)
• Ludwig Purtscheller, first ascent of Kilimanjaro in 1889
• Herbert Tichy, geologist, journalist and mountaineer (first ascent of Cho Oyo)
• Luis Trenker, mountaineer, film director and writer (born in South Tyrol, Austria-Hungary)

Nobility

Austrian nobility

• Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni, statesman and diplimot
• Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, statesman and diplomat
• Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Field marshall
• Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, statesman and historian
• Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, statesman
• Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, diplomat and statesman
• Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, military leader
• Eugene of Savoy, general in the war against the turks (17th-18th century)
• Anton von Schmerling, statesman (liberal movement of the 19th century)
• Johann Philipp von Stadion, statesman, foreign minister and diplomat 1763- 1824
• Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, admiral
• Alfred I, Fürst zu Windisch-Grätz, general

Politicians

Main Article: List of Austrian Politicians

• Viktor Adler, Social democrat
• Dr. Otto Bauer, politician (social democrat), writer and marxist ideologist
• Leopold von Berchtold, foreign minister at the outbreak of World War One
• Engelbert Dollfuß, Chancellor (First Republic) and dictator from 1933 to 1934
• Leopold Figl, former Chancellor and foreign minister
• Heinz Fischer, Austrian President (elected 2004)
• Alfred Gusenbauer, chairman of the Austrian Socialdemocrats
• Jörg Haider, politician, right-wing populist
• Theodor Innitzer, cardinal, archbishop of Vienna and minister of the First Republic
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner, national socialist politician
• Rudolf Kirchschläger, judge, diplomat and former Austrian president
• Thomas Klestil, diplomat and Austrian president
• Bruno Kreisky, first jewish Austrian Chancellor 1911 - 1990
• Julius Raab, former Chancellor
• Karl Renner, former Chancellor and first Austrian president of the 2nd Republic
• Adolf Schärf, former Austrian president
• Kurt Schuschnigg, dictator from 1934 to 1938
• Wolfgang Schüssel, current Chancellor of Austria
• Ignaz Seipel, former Chancellor (First Republic)
• Arthur Seyß-Inquart, national socialist politican, last Chancellor before the Anschluss
• Alexander Van der Bellen, chairman of the Austrian Green Party
• Kurt Waldheim, diplomat and politician; former Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1982, former President of Austria from 1986 to 1992

Royalty

Main Article: List of rulers of Austria

• Elisabeth, Empress-Consort of Austria, wife of Francis Joseph I.
• Ferdinand I., monarch
• Franz Ferdinand of Austria, archduke (assassinated in 1914)
• Francis Joseph I., monarch
• Francis I., monarch
• Frederick II of Austria, last Babenberger to rule Austria
• Joseph II, monarch, reformer (abolished the death penalty) 1780-1790
• Karl V., monarch 1500-1558
• Karl I., last monarch of Austria-Hungary
• Leopold V., monarch of the house of Babenberg, (was on the Third Crusade)
• Maximilian I., monarch 1458-1519
• Maria Theresia, monarch
• Rudolph I, first Habsburger to rule Austria
• Rudolf IV of Austria, monarch 1358-1365 (Privilegium Maius)

Science

Main Article: list of Austrian scientists

Economists

• Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk economist and early member of the Austrian School of Economics
• Friedrich Hayek, economist and social scientist, Nobel Prize in economics 1974
• 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, econmist (neoclassical), born in Triech, Austria-Hungary
• Friedrich von Wieser, economist (regarded as follower of the Austrian School of economics)

Engineers/Inventors

• Anselm Franz, pioneer in jet engine engineering
• Gaston Glock, inventor, founder of GLOCK
• Hedy Lamarr, (known for research in frequences, needed for mobile phones)
• Viktor Kaplan, inventor of turbines for river power plants
• Wilhelm Kress, aviation pioneer, inventor of the stick control for airplanes
• Josef Madersberger, invented the sewing-machine in 1818
• Siegfried Marcus, automobile pioneer (vehicles of 1870 and 1889), lived most of his life in Austria
• Peter Mitterhofer, inventor of typewriter
• Alois Negrelli, engineer and railroad pioneer (created the plans for the Suez Canal)
• Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer, designed the Volkswagen (the "people's car"), born in Austria-Hungary
• Josef Ressel, inventor of the marine screw propeller
• Alois Senefelder, inventor of the printing technique of lithographie
• Max Valier, rocketry pioneer
• Auer von Welsbach, inventor of gaslight

Philosophers

• Franz Brentano, philosopher and psychologist
• Martin Buber, philosopher, 1878-1965, born in Vienna
• 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)
• Alexius Meinong, phiolosopher (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)
• 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
• Christian Andreas Doppler, physicist, 1803-1853, born in Salzburg (See Doppler effect)
• Paul Ehrenfest, physicist & mathematician
• 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
• 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)
• 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
• Leopold Ruzicka, (born in Croatia, Austria-Hungary in 1887), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944
• Erwin Schrödinger, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
• Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze, mathematician
• Carl Auer von Welsbach, chemist
• Gernot Zippe, physicist (developped Zippe-type centrifuge to extract Uranium-235 for nuclear weapons)
• Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925

Physicians

• Hans Asperger, pediatrician (most known for work on autism; see Asperger's syndrome)
• Leopold Auenbrugger, physician 1722-1809 (method of percussion)
• Robert Barany, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Carl Cori, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947
• Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, physician and physiologist (studies of nerves and the brain)
• Viktor Frankl, father of logotherapy
• Karl von Frisch, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Karl Landsteiner, physician, serologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1886-1943
• 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
• Ignaz Semmelweis, physician (born in Hungary, Austria-Hungary)
• Julius Wagner-Jauregg, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927

Psychologists

• Alfred Adler, father of Individual Psychology
• Hans Asperger, pediatrician, namesake of Asperger's syndrome
• Bruno Bettelheim, psychologist
• Josef Breuer, pschologist (forerunnner in psychoanalysis)
• Viktor Frankl, father of logotherapy
• Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis
• Leo Kanner, child psychologist
• Otto Rank, pioneer psychologist
• Wilhelm Reich, psychologist, (1897-1957)
• Erwin Ringel (1921-1994), Austrian psychiatrist (presuicidal syndrome)
• Paul Watzlawick, communication theory

Other scientists

• Othenio Abel, paleontologist
• Hans Hass, biologist
• Hans Kelsen, jurist (father of the Austrian constitution)
• Otto Loewi, pharmacologist (born in Germany, but spent 40 years (age 25-65) of his life in Austria) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Konrad Lorenz zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Gregor Mendel, pioneer of genetics

Sports

Main Article: List of Austrians in Sports

• Hansi Hinterseer (born 1954), skier, singer, actor, entertainer
• Franz Klammer, Olympic alpine ski champion, born in Mooswald (Carinthia), 1953
• Niki Lauda, (born 1949), Formula One race car driver and aviation entrepreneur
• Hermann Maier, Olympic alpine ski champion, born 1972
• Thomas Muster, tennis champion, born 1967
• Jochen Rindt, race car driver, Formula One World Champion of 1970 (he died during that season!)
• Toni Sailer, 1956 Olympic Games - Won all three gold medals earning himself the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing ; born 1935
• Anita Wachter, Olympic alpine ski champion, born in Schruns, 1967
• Eva Pawlik, European figure skating Champion, born in Vienna, 1927, died in Vienna, 1983

Writers

Main Article: List of Austrian writers

• Ingeborg Bachmann, poet, 1926-1973
• Hermann Bahr, playwriter, novellist 1863-1934
• Thomas Bernhard, dramatist, novelist, poet, 1931-1989, born in Cloister Heerlen, Netherlands
• Max Brod, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary 1884, wrote in German
• Elias Canetti, writer (born in Russe, Austria-Hungary 1905), wrote in German, Nobel Prize in Literature 1981
• Otto Maria Carpeaux, literary critic and foremost historian of Literature, 1900-1978
• Paul Celan, poet (born in Romania, Austria-Hungary), wrote in German
• Heimito von Doderer, writer, 1896-1966, born in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau near Vienna
• Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer (style: psychological novelist)
• Alfred Fried, writer, pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1911
• 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
• Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946), 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Franz Kafka, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German)
• Robert Menasse, writer and publicist
• Robert Musil, writer
• Johann Nestroy, famous playwriter
• Christine Nöstlinger, writer (especially literature for children)
• Ferdinand Raimund, writer and dramatist
• Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and novelist
• Peter Rosegger, writer 1843-1918
• Joseph Roth, writer (Radetzkymarsch)
• Arthur Schnitzler, writer
• Adalbert Stifter, poet and artist (died 1869
• Bertha von Suttner, writer and pacifist Nobel Peace Prize winner
• Friedrich Torberg, narrative writer, essayist, script author 1908-1979, born in Vienna
• Georg Trakl, poet
• Franz Werfel, writer, bron in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German)
• Oswald von Wolkenstein, writer and composer 1376-1445
• Stefan Zweig, writer, 1881-1942, born in Vienna

Other notables

• Ladislaus Almásy, pilot and automobile pioneer
• Marie Antoinette, born in Vienna, became Queen of France
• Elisabeth of Austria ("Sissi"), born in Munich (Bavaria)
• Robert Bernardis, resistance fighter during WW2 (July 20 Plot)
• Rudolph Bing, opera manager
• Christoph Schönborn, archbishop and cardinal
• Otto Habsburg-Lothringen Politician, writer, heir to the thrones of Austria-Hungary
• Tunc Hamarat, correspondence chess world champion (2004)
• Theodor Herzl, "founder" of Israel, lived most of his life in Austria
• Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany (1933-1945), born April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn (gave up Austrian citizenship in 1925, gained German citizenship in 1932)
• Andreas Hofer, Tyrolian freedom fighter (against Napoleon)
• Franz Cardinal König, 1905-2004, Archbishop of Vienna (1956-1985)
• Alma Mahler, wife and muse to Mahler, Gropius, Werfel
• Wolfgang Puck, celebrity chef and restaurateur
• Max Reinhardt, renowned theatre director
• Günther Schifter, radio personality
• Otto Skorzeny, Nazi commando (rescuer of Benito Mussolini)
• Carl Szokoll, resistance fighter ("saviour of Vienna"), author and film producer
• Georg Ritter von Trapp, head of The Sound of Music family
• Franz Viehböck, cosmonaut
• Simon Wiesenthal, b.1908, Nazi hunter

See also

• List of Austrian Jews
• 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

See also: List of Austrians, 1358, 1365, 1376, 1445, 1458, 1500, 1519, 1558