List of people from Vienna
A–C
- Carlo Abarth (1908–1979), Italian race car driver and tuner.
- Gustav Abel (1902–1963), film architect and stage designer.
- Othenio Abel (1875–1946), paleontologist and evolutionary biologist.
- Wolfgang Abel (1905–1997), anthropologist.
- Christoph Ignaz Abele (1627–1685), lawyer and court official.
- Leo Aberer (born 1978), musician.
- Walter Abish (1931–2022), American writer.
- Leopold Ackermann (1771–1831), theologian.
- Antonie Adamberger (1790–1867), actress, fiance of Theodor Körner.
- Karl Adamek (1910–2000), footballer and coach.
- Alfred Adler (1870–1937), founder of individual psychology.
- Victor Adler (1852–1918), social democrat and activist for the rights of workers.
- Ilse Aichinger[1] (1921–2016), writer.
- David Alaba[2] (born 1992), Austrian footballer.
- Christopher Alexander[3] (1936–2022), England-based architect and design theorist; wrote book A Pattern Language (1977).
- Peter Altenberg (1859–1919), fin de siècle writer and poet.
- Wolfgang Ambros (born 1952), one of the founders of the musical movement Austropop.
- Ludwig Anzengruber (1839–1889), an Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet.[4]
- Walter Arlen (1920–2023), composer; music critic in LA Times.
- Alfred Ritter von Arneth (1819–1897), an Austrian historian, wrote about Maria Theresa.[5]
- Hans Asperger (1906–1980), pediatrician; discoverer of Asperger syndrome.
- Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858–1929), chemist.
- Haim Bar-Lev (1924–1994), Israeli general and government minister.
- Ludwig Basch (1851–1940), editor and journalist.
- Fanny Basch-Mahler (1854–1942), pianist and music teacher.
- Polly Batic (1906–1992), operatic mezzo-soprano.
- Eduard von Bauernfeld (1802–1890), Austrian dramatist.[6]
- Vicki Baum (1888–1960), novelist.
- Alban Berg (1885–1935), composer.
- Herbert Berghof (1909–1990), late actor.
- Turhan Bey (1922–2012), actor.
- Hedy Bienenfeld (1907–1976), Austrian-American Olympic swimmer.
- Theodore Bikel (1924–2015), actor and singer.
- Karl Bitter (1867–1915), American architectural sculptor of memorials and residential works.[7]
- John Paul Blass (1937–2023), physician, biochemist and neurochemist.
- Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), physicist.
- Arik Brauer (1929–2021), painter, poet and singer.
- Eugene Braunwald (born 1929), cardiologist.
- Vanessa Brown (born Smylla Brind, 1928–1999), actress.
- Martin Buber (1878–1965), philosopher.
- Ignaz Franz Castelli (1781–1862), an Austrian dramatist.[8]
- Dorrit Cohn (1924–2012), professor of comparative literature.
- Heinrich Joseph von Collin (1771–1811), an Austrian dramatist.[9]
- Carl Czerny (1791–1857), an Austrian composer, teacher and pianist.[10]
D–G
- Georg Danzer (1946–2007), songwriter.
- Elfi von Dassanowsky (1924–2007), film producer, pianist and singer.
- Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705–1766), Austrian field marshal, later Prince of Thiano.[11]
- Helmut Deutsch (born 1945), pianist.
- Oskar Deutsch (born 1963), entrepreneur and President of the Jewish Community of Vienna.
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–1799), Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist.[12]
- Carl Djerassi (1923–2015), chemist, novelist, and playwright; developer of the oral contraceptive pill.
- Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966), writer.
- Georgia Doll (born 1980), theatre director, playwright and poet.
- Ludwig Donath (1900–1967), actor.
- Peter Drucker (1909–2005), economist.
- Eva Duldig (born 1938), Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author.
- Klaus Ebner (born 1964), writer.
- Albert Ehrenstein (1886–1950), writer.
- Fanny Elssler (1810–1884), ballerina of the Romantic Period.[13]
- Carl Esmond (1902–2004), actor.
- Constantin von Ettingshausen (1826–1897), botanist, studied of flora from the Tertiary era.[14]
- Falco (1957–1998), instrumentalist and singer.
- Maria Zhorella Fedorova (1915–2017), lyric soprano.
- Robert Fein (1907-1975), Olympic Champion weightlifter.
- Ferdinand I of Austria (1793–1875), Emperor of Austria.[15]
- Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861–1948), Tsar of Bulgaria.
- Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben (1806–1849), physician, poet and philosopher.[16]
- Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994), philosopher.
- Otto Fischer (1901–1941), footballer player and coach.
- Trude Fleischmann (1895–1990), photographer.
- Willi Forst (1903–1980), actor, director, singer and writer.
- Francis I of Austria & Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (1768–1835), Holy Roman Emperor and Emperor of Austria.[17]
- Viktor Frankl (1905–1997), neurologist and psychiatrist; founder of logotherapy.
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863–1914), heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary.[18]
- Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830-1916), Emperor of Austria.[19]
- Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), neurologist; founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology.
- Karl von Frisch (1886–1982), animal psychologist, beekeeper and zoologist; co-recipient 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), mathematician.
- Karl Geiringer (1899–1989), musicologist.
- Amon Göth (1908–1946), Nazi SS concentration camp commandant executed for war crimes.
- Maximilian Grabner (1905–1948), Nazi Gestapo chief in Auschwitz executed for crimes against humanity.
- Ilona Graenitz (1943–2022), Austrian MP and MEP.
- Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), writer and dramatist.[20]
- Victor Gruen (1903–1980), architect.
- Ruth Grützbauch (born 1978), astronomer.
- Friedrich Gulda (1930–2000), composer and pianist.
- Alfred Guth (1908–1996), Austrian-born American water polo player, swimmer, and Olympic modern pentathlete.
H–L
- Eduard Haas (1897–1989), inventor of Pez candy.
- Walter Hahn (born 1987), professional wrestler.
- Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795–1871), an Austrian mineralogist.[21]
- Franz Ritter von Hauer (1822–1899), an Austrian geologist.[22]
- Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), economist; co-recipient of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
- Andre Heller (born 1947), artist, poet and songwriter.
- Max Heller (born in Vienna in 1919), politician in Greenville, South Carolina, United States.
- Gottfried Helnwein (born 1948), artist.
- Dr. Otto Herschmann (1877–1942), saber fencer, Olympic silver; 100-m freestyle in swimming, Olympic silver.
- Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), journalist; founder of modern political Zionism.
- Mickey Hirschl (1906–1991), Olympic-medal-winning wrestler, shot put and discus junior champion, weightlifting junior champion, and pentathlon champion.
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), writer; founder of the Salzburg Festival.
- Oskar Homolka (1898–1978), actor.
- Moritz Hörnes (1815–1868), an Austrian palaeontologist.[23]
- Count Joseph Alexander Hübner (1811–1892), an Austrian diplomat.[24]
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), architect and painter.
- Wolfgang Hutter (1928–2014), artist, painter and university art professor.
- Ernst Jandl (1925–2000), poet and writer.
- Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678–1711), ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1705 until his death.[25]
- Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), photographer.
- Martin Karplus (born 1930), theoretical chemist; co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
- Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711–1794), an Austrian and Czech diplomat and statesman.[26]
- Count Alajos Károlyi de Nagykároly (1825–1889), an Austro-Hungarian diplomat.[27]
- Gina Kaus (1893–1985), novelist.
- Abraham Klausner (Austrian rabbi), 14th-century rabbi.
- Melchior Klesl (1552–1630), an Austrian statesman and cardinal of the Roman Catholic church.[28]
- Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), painter.
- Pina Kollar, singer and songwriter.
- Alfred König (1913-1987), Austrian-Turkish Olympic sprinter.
- Franz König (1905–2004), Cardinal Archbishop.
- Karl Kordesch (1922–2011), chemist and inventor.
- Hans Krankl (born 1953), footballer player.
- Karl Kraus (1874–1936), satirist; publisher of the newspaper Die Fackel.
- Wolfgang Kraus (1924–1998), essayist; leader for many years of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur (Austrian Society for Literature).
- Klaus Kubinger (born 1949), psychologist, statistician, and university professor.
- Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), actress and inventor.
- Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943), biologist and physician; discoverer of blood group; recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- Fritz Lang (1890–1976), director.
- Ruth Langer (1921–1999), national champion swimmer.
- Josef Lanner (1801–1843), composer.
- Niki Lauda (1949–2019), entrepreneur and race car driver.
- Henry Lehrman (1881–1946), silent film director.
- Lotte Lenya (1898–1981), actor and singer.
- Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747–1792), Archduke of Austria from 1790 to 1792.[29]
- Leopold Lindtberg (1902–1984), director.
- Edie Locke (1921–2020), fashion journalist.[30]
- Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989), behavioural scientist; co-recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- Tilly Losch (1903–1975), actress and dancer.
- Fritzi Löwy (1910–1994), Olympic swimmer.
- Bernhard Ludvik (born 1961), physician
M–R
- Anna Mahler (1904–1988), sculptor.
- Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), composer and conductor.
- Natascha Mair (born 1995), ballet dancer.
- Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria; last absolute Queen of France (1774–1792).[31]
- Maria Theresa (1717–1780), daughter of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor; Queen of Bohemia and Hungary (1740–1780).[32]
- Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1557–1619), Archduke of Austria from 1608 to 1619.[33]
- Alice Mavrogordato (1916–2000), painter, translator during the Nuremberg trials.[34]
- Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459–1519), Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death.[35]
- Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527–1576,) Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 until his death.[36]
- Maximilian I of Mexico (1832–1867), Emperor of Mexico.[37]
- Friederike Mayröcker (1924–2021), writer.
- Lise Meitner (1878–1968), physicist.
- Carl Menger (1840–1921), economist and founder of the Austrian School of economics.
- Karl Menger (1902–1985), mathematician and son of Carl Menger.
- Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973), economist.
- Johann August Georg Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvar (1839–1907), an Austro-Hungarian geologist and palaeontologist.[38]
- Adele Molnar, voice actress of Piglett in the German dub of “Winnie the Poo”.
- Elfriede Moser-Rath (1926–1993), folklorist.
- Karl Motesiczky (1904–1943), psychoanalyst.
- Felix Josef von Mottl (1856–1911), an Austrian conductor and composer.[39]
- Reggie Nalder (1907–1991), film and television character actor.
- Itzhak Nener (1919–2012), jurist who cofounded the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and served as vice-president of Liberal International.
- Johann Nestroy (1801–1862), playwright.
- Fritz Neugebauer (born 1944), second president of the Austrian National Council.
- Peter C. Newman (1929–2023), journalist.
- Saul K. Padover (1905–1981), historian and political scientist at The New School of Social Research in New York City, New York, US.
- Alfred Pal (1920–2010), Croatian graphic designer and painter.
- Bertha Pappenheim (1859–1936), feminist.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958), physicist.
- August von Pettenkofen (1822–1889), an Austrian painter.[40]
- Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797–1858), an Austrian explorer, travel writer and ethnographer.[41]
- Caroline Pichler (1769–1843), an Austrian historical novelist.[42]
- Anton Piëch (1894–1952), lawyer, son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche.
- Thila Plaichinger (1868–1939), opera singer.
- Karl Polanyi (1886–1964), economic historian.
- Alfred Polgar (1873–1955), author and journalist.
- Józef Poniatowski (1763–1813), a Polish general.[43]
- Karl Popper (1902–1994), philosopher.
- Ellen Preis (Ellen Müller-Preis) (1912–2007) – German-born Austrian Olympic champion foil fencer.
- Helmut Qualtinger (1928–1986), actor, cabaret performer and writer.
- Doron Rabinovici (born 1961), writer.
- Ferdinand Raimund (1790–1836), playwright.
- Heinrich Rauchinger (1858–1942), painter.
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757–1823), an Austrian philosopher, popularised the work of Immanuel Kant.[44]
- Shoshana Ribner (1938–2007), Israeli Olympic swimme.
- Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham (1738–1786), British statesman; Foreign Secretary, 1782/3.[45]
- Alma Rosé (1906–1944), violinist; killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- Stella Rotenberg (1915–2013), poet and Shoah victim.
- Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612), Archduke of Austria (1576–1608).[46]
S–Z
- Felix Salten (1869–1945), writer.
- Fritz Saxl (1890–1948), art historian.
- Egon Schiele (1890–1918), artist.
- Romy Schneider (1938–1982), actress.
- Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), story teller and playwright.
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), composer, music theorist and painter.
- Joseph Schildkraut (1896–1964), actor.
- Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961), physicist; co-recipient of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828), composer.
- Ernst Schwadron (1896–1979), architect.
- Moritz von Schwind (1804–1871), an Austrian painter.[47]
- Peter Seisenbacher (born 1960), judoka.
- Hans Selye (1907–1982), physiologist.
- Dovid Shmidel[48] (born 1934), rabbi.
- Matthias Sindelar (1903–1939), footballer player.
- Josef Singer (1923-2009), Israeli President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
- Ignaz Sowinski (1858–1917), architect.
- Josef von Sternberg (1894–1969), film director.
- Eduard Strauss (1835–1916), composer.
- Johann Strauss I (1804–1849), an Austrian composer of the Romantic Period.[49]
- Johann Strauss II (1825–1899), composer.
- Josef Strauss (1827–1870), composer.
- Erich von Stroheim (1885–1957), actor.
- István Széchenyi (1791–1860), an Hungarian politician, political theorist and writer.[50]
- Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe (1833–1895), an Austrian statesman.[51]
- Sara Telek (born 1988), footballer referee.
- Friedrich Torberg (1908–1979), writer and journalist.
- Maria von Trapp (1905–1987), guitarist singer and deutergamy of Baron Georg von Trapp.
- Robert Valberg (1884–1955), stage and film actor.
- Barbara Valentin (1940–2002), actress.
- Thomas Vanek (born 1984), professional ice hockey player.
- Nikolas Vogel (1967–1991), film actor and news camera operator.
- Otto Wagner (1841–1918), architect.
- Bruno Walter (1876–1962), conductor.
- Christoph Waltz (born 1956), actor.
- Katia Wagner (born 1988), Miss Earth Air 2013.
- Erich Wasicky (1911–1947), Nazi SS pharmacist at Mauthausen concentration camp in charge of gassing victims; was executed.
- Anton von Webern (1883–1945), composer.
- Otto Weininger (1880–1903), philosopher.
- Franz Werfel (1890–1945), writer.
- Christine Werner (born 1954), writer
- Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926), economist.
- Geri Winkler (born 1956), mountaineer.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher.
- Joe Zawinul (1932–2007), composer, keyboard player and jazz pianist.
- Heinz Zednik (born 1940), tenor.
- Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg (1839–1899), an Austrian historian.[52]
- Alexander von Zemlinski (1871–1942), composer.
- Fred Zinnemann (1907–1997), director.
- Zoë (born 1996), singer, songwriter and actress.
- Birgit Zotz (born 1979), writer.
- Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), writer.
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