List of Austrians

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This is a list of notable Austrians.

Actors/actresses

thumb|204x204px|[[Hedy Lamarr]]

thumb|204x204px|[[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]

Helmut Berger (1944–2023), actor
Senta Berger (born 1941), actress
Klaus Maria Brandauer (born 1943), actor
Wolfgang Cerny (born 1984), actor
Marie Geistinger (1836–1903), actress and opera singer
Gilla (born 1950), also known as Gisela Wuchinger; singer and actor from the disco era
Käthe Gold (1907–1997), stage actress
Liane Haid (1895–2000), first Austrian movie star
Attila Hörbiger (1896–1987), actor
Christiane Hörbiger (1938–2022), actress
Paul Hörbiger (1894–1981), actor
Maria Hofstätter (born 1964), actress
Boris Kodjoe (born 1973), actor
Melanie Kogler (born 1985), television and theatre actress
Brigitte Kren (born 1954), actress
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), actress; also co-inventor of spread spectrum radio technology; became U.S. citizen
Karl Merkatz (1930–2022), 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
Nina Proll (born 1974), actress
Maximilian Schell (1930–2014), actor
Arnold Schwarzenegger (born 1947), bodybuilder, actor, became U.S. citizen, governor of the U.S. state of California (2003–2011)
Ursula Strauss (born 1974), actress
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
Sybil Danning (born 1950) Actor, producer, writer

Artists/architects

Maria Auböck (born 1951), landscape architect
Bernhard Cella (born 1969), conceptual artist
Johann Georg Danninger, 19th-century bronzesmith
Karl Duldig (1902–1986), Austrian-Australian sculptor
Albin Egger-Lienz (1868–1926), painter
Karl Ehn (1884–1957), architect, designer of the Karl-Marx-Hof
Trude Fleischmann (1895–1990), photographer
Ernst Fuchs (1930–2015), artist
Xenia Hausner (born 1951), painter
Gottfried Helnwein (born 1948), artist, born in Vienna
Kurt Hentschlager (born 1960), new media artist
Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), artist
Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), artist, helped found Vienna Secession
Oskar Kokoschka (1886–1980), painter
Alfred Kubin (1877–1959), graphic artist
Adolf Loos (1870–1933), architect, born in Brno (Moravia, present-day Czech Republic)
Josef Lorenzl (1892–1950), sculptor
Hans Makart (1840–1884), history painter, designer and decorator
Inge Morath (1923–2002), photographer
Richard Neutra (1892–1970), architect
Josef Pögl (1867–1956), painter, winner of the Vienna Arts Prize
Wolf Prix (born 1942), architect, co-founder of Coop Himmelb(l)au
Willy Puchner (born 1952), photographer
Arnulf Rainer (1929–2025), painter
Johann Michael Rottmayr (1656–1730), Baroque painter
Egon Schiele (1890–1918), painter
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000), architect and political activist
De Es Schwertberger (born 1942), artist
Harry Seidler (1923–2006), architect
Helmut Swiczinsky (1944–2025), architect, co-founder of Coop Himmelb(l)au
Aloys Wach (1892–1940), painter
Otto Wagner (1841–1918), Jugendstil architect behind much of turn-of-the-century Viennese architecture
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller (1793–1865), painter
Felix de Weldon (1907–2003), sculptor
Franz West (1947–2012), artist
Olga Wisinger-Florian (1844–1926), painter

Composers/musicians

thumb|174x174px|[[Joseph Haydn]]

thumb|190x190px|[[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]

thumb|222x222px|[[Falco (musician)|Falco with the Swiss singer Ursela Monn]]

thumb|208x208px|[[Johann Strauss II]]

thumb|201x201px|[[Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948]]

Wolfgang Ambros (born 1952), pop musician
Louie Austen (born 1946), composer and musician
Ernst Bachrich (1892–1942), composer and conductor
Caroline Bayer (1758–1803), 18th-century violinist and composer
Alban Berg (1885–1935), composer
Alfred Brendel (1931–2025), pianist
Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), composer
Friedrich Cerha (1926–2023), 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 electronic 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 (born 1974), singer-songwriter
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1929–2016), conductor
Joseph Haydn (1756–1791), musician and composer
Olga Neuwirth (born 1968), composer
Gerhard Potuznik, electronic musician
César Sampson (born 1983), singer
Franz Schmidt (1874–1939), composer
Arnold Schoenberg film director (born in Germany, however lives and works in Austria)
Fritz Lang (1890–1976), film director
Francis Lawrence (born 1971), Austrian-American film director
Otto Preminger (1905–1986), film director
Stefan Ruzowitzky (born 1961), film director and writer
Arnold Schwarzenegger (born 1947), actor and politician
Ulrich Seidl (born 1952), film director and writer
Josef von Sternberg (1894–1969), film director
Erich von Stroheim (1885–1957), film director
Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912–2016), director of photography
Edgar G. Ulmer (1904–1972), film director
Hans Weingartner (born 1977), film director, producer and writer
Virgil Widrich (born 1967), film director, producer and writer
Billy Wilder (1906–2002), film director, born in Austria-Hungary
Fred Zinnemann (1907–1977), film director

Mountaineers

thumb|213x213px|[[Peter Aufschnaiter]]

Peter Aufschnaiter (1899–1973), mountaineer and co-traveller of Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet)
Karl Blodig (1859–1956), mountaineer (first to climb all alpine mountains above 4,000 m)
Hermann Buhl (1924–1957), first ascent of Nanga Parbat on the 1953 German–Austrian Nanga Parbat expedition, first ascent of Broad Peak
Kurt Diemberger (born 1932), first ascents of Broad Peak (1957) and Dhaulagiri (1960)
Peter Habeler (born 1942), first ascent of Mount Everest without oxygen (together with Reinhold Messner)
Heinrich Harrer (1912–2006), mountaineer (first ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid) and writer (Seven Years in Tibet)
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (born 1970), first woman to ascend all eight-thousanders without oxygen (2011)
Fritz Moravec (1922–1997), first ascent of Gasherbrum II (1956)
Ludwig Purtscheller (1849–1900), first ascent of Kilimanjaro in 1889
Marcus Schmuck (1925–2005), first ascent of Broad Peak in 1957 as expedition leader
Herbert Tichy (1912–1987), geologist, journalist and mountaineer (first ascent of Cho Oyu)
Luis Trenker (1892–1990), mountaineer, film director and writer (born in the southern part of Tyrol, then in Austria-Hungary)
Fritz Wintersteller (1927–2018), first ascent of Broad Peak in 1957

Military leaders

thumb|216x216px|[[Joseph Radetzky von Radetz]]

Haim Bar-Lev (1924–1994), Israeli general and government minister
Leopold Josef Graf Daun (1705–1766), field marshal
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz (1766–1858), military leader
Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736), general in the war against the Turks (17th–18th century)
Philipp von Stadion und Thannhausen (1799–1868), field marshal
Wilhelm von Tegetthoff (1827–1871), admiral
Georg von Trapp (1880–1947), navy officer
Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1787–1862), general
Archduke Charles of Austria (1771–1847), fought against Napoleon

Politicians

thumb|211x211px|[[Adolf Hitler]]

thumb|221x221px|[[Sebastian Kurz]]

Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni (1846–1909), statesman and diplomat
Leopold Graf Berchtold (1863–1942), foreign minister at the outbreak of the First World War
Brigitte Bierlein (1949–2024), Chancellor 2019–2020
Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi (1894–1972), politician and writer
Engelbert Dollfuß (1892–1934), Chancellor 1932–1934 (First Republic), established Austrofascism
Leopold Figl (1902–1965), Chancellor 1945–1953, foreign minister 1953–1959
Heinz Fischer (born 1938), former President
Werner Faymann (born 1960), former Chancellor
Jörg Haider (1950–2008), politician, governour of Carinthia until his death in 2008
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), 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 (1781–1848), statesman and historian
Theodor Innitzer (1875–1955), cardinal archbishop of Vienna 1932–1955, minister of social affairs 1929–1930
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946), NSDAP politician
Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz (1711–1794), statesman
Christian Kern (born 1966), Chancellor 2016–2017
Rudolf Kirchschläger (1915–2000), judge, diplomat and President 1974–1986
Thomas Klestil (1932–2004), diplomat, President 1992–2004
Teddy Kollek (1911–2007), Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem
Bruno Kreisky (1911–1990), Chancellor 1970–1983, foreign minister 1959–1966
Sebastian Kurz (born 1986), Chancellor 2017–2019, 2020–2021
Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773–1859), diplomat and statesman
Julius Raab (1891–1964), Chancellor 1953–1961 (1773–1859)
Adolf Schärf (1890–1965), President 1957–1965
Anton von Schmerling (1805–1893), statesman (liberal movement of the 19th century)
Kurt Schuschnigg (1897–1977), Chancellor 1934–1938
Wolfgang Schüssel (born 1945), Chancellor 2000–2007
Arnold Schwarzenegger (born 1947), former governor of California
Ignaz Seipel (1876–1932), Catholic priest, Chancellor 1922–1924 and 1926–1929
Arthur Seyß-Inquart (1892–1946), NSDAP politician, last Chancellor before the Anschluss in 1938
Johann Philipp von Stadion (1763–1824), statesman, foreign minister and diplomat 1763–1824
Alexander Van der Bellen (born 1944), former chairman of the Austrian Green Party and President since 2017
Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007), diplomat and politician, UN Secretary-General 1972–1982, President of Austria 1986–1992

Religious leaders

thumb|182x182px|[[Ignaz Seipel]]

Theodor Innitzer (1875–1955), cardinal archbishop of Vienna 1932–1955, minister of social affairs 1929–1930
Gertraud Knoll (born 1958), Lutheran pastor, superintendent and politician
Franz König (1905–2004), Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna (1956–1985)
Christoph Schönborn (born 1945), archbishop and cardinal
Ignaz Seipel (1876–1932), Catholic priest, Chancellor 1922–1924 and 1926–1929

Royalty

thumb|264x264px|[[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

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Economists

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914), economist and early member of the Austrian School of Economics
Gottfried von Haberler (1900–1995), Austrian-American economist, born in Purkersdorf, Austria-Hungary
Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), 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 (1902–1983), Austrian-American economist, born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria-Hungary
Carl Menger (1840–1921), founder of the Austrian School of economics
Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973), free-market economist
Oskar Morgenstern (1902–1977), co-founder of game theory
Otto Neurath (1882–1945), socialist, economist and philosopher
Joseph Schumpeter (1883–1950), economist, born in Triesch, Austria-Hungary
Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926), economist of the Austrian School

Engineers/inventors

thumb|220x220px|[[Thomas Feichtner]]

Thomas Feichtner (born 1970), industrial designer
Anselm Franz (1900–1994), pioneer in jet engine engineering, designed the world's first turbojet
Gaston Glock (1929–2023), inventor, founder of firearms company GLOCK GmbH
Eduard Haas (1897–1989), inventor of the Pez candy
Viktor Kaplan (1876–1934), inventor of turbines for river power plants
Wilhelm Kress (1836–1913), aviation pioneer, inventor of the stick control for airplanes
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), co-inventor of spread spectrum wireless communications, along with George Antheil
Ernst Lauda (1859–1932), hydraulic and bridge engineer
Josef Madersperger (1768–1850), invented the sewing machine in 1818
Siegfried Marcus (1831–1898), automobile pioneer, inventor of the first gasoline powered automobile (vehicles of 1870 and 1889)
Alois Negrelli (1799–1858), engineer and railroad pioneer (created the plans for the Suez Canal)
Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951), 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 (1793–1857), inventor of the marine screw propeller, pneumatic post and ball bearing
Theodor Scheimpflug (1865–1911), inventor of Scheimpflug photography
Alois Senefelder (1771–1834), inventor of the printing technique of lithography
Josef Singer (1923–2009), Israeli aeronautical engineer and President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Max Valier (1895–1930), rocketry pioneer
Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858–1929), inventor of gaslight

Philosophers

thumb|188x188px|[[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]

Franz Brentano (1838–1917), philosopher and psychologist
Martin Buber (1878–1965), philosopher
Christian von Ehrenfels (1859–1932), philosopher
Herbert Feigl (1902–1988), philosopher (member of the Vienna Circle)
Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994), philosopher
Philipp Frank (1884–1966), philosopher and physicist (member of the Vienna Circle)
Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), philosopher (born in Prossnitz, Austria-Hungary)
Wilhelm Jerusalem (1854–1923), philosopher, born in Drenitz, died in Vienna
Hans Köchler (born 1948), philosopher, born in Schwaz
Georg Kreisel (1923–2015), philosopher and mathematician
Alexius Meinong (1853–1920), philosopher (theory of objects)
Otto Neurath (1882–1945), socialist, economist and philosopher
Karl Popper (1902–1994), philosopher (born in Austria, became British)
Friedrich Waismann (1896–1959), mathematician, philosopher and physicist (member of the Vienna Circle)
Otto Weininger (1880–1903), philosopher
Felix Weltsch (1884–1964), journalist, philosopher, student of Christian von Ehrenfels
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher, born in Vienna

Physicists, mathematicians and chemists

thumb|226x226px|[[Erwin Schrödinger]]

thumb|216x216px|[[Walter Kohn]]

Emil Artin (1898–1962), mathematician (Artin's conjecture)
Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), physicist, born in Vienna (Boltzmann constant)
Fritjof Capra (born 1939), physicist, born in Vienna
Carl Cori (1896–1984), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947
Carl Djerassi (1923-2015), chemist, inventor of the pill
Christian Doppler (1803–1853), physicist, born in Salzburg (See Doppler effect)
Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933), physicist and mathematician
Felix Ehrenhaft (1879–1952), maverick physicist
Josef Finger (1841–1925), physicist and mathematician
Heinz von Foerster (1911–2002), cyberneticist
Kurt Gödel (1906–1978), mathematician (born in Austria-Hungary, became naturalized U.S. citizen)
Hans Hahn (1879–1934), mathematician (member of the Vienna Circle)
Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874–1915), physicist
Victor Franz Hess (1883–1964), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817), chemist
Walter Kohn (1923–2016), Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998
Georg Kreisel (1923–2015), philosopher and mathematician
Hans Kronberger (1920-1970), nuclear physicist
Richard Kuhn (1900–1967), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938
Robert von Lieben (1878-1913), physicist (Jewish father)
Johann Josef Loschmidt (1821–1895), physicist and chemist
Ernst Mach (1838–1916), physicist and philosopher (Mach number)
Lise Meitner (1878-1968), physicist, discovered nuclear fission of uranium with * Otto Hahn, namegiver of element 109 * meitnerium
Richard von Mises (1883–1953), physicist (younger brother of Ludwig von Mises)
John von Neumann (1903–1957), mathematician (Hungarian, Budapest-born)
Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1945
Max Ferdinand Perutz (1914–2002), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962
Johanna Piesch (1898–1992), physicist, mathematician, pioneer in switching algebra
Fritz Pregl (1869–1930), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923
Erwin Schrödinger (1887–1961), physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze (1880–1964), mathematician
Leopold Vietoris (1891–2002), mathematician
Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908–2002), physicist; during World War II, worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb; later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons
Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858–1929), chemist
Gernot Zippe (1917–2008), physicist (developed Zippe-type centrifuge to extract uranium-235 for nuclear weapons)
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865–1929), chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925 (Hungarian origin)

Physicians

Alfred Adler (1870–1937), psychiatrist, father of Individual Psychology
Hans Asperger (1906–1980), pediatrician who studied autism, person for whom Asperger syndrome is named
Leopold Auenbrugger (1722–1809), physician (method of percussion)
Robert Bárány (1876–1936), physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Josef Breuer (1842–1925), physician (forerunner in psychoanalysis)
Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow (1846–1891), physician and physiologist (studies of nerves and the brain)
Viktor Frankl (1905–1997), psychiatrist, father of logotherapy
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), psychiatrist, father of psychoanalysis
Karl von Frisch (1886–1982), physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Leo Kanner (1894–1981), child psychiatrist
Helen Singer Kaplan (1929-1995), sex therapist
Karl Landsteiner (1886–1943), physician, serologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Otto Loewi (1873–1961), pharmacologist (born in Germany, but spent 40 years of his life, from age 25, in Austria) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Karol Ignacy Lorinser (1796–1853), physician
Franz Mesmer (1734–1815), physician, developed an early form of hypnotism
Paracelsus (1493–1541), (real name: Theophrast von Hohenheim), alchemist and physician
Clemens von Pirquet (1874–1929), pediatrician and scientist in bacteriology and immunology
Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), psychiatrist
Erwin Ringel (1921–1994), Austrian psychiatrist (presuicidal syndrome)
Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865), physician (born in Hungary, Austria-Hungary)
Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940), physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927

Psychologists

thumb|225x225px|[[Sigmund Freud]]

Alfred Adler (1870-1937), founding member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society and founder of the school of individual psychology
Viktor Frankl (1905-1997), psychiatrist and psychologist
Anna Freud (1895-1982), Vienna-born child psychologist and daughter of Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Moravian-born founder of psychoanalysis and neurologist
Marie Jahoda (1907-2001), psychologist
Helen Singer Kaplan (1929-1995), sex therapist
Melanie Klein (1882-1960), psychotherapy
Heinz Kohut (1913-1981), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957), psychiatry and psychoanalysis
Paul Watzlawick (1921–2007), communication theory

Other scientists

thumb|240x240px|[[Leo Reinisch]]

Othenio Abel (1875–1946), paleontologist
Karl von Czyhlarz (1833–1914), Czech-Austrian jurist
Sir Otto Frankel (1900-1998), geneticist
Martin Gerzabek (born 1961), ecologist and soil scientist
Helene Gröger-Wurm (1921–2005), Austrian-born Australian ecologist
Hans Hass (1919–2013), biologist and diving pioneer
Max Hecker (1879–1964), Austrian-born Israeli President of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Eric Kandel (born 1929), neuroscientist, winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Hans Kelsen (1881–1973), jurist (father of the Austrian constitution)
Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989), zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Gregor Mendel (1822–1884), pioneer of genetics
Karl Koller (1857-1944), ophthalmologist; first to use cocaine as an anaesthetic
Julius Pokorny (1887–1970), linguist
Leo Reinisch (1832–1919), linguist, Africanist and Egyptologist
Rupert Riedl (1925–2005), zoologist
Doris Vickers (born 1980), archaeoastronomer
Maria Wähnl (1908–1989), astronomer

Sports

thumb|180px|[[Eva Duldig]]

thumb|240x240px|[[Ernst Grünfeld]]

thumb|160x160px|[[Niki Lauda]]

thumb|240x240px|[[Dominic Thiem]]

thumb|213x213px|[[Michaela Dorfmeister]]

thumb|195x195px|[[Otto Wahle]]

thumb|160x160px|[[Eva Pawlik]]

Margarete Adler (1896–1990), swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist (4x100m freestyle relay)
David Alaba (born 1992), footballer, winner of 2012–13 UEFA Champions League with FC Bayern Munich
Felix Baumgartner (1969-2025), world record setting skydiver
Gerhard Berger (born 1959), racing driver
Richard Bergmann (1919–1970), seven-time world table tennis champion, ITTF Hall of Fame
Hedy Bienenfeld (1907–1976), Austrian-American Olympic swimmer
Albert Bogen (Albert Bógathy) (1882–1961), saber fencer, Olympic silver medalist
Fritzi Burger (1910–1999), figure skater, two-time Olympic silver medalist, two-time World silver medalist
Hans Dobida (1929–2025), inductee into the IIHF Hall of Fame
Michaela Dorfmeister (born 1973), alpine skier
Eva Duldig (born 1938), Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
Erich Eliskases (1913–1997), chess grandmaster
Robert Fein (1907–1975), Olympic Champion weightlifter
Otto Fischer (1901–1941), footballer and coach
Siegfried Flesch (1872–1939), sabre fencer, Olympic bronze medalist
Toni Fritsch (1945–2005), soccer and football player who won the Super Bowl in 1972
Michael Grabner (born 1987), NHL player
Ernst Grünfeld (1893–1962), chess grandmaster
Gunther (wrestler) (born 1987), professional wrestler signed to WWE
Alfred Guth (1908–1996), Austrian-born American water polo player, swimmer, and Olympic modern pentathlete
Hans Haas (1906–1973), Olympic champion weightlifter (lightweight), silver medalist
Tunç Hamarat (born 1946), correspondence chess world champion (2004)
Ernst Happel (1925–1992), football player and coach
Judith Haspel (born "Judith Deutsch"; 1918–2004), held every Austrian women's middle and long-distance freestyle record in 1935
Otto Herschmann (1877–1942), two-time Olympic silver medalist (in saber fencing/team sabre and 100m freestyle)
Hansi Hinterseer (born 1954), skier, singer, actor, entertainer
Nickolaus Hirschl (1906–1991), two-time Olympic bronze medalist in wrestling (heavyweight freestyle and Greco-Roman), shot put and discus junior champion, weightlifting junior champion, and pentathlon champion
Felix Kaspar (1915–2003), figure skater, Olympic bronze medalist
Veli Kavlak (born 1988), Austrian-Turkish football player
Franz Klammer (born 1953), Olympic alpine ski champion
Alfred König (1913–1987), Austrian-Turkish Olympic sprinter
Hans Krankl (born 1953), football player and coach
Ruth Langer (1921–1999), Austrian national champion swimmer who refused to attend the 1936 Summer Olympics, along with Judith Haspel and Lucie Goldner
Niki Lauda (1949–2019), Formula One race car driver and aviation entrepreneur
Fritzi Löwy (1910–1994), Austrian Olympic swimmer
Hermann Maier (born 1972), Olympic alpine ski champion
Alex Manninger (born 1977), professional footballer for Arsenal F.C., winner of 1997–98 FA Premier League title
Helmut Marko (1943–), former driver and current advisor to Red Bull Racing
Klara Milch (born 1970), swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist (4x100m freestyle relay)
Uberto De Morpurgo (1896–1961), Austrian-born Italian tennis player
Annemarie Moser-Pröll (born 1953), alpine skier
Thomas Muster (born 1967), tennis champion
Paul Neumann (1875–1932), Olympic champion swimmer (500m freestyle)
Fred Oberlander (born 1996), wrestler; world champion (freestyle heavyweight); Maccabiah champion
Eva Pawlik (1927–1983), European figure skating Champion, World and Olympic runner-up, show star, actress, the world's first female sports commentator on TV (from 1962–1972)
Felix Pipes (1887–1983), tennis player, Olympic silver medalist (doubles)
Maxim Podoprigora (born 1978), Olympic swimmer
Jakob Pöltl (born 1995), basketball player; played two seasons of U.S. college basketball at Utah before declaring for the 2016 NBA draft
Ellen Preis (1912–2007), foil fencer, three-time world champion (1947, 1949, and 1950), Olympic champion, 17-time Austrian champion
Herbert Prohaska (born 1955), football player and coach
Roland Ratzenberger (1960–1994), race car driver, Formula One driver
Jochen Rindt (1942–1970), race car driver, 1970 Formula One World Champion (posthumous)
Marcel Sabitzer (born 1994), footballer
Toni Sailer (1935–2009), Alpine skier, earned the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing (by winning all three gold medals) at 1956 Olympic Games
Otto Scheff (born "Otto Sochaczewsky"; 1889–1956), Olympic champion swimmer (400m freestyle) and two-time bronze medalist (400m freestyle, 1,500m freestyle)
Max Scheuer (1895–1941), footballer; national team
Werner Schlager (born 1972), 2003 Table Tennis World Champion
Carl Schlechter (1874–1918), chess grandmaster
Gregor Schlierenzauer (born 1990), ski jumper, Olympic bronze medalist, World and 4 Hills Tournament champion
Heinrich Schönfeld (1900–1976), football player
Matthias Sindelar (1903–1939), footballer
Wilhelm Steinitz (1836–1900), winner of first-ever world chess championship in 1886
Josephine Sticker (1894–1963), swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist (4x100m freestyle relay)
Rudolf Spielmann (1883–1942), chess grandmaster
Herma Szabo (1902–1986), Olympic and five-time World figure skating champion
Dominic Thiem (born 1993), top-20 tennis player and Grand Slam Champion (Men's Singles, US Open 2020)
Nicole Trimmel (born 1982), kickboxing champion
Thomas Vanek (born 1984), NHL hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens
Anita Wachter (born 1967 in Schruns), Olympic alpine ski champion
Otto Wahle (1879–1963), swimmer, two-time Olympic silver medalist (1,000m freestyle, 200m obstacle race) and Olympic bronze medalist (400m freestyle); inducted into International Swimming Hall of Fame
Walter Wasservogel (1919–1993), inductee into the IIHF Hall of Fame
Toto Wolff (1972–), motorsport executive, currently team principal of Mercedes-Benz

Writers

thumb|237x237px|[[Joseph Roth]]

thumb|192x192px|[[Christine Nöstlinger]]

thumb|185x185px|[[Hugo von Hofmannsthal]]

thumb|210x230px|[[Marion Wiesel]]

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), poet
Hermann Bahr (1863–1934), playwright, novelist
Ludwig Bemelmans (1898–1962), author of the Madeline books
Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989), (1880–1942), writer
Johann Nestroy (1801–1862), playwright
Christine Nöstlinger (1936–2018), writer (especially literature for children)
Ferdinand Raimund (1790–1836), writer and dramatist
Christoph Ransmayr (born 1954), writer
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), poet and artist
Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914), writer and pacifist Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Prague, (Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic)
Georg Trakl