This is a list of notable people from Vienna, Austria.

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, fiancé 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 (1921–2016), writer.
  • David Alaba (born 1992), Austrian footballer.
  • Christopher Alexander (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.
  • Bernard Amtmann (1907–1979), antiquarian bookseller, bibliographer, publisher.
  • Ludwig Anzengruber (1839–1889), Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet.
  • Walter Arlen (1920–2023), composer; music critic in LA Times.
  • Alfred Ritter von Arneth (1819–1897), Austrian historian, wrote about Maria Theresa.
  • Hans Asperger (1906–1980), pediatrician; discoverer of Asperger syndrome.
  • Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858–1929), chemist.
  • Ilse Barea-Kulcsar (1902–1973), journalist, translator, writer and communist activist.
  • Haim Bar-Lev (1924–1994), Israeli general and government minister.
  • Fanny Basch-Mahler (1854–1942), pianist and music teacher.
  • Polly Batic (1906–1992), operatic mezzo-soprano.
  • Eduard von Bauernfeld (1802–1890), Austrian dramatist.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Jenny Broch (1864–?), soprano
  • Arnolt Bronnen (1895–1959), Austrian playwright and director.
  • Vanessa Brown (born Smylla Brind, 1928–1999), actress.
  • Martin Buber (1878–1965), philosopher.
  • Ignaz Franz Castelli (1781–1862), Austrian dramatist.
  • Dorrit Cohn (1924–2012), professor of comparative literature.
  • Heinrich Joseph von Collin (1771–1811), Austrian dramatist.
  • Carl Czerny (1791–1857), Austrian composer, teacher and pianist.
  • Tadeusz Czeżowski (1889–1981), philosopher and logician.

D–G

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  • Georg Danzer (1946–2007), songwriter.
  • Elfi von Dassanowsky (1924–2007), film producer, pianist and singer.
  • Marlene Engelhorn (born 1992), activist.
  • Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705–1766), Austrian field marshal, later Prince of Thiano.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Carl Esmond (1902–2004), actor.
  • Constantin von Ettingshausen (1826–1897), botanist, studied of flora from the Tertiary era.
  • 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.
  • Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861–1948), Tsar of Bulgaria.
  • Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben (1806–1849), physician, poet and philosopher.
  • Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994), philosopher.
  • Otto Fischer (1901–1941), football 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.
  • 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.
  • Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830–1916), Emperor of Austria.
  • 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.
  • Nathan Michael Gelber (1891–1966), Austrian-Israeli historian
  • 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.
  • 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, performs under the name Gunther.
  • Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795–1871), Austrian mineralogist.
  • Franz Ritter von Hauer (1822–1899), an Austrian geologist.
  • Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), economist; co-recipient of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
  • Andre Heller (born 1947), artist, poet and songwriter.
  • 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.
  • Pavla Hočevar (1889<small>–</small>1972), Slovenian teacher, writer, socialist and suffragist
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), writer; founder of the Salzburg Festival.
  • Oskar Homolka (1898–1978), actor.
  • Moritz Hörnes (1815–1868), Austrian palaeontologist.
  • Count Joseph Alexander Hübner (1811–1892), Austrian diplomat.
  • 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
  • Josef Jungwirth (1869–1950), painter
  • Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), photographer
  • Martin Karplus (1930–2024), theoretical chemist; co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711–1794), Austrian and Czech diplomat and statesman
  • Count Alajos Károlyi de Nagykároly (1825–1889), Austro-Hungarian diplomat
  • Gina Kaus (1893–1985), novelist
  • Abraham Klausner (Austrian rabbi), 14th-century rabbi
  • Melchior Klesl (1552–1630), Austrian statesman and cardinal of the Roman Catholic church
  • Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), painter
  • Pina Kollar, singer-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), football player
  • Karl Kraus (1874–1936), satirist; publisher of the newspaper Die Fackel
  • Klaus Kubinger (born 1949), psychologist, statistician, and university professor
  • Steffi Kunke (1908–1942), teacher and anti-fascist activist
  • 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
  • Bill Leeb (born 1966), musician
  • Lotte Lenya (1898–1981), actor and singer
  • Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747–1792), Archduke of Austria from 1790 to 1792
  • Leopold Lindtberg (1902–1984), director
  • Edie Locke (1921–2020), fashion journalist
  • Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989), behavioural scientist; co-recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
  • Josef Lorenzl (1892–1950), sculptor
  • Tilly Losch (1903–1975), actress and dancer
  • Fritzi Löwy (1910–1994), Olympic swimmer
  • Bernhard Ludvik (born 1961), physician

M&ndash;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&ndash;1792)
  • Maria Theresa (1717–1780), daughter of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor; Queen of Bohemia and Hungary (1740&ndash;1780)
  • Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1557–1619), Archduke of Austria from 1608 to 1619
  • Alice Mavrogordato (1916–2000), painter, translator during the Nuremberg trials
  • Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459–1519), Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death
  • Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527–1576,) Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 until his death
  • Maximilian I of Mexico (1832–1867), Emperor of Mexico
  • 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
  • Špelca Mladič (1894–1981), Slovenian painter and designer
  • Johann August Georg Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvar (1839–1907), Austro-Hungarian geologist and palaeontologist.
  • 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), Austrian conductor and composer.
  • 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), Austrian painter.
  • Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797–1858), Austrian explorer, travel writer and ethnographer.
  • Caroline Pichler (1769–1843), Austrian historical novelist.
  • Johannes Pietsch (born 2001), singer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025.
  • Anton Piëch (1894–1952), lawyer, son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche.
  • Thila Plaichinger (1868–1939), opera singer.
  • Friderika Podgornik (1880–1948), Slovenian pianist and music educator.
  • Karl Polanyi (1886–1964), economic historian.
  • Alfred Polgar (1873–1955), author and journalist.
  • Józef Poniatowski (1763–1813), Polish general.
  • Karl Popper (1902–1994), philosopher.
  • Ellen Preis (Ellen Müller-Preis) (1912–2007) German-born Austrian Olympic champion foil fencer.
  • Friederike Proch Benesch (1805–1872), Chezh pianist, music educator and composer.
  • 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), Austrian philosopher, popularised the work of Immanuel Kant.
  • Shoshana Ribner (1938–2007), Israeli Olympic swimme.
  • Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham (1738–1786), British statesman; Foreign Secretary, 1782/3.
  • 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).

S&ndash;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.
  • Pauline Schöller (1859–1941), soprano and voice teacher.
  • 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), Austrian painter.
  • Peter Seisenbacher (born 1960), judoka.
  • Karl Seitz (1869–1950), first President of Austria.
  • Hans Selye (1907–1982), physiologist.
  • Dovid Shmidel (born 1934), rabbi.
  • Matthias Sindelar (1903–1939), football player.
  • Josef Singer (1923–2009), Israeli President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
  • Hans Werner Sokop (born 1942), poet and translator.
  • Ignaz Sowinski (1858–1917), architect.
  • Leopold Stein, psychologist and author.
  • Josef von Sternberg (1894–1969), film director.
  • Eduard Strauss (1835–1916), composer.
  • Johann Strauss I (1804–1849), Austrian composer of the Romantic Period.
  • Johann Strauss II (1825–1899), composer.
  • Josef Strauss (1827–1870), composer.
  • Erich von Stroheim (1885–1957), actor.
  • István Széchenyi (1791–1860), Hungarian politician, political theorist and writer.
  • Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe (1833–1895), an Austrian statesman.
  • Sara Telek (born 1988), football referee.
  • Friedrich Torberg (1908–1979), writer and journalist.
  • Maria von Trapp (1905–1987), guitarist singer and deutergamy of Baron Georg von Trapp.
  • Olga von Türk-Rohn (1865–1940), soprano and baroness
  • 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.
  • Maria Wähnl (1908–1989), astronomer.
  • 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
  • Marion Wiesel (born Mary Renate Erster; 1931–2025), Austrian-American Holocaust survivor, humanitarian, and translator
  • Cyla Wiesenthal (1908–2003), wife of Simon Wiesenthal
  • Simon Wiesenthal (1908–2005), nazi hunter
  • Friedrich von Wieser (1851–1926), economist.
  • Geri Winkler (born 1956), mountaineer.
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher.
  • Toto Wolff (born 1972), motorsport executive, investor, and former racing driver.
  • Hermine Zaynard (1913–1943), political activist
  • Joe Zawinul (1932–2007), composer, keyboard player and jazz pianist.
  • Heinz Zednik (born 1940), tenor.
  • Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg (1839–1899), Austrian historian.
  • 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.
  • Károly Zipernowsky (1853–1942), electrical engineer who co-invented the transformer

See also

  • List of Austrians

References