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 – founder of individual psychology
- Victor Adler – social democrat and activist for the rights of workers
- Ilse Aichinger[1] – writer
- David Alaba[2] – Austrian footballer
- Christopher Alexander[3] – England-based architect and design theorist; wrote book A Pattern Language (1977)
- Peter Altenberg – fin de siècle writer and poet
- Wolfgang Ambros – one of the founders of the musical movement Austropop
- Ludwig Anzengruber (1839–1889), an Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet.[4]
- Walter Arlen – composer; music critic in LA Times
- Alfred Ritter von Arneth (1819–1897), an Austrian historian, wrote about Maria Theresa.[5]
- Hans Asperger – pediatrician; discoverer of Asperger syndrome
- Carl Auer von Welsbach – chemist
- Haim Bar-Lev – Israeli general and government minister
- Herbert Berghof – late actor
- Polly Batic – operatic mezzo-soprano
- Eduard von Bauernfeld (1802–1890), Austrian dramatist.[6]
- Vicki Baum – novelist
- Alban Berg – composer
- Turhan Bey – actor
- Hedy Bienenfeld (1907–1976) – Austrian-American Olympic swimmer
- Theodore Bikel – actor and singer
- Karl Bitter (1867–1915) American architectural sculptor of memorials and residential works.[7]
- John Paul Blass – physician, biochemist and neurochemist
- Ludwig Boltzmann – physicist
- Arik Brauer – painter, poet and singer
- Eugene Braunwald – cardiologist
- Vanessa Brown (born Smylla Brynd) – actress
- Martin Buber – philosopher
- Ignaz Franz Castelli (1781–1862) an Austrian dramatist.[8]
- Dorrit Cohn – 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 – songwriter
- Elfi von Dassanowsky – film producer, pianist and singer
- Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705–1766), Austrian field marshal, later Prince of Thiano.[11]
- Helmut Deutsch – 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 – chemist, novelist, and playwright; developer of the oral contraceptive pill
- Heimito von Doderer – writer
- Georgia Doll – theatre director, playwright and poet
- Peter Drucker – economist
- Eva Duldig (born 1938) – Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author
- Klaus Ebner – writer
- Albert Ehrenstein – writer
- Fanny Elssler (1810–1884), ballerina of the Romantic Period.[13]
- Carl Esmond – actor
- Constantin von Ettingshausen (1826–1897), botanist, studied of flora from the Tertiary era.[14]
- Falco – instrumentalist and singer
- 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 – philosopher
- Otto Fischer (1901–1941) - (soccer) football player and coach
- Trude Fleischmann – photographer
- Willi Forst – 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 – 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 – neurologist; founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology
- Karl von Frisch – animal psychologist, beekeeper and zoologist; co-recipient 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Hilda Geiringer – mathematician
- Karl Geiringer – 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 – architect
- Ruth Grützbauch – astronomer
- Friedrich Gulda – composer and pianist
- Alfred Guth (1908–1996) – Austrian-born American water polo player, swimmer, and Olympic modern pentathlete
H–L
- Eduard Haas – inventor of Pez candy
- Walter Hahn – 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 – economist; co-recipient of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- Andre Heller – artist, poet and songwriter
- Max Heller (born in Vienna in 1919) – politician in Greenville, South Carolina, United States
- Gottfried Helnwein – artist
- Dr. Otto Herschmann – saber fencer, Olympic silver; 100-m freestyle in swimming, Olympic silver
- Theodor Herzl – journalist; founder of modern political Zionism
- Mickey Hirschl – Olympic-medal-winning wrestler, shot put and discus junior champion, weightlifting junior champion, and pentathlon champion
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal – writer; founder of the Salzburg Festival
- Oskar Homolka – actor
- Moritz Hörnes (1815–1868) an Austrian palaeontologist.[23]
- Count Joseph Alexander Hübner (1811–1892) an Austrian diplomat.[24]
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser – architect and painter
- Wolfgang Hutter – artist, painter and university art professor
- Ernst Jandl – poet and writer
- Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678–1711), ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1705 until his death.[25]
- Dora Kallmus – photographer
- Martin Karplus – 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 – 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 – painter
- Pina Kollar – singer and songwriter
- Alfred König (1913-1987) – Austrian-Turkish Olympic sprinter
- Franz König – Cardinal Archbishop
- Karl Kordesch – chemist and inventor
- Hans Krankl – footballer
- Karl Kraus – satirist; publisher of the newspaper Die Fackel
- Klaus Kubinger – psychologist, statistician, and university professor
- Hedy Lamarr – actress and inventor
- Karl Landsteiner – biologist and physician; discoverer of blood group; recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Fritz Lang – director
- Ruth Langer (1921-1999), national champion swimmer
- Josef Lanner – composer
- Niki Lauda – entrepreneur and race car driver
- Henry Lehrman – silent film director
- Lotte Lenya – actor and singer
- Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747–1792) Archduke of Austria from 1790 to 1792.[29]
- Leopold Lindtberg – director
- Edie Locke, fashion journalist[30]
- Konrad Lorenz – behavioural scientist; co-recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Tilly Losch – actress and dancer
- Fritzi Löwy (1910–1994) – Olympic swimmer
M–R
- Anna Mahler – sculptor
- Gustav Mahler – composer and conductor
- Natascha Mair – 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 – 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 – writer
- Lise Meitner – physicist
- Carl Menger – economist and founder of the Austrian School of economics
- Karl Menger – mathematician and son of Carl Menger
- Ludwig von Mises – 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 – folklorist
- Karl Motesiczky – psychoanalyst
- Felix Josef von Mottl (1856–1911) an Austrian conductor and composer.[39]
- Itzhak Nener, jurist who cofounded the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and served as vice-president of Liberal International
- Johann Nestroy – playwright
- Fritz Neugebauer – second president of the Austrian National Council
- Peter C. Newman – journalist
- Saul K. Padover – historian and political scientist at The New School of Social Research in New York City, New York, US.
- Alfred Pal – Croatian graphic designer and painter
- Bertha Pappenheim – feminist
- Wolfgang Pauli – 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 – lawyer, son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche
- Karl Polanyi – economic historian
- Alfred Polgar – author and journalist
- Józef Poniatowski (1763–1813), a Polish general.[43]
- Karl Popper – philosopher
- Ellen Preis (Ellen Müller-Preis) (1912–2007) – German-born Austrian Olympic champion foil fencer
- Helmut Qualtinger – actor, cabaret performer and writer
- Doron Rabinovici – writer
- Ferdinand Raimund – playwright
- Heinrich Rauchinger (1858–1942) – painter
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757–1823) an Austrian philosopher, popularised the work of Immanuel Kant.[44]
- Shoshana Ribner—Israeli Olympic swimme
- Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham (1738–1786) British statesman; Foreign Secretary, 1782/3.[45]
- Alma Rosé – violinist; killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp
- Stella Rotenberg – poet and Shoah victim
- Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (1552–1612), Archduke of Austria (1576–1608).[46]
S–Z
- Felix Salten – writer
- Fritz Saxl – art historian
- Egon Schiele – artist
- Romy Schneider – actress
- Arthur Schnitzler – story teller and playwright
- Arnold Schoenberg – composer, music theorist and painter
- Joseph Schildkraut – actor
- Erwin Schrödinger – physicist; co-recipient of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Franz Schubert – composer
- Ernst Schwadron – architect
- Moritz von Schwind (1804–1871) an Austrian painter.[47]
- Peter Seisenbacher – judoka
- Hans Selye – physiologist
- Dovid Shmidel[48] – rabbi
- Matthias Sindelar – footballer
- Josef Singer (1923-2009) – Israeli President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Ignaz Sowinski (1858–1917) – architect
- Josef von Sternberg – film director
- Eduard Strauss – 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 – actor
- István Széchenyi (1791–1860) an Hungarian politician, political theorist and writer.[50]
- Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe (1833–1895) an Austrian statesman.[51]
- Friedrich Torberg – writer and journalist
- Maria von Trapp – guitarist singer and deutergamy of Baron.Georg von Trapp
- Barbara Valentin – actress
- Thomas Vanek – professional ice hockey player
- Otto Wagner – architect
- Bruno Walter – conductor
- Christoph Waltz – actor
- Katia Wagner – Miss Earth Air 2013
- Erich Wasicky, Nazi SS pharmacist at Mauthausen concentration camp in charge of gassing victims; was executed
- Anton von Webern – composer
- Otto Weininger – philosopher
- Franz Werfel – writer
- Christine Werner – writer
- Friedrich von Wieser – economist
- Geri Winkler – mountaineer
- Ludwig Wittgenstein – philosopher
- Joe Zawinul – composer, keyboard player and jazz pianist
- Heinrich Ritter von Zeissberg (1839–1899) an Austrian historian.[52]
- Alexander von Zemlinski – composer
- Fred Zinnemann – director
- Birgit Zotz – writer
- Stefan Zweig – writer
- Heinz Zednik – tenor
See also
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