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GRAZ
Most Famous People Born in Graz, Austria
- Notable people
- 1,526
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1942
- Most distinctive
- Author 4.3×
A Styrian court city whose 16th- and 17th-century bench is dominated by Habsburgs — Ferdinand II and Ferdinand III, half a dozen archduchesses who married into the thrones of Spain and Poland and France. Graz's distinctive professions after that are authors, academics, mathematicians, and composers — the trades of a university town that has always sat between Vienna and Trieste. The most famous name born here in the 20th century is Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination ended the dynasty his ancestors built.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Graz during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Graz Is Known For
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Politician is Graz's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (175).
Graz over-indexes on author — 4.3× the global rate.
Graz under-produces football — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Graz's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Wilhelm Blaschke
1885 - 1962
Georg Kreisel
1923 - 2015
Herbert Edelsbrunner
Born 1958
Walther Mayer
1887 - 1948
Gerald Teschl
Born 1970
Gottfried Köthe
1905 - 1989
Hellmuth Stachel
Born 1942
Gert Sabidussi
Born 1929
Rainer Burkard
Born 1943
Hans Robert Müller
1911 - 1999
Theodor Pöschl
1882 - 1955
Gerhard J. Woeginger
Born 1964
Susanne Teschl
Born 1971
Theodor Radaković
1895 - 1938
Peter Albin Lesky
1926 - 2008
Hans Kurzweil
1942 - 2014
Fritz Hohenberg
1907 - 1987
Georg Ignaz von Metzburg
1735 - 1798