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LINZ

Most Famous People Born in Linz, Austria

Notable people
1,208
Peak decade
1950s
Median birth year
1952
Most distinctive
Rower 5.4×

A Habsburg administrative capital whose distinctive profile — authors, academics, conductors, painters — reflects centuries of the state churning out civil servants and churchmen rather than courtiers. Richard Tauber sang his way out of the opera pit here, and Parov Stelar built electroswing from the same Danube-side streets the city has spent eighty years learning to talk honestly about.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Linz during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1950s with 195 notable births.

What Linz Is Known For

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Politician is Linz's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (167).

Linz over-indexes on rower5.4× the global rate.

Linz under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.

  1. Politician167
  2. Painter80
  3. Actor67
  4. Football65
  5. Academic59
  6. Author54
  7. Writer49
  8. Composer27
  1. Rower245.4×
  2. Author545.2×
  3. Academic594.8×
  4. Presenter134.7×
  5. Conductor134.2×
  6. Handball143.7×
  7. Painter802.5×
  8. Sculptor172.2×
  1. Football650.5×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Linz's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

1550160016501700175018001850190019502000
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  • Film & TV
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Showing 48 of 1,208 notable people

0049 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Grete Mostny

1914 - 1991

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0072 MEDIEVALIST

Heinrich Fichtenau

1912 - 2000

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0081 CONDUCTOR

Kurt Wöss

1914 - 1987

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0105 COMPOSER

Helmut Eder

1916 - 2005

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0147 SCULPTOR

Hellmuth Marx

1915 - 2002

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0164 FOOTBALL

Karl Wahlmüller

1913 - 1944

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0167 SCULPTOR

Rudolf Hoflehner

1916 - 1995

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0196 HANDBALL

Siegfried Powolny

1915 - 1944

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0227 PAINTER

Fritz Fröhlich (Maler, 1910)

1910 - 2001

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0258 POET

Fred Jay

1914 - 1988

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0293 ILLUSTRATOR

Elisabeth Mühlenweg

1910 - 1961

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0313 COMPOSER

Alfred Zemanovský

1919 - 1994

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0372 AIRMAN

Heinrich Bartels

1918 - 1944

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0381 ACTOR

Erwin Knausmüller

1912 - 2000

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0415 WIDERSTAND

Herbert Andorfer

1911 - 2007

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0429 GEOGRAPHER

Adolf Leidlmair

1919 - 2010

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0508 AUTHOR

Rudolf Bayr

1919 - 1990

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0550 MILITAR

Josef Haiböck

1917 - 2002

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0563 THEOLOGIAN

Oskar Sakrausky (Geistlicher, 1914)

1914 - 2006

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0566 PRESENTER

Heinz Fischer-Karwin

1915 - 1987

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0618 JOURNALIST

Erich Thanner

1912 - 1981

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0723 ACADEMIC

Marianne Weingärtner

1917 - 1995

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0782 INVENTOR

Ernst Fehrer

1919 - 2000

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0789 PRESBYTER

Eberhard Marckhgott

1912 - 1999

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0808 COMPOSER

Karl Derntl

1918 - 1975

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0836 POLITICIAN

Otto Kranzlmayr

1911 - 1972

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0880 FIGHTER

Hubert Strassl

1918 - 1943

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0895 PRESENTER

Kurt Jeschko

1919 - 1973

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0923 AGRONOMIST

Hans Bach (Agrarwissenschaftler)

1911 - 2002

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0934 AUTHOR

Norbert Grabherr

1919 - 1977

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0946 MILITAR

Paul Ecker

1913 - 1979

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0965 KOMMUNIST

Rosa Hofmann

1919 - 1943

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0980 OFFICER

Anton Andorfer

1919 - 1945

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0989 ENTREPRENEUR

Johann Haselgruber

1919 - 1967

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0991 SCULPTOR

Hans Schmidinger (Bildhauer)

1912 - 1994

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1023 CHOIR DIRECTOR

Hans Bachl

1917 - 1985

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1042 SCULPTOR

Friederike Stolz

1913 - 1989

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1065 WIDERSTAND

Josef Bloderer

1914 - 1994

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1091 CHEMIST

Hans Nowotny

1911 - 1996

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1093 PHYSICIAN

Hermann Richter (Mediziner)

1915 - 1945

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1101 POLITICIAN

Stefan Demuth

1912 - 1988

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1105 TRADE UNION

Josef Schweighofer

1910 - 2010

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1124 AUDITOR

Roman Leitner

1919 - 2012

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1141 POLITICIAN

Walter Aichinger (Politiker, 1916)

1916 - 1994

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1142 OFFICER

Rudolf Berger

1910 - 1990

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1144 POLITICIAN

Otto Glück

1918 - 2003

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1176 PAINTER

Eduard Tenschert

1912 - 2003

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1197 ACTOR

Elfriede Gollmann

1914 - 2007

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