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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.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Linz during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Linz Is Known For
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Politician is Linz's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (167).
Linz over-indexes on rower — 5.4× the global rate.
Linz under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.
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.
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- Film & TV
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- Filtered to 1910s Clear ×
Grete Mostny
1914 - 1991
Heinrich Fichtenau
1912 - 2000
Kurt Wöss
1914 - 1987
Helmut Eder
1916 - 2005
Hellmuth Marx
1915 - 2002
Karl Wahlmüller
1913 - 1944
Rudolf Hoflehner
1916 - 1995
Siegfried Powolny
1915 - 1944
Fritz Fröhlich (Maler, 1910)
1910 - 2001
Fred Jay
1914 - 1988
Elisabeth Mühlenweg
1910 - 1961
Alfred Zemanovský
1919 - 1994
Heinrich Bartels
1918 - 1944
Erwin Knausmüller
1912 - 2000
Herbert Andorfer
1911 - 2007
Adolf Leidlmair
1919 - 2010
Rudolf Bayr
1919 - 1990
Josef Haiböck
1917 - 2002
Oskar Sakrausky (Geistlicher, 1914)
1914 - 2006
Heinz Fischer-Karwin
1915 - 1987
Erich Thanner
1912 - 1981
Marianne Weingärtner
1917 - 1995
Ernst Fehrer
1919 - 2000
Eberhard Marckhgott
1912 - 1999
Karl Derntl
1918 - 1975
Otto Kranzlmayr
1911 - 1972
Hubert Strassl
1918 - 1943
Kurt Jeschko
1919 - 1973
Hans Bach (Agrarwissenschaftler)
1911 - 2002
Norbert Grabherr
1919 - 1977
Paul Ecker
1913 - 1979
Rosa Hofmann
1919 - 1943
Anton Andorfer
1919 - 1945
Johann Haselgruber
1919 - 1967
Hans Schmidinger (Bildhauer)
1912 - 1994
Hans Bachl
1917 - 1985
Friederike Stolz
1913 - 1989
Josef Bloderer
1914 - 1994
Hans Nowotny
1911 - 1996
Hermann Richter (Mediziner)
1915 - 1945
Stefan Demuth
1912 - 1988
Josef Schweighofer
1910 - 2010
Roman Leitner
1919 - 2012
Walter Aichinger (Politiker, 1916)
1916 - 1994
Rudolf Berger
1910 - 1990
Otto Glück
1918 - 2003
Eduard Tenschert
1912 - 2003
Elfriede Gollmann
1914 - 2007