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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.

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Showing 133 of 1,208 notable people

0008 HISTORIAN

Shlomo Sand

Born 1946

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0009 FILM

Valie Export

Born 1940

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0022 POLITICIAN

Josef Pühringer

Born 1949

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0024 PRESENTER

Frank Elstner

Born 1942

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0029 WRITER

Anna Mitgutsch

Born 1948

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0031 MATHEMATICIAN

Martin Aigner

Born 1942

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0050 POLITICIAN

Christoph Leitl

Born 1949

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0053 ACTOR

Heribert Sasse

1945 - 2016

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0057 VIROLOGIST

Peter Palese

Born 1944

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0062 WRITER

Susanna Kubelka

Born 1942

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0082 ACTOR

Hannelore Auer

Born 1942

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0085 POLITICIAN

Herwig van Staa

Born 1942

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0103 EDUCATOR

Ute Bock

1942 - 2018

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0115 CHEMIST

Norbert Peters (engineer)

1942 - 2015

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0122 BOTANIST

Franz Speta

1941 - 2015

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0148 COMPOSER

Hubert Bognermayr

1948 - 1999

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0152 MEDIEVALIST

Peter Dinzelbacher

Born 1948

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0154 PAINTER

Israel Hershberg

Born 1948

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0176 JUDGE

Helmut Türk

Born 1941

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0187 ACADEMIC

Johannes W. Pichler

Born 1947

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0192 MOUNTAINEER

Eduard Koblmueller

1946 - 2015

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0198 ACADEMIC

Wolfgang Schulz (Flötist)

1946 - 2013

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0212 FILM

Dietmar Brehm

Born 1947

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0216 RADIO

Peter Huemer (Journalist)

Born 1941

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0225 ART HISTORIAN

Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy

Born 1940

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0239 ZOOLOGIST

Reinhard Rieger

1943 - 2006

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0240 AUTHOR

Wendelin Ettmayer

Born 1943

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0244 AUTHOR

Dorothea Macheiner

Born 1943

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0260 FILM

Gert Winkler

1942 - 2016

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0265 ACTOR

Ulli Fessl

Born 1942

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0283 PHYSICIAN

Barbara Nath-Wiser

Born 1949

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0303 PSYCHOLOGIST

Helmut Lukesch

Born 1946

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0304 PHILOLOGIST

Arbogast Schmitt

Born 1943

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0305 SOCIOLOGIST

Wolfgang Lipp (Soziologe)

1941 - 2014

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0329 ARCHITECT

Christoph Langhof

Born 1948

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0337 COMPOSER

Herman Rechberger

Born 1947

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0344 ACADEMIC

Laurids Ortner

Born 1941

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0355 ENTOMOLOGIST

Ulrike Aspöck

Born 1941

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0357 AUTHOR

Hubert Straßl

Born 1941

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0367 ACTOR

Manfred Böll

Born 1944

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0380 PAINTER

Hans Sisa

Born 1948

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0390 ACTOR

Hermann Scheidleder

Born 1949

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0392 ACTOR

Elisabeth Rath

Born 1948

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0407 ACADEMIC

Manfred Ortner (Architekt)

Born 1943

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0414 ROWER

Dieter Ebner

Born 1940

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0416 ROWER

Karl Sinzinger

Born 1941

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0424 WRITER

Hans Dieter Mairinger

Born 1943

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0449 HISTORIAN

Dieter Stiefel

Born 1946

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0455 ROWER

Dieter Losert

Born 1940

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0471 ECONOMIST

Herbert Kofler

1949 - 2019

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0475 SOCIOLOGIST

Eva Cyba

Born 1943

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0504 FILM

Uwe Bolius

1940 - 2014

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0505 MUSIC

Alfred Mitterhofer

1940 - 1999

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0520 CANOE

Wolfgang Hartl

Born 1941

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0523 PAINTER

Prasthan Dachauer

1940 - 2016

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0543 ACADEMIC

Friedrich Roithmayr

Born 1946

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0544 WRITER

Peter Coreth

Born 1948

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0545 WRITER

Alexander Wied

Born 1943

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0548 WRITER

Elfriede Kehrer

Born 1948

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0549 PAINTER

Herbert Hiesmayr

1940 - 2016

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0576 PHOTOGRAPHER

Joseph Gallus Rittenberg

Born 1948

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0578 ACADEMIC

Dieter Lukesch

Born 1943

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0587 AUTHOR

Stephen Sokoloff

Born 1943

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0596 AUTHOR

Katharina Riese

Born 1946

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0600 ACADEMIC

Dietrich Kropfberger

Born 1946

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0601 HISTORIAN

Johann Mayr (Sozialwissenschaftler)

Born 1946

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0608 THEOLOGIAN

Ernst-Christian Gerhold

Born 1942

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0609 ACADEMIC

Roland Traunmüller

Born 1940

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0619 PAINTER

Werner Horvath

Born 1949

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0630 ACADEMIC

Olaf Bockhorn

Born 1942

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0632 ARCHIVIST

Siegfried Haider

Born 1943

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0661 HISTORIAN

Gerhard Floßmann

Born 1941

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0679 COSTUME DESIGNER

Herbert Kapplmüller

Born 1941

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0681 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Jörg R. Mühlbacher

Born 1946

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0685 PAINTER

Klaus Liedl

Born 1949

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0692 ENTERTAINER

Hans-Jörg Ratzenböck

1943 - 2016

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0704 POLITICIAN

Gottfried Kneifel

Born 1948

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0706 MATHEMATICIAN

Rudolf Lidl

Born 1948

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0736 ENTOMOLOGIST

Günther Theischinger

Born 1940

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0737 SINGER

Ty Tender

Born 1943

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0751 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Johannes Prammer

1948 - 2020

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0754 AUTHOR

Helmut Rizy

Born 1943

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0760 SPORT

Johann Pollak

1948 - 2019

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0763 POLITICIAN

Bernd Lindinger

Born 1940

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0779 ACADEMIC

Peter Oberndorfer (Jurist)

Born 1942

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0780 EDUCATOR

Georg Stifter

Born 1940

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0781 AUTHOR

Heinz Benzenstadler

Born 1944

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0785 CONDUCTOR

Walter Rescheneder

Born 1948

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0790 ENGINEER

Hans-Werner Frömmel

Born 1942

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0791 FOOTBALL

Wally Ziaja

Born 1949

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0792 ACADEMIC

Michael Krist

Born 1946

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0793 KATHOLISCHER

Gerhard Hartmann (Theologe)

Born 1945

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0801 AUTHOR

Volker Raus

Born 1946

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0813 ACADEMIC

Erich Wolny

Born 1948

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0817 ARCHITECT

Wolfgang Steinlechner

Born 1942

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0843 ENTREPRENEUR

Erhard Grossnigg

Born 1946

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0851 ART DEALER

Richard Eder

Born 1940

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0852 LAWYER

Bruno Binder (Jurist)

Born 1948

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0876 ACADEMIC

Wolfgang Bruneder

Born 1941

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0893 COMPOSER

Gerhard Schmidinger

Born 1943

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0900 JOURNALIST

Peter Zurek

1943 - 2013

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0924 WRITER

Franz Schwabeneder

Born 1942

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0931 MODERATOR

Leo Walch

Born 1948

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0950 POLITICIAN

Elfriede Madl

Born 1949

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0951 ROWER

Manfred Krausbar

Born 1942

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0966 POLITICIAN

Uta Barbara Pühringer

Born 1943

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0971 POLITICIAN

Günter Puttinger

Born 1942

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0982 PAINTER

Edmund Linhart

Born 1949

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0996 EDITOR

Thomas Ortner

1948 - 2013

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1000 POLITICIAN

Helmut Dietachmayr

Born 1942

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1004 RADIO

Manfred Payrhuber

1940 - 2018

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1005 POLITICIAN

Peter Keppelmüller

Born 1944

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1016 SPORT

Wolf-Dietrich Sonnleitner

Born 1943

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1036 POLITICIAN

Hedda Kainz

Born 1942

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1045 ENGINEER

Ernst Krittian

1941 - 2018

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1050 FOOTBALL

Walter Rautmann

Born 1945

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1051 ARTIST

Helmut W. Hundstorfer

Born 1947

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1069 POLITICIAN

Horst Nußbaumer

Born 1949

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1071 ACTOR

Jim Steffe

Born 1943

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1100 MUSIC

Heinz Preiss

Born 1942

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1107 POLITICIAN

Johann Schuster (Politiker, 1942)

Born 1942

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1110 ATHLETIC

Walter Dießl

Born 1943

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1112 POLITICIAN

Angela Orthner

Born 1948

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1126 MUSIC

Karl Kasbauer

Born 1949

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1135 MANAGER

Günther Leitner

Born 1946

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1136 ILLUSTRATOR

Hannes Rader

Born 1940

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1139 POLITICIAN

Bruno Wögerer

Born 1943

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1146 MITARBEITER

Riccarda Tourou

Born 1943

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1167 PAINTER

Brigitte Johanna Wasmeyer

Born 1943

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1171 JOURNALIST

Rudolf H. Riener

1942 - 2012

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1173 LAWYER

Hans Popper (Jurist)

Born 1949

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1180 POLITICIAN

Ingrid Holzhammer

Born 1947

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1199 PAINTER

Rainer Riepl

Born 1946

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