47.7973° N, 13.0477° E
SALZBURG
Most Famous People Born in Salzburg, Austria
- Notable people
- 883
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1949
- Most distinctive
- Art Historian 5.4×
A baroque prince-archbishopric that still pays its bills on high culture: the Composer, Art Historian, Architect and Academic benches all come wrapped in Fischer von Erlach's churches and the Festspiele hive mind. The Skier line is the one honest concession to the twenty-first century, the mountains finally getting their due on a résumé the Residenz had been hogging for four hundred years.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Salzburg during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Salzburg Is Known For
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Politician is Salzburg's biggest profession — 14% of all notables (127).
Salzburg over-indexes on art historian — 5.4× the global rate.
Salzburg under-produces football — only 0.5× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Salzburg's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Politics & Law
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Art & Design
- Writing
- Music
- Other
- Filtered to 1770s Clear ×
Sigismund von Neukomm
1778 - 1858
Joseph Wölfl
1773 - 1812
Mathias Mielichhofer
1772 - 1847
Josef Wolfgang Kainz
1773 - 1855
Anton von Heffter
1777 - 1844