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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.

Through the Centuries

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 historian5.4× the global rate.

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

  1. Politician127
  2. Actor73
  3. Football52
  4. Painter45
  5. Author30
  6. Composer26
  7. Academic24
  8. Writer23
  1. Art Historian95.4×
  2. Skier104.4×
  3. Author303.9×
  4. Academic242.7×
  5. Composer262.2×
  6. Architect172.2×
  7. Painter451.9×
  8. Artist171.9×
  1. Football520.5×

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.

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Showing 21 of 883 notable people

0011 PRINCESS

Archduchess Louise of Austria

1870 - 1947

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0036 ARCHDUKE

Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria

1874 - 1948

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0041 ARCHDUKE

Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria

1872 - 1942

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0049 OPERA

Richard Mayr

1877 - 1935

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0073 ARCHIDUC

Henri-Ferdinand de Habsbourg-Toscane

1878 - 1969

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0095 ARISTOCRAT

Aleksey Belevsky-Zhukovsky

1871 - 1931

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0103 ARISTOCRATE

Engelbert-Marie d'Arenberg

1872 - 1949

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0167 WRITER

Friedrich Ritter von Lama

1876 - 1944

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0283 CERAMIST

Emil Pottner

1872 - 1942

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0352 COMPOSER

Viktor Keldorfer

1873 - 1959

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0359 ARCHITECT

Karl Pirich

1875 - 1956

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0434 RESTAURATEUR

Carl Mayr (Gastronom)

1875 - 1942

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0481 ACADEMIC

Heinrich Sitte

1879 - 1951

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0486 JOURNALIST

Karl Werkmann

1878 - 1951

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0504 POLITICIAN

Paul Krennwallner

1876 - 1914

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0519 PAINTER

Romualdo Prati

1874 - 1930

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0647 COMPOSER

Ernst Sompek

1876 - 1954

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0703 ENTOMOLOGIST

Bruno Wahl (Entomologe)

1876 - 1971

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0790 POLITICIAN

Heinrich Ulrich

1871 - 1943

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0870 POLITICIAN

Karl Bundschuh

1871 - 1935

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0881 POLITICIAN

Eduard Mühlreiter

1874 - 1954

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