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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 historian — 5.4× 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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0039 ACTOR

Franz Muxeneder

1920 - 1988

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0057 OPERA

Franz Mazura

1924 - 2020

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0068 FILM

Hermann Leitner

1927 - 2013

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0083 ORGANIST

Franz Lehrndorfer

1928 - 2013

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0087 JOURNALIST

Gerd Bacher

1925 - 2015

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0130 SCREENWRITER

Rollo Gebhard

1921 - 2013

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0134 ACTOR

Karl Walter Diess

1928 - 2014

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0140 LAWYER

Egmont Foregger

1922 - 2007

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0224 WRITER

Gerhard Amanshauser

1928 - 2006

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0225 ARTIST

Gretl Aicher

1928 - 2012

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0246 POLITICIAN

Wilfried Haslauer senior

1926 - 1992

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0258 SINGER

Herta Talmar

1920 - 2010

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0269 FOOTBALL

Franz Feldinger

1928 - 2009

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0279 POLITICIAN

Herbert Moritz

1927 - 2018

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0291 ACADEMIC

Ingo Reiffenstein

Born 1928

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0315 PAINTER

Rudolf Hradil

1925 - 2007

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0394 SOCIOLOGIST

Ernst Gehmacher

Born 1926

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0400 PSYCHIATRIST

Heimo Gastager

1925 - 1991

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0412 ART HISTORIAN

Günther Heinz

1927 - 1992

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0435 SINGER

Rosemarie von Trapp

Born 1929

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0452 ACTOR

Haymo Pockberger

1925 - 2008

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0492 ACADEMIC

Ernst Florey

1927 - 1997

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0554 SCULPTOR

Johann Weinhart

1925 - 2019

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0579 COMPOSER

Irmfried Radauer

1928 - 1999

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0586 HISTORIAN

Franz Horak

1927 - 2010

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0593 ACADEMIC

D.G.H. Latzko

1924 - 2017

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0639 TEACHER

Sepp Baumgartner (Politiker)

1922 - 2010

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0690 MODEL

Elfi Wildfeuer

Born 1921

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0700 POLITICIAN

Karl Glaser (Politiker)

1921 - 2006

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0701 POLITICIAN

Josef Brunauer junior

1921 - 1999

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0712 HISTORIAN

Hertha Schober-Awecker

1922 - 1989

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0759 POLITICIAN

Eduard Kittl

1922 - 2003

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0796 LAWYER

Fred Friedman

1926 - 2008

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0819 JOURNALIST

Kurt Vorhofer

1929 - 1995

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0852 JOINER

Ernst Stoiber

1922 - 1943

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0856 FOOTBALL

Rudolf Krammer

1929 - 2004

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0857 FOOTBALL

Viktor Lindner

1927 - 2014

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0882 FOOTBALL

Hermann Hochleitner

1925 - 2010

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