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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

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1960s with 125 notable births.

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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0012 POLITICIAN

Benita Ferrero-Waldner

Born 1948

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0015 ACTOR

Gaby Dohm

Born 1943

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0054 POLITICIAN

Friedhelm Frischenschlager

Born 1943

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0066 POLITICIAN

Caspar Einem

Born 1948

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0085 WRITER

Ruth Aspöck

Born 1947

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0088 AUTHOR

Bodo Hell

Born 1943

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0089 ENTREPRENEUR

Alexander, Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn

Born 1943

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0091 COMPOSER

Klaus Ager

Born 1946

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0101 FOOTBALL

Alex Jesaulenko

Born 1945

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0125 RACER

Manfred Stengl

1946 - 1992

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0136 POLITICIAN

Helga Rabl-Stadler

Born 1948

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0139 VIOLIN

Luz Leskowitz

Born 1943

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0146 ACADEMIC

Bettina Baumer

Born 1940

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0153 ACTOR

Hans Hass (Schauspieler)

1946 - 2009

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0163 LUGER

Christina Schmuck

Born 1944

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0166 ENTREPRENEUR

Franz Humer

Born 1946

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0182 ECONOMIST

Markus Schwaninger

Born 1947

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0195 CONDUCTOR

Josef Wallnig

Born 1946

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0200 FILM

Carlo Bernasconi

1943 - 2001

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0212 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Werner Pfeifenberger

1941 - 2000

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0215 ACTOR

Gabriele Jacoby

Born 1944

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0242 ACTOR

Stefan Matousch

1948 - 2018

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0253 ACTOR

Vitus Zeplichal

Born 1947

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0267 PAINTER

Andrew Stevovich

Born 1948

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0275 PHILOSOPHES

Jens Malte Fischer

Born 1943

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0278 CHEMIST

Rolf Schmid (Chemiker)

Born 1942

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0292 WRITER

Hans Augustin (Schriftsteller)

Born 1949

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0305 GUITAR

Bobby Falta

Born 1941

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0308 PSYCHOLOGIST

Wolfgang Caspart

Born 1946

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0313 JAPANOLOGIST

Peter Pantzer

Born 1942

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0318 WRITER

Erich Wolfgang Skwara

Born 1948

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0320 ACTOR

Roland Astor

Born 1942

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0323 MURDER

Werner Kniesek

Born 1946

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0330 FILM

Käthe Kratz

Born 1947

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0332 PAINTER

Heinz Göbel

1947 - 2013

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0333 ACTOR

Peter Pikl

1946 - 2018

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0346 ACADEMIC

Waldemar Jud

1943 - 2018

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0349 HISTORIAN

Herbert Dachs

Born 1943

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0350 PIANIST

Brigitte Engelhard

Born 1949

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0351 ACADEMIC

Werner W. Ernst

Born 1947

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0356 SOLDIER

Horst Pleiner

Born 1941

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0361 HISTORIAN

Friederike Zaisberger

1940 - 2019

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0364 ACADEMIC

Norbert Richard Wolf

Born 1943

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0370 ART HISTORIAN

Barbara Wally

Born 1947

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0373 MINISTER

Renate Piller

Born 1944

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0379 ACADEMIC

Reinhold Popp

Born 1949

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0382 ACTOR

Toni Böhm

1949 - 2006

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0383 PAINTER

Julius Mende

1944 - 2007

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0386 BOTANIST

Christian Körner (Botaniker)

Born 1949

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0398 RACER

Eduard Stöllinger

1948 - 2006

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0418 PSYCHOLOGIST

Oswald Huber

Born 1942

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0423 PHILOLOGIST

Gerald Stieg

Born 1941

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0427 AUTHOR

Philipp Zippermayr

Born 1949

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0454 ARTIST

Ingo Springenschmid

1942 - 2016

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0463 MUSIC

Tobias Reiser

1946 - 1999

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0466 NEUROLOGIST

Heinz Wässle

Born 1943

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0474 ACTOR

Isolde Miler

Born 1940

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0478 CARICATURIST

Dieter Zehentmayr

1941 - 2005

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0488 COSTUME DESIGNER

Gottfried Pilz

Born 1944

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0491 ACADEMIC

Wolfgang Graninger

Born 1948

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0497 ACADEMIC

Edith Marold

Born 1942

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0500 WRITER

Georg Rohrecker

1947 - 2009

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0501 ACTOR

Gerhard Paul (Sänger)

Born 1949

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0507 ART HISTORIAN

Roswitha Juffinger

Born 1948

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0525 SCULPTOR

Gottfried Höllwarth

Born 1945

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0526 ACADEMIC

Rudolf Reischauer

Born 1941

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0529 PROFESSOR

Ferdinand Hofstädter

Born 1948

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0533 MATHEMATICIAN

Winfried Bernward Müller

Born 1944

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0549 LAWYER

Rüdiger Reyels

Born 1941

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0551 PSYCHIATRIST

Rainer Danzinger

Born 1943

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0558 ACADEMIC

Josef Aicher (Jurist)

Born 1947

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0560 ART DEALER

Siegfried Karrer

Born 1941

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0564 ARTIST

Gerhard Laber

Born 1946

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0567 AUTHOR

Reinhard Rinnerthaler

Born 1949

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0575 POLITICIAN

Klaus Firlei

Born 1947

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0580 SPORT

Klaus Wallas

Born 1947

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0581 JAVELIN THROWER

Walter Pektor

1945 - 1994

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0587 EDITOR

Helmut Vogl

Born 1944

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0590 ACADEMIC

Walter Lürzer

1942 - 2011

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0591 SINGER

Klaus Wallprecht

Born 1947

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0607 EDITOR

Max Dasch (Herausgeber)

Born 1946

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0621 WRITER

Fritz Huber (Autor)

Born 1942

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0673 POLITICIAN

Gerhard Schmid (Politiker, 1948)

Born 1948

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0677 POLITICIAN

Harald Lettner

Born 1945

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0695 POLITICIAN

Robert Aspöck

1943 - 2018

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0702 POLITICIAN

Stefan Prähauser

Born 1948

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0717 SAILOR

Uli Strohschneider

1940 - 1998

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0730 COMPOSER

Wolfgang Florey

Born 1945

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0733 POLITICIAN

Hermann Böhacker

Born 1941

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0738 RADIO

Gotthard Rieger

Born 1947

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0739 MILITAR

Hubertus Trauttenberg

Born 1941

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0742 POLITICIAN

Ricky Veichtlbauer

Born 1948

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0754 HISTORIAN

Michael Henker

Born 1948

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0764 POLITICIAN

Helga Wieser

Born 1940

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0773 POLITICIAN

Arno Gasteiger

Born 1947

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0804 SPORT

Dieter Gehmacher

Born 1949

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0805 POLITICIAN

Rudolf Stark (Politiker)

Born 1948

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0821 ACTOR

Renate Rustler-Ourth

Born 1949

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0823 POLITICIAN

Brigitte Flinspach

Born 1943

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0839 POLITICIAN

Wolfgang Haunsberger

Born 1940

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0849 DIPLOMAT

Peer Christopher Stanchina

Born 1945

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0869 POLITICIAN

Norbert Grinninger

Born 1940

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0878 ARCHITECT

Bertram J. Mayer

1943 - 2013

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