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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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Showing 96 of 883 notable people

0024 POLITICIAN

Barbara Rosenkranz

Born 1958

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0028 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Arno Tausch

Born 1951

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0040 AUTHOR

Karl-Markus Gauß

Born 1954

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0043 POLITICIAN

Johannes Voggenhuber

Born 1950

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0058 POLITICIAN

Wilfried Haslauer Jr.

Born 1956

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0060 ACTOR

Peter Keglevic

Born 1950

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0102 PHILOSOPHER

Helmut F. Kaplan

Born 1952

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0124 ACTOR

Andrea Spatzek

Born 1959

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0129 BIOLOGIST

Gerd B. Müller

Born 1953

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0161 ACTOR

Bill Kirchenbauer

Born 1953

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0164 POLITICIAN

Andreas Kiefer

Born 1957

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0177 PROFESSOR

Andreas Lixl

1951 - 2015

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0197 SPORT

Peter Muckenhuber

Born 1955

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0198 DIVER

Niki Stajković

1959 - 2017

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0201 SPORT

Herbert Spindler

Born 1954

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0221 ACTOR

Susanne Czepl

Born 1959

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0223 ACTOR

Brigitta Cimarolli

Born 1958

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0236 ACTOR

Gabriele Schuchter

Born 1956

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0240 ACTOR

Georg Schuchter

1952 - 2001

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0241 WRITER

Hansjörg Zauner

1959 - 2017

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0251 PSYCHIATRIST

Siegfried Kasper

Born 1950

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0252 ACTOR

Andreas Wimberger

1959 - 2019

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0264 PHILOSOPHER

Günther Witzany

Born 1953

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0271 ACTOR

Georges Kern

Born 1950

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0272 ARCHITECT

Max Rieder (Architekt)

Born 1957

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0276 ACTOR

Christoph Schobesberger

Born 1954

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0282 LITERARY

Cornelius Hell

Born 1956

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0284 PAINTER

Irene Andessner

Born 1954

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0285 PAINTER

Jakob Gasteiger

Born 1953

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0286 ACTOR

Barbara Magdalena Ahren

Born 1950

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0290 AUTHOR

Lisa Witasek

Born 1956

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0314 ACTOR

Raimund Lang

Born 1951

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0324 HISTORIAN

Gabriella Hauch

Born 1959

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0326 REEDER

Peter Krämer (Reeder)

1950 - 2017

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0334 SCENOGRAPHER

Harald B. Thor

Born 1956

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0336 POLITICIAN

Eduard Mainoni

Born 1958

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0340 WRITER

Max Blaeulich

Born 1952

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0347 PHYSICIAN

Maximilian Ledochowski

Born 1956

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0357 POLITICIAN

Gertraud Wagner-Schöppl

Born 1956

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0374 THEOLOGIAN

Michael Waldstein

Born 1954

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0375 COMPOSER

Klemens Vereno

Born 1957

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0376 AUTHOR

Robert Foltin

Born 1957

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0377 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Gerhard Medicus

Born 1950

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0384 POLITICIAN

Helmut Mödlhammer

Born 1951

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0391 SCULPTOR

Gustav Reinhardt

Born 1950

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0403 PHOTOGRAPHER

Nikolaus Koliusis

Born 1953

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0404 PAINTER

Hermann Kremsmayer

Born 1954

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0406 ARTIST

Ursula Hübner

Born 1957

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0410 COMPOSER

Michael Mautner

Born 1959

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0413 MATHEMATICIAN

Franz Winkler (Mathematiker)

Born 1955

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0420 HISTORIAN

Gerhard Ammerer

Born 1956

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0426 MUSIC

Tscho Theissing

Born 1959

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0443 POLITICIAN

Josef Schöchl

Born 1959

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0450 MUSIC

Ingrid Seifert

Born 1953

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0457 PROFESSOR

Friedrich Harrer

Born 1958

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0458 ARTIST

Ashley Hans Scheirl

Born 1956

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0465 PRIEST

Gustav Schörghofer

Born 1953

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0475 AUTHOR

Walter Müller (Schriftsteller)

Born 1950

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0495 ART HISTORIAN

Heidrun Stein-Kecks

Born 1956

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0516 LAWYER

Herbert Hübel

Born 1958

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0524 LUGER

Stefan Hölzlwimmer

Born 1951

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0538 PAINTER

Wolfgang Eibl

Born 1953

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0543 POLITICIAN

Harald Preuner

Born 1959

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0571 ACADEMIC

Franz Kainberger

Born 1957

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0576 PRINTMAKER

Eugen Stross

Born 1954

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0603 POLITICIAN

Susanne Kurz

Born 1956

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0606 WRITER

Roswitha Klaushofer

Born 1954

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0612 INTERNIST

Richard Greil

Born 1957

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0629 PRESENTER

Norbert Steidl

Born 1959

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0636 FOOTBALL

Gerhard Perlak

Born 1955

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0638 POLITICIAN

Doraja Eberle

Born 1954

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0650 POLITICIAN

Astrid Rössler

Born 1959

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0656 ORGANIST

T. C. Pfeiler

Born 1958

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0670 POLITICIAN

Dietmar Schmittner

Born 1958

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0687 ARTIST

Hans Schmidt (Künstler)

Born 1951

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0689 POLITICIAN

Heidi Reiter

Born 1953

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0706 FILM

Hans Scheirl

Born 1956

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0722 POLITICIAN

Johann Maier (Politiker, Mai 1952)

Born 1952

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0732 ACTOR

Susanne Schweiger

Born 1953

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0745 FOOTBALL

Hans-Peter Berger (Fußballspieler, 1956)

Born 1956

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0749 POLITICIAN

Gertraud Jahn

Born 1957

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0757 POLITICIAN

Johann Padutsch

Born 1955

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0758 POLITICIAN

Peter Lechenauer

Born 1958

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0767 JOURNALIST

Walter Mayer (Journalist)

Born 1959

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0782 REGISSEUR

Siegwulf Turek

Born 1950

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0785 PAINTER

Michael Scheirl

Born 1953

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0795 POLITICIAN

Maria Haidinger

Born 1950

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0798 SPORT

Heinrich Bergmüller

Born 1952

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0801 LAWYER

Norbert Scherbaum

Born 1957

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0820 BANK

Walter Zandanell

Born 1958

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0822 SCULPTOR

Kurt Augustin

Born 1956

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0833 POLITICIAN

Wolfgang Rainer

Born 1959

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0834 POLITICIAN

Erich Rippl

Born 1958

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0837 POLITICIAN

Markus Reitsamer

Born 1959

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0862 POLITICIAN

Veronika Schuster

Born 1954

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0868 POLITICIAN

Franz Berger (Politiker, 1959)

Born 1959

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