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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 125 of 883 notable people

0005 SKYDIVER

Felix Baumgartner

Born 1969

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0014 ACTOR

Georg Friedrich (actor)

Born 1966

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0020 OPERA

Angelika Kirchschlager

Born 1965

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0025 CONDUCTOR

Thomas Zehetmair

Born 1961

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0026 FILM

Virgil Widrich

Born 1967

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0048 ACTOR

Harald Krassnitzer

Born 1960

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0067 ACADEMIC

Veronika Hagen

Born 1963

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0081 PROFESSOR

Claire F. Gmachl

Born 1967

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0100 PHOTOGRAPHER

Andreas Horvath

Born 1968

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0105 WRITER

Bettina Balàka

Born 1966

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0115 ACTOR

Michael Dangl

Born 1968

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0116 FILM

Frederick Baker

1965 - 2020

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0117 POLITICIAN

Claudia Schmidt (femme politique)

Born 1963

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0119 DRIVER

Roland Ratzenberger

1960 - 1994

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0121 POLITICIAN

Klaus Werner-Lobo

Born 1967

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0123 SKIER

Gerhard Pfaffenbichler

Born 1961

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0131 AUTHOR

Margret Kreidl

Born 1964

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0141 ARTIST

Bernhard Cella

Born 1963

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0147 ACTOR

Carolin Fink

Born 1966

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0152 PHOTOGRAPHER

Aglaia Konrad

Born 1960

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0156 ARTIST

Ilse Haider

Born 1965

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0157 ROWER

Christoph Zerbst

Born 1963

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0159 ARCHITECT

Christine Lechner

Born 1960

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0176 WRITER

Thomas Bubendorfer

Born 1962

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0205 LAWYER

Alfred J. Noll

Born 1960

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0235 FILM

Florian Flicker

1965 - 2014

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0257 AUTHOR

Martin Amanshauser

Born 1968

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0270 PAINTER

Lois Renner

Born 1961

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0281 ACTOR

Johanna Hohloch

Born 1964

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0296 ACADEMIC

Lukas Hagen

Born 1962

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0301 WRITER

Christian Strasser (Journalist)

Born 1964

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0302 SCULPTOR

Alfred Haberpointner

Born 1966

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0306 PAINTER

Konrad Winter

Born 1963

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0312 MUSIC

Clemens Hagen

Born 1966

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0321 MATHEMATICIAN

Gerhard Larcher (Mathematiker)

Born 1960

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0325 WRITER

Hadmar von Wieser

Born 1963

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0345 PAINTER

Bernhard Vogel (Maler)

Born 1961

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0363 FILMMAKER

Friedemann Derschmidt

Born 1967

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0365 COMPOSER

Hannes Bertolini

Born 1968

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0368 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Bernd Baumgartl

1964 - 2009

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0372 CURATOR

Tomas Zierhofer-Kin

Born 1968

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0381 AUTHOR

Ulrike Schmitzer

Born 1967

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0387 POLITICIAN

Peter Haubner

Born 1960

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0396 SCREENWRITER

Gabriele Neudecker

Born 1965

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0416 CANOE

Manuel Köhler

Born 1969

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0421 WRITER

Gudrun Seidenauer

Born 1965

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0422 AUTHOR

Johannes Gelich

Born 1969

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0431 ACADEMIC

Thomas Stöllner

Born 1967

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0436 ACTOR

Matthias Christian Rehrl

Born 1965

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0438 ARCHITECT

Thomas Wizany

Born 1967

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0446 PHOTOGRAPHER

Thomas Trenkler

Born 1960

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0448 JOURNALIST

Richard Reichensperger

1961 - 2004

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0449 JOURNALIST

Mirjam Jessa

Born 1962

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0455 PLAYER

Gerald Mild

Born 1962

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0464 DRAMA

Irene Schuck

Born 1960

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0470 AUTHOR

Meta Merz

1965 - 1989

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0476 JOURNALIST

Ulrike Zeitlinger-Haake

Born 1969

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0480 THEOLOGIAN

Bernhard Fresacher

Born 1964

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0505 BANK

Franz Schellhorn

Born 1969

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0506 ARTIST

Moira Zoitl

Born 1968

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0512 DESIGNER

Andreas Wolfsgruber

Born 1962

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0513 WRITER

Corinna Soria

Born 1962

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0514 ACTOR

Christian Higer

Born 1966

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0531 JOURNALIST

Judith Brandner

Born 1963

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0540 SAXOPHONIST

Herb Berger

Born 1969

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0552 PFARRER

Matthias Geist

Born 1969

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0572 AUTHOR

Bruno Max

Born 1962

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0583 ART HISTORIAN

Roland Kerschbaum

Born 1968

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0589 MANAGER

Hannes Ametsreiter

Born 1967

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0596 PHOTOGRAPHER

Wolfgang Thaler (Fotograf)

Born 1969

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0597 POLITICIAN

Roland Richter (Politiker, 1963)

Born 1963

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0598 POLITICIAN

Walter Krögner

Born 1963

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0602 LITERARY

Eva Reichmann (Literaturwissenschaftlerin)

Born 1962

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0611 SAXOPHONIST

Robert Friedl

Born 1963

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0613 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Clemens Gull

Born 1969

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0623 CONDUCTOR

Peter Lang (Dirigent)

Born 1964

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0626 LAWYER

Theodor Thanner

Born 1960

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0627 ACTOR

Edmund Jäger (Schauspieler)

Born 1967

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0635 POLITICIAN

Birgit Schatz

Born 1969

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0644 ARCHITECT

Johannes Baar-Baarenfels

Born 1963

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0648 ACADEMIC

Johannes Gobertus Meran

Born 1961

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0649 RADIO

Wolfgang Leikermoser

Born 1965

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0655 COACH

Toni Giger

Born 1963

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0672 ARCHITECT

Ursula Schneider (Architektin)

Born 1961

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0674 POLITICIAN

Lisa Rücker

Born 1965

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0680 POLITICIAN

Marlies Steiner-Wieser

Born 1963

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0684 ARTIST

Lizzy Mayrl

Born 1962

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0688 SINGER

Ulrike Sych

Born 1962

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0691 COACH

Alexander Hödlmoser

Born 1968

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0693 POLITICIAN

Karin Dollinger

Born 1969

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0699 POLITICIAN

Andreas Schöppl

Born 1961

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0705 JOURNALIST

Ferdinand Wegscheider

Born 1960

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0709 COMPOSER

Georg Jenisch

Born 1969

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0711 PRODUCER

Thomas Foster (Musikproduzent)

Born 1969

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0720 PLAYER

Petra Sax-Scharl

Born 1965

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0721 ARCHITECT

Alfred Berger

Born 1961

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0725 FILM

Florian Brandt

Born 1966

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0731 POLITICIAN

Franz Xaver Böhm

Born 1960

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0734 FOOTBALL

Dietmar Emich

Born 1967

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0737 PRODUCER

Christoph Lindenbauer

Born 1960

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0743 POLITICIAN

Markus Fauland

Born 1968

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0748 SKIER

Roswitha Raudaschl

Born 1967

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0750 PLAYWRIGHT

Johannes Holzhausen

Born 1960

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0760 SCULPTOR

Heinrich Eder

Born 1967

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0761 POLITICIAN

Bernhard Ernst (Politiker)

1961 - 2012

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0766 POLITICIAN

Christian Hörl (Politiker)

1962 - 2020

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0775 DESIGNER

Christopher Reitz

Born 1968

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0780 KAPELLMEISTER

Alexander Steinitz

Born 1967

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0783 PRIEST

Johannes Perkmann

Born 1968

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0789 PAINTER

Tim Tom Norden

Born 1963

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0791 POLITICIAN

Gabriele Fürhapter

Born 1965

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0793 COMPETITOR

Werner Fagerer

Born 1964

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0797 POLITICIAN

Florian Kreibich

Born 1969

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0809 POLITICIAN

Sebastian Huber (Politiker, 1964)

Born 1964

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0811 POLITICIAN

Reinhard Herok

Born 1961

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0813 SINGER

Marie-Kathrin Melnitzky

Born 1968

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0816 POLITICIAN

Christian Makor-Winkelbauer

Born 1968

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0830 POLITICIAN

Margit Hofer

Born 1964

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0840 POLITICIAN

Uwe Höfferer

Born 1965

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0845 POLITICIAN

Edith Zitz

Born 1965

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0847 POLITICIAN

Christof Seymann

Born 1961

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0851 CHOREOGRAPHER

Helene Weinzierl

Born 1963

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0858 MUSIC

Anna Zauner-Pagitsch

Born 1963

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0873 POLITICIAN

Karl Zallinger (Politiker)

Born 1961

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0883 BASKET

Eugen Würz

Born 1967

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