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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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Karl-Markus Gauß

Born 1954

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0052 AUTHOR

Kathrin Röggla

Born 1971

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0088 AUTHOR

Bodo Hell

Born 1943

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0131 AUTHOR

Margret Kreidl

Born 1964

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0155 AUTHOR

Renate Aichinger

Born 1976

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0189 AUTHOR

Ignatz Anton von Weiser

1701 - 1785

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0245 AUTHOR

Irma von Troll-Borostyáni

1847 - 1912

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0257 AUTHOR

Martin Amanshauser

Born 1968

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0290 AUTHOR

Lisa Witasek

Born 1956

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0303 AUTHOR

Robert Kleindienst

Born 1975

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0317 AUTHOR

Florian Reichssiegel

1735 - 1793

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0376 AUTHOR

Robert Foltin

Born 1957

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0380 AUTHOR

Laura Freudenthaler

Born 1984

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0381 AUTHOR

Ulrike Schmitzer

Born 1967

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0390 AUTHOR

Alexander Peer

Born 1971

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0393 AUTHOR

Michael Hammerschmid

Born 1972

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0422 AUTHOR

Johannes Gelich

Born 1969

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0427 AUTHOR

Philipp Zippermayr

Born 1949

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0461 AUTHOR

Eduard Freundlinger

Born 1970

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0467 AUTHOR

Robert Brenner (Schriftsteller)

Born 1931

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0470 AUTHOR

Meta Merz

1965 - 1989

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0475 AUTHOR

Walter Müller (Schriftsteller)

Born 1950

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0522 AUTHOR

Kurt Conrad (Museumsleiter)

1919 - 1994

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0527 AUTHOR

Maria Johanna Sedelmaier

1811 - 1853

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0535 AUTHOR

Trude Fontana

1910 - 1998

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0539 AUTHOR

Gregor M. Lepka

1936 - 2016

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0567 AUTHOR

Reinhard Rinnerthaler

Born 1949

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0572 AUTHOR

Bruno Max

Born 1962

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0664 AUTHOR

Kostja Steiner

Born 1980

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0707 AUTHOR

Wilhelm J. Steiner

1918 - 1985

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