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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 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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Showing 26 of 883 notable people

0001 COMPOSER

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1756 - 1791

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0010 COMPOSER

Joseph Mohr

1792 - 1848

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0042 COMPOSER

Carl Heinrich Biber

1681 - 1749

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0047 COMPOSER

David Behrman

Born 1937

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0091 COMPOSER

Klaus Ager

Born 1946

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0099 COMPOSER

Ignaz Assmayer

1790 - 1862

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0209 COMPOSER

Franz Jakob Freystädtler

1761 - 1841

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0266 COMPOSER

Alexis Agrafiotis

Born 1970

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0287 COMPOSER

Wolfgang Zamastil

1981 - 2017

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0322 COMPOSER

Rudolf Achleitner

1864 - 1909

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0328 COMPOSER

Sabina Hank

Born 1976

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0352 COMPOSER

Viktor Keldorfer

1873 - 1959

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0365 COMPOSER

Hannes Bertolini

Born 1968

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0375 COMPOSER

Klemens Vereno

Born 1957

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0410 COMPOSER

Michael Mautner

Born 1959

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0439 COMPOSER

Friedrich Neumann (Komponist)

1915 - 1989

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0515 COMPOSER

Andreas Christoph Clamer

1633 - 1701

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0557 COMPOSER

Carl Santner

1819 - 1885

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0570 COMPOSER

Joseph Meißner (Sänger)

1725 - 1795

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0579 COMPOSER

Irmfried Radauer

1928 - 1999

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0615 COMPOSER

Joachim Fuetsch

1766 - 1852

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0647 COMPOSER

Ernst Sompek

1876 - 1954

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0669 COMPOSER

Louis Waizman

1863 - 1951

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0709 COMPOSER

Georg Jenisch

Born 1969

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0730 COMPOSER

Wolfgang Florey

Born 1945

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0859 COMPOSER

Alfred Maultasch

1914 - 2006

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