48.2083° N, 16.3725° E — 12,282 FAMOUS PEOPLE
VIENNA
Most Famous People Born in Vienna, Austria
A comprehensive ledger of notable people across arts, science, politics, sport, and public life.
Franz Schubert
1797 - 1828
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889 - 1951
Gustav Klimt
1862 - 1918
Karl Popper
1902 - 1994
Stefan Zweig
1881 - 1942
Hedy Lamarr
1914 - 2000
Johann Strauss II
1825 - 1899
Friedrich Hayek
1899 - 1992
Erwin Schrödinger
1887 - 1961
Romy Schneider
1938 - 1982
Arnold Schoenberg
1874 - 1951
Christoph Waltz
Born 1956
Fritz Lang
1890 - 1976
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor
1741 - 1790
Konrad Lorenz
1903 - 1989
Viktor Frankl
1905 - 1997
Alfred Adler
1870 - 1937
Ludwig Boltzmann
1844 - 1906
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
1685 - 1740
Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
1791 - 1847
Friedensreich Hundertwasser
1928 - 2000
Lise Meitner
1878 - 1968
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
1640 - 1705
Maximilian Schell
1930 - 2014
Wolfgang Pauli
1900 - 1958
Karl Landsteiner
1868 - 1943
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
1747 - 1792
Martin Buber
1878 - 1965
Falco (musician)
1957 - 1998
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
1552 - 1612
Otto Skorzeny
1908 - 1975
Niki Lauda
1949 - 2019
Natascha Kampusch
Born 1988
Peter Drucker
1909 - 2005
Anna Freud
1895 - 1982
Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
1527 - 1576
Arthur Schnitzler
1862 - 1931
Alma Mahler
1879 - 1964
Edward Bernays
1891 - 1995
Alban Berg
1885 - 1935
Paul Feyerabend
1924 - 1994
Ferdinand I of Austria
1793 - 1875
Anton Webern
1883 - 1945
Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor
1557 - 1619
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
1874 - 1929
Erich von Stroheim
1885 - 1957
Johann Strauss I
1804 - 1849
Melanie Klein
1882 - 1960
Ivan Illich
1926 - 2002
Maria Carolina of Austria
1752 - 1814
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
1678 - 1711
Luise Rainer
1910 - 2014
Fred Zinnemann
1907 - 1997
Bruno Kreisky
1911 - 1990
Eric Kandel
Born 1929
Maria Schell
1926 - 2005
Carl Czerny
1791 - 1857
Karl Polanyi
1886 - 1964
Josef von Sternberg
1894 - 1969
Max Steiner
1888 - 1971
Senta Berger
Born 1941
Maria von Trapp
1905 - 1987
Bruno Bettelheim
1903 - 1990
Joe Zawinul
1932 - 2007
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
1791 - 1844
Christine Nöstlinger
1936 - 2018
Karl von Frisch
1886 - 1982
Oskar Werner
1922 - 1984
Miep Gies
1909 - 2010
Ernst Gombrich
1909 - 2001
Józef Poniatowski
1763 - 1813
Theodore Bikel
1924 - 2015
Peter L. Berger
1929 - 2017
Lotte Lenya
1898 - 1981
Richard Neutra
1892 - 1970
Otto Weininger
1880 - 1903
Mariana of Austria
1634 - 1696
David Alaba
Born 1992
Franz Grillparzer
1791 - 1872
Alfred Schütz
1899 - 1959
Otto Rank
1884 - 1939
Fritz Kreisler
1875 - 1962
Albert II of Germany
1397 - 1439
Alexander Van der Bellen
Born 1944
Gustav Meyrink
1868 - 1932
Božena Němcová
1820 - 1862
Hans Selye
1907 - 1982
Francis Lawrence
Born 1971
Gottfried Helnwein
Born 1948
Peter Alexander (Austrian performer)
1926 - 2011
Amon Göth
1908 - 1946
Hermann Broch
1886 - 1951
Freddy Quinn
Born 1931
Josef Breuer
1842 - 1925
Alexander von Zemlinsky
1871 - 1942
Otto Neurath
1882 - 1945
Émile Jaques-Dalcroze
1865 - 1950
Paul Ehrenfest
1880 - 1933
Ilse Aichinger
1921 - 2016
István Széchenyi
1791 - 1860
Johann Nestroy
1801 - 1862
Josef Strauss
1827 - 1870
Ernst Jandl
1925 - 2000
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine
1643 - 1690
Erich Fried
1921 - 1988
Max Perutz
1914 - 2002
Carl Djerassi
1923 - 2015
Monica Bleibtreu
1944 - 2009
Raoul Hausmann
1886 - 1971
Richard Kuhn
1900 - 1967
Ferdinand II of Portugal
1816 - 1885
Walter Kohn
1923 - 2016
Martin Karplus
Born 1930
Paul Lazarsfeld
1901 - 1976
Charles II, Archduke of Austria
1540 - 1590
Koloman Moser
1868 - 1918
Ernst Fuchs (artist)
1930 - 2015
Hans Hollein
1934 - 2014
Karl Markovics
Born 1963
André Gorz
1923 - 2007
Ludwig Minkus
1826 - 1917
Helene Weigel
1900 - 1971
Ernst Krenek
1900 - 1991
Joseph Schildkraut
1896 - 1964
Otto Bauer
1881 - 1938
Raul Hilberg
1926 - 2007
Thomas Klestil
1932 - 2004
Gitta Sereny
1921 - 2012
Baroness Mary Vetsera
1871 - 1889
Christopher Alexander
Born 1936
Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg
1771 - 1820
Marc Janko
Born 1983
Johannes Mario Simmel
1924 - 2009
Friedrich von Wieser
1851 - 1926
Heinz-Christian Strache
Born 1969
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
1739 - 1799
Robert Menasse
Born 1954
Emil Artin
1898 - 1962
Maria Leopoldina of Austria
1797 - 1826
Thomas Gold
1920 - 2004
Boris Kodjoe
Born 1973
Friedrich Gulda
1930 - 2000
Vicki Baum
1888 - 1960
Victor Weisskopf
1908 - 2002
Felix Frankfurter
1882 - 1965
Rudolf Hilferding
1877 - 1941
Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France
1554 - 1592
Fritjof Capra
Born 1939
Wolfgang Schüssel
Born 1945
Sebastian Kurz
Born 1986
Jean Améry
1912 - 1978
Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria
1746 - 1804
Hans Moser (actor)
1880 - 1964
Marko Arnautović
Born 1989
Toni Polster
Born 1964
Franz Vranitzky
Born 1937
Ulrich Seidl
Born 1952
Eduard Strauss
1835 - 1916
Paula Wessely
1907 - 2000
Paul Wittgenstein
1887 - 1961
Brian Laudrup
Born 1969
Róbert Bárány
1876 - 1936
Otto Robert Frisch
1904 - 1979
Hermann Nitsch
Born 1938
André Heller
Born 1947
Thomas Brezina
Born 1963
Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
1865 - 1929
Alfred Hermann Fried
1864 - 1921
Josef Bican
1913 - 2001
Walter Mischel
1930 - 2018
Walter Slezak
1902 - 1983
Camillo Sitte
1843 - 1903
Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen
1817 - 1895
Peter Fendi
1796 - 1842
Eva Ibbotson
1925 - 2010
Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg
1711 - 1794
Guido von List
1848 - 1919
Peter Altenberg
1859 - 1919
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen
1742 - 1798
Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller
1793 - 1865
Clemens Krauss
1893 - 1954
Maria Theresia von Paradis
1759 - 1824
Ernst Marischka
1893 - 1963
Otto F. Kernberg
Born 1928
Friedrich Adler (politician)
1879 - 1960
Hans Asperger
1906 - 1980
Heinz von Foerster
1911 - 2002
Ignaz Seipel
1876 - 1932
Heinz Kohut
1913 - 1981
Hans Krankl
Born 1953
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Born 1961
Victor Babeș
1854 - 1926
Frederick the Fair
1289 - 1330
Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria
1339 - 1365
Oscar Straus (composer)
1870 - 1954
Archduke Ernest of Austria
1553 - 1595
Barbara Valentin
1940 - 2002
Erich Kleiber
1890 - 1956
Ernst Haas
1921 - 1986
Georg Kreisler
1922 - 2011
Moritz von Schwind
1804 - 1871
Joseph Lanner
1801 - 1843
Hans Hass
1919 - 2013
Ernst Happel
1925 - 1992
Anna Mahler
1904 - 1988
Hermann Bondi
1919 - 2005
Eva Schloss
Born 1929
Anton Karas
1906 - 1985
Alfred Hrdlicka
1928 - 2009
Karl Thomas Mozart
1784 - 1858
Bertha Pappenheim
1859 - 1936
Fritz Muliar
1919 - 2009
Ernest Gold (composer)
1921 - 1999
Walter Rudin
1921 - 2010
Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria
1756 - 1801
Friederike Mayröcker
Born 1924
Leopold Berchtold
1863 - 1942
Ida Laura Pfeiffer
1797 - 1858
Fritz Kortner
1892 - 1970
Ferdinand Marian
1902 - 1946
Gerda Lerner
1920 - 2013
Ernst Toch
1887 - 1964
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
1897 - 2000
Hans von Dohnányi
1902 - 1945
Rudi Gernreich
1922 - 1985
Ferdinand Raimund
1790 - 1836
Oscar Homolka
1898 - 1978
Nadja Tiller
Born 1929
Carl Auer von Welsbach
1858 - 1929
Helmut Qualtinger
1928 - 1986
Erich Leinsdorf
1912 - 1993
Friedrich Glauser
1896 - 1938
Anton Walbrook
1896 - 1967
Lilia Skala
1896 - 1994
Egon Friedell
1878 - 1938
Erik Jan Hanussen
1889 - 1933
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
1928 - 2018
Franz von Liszt
1851 - 1919
Franz West
1947 - 2012
Matthias Steiner
Born 1982
René Spitz
1887 - 1974
H. C. Artmann
1921 - 2000
Fritz Heider
1896 - 1988
Andreas Weimann
Born 1991
Eric Wolf
1923 - 1999
Turhan Bey
1922 - 2012
Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans
1633 - 1654
Karl H. Pribram
1919 - 2015
Richard Gerstl
1883 - 1908
Maria Antonia of Austria
1669 - 1692
Fanny Elssler
1810 - 1884
Franziska Weisz
Born 1980
Rainhard Fendrich
Born 1955
Paul Kammerer
1880 - 1926
Karl Michael Ziehrer
1843 - 1922
Karl Leonhard Reinhold
1757 - 1823
Albert Apponyi
1846 - 1933
Georg Ritter von Schönerer
1842 - 1921
Ludwig Anzengruber
1839 - 1889
Hans Hahn (mathematician)
1879 - 1934
Ferdinand Piëch
1937 - 2019
Christiane Hörbiger
Born 1938
Karl Menger
1902 - 1985
Pauline von Metternich
1836 - 1921
Rudolph Schindler (architect)
1887 - 1953
Walter Munk
1917 - 2019
Josef Krips
1902 - 1974
Willi Forst
1903 - 1980
Henry Lehrman
1886 - 1946
Kazimierz Twardowski
1866 - 1938
Wolfgang Paalen
1905 - 1959
Herbert Prohaska
Born 1955
Emil von Reznicek
1860 - 1945
Kurt Kasznar
1913 - 1979
Friedrich von Amerling
1803 - 1887
Peter Weck
Born 1930
John Banner
1910 - 1973
Willi Boskovsky
1909 - 1991
Friedrich Torberg
1908 - 1979
Max Adler (Marxist)
1873 - 1937
Carl Schlechter
1874 - 1918
Erich von Tschermak
1871 - 1962
Leopold Joseph von Daun
1705 - 1766
Wolf Albach-Retty
1906 - 1967
Karl-Maria Kertbeny
1824 - 1882
Daniel Glattauer
Born 1960
Werner Faymann
Born 1960
Rudolf von Alt
1812 - 1905
Aleksandar Dragović
Born 1991
Michel Muller
Born 1966
Elizabeth of Austria (1436–1505)
1437 - 1505
Nina Proll
Born 1974
Bibi Besch
1940 - 1996
Walter Berry (bass-baritone)
1929 - 2000
Vanessa Brown
1928 - 1999
Georg Christoph Wagenseil
1715 - 1777
Arabella Kiesbauer
Born 1969
Henri Herz
1803 - 1888
Albert III, Duke of Austria
1349 - 1395
Leon Askin
1907 - 2005