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VIENNA
Most Famous People Born in Vienna, Austria
- Notable people
- 12,535
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- Median birth year
- 1912
- Most distinctive
- Author 3.8×
A small city with an outsized 20th-century shadow. Vienna's notables cluster sharply in the late Habsburg and interwar decades — authors, composers, architects, academics, painters of the Secession, and sculptors — making it one of the most concentrated cultural booms anywhere in the dataset. Then 1938 happens, and a striking number of the brightest names spend the rest of their lives somewhere else.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Vienna during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Vienna Is Known For
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Actor is Vienna's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (1,170).
Vienna over-indexes on author — 3.8× the global rate.
Vienna under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Vienna's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Writing
- Film & TV
- Science
- Art & Design
- Politics & Law
- Music
- Other
- Filtered to 1630s Clear ×
Mariana of Austria
1634 - 1696
Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans
1633 - 1654
Ferdinand Joseph, Prince of Dietrichstein
1636 - 1698
Giovanni Domenico Orsi de Orsini
1634 - 1679
Ernst von Trautson
1633 - 1702
Michael Wenzel von Althann
1630 - 1686
Johann Leopold Donat von Trautson
1639 - 1724
Franz Joseph von Lamberg
1637 - 1712
Sigismund Ferdinand Hartmann
1632 - 1681
Maria Theresia von Sulz
1634 - 1692
Johanna Theresia Lamberg
1639 - 1716