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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.
Standouts
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
- Art & Design
- Politics & Law
- Music
- Sports
- Other
- Filtered to 1640s Clear ×
Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
1640 - 1705
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine
1643 - 1690
Archduke Charles Joseph of Austria
1649 - 1664
Daniel Seiter
1649 - 1705
Marx Augustin
1643 - 1685
Johann Friedrich von Waldstein
1642 - 1694
Johann Joseph von Breuner
1641 - 1710
Anne Marie Thérèse de Lorraine
1648 - 1661
Franz Anton von Losenstein
1642 - 1692
Johann Michael Zächer
1649 - 1712
Georg Sebastian Jung
1642 - 1681
Johann Ernst von Jamaigne
1648 - 1719
Bärmann Fränkel
1645 - 1708
Johann Frühwirth
1640 - 1701