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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 1660s Clear ×
Maria Antonia of Austria
1669 - 1692
Wirich Philipp von Daun
1669 - 1741
Aloys Thomas Raimund, Count Harrach
1669 - 1742
Franz Anton von Harrach
1665 - 1727
Gundaker Thomas Starhemberg
1663 - 1745
Adam Zrinski
1662 - 1691
Franz Karl of Auersperg
1660 - 1713
Erdmuthe Maria Theresia of Dietrichstein
1662 - 1737
Eleonore Barbara de Thun-Hohenstein
1661 - 1723
Adam II. Batthyány
1662 - 1703
Hugo Franz von Königsegg-Rothenfels
1660 - 1720
Johann Jacob Eybelwieser
1667 - 1744
Leopold Matthias von Lamberg
1667 - 1711
Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt
1667 - 1716
Johann Joachim von Aichen
1664 - 1729
Cölestin Böhm
1664 - 1731
Johann Lorenz Trunck von Guttenberg
1661 - 1742