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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 1670s Clear ×
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor
1678 - 1711
Philipp Ludwig Wenzel von Sinzendorf
1671 - 1742
Sigismund von Kollonitsch
1677 - 1751
Dominik von Königsegg-Rothenfels
1673 - 1751
George Olivier, count of Wallis
1673 - 1744
Maximilian Ulrich von Kaunitz
1679 - 1746
Johann Heinrich von Heucher
1677 - 1746
Johann Adam von Questenberg
1678 - 1752
Johann Philipp Harrach
1678 - 1764
Ernst Friedrich von Windisch-Graetz
1670 - 1727
Johann Peter van Ghelen
1673 - 1754
Franz Anton von Lamberg
1678 - 1759
Johann Andreas von Hamilton
1679 - 1738
Karl Sebastian Flacker
1679 - 1746
Johann Adam von Lamberg
1677 - 1708