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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 1680s Clear ×
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
1685 - 1740
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (governor)
1680 - 1741
Archduchess Maria Magdalena of Austria (1689–1743)
1689 - 1743
Charles Joseph of Lorraine
1680 - 1715
Anton Erhard Martinelli
1684 - 1747
Eleonore of Löwenstein-Wertheim
1686 - 1753
Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1684–1696)
1684 - 1696
Maria Verelst
1680 - 1744
Franz de Paula Ferg
1689 - 1740
Marie Karoline von Fuchs-Mollard
1681 - 1754
Johann Ferdinand I. von Kuefstein
1688 - 1755
Wolfgang Sigismund von Orsini-Rosenberg
1682 - 1739
Karl Franz Joseph Haringer
1686 - 1734
Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria (1687–1703)
1687 - 1703
Robert Leeb
1688 - 1755