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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 1690s Clear ×
Maria Josepha of Austria
1699 - 1757
Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach
1693 - 1742
Daniel Gran
1694 - 1757
Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria
1692 - 1699
Giovanni Antonio Guardi
1699 - 1760
Joseph Johann Adam, Prince of Liechtenstein
1690 - 1732
Friedrich August von Harrach-Rohrau
1696 - 1749
Heinrich Joseph Johann of Auersperg
1697 - 1783
Anna Maria of Liechtenstein
1699 - 1753
Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein
1694 - 1772
Maria Anna von Oettingen-Spielberg
1693 - 1729
Gottfried Prehauser
1699 - 1769
Franz Joseph Roth
1690 - 1758
Hieronymus Löschenkohl (Kaufmann)
1692 - 1755
Gabriele von Liechtenstein
1692 - 1713
Franz Anton Leopold Pontz
1692 - 1761
Dominik Josef Hayek von Waldstätten
1698 - 1772
Johann Wilhelm Edmund von Sinzendorf-Neuburg
1697 - 1766