48.2082° N, 16.3720° E
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.
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- Filtered to 1730s Clear ×
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
1739 - 1799
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1738–1789)
1738 - 1789
Hieronymus von Colloredo (1732–1812)
1732 - 1812
Leopold Hofmann
1738 - 1793
Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti
1735 - 1805
Anton von Maron
1733 - 1808
Thomas Robinson, 2nd Baron Grantham
1738 - 1786
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1737–1740)
1737 - 1740
Joseph Jakob Plenck
1738 - 1807
Joseph Franz Auersperg
1734 - 1795
Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti
1730 - 1795
Leopoldine von Sternberg
1733 - 1809
Friedrich August Brand
1735 - 1806
Anton I, Prince Esterházy
1738 - 1794
Johann Matthias Schröckh
1733 - 1808
Prince Karl Borromäus of Liechtenstein
1730 - 1789
Jacob Matthias Schmutzer
1733 - 1811
Joseph Leutgeb
1732 - 1811
Philipp Hafner
1731 - 1764
Johann Karl von Ordonez
1734 - 1786
Johann Ferdinand Hetzendorf von Hohenberg
1733 - 1816
Cornelius Hermann von Ayrenhoff
1733 - 1819
Joseph von Quarin
1733 - 1814
Leopold Biwald
1731 - 1805
Johann Jacobé
1733 - 1797
Franz de Paula Gundaker von Colloredo-Mannsfeld �
1731 - 1807
Dominik Andreas von Kaunitz-Rietberg-Questenberg �
1739 - 1812
Ernst Christoph von Kaunitz-Rietberg
1737 - 1797
Ernest Johann Nepomuk
1731 - 1788
Franz Anton von Scheidel
1731 - 1801
Franciszek Pinck
1733 - 1798
Johann Georg Dorfmeister
1736 - 1786
Johann Sigismund Friedrich von Khevenhüller-Metsc
1732 - 1801
Wenzel Joseph von Colloredo
1738 - 1822
Ludwig von Cavriani
1739 - 1799
Antonio Cerati
1738 - 1816
Matthäus Mederer
1739 - 1805
Emanuel Philibert von Waldstein-Wartenberg
1731 - 1775
Ferdinand Ambrosius Fidler
1737 - 1780
Karl Michael von Pauerspach
1737 - 1802
Joseph Jakob Ringler
1730 - 1804
Franz de Paula Karl von Colloredo
1736 - 1806
Franz von Mack
1730 - 1807
Anton Pilgram (Astronom)
1730 - 1793
Franz Karl Wißgrill
1736 - 1803
Johann Martin Krafft
1738 - 1781
Stefan Gabriel Steinböck
1737 - 1783
Peter Mollner
1732 - 1801
Franz von Paula Rosalino
1736 - 1793
Leopold von Hartmann
1734 - 1791
Anton (I.) von Dobelhoff-Dier
1733 - 1812
Richard Tecker
1732 - 1798
Mathias Wilhelm von Haan
1737 - 1816
Andreas Zach (Baumeister)
1736 - 1797
Matthias Joseph Heimerl
1732 - 1784
Franz Joseph Steinböck
1732 - 1782
Ignaz Ablasser
1739 - 1799
Maximilien Ferdinand Thomas Stettenhoffen
1739 - 1809
Josepha Maria Anna Antonia Nepomucena von Salm-Rei
1731 - 1796
Joseph Canto d’Irles
1731 - 1797
Joseph von Schellenberg
1735 - 1801
Bartholomäus III. von Tinti
1736 - 1794
Franz Duschinger
1739 - 1789
Johann Michael Adelpodinger
1734 - 1800
Johann Peter Ignaz Chorherr
1734 - 1814
Leopold Johannes Dassanowsky
1737 - 1815
Gervasius Jenamy
1730 - 1806