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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 1780s Clear ×
Karl Thomas Mozart
1784 - 1858
Ignaz Franz Castelli
1780 - 1862
Heinrich von Heß
1788 - 1870
Joseph Mayseder
1789 - 1863
Franz Clement
1780 - 1842
Wenzel Robert von Gallenberg
1783 - 1839
Joseph Kornhäusel
1782 - 1860
Paul III Anton, Prince Esterházy
1786 - 1866
Antonie Brentano
1780 - 1869
Michael Umlauf
1781 - 1842
Josef Rebell
1787 - 1828
Ferdinand, 5th Prince Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau
1781 - 1812
Karl, Count Chotek of Chotkow and Wognin
1783 - 1868
Franz Steinfeld
1787 - 1868
Elena Asachi
1789 - 1877
Catherina Cibbini-Kozeluch
1785 - 1858
Adolf Bäuerle
1786 - 1859
Hieronymus Payer
1787 - 1845
Ludwig von Wohlgemuth
1788 - 1851
Juliana de Almeida e Oyenhausen
1782 - 1864
Johann Zahlbruckner
1782 - 1851
Michael Pamer
1782 - 1827
Joseph Mössmer
1780 - 1845
Joseph Nigg
1782 - 1863
Eduard von Lichnowsky
1789 - 1845
Ferdinand Maria Chotek von Chotkow
1781 - 1836
Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein
1780 - 1859
Johann Georg Megerle von Mühlfeld
1780 - 1831
Georg Altmütter
1787 - 1858
Franz Christoph von Khevenhüller-Metsch
1783 - 1867
Anton Petter
1781 - 1858
Joseph Fischer (Komponist)
1780 - 1862
Therese Brunetti
1782 - 1864
Joseph Pletz
1788 - 1840
Maximilian Joseph Leidesdorf
1787 - 1840
Matthäus Loder
1781 - 1828
Anton Passy
1788 - 1847
Alois Gonzaga von Liechtenstein
1780 - 1833
Joseph Ulrich Danhauser
1780 - 1829
Michael von Erdelyi
1782 - 1837
Franz Carl Weidmann
1787 - 1867
Franz Gräffer
1785 - 1852
Michael Leopold Enk von der Burg
1788 - 1843
Aloys Traunfellner
1782 - 1840
Franz Tschischka
1786 - 1855
Josef von Skribanek
1788 - 1853
Josef Ziegler (Maler)
1785 - 1852
Alois Hildwein
1789 - 1828
Alexander Johann Dallinger von Dalling
1783 - 1844
Johann Baptist Dallinger von Dalling
1782 - 1868
Ivan Bokhenskyi
1783 - 1857
Anton Arrigoni
1788 - 1851
Johann Baptist von Zahlhaas
1787 - 1870
Franz Rudolf Bayer
1780 - 1860
Kilian Ponheimer der Jüngere
1788 - 1829
Hermann Herzenskron
1789 - 1863
Marianne Auernhammer
1786 - 1849
Franz Seraph von Sommaruga
1780 - 1860
August von Rosthorn
1789 - 1843
Johann Wilhelm Mannagetta von Lerchenau
1785 - 1843
Carl Ludwig Johann Hermann Riedesel zu Eisenbach �
1782 - 1842
Matthias Franz Perth
1788 - 1856
Wilhelmine Korn
1786 - 1843
Johann Nepomuk Berger (Gynäkologe)
1781 - 1847
August Hornbostel
1786 - 1838
Johann von Kudriaffsky
1782 - 1840
Joachim von Münch-Bellinghausen
1786 - 1866
Matthäus von Rosthorn der Jüngere
1782 - 1855
Stephan Franz
1785 - 1855
Carl Högl
1789 - 1865
August von Jetzer
1789 - 1862
Anton Grünn
1787 - 1865
Franz Xaver von Aichen
1788 - 1856
Johann Högl
1783 - 1841
Christian Johann Nepomuk Dassanowsky
1780 - 1839
Josef Koch (Architekt)
1780 - 1814
Johann von Rath
1789 - 1853
Anton Hoppe (Baumeister)
1780 - 1859