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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.