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.
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 1860s Clear ×
Felix Beran
1868 - 1937
Bruno Reiffenstein
1868 - 1951
Oskar von Pistor
1865 - 1928
Wilhelm Hejda
1868 - 1942
Walther Federn
1869 - 1949
Anna Hottner-Grefe
1867 - 1946
Josef Breitner
1864 - 1930
Siegfried von Wimpffen
1865 - 1929
Wolfgang Madjera
1868 - 1926
Alois Hänisch
1866 - 1937
Pauline Schweighofer
1866 - 1940
Wilhelm Figdor
1866 - 1938
Richard Knoller
1869 - 1926
Alois Schornböck
1863 - 1926
Marie Jahn
1865 - 1934
Carl Giannoni
1867 - 1951
Franz Eduard Matras
1862 - 1945
Ludwig Putz
1866 - 1947
Max Schmidt (Möbelfabrikant)
1861 - 1935
Franz Vogl (Bildhauer, 1861)
1861 - 1921
Karoline Gronemann
1869 - 1911
Gottfried Wilda
1862 - 1911
Max Vancsa
1866 - 1947
Anna Baier
1860 - 1935
Oskar Pischinger
1863 - 1919
Franz Lafar
1865 - 1938
Edgar Bolz
1865 - 1932
Anton Josef Pepino
1863 - 1921
Hermann von Trenkwald
1866 - 1942
Karl Hillebrand (Astronom)
1861 - 1939
Egbert Wilhelm von Hochstetter
1868 - 1906
Friedrich Schuster (Politiker)
1863 - 1932
Mathias Adlersflügel
1868 - 1933
Friedrich Schürer von Waldheim
1866 - 1935
Robert Schiff (Maler, 1869)
1869 - 1935
Michael Maria Rabenlechner
1868 - 1952
Eduard Klingler
1861 - 1916
Eduard Spiegler
1860 - 1908
Franz Jaschke (Maler, 1862)
1862 - 1910
Konrad Petrides
1864 - 1944
Karl Ludwig Hassmann
1869 - 1933
Hans Falke von Lilienstein
1862 - 1932
Ellen Brandt-Forster
1866 - 1921
Fritz Zerritsch der Ältere
1865 - 1938
Kunigunde Ansion
1863 - 1922
Georg Drah
1867 - 1922
Karl Kobes
1869 - 1950
Hans Wilt
1869 - 1917
Anton Pelikan
1861 - 1918
Victor Josef Karl Engelhardt
1866 - 1944
Josef Passy-Cornet
1864 - 1934
Hermann Eissler
1860 - 1953
Anton Passy-Cornet
1868 - 1934
Alois Broch
1864 - 1939
Ferdinand Hrach
1862 - 1946
Jenny Broch
Born 1864
Josef Thuma
1866 - 1938
Hermann Jessen
1869 - 1942
Ludwig Schmidl
1863 - 1924
Eugen Schroth
1862 - 1945
Robert Stiassny
1862 - 1917
Ottilie Collin
1863 - 1960
Peter Kempny
1862 - 1906
Moritz Tullinger
1867 - 1901
Hans Rotter (Politiker)
1868 - 1945
Rudolf Halter
1860 - 1938
Hans Claar
1861 - 1918
Maria Ortwin
1868 - 1890
Othmar Doublier
1865 - 1946
Georg Eckl (Bibliophiler)
1863 - 1929
Alfred Friedländer
1860 - 1933
Hermine Breier
1867 - 1917
Amalie Falke von Lilienstein
1868 - 1956
Johanna von Ghilany
1864 - 1888
Adele Doré
1869 - 1918
Leopold Kuhn
1861 - 1902
Louise Übermasser
1866 - 1939
Louis Uhl
1860 - 1902
Richard Preßburger
1862 - 1938
Franz Reifmüller
1861 - 1940
Oskar Fronz senior
1861 - 1925
Fritz Blau
1865 - 1929
Johann Kazda
1869 - 1931
Adolf Rakowitsch
1860 - 1907
Otto Kirsch (Schauspieler)
1862 - 1932
Emil Seling
1868 - 1939
Johann Smitka
1863 - 1944
Carla Ernst
1869 - 1925
Gisela Graselli-Magnus
1864 - 1902
Therese Biedermann
1863 - 1945
Emil Fronz
1860 - 1930
Luise Reuss-Belce
1862 - 1945
Franz Hoß
1866 - 1947
Fritz Ruß
1864 - 1928
Rudolf Max Ludloff
1863 - 1933
Franz Mejzr
1868 - 1929
Maximilian Riba
1861 - 1929
Barbara Zweig
1866 - 1929
Karli Bozenhard-Hücker
1866 - 1945
Max von Mauch
1864 - 1905
Georg Jahoda
1863 - 1926
Adele Gerber
1863 - 1937
Hugo Neumann (Schriftsteller)
1867 - 1909
Alice Politz
1867 - 1954
Paul Schulz (Beamter)
1860 - 1919
August Theodor Kirsch senior
1862 - 1931
Rudolf Schwarz (sculptor)
1866 - 1912
Heinrich von Korff (Regisseur)
1868 - 1926
Adolf Holzhausen
1868 - 1931
Ferdinand Baldia (Architekt)
1860 - 1936
Leopold Blasel
1866 - 1931
Ludwig Prechtl
1865 - 1931
Wilhelm Bauer (Schauspieler)
1864 - 1939
Friedrich Fränzl
1863 - 1938
Julius Wittels
1860 - 1899
Wilhelmine Rathner
1863 - 1913
Karl Antal Mühlberger
1869 - 1943
Franz Xaver Neumann junior
1862 - 1905
Ludwig Können-Horák
1861 - 1938
Max Reithoffer
1864 - 1945
Franz Haag
1865 - 1925
Rudolf Wiener-Welten
1864 - 1938
Marianne Markan
1867 - 1900
Theodor Beer
1866 - 1919
Johann Alfred Breuer
1866 - 1932
Emil Maria Steininger
1861 - 1912
Josef Heigl (Politiker)
1866 - 1938
Artur Przyborski
1860 - 1948
Josef Vinzl
1867 - 1947
Josef Wieninger
1860 - 1939
Josef Geßl
1865 - 1936
Luis del Porto Seguro Ovalle
1866 - 1939
Leopoldine Kutzel
1860 - 1935
Karl Angermayer
1862 - 1941
Rudolf Foest-Monshoff
1867 - 1936
Adolf Wolf (Politiker)
1869 - 1952
Benno Brausewetter
1869 - 1965
Karl Broudre von Goruszów
1866 - 1929
Carl Bobies
1865 - 1897
Jaques Joachim
1866 - 1935
Siegmund Amanti
1860 - 1903
Ercole Gaddi Pepoli
1869 - 1932
Franz Bretschneider
1866 - 1950
Charlotte Albrecht (Schauspielerin, 1863)
1863 - 1891
Carl Astner
Born 1862
Isidor Gewitsch
1863 - 1938
Leo Zimpel
1860 - 1923
Carola Bartoschek
1865 - 1889
Leopold Löblich
1862 - 1935
Ernst Brenner von Felsach
1865 - 1903
Friedrich Becker (Schauspieler)
1869 - 1913
Betty Dienstl
1864 - 1902
August Sigl
1868 - 1936
Gabriel Winter
1869 - 1907
Rudolf Ströhlinger
1865 - 1945
Isidor H. Groß
1864 - 1914
Ernst Grinzenberger
1866 - 1902