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.

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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.

  1. Actor 1,170 1.8×
  2. Politician 1,169 0.8×
  3. Painter 748 2.3×
  4. Football 595 0.4×
  5. Writer 489 1.2×
  6. Author 405 3.8×
  7. Composer 403 2.4×
  8. Academic 293 2.3×
  1. Author 405 3.8×
  2. Architect 282 2.5×
  3. Composer 403 2.4×
  4. Academic 293 2.3×
  5. Painter 748 2.3×
  6. Actor 1,170 1.8×
  7. Sculptor 143 1.8×
  8. Historian 212 1.6×
  1. Football 595 0.4×

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.

1650 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000
  • Writing
  • Film & TV
  • Art & Design
  • Politics & Law
  • Music
  • Sports
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10499 POLITICIAN

Ludwig Stepski-Doliwa

1875 - 1965

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10518 PAINTER

Rudolph F. Ingerle

1879 - 1950

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10522 SCULPTOR

Hans Mauer

1879 - 1962

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10524 PRIEST

Alois Wildenauer

1877 - 1967

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10546 ACTOR

Gisela Klein (Schauspielerin)

1873 - 1919

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10551 COLLECTOR

Oscar Bondy

1870 - 1944

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10557 PAINTER

Hans Hellwag

1871 - 1918

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10566 JOURNALIST

Paul Deutsch (Journalist)

1873 - 1958

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10573 ENGINEER

Georg Kapsch (Ingenieur)

1873 - 1934

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10588 AUTHOR

Rudolf Kalmar senior

1870 - 1939

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10605 COSTUME DESIGNER

Lambert Hofer (Kostümbildner, 1879)

1879 - 1938

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10613 POLITICIAN

Mauritius Klieber

1877 - 1949

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10626 PAINTER

Ignaz Schönbrunner der Jüngere

1871 - 1921

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10632 JOURNALIST

Helene Tuschak-Lafite

1879 - 1971

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10652 ARCHITECT

Karl Dorfmeister

1876 - 1955

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10656 CHEMIST

Adolf Grün

1877 - 1947

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10673 ARCHITECT

Albrecht Michler

1877 - 1956

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10681 ECOLOGIST

Paul Mathes

1871 - 1923

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10718 ACTOR

Hanna Dauberger

1872 - 1957

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10749 CHEMIST

Adolf Franke (Chemiker)

1874 - 1964

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10759 PHYSICIAN

Michael Eisler-Terramare

1877 - 1970

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10782 PAINTER

Otto Luhde

1874 - 1957

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10813 PAINTER

Karl Bartoschek

1870 - 1943

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10830 OPERA

Alexander Kirchner (operasångare)

1876 - 1948

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10831 ACTOR

Käthe Huth

1871 - 1902

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10835 ACTOR

Leo Uhl

1875 - 1934

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10844 PAINTER

Rudolf Kaeser-Rueff

1870 - 1932

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10851 HORSE TRAINER

Frank Butters

1878 - 1957

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10863 HISTORIAN

Robert von Pohl

1876 - 1947

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10882 POLITICIAN

Josefine Welsch

1876 - 1959

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10891 WRITER

Ida Bock

1872 - 1940

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10895 POLITICIAN

Josef Enslein

1870 - 1952

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10935 ACADEMIC

Otto Neudörfer

1875 - 1932

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10970 ARCHITECT

Friedrich Jäckel

1876 - 1960

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10992 ACTOR

Ida Timling

Born 1870

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11062 BUSINESS

Alexander Lewin (Unternehmer)

1879 - 1942

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11082 ENTREPRENEUR

Oskar Adolf von Rosenberg

1878 - 1939

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11086 ILLUSTRATOR

Carl Josef Pollak

1877 - 1937

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11101 CHEMIST

Ludwig Moser (chimico)

1879 - 1930

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11127 ARCHITECT

Rudolf Wiszkoczil

1870 - 1925

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11144 SINGER

Toni Braun

1879 - 1910

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11146 ACTOR

Arthur Bauer

Born 1878

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11203 SPORT

Adolf Michel

Born 1878

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11226 ARCHITECT

Adolf Jelletz

1879 - 1936

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11290 MILITAR

Albert Vadas

1876 - 1946

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11333 SCULPTOR

Franz Peleschka

Born 1873

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11368 BOOKSELLER

Max Harzof

1875 - 1942

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11391 PAINTER

Olga Krieghammer

1871 - 1930

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11393 ORGANBUILDER

Franz Josef Swoboda

1870 - 1934

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11403 CYCLING

Joe Jackson Sr.

1873 - 1942

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11406 ARCHITECT

Karl Krepp

1877 - 1934

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11421 POLITICIAN

Robert Osler-Toptani

1878 - 1953

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11429 BUSINESS

Richard Neumann (Sammler)

1879 - 1961

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11430 SPORT

Aladár von Farkas

1874 - 1949

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11446 POLITICIAN

Berthold König

1875 - 1954

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11470 OPERA

Marie Tomschik

1871 - 1930

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11488 POLITICIAN

Anton Franz Hölzl

1874 - 1946

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11489 POLITICIAN

Otto Volker

1872 - 1938

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11512 POLITICIAN

Hans Müllner

1879 - 1951

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11529 POLITICIAN

Anton Regner

1873 - 1945

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11535 LEITER

Eugen Seydel

1879 - 1958

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11551 COMPOSER

Bernhard Tittel

1873 - 1942

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11556 POLITICIAN

Hermann Schulz (Politiker, 1874)

1874 - 1926

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11569 ARCHITECT

Hans Schimitzek

1875 - 1957

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11574 POLITICIAN

Josef Wiedenhofer

1873 - 1924

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11582 POLITICIAN

Georg Sailer

1874 - 1935

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11584 SWIMMER

Zeno von Singalewicz

Born 1875

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11594 POLITICIAN

Karl Klimberger

1878 - 1943

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11618 WRITER

Hans Baumgartner (Offizier)

1873 - 1950

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11636 SWIMMER

Simon Orlik

1877 - 1942

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11663 POLITICIAN

Alois Bauer (Politiker, 1879)

1879 - 1969

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11706 POLITICIAN

Leopold Doppler

1870 - 1945

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11713 POLITICIAN

Emma Kapral

1877 - 1969

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11725 KIRCHE

Gustav Birkenstaedt

1871 - 1912

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11736 ARCHITECT

Friedrich Krombholz

1871 - 1919

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11744 CHILD

Virginia Henry Curtiss Heckscher

1875 - 1941

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11762 POLITICIAN

Friedrich Lackner

1876 - 1944

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11788 POLITICIAN

Aloisia Schirmer

1878 - 1951

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11793 POLITICIAN

Oskar Trenkwitz

1879 - 1971

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11806 MISSING

Alfred Rausnitz

1876 - 1956

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11814 POLITICIAN

Karl Weigl (Politiker)

1879 - 1982

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11894 MUSIC

Georg Tramer

1871 - 1939

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11903 JOURNALIST

Fanny Freund-Markus

1872 - 1942

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11905 GEWICHTHEBER

Emil Kliment

1879 - 1965

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11917 ARCHITECT

Max Haupt

1870 - 1932

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11942 POLITICIAN

Hans Paul (Politiker)

1871 - 1948

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11961 MEDIZIN

Maria Schuhmeister

Born 1877

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11988 POLITICIAN

Therese Ammon

1877 - 1944

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12027 POLITICIAN

Käthe Königstetter

1874 - 1940

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12032 ACTOR

Clara Drucker

1871 - 1923

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12051 THEATER

Carl Richter (Theaterleiter)

1870 - 1943

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12081 PAINTER

Else Brauneis

1877 - 1959

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12083 PFARRER

Gustav Zwernemann

1872 - 1958

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12084 POLITICIAN

August Gottwald

1877 - 1957

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12108 POLITICIAN

Ludwig Biber

1873 - 1959

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12113 ACTOR

Elvira Clemens

1878 - 1919

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12163 ARCHITECT

Franz Mörtinger

1872 - 1929

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12184 ACTOR

Gisela Jurberg

1875 - 1942

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12199 OPTICIAN

Otto Waldstein

1878 - 1936

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12235 ENGINEER

Hans Steffan

1877 - 1939

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12241 GUITAR

Anton Jirowsky (Instrumentenbauer, 1877)

1877 - 1941

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12274 ACADEMIC

Robert Findeis

1877 - 1949

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12284 POLITICIAN

Josef Wokral

1875 - 1926

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12295 POLITICIAN

Alois Zanaschka

1870 - 1936

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12300 POLITICIAN

Wilhelm Felix Josef Dantine

1876 - 1946

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12314 POLITICIAN

Albert Hummel

1870 - 1943

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12321 ACTOR

Lili Klug

Born 1876

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12350 OPERA

Ida von Igo

Born 1875

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12351 ACTOR

Hedwig von Ostermann

1870 - 1911

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12361 ARCHITECT

Johann Karl Stadler

1871 - 1917

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12367 DIPLOMAT

Otto von Franz

1871 - 1930

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12401 POLITICIAN

Osmond D’Avigdor-Goldsmid

1877 - 1940

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12408 ARBEITER

Maria Krasa

1876 - 1948

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12410 ACTOR

Marie Doppelbauer

1875 - 1902

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12414 ACTOR

Ella Erau

Born 1871

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12424 ENGINEER

Max Löblich

1874 - 1943

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12429 SCULPTOR

Angelo Buzzi-Quattrini

1879 - 1941

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12437 POLITICIAN

Anton Nepustil

1876 - 1944

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12443 POLITICIAN

Christian Stooß

1879 - 1958

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12447 ACTOR

Helene Pollner

1875 - 1902

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12454 POLITICIAN

Adele Bartisal

1870 - 1954

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12479 POLITICIAN

Franz Moschna

1877 - 1959

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12486 POLITICIAN

Josef Jaksch

1873 - 1951

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12494 ACTOR

Paula Krauß

1875 - 1904

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12507 ACTOR

Alice Hetsey-Holzer

1875 - 1939

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12511 TECKNARE

Willy Tupy

1875 - 1972

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12521 POLITICIAN

Hans Hess (Politiker, 1873)

1873 - 1928

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12529 PHYSICIAN

Rudolf Hatschek (Mediziner)

1874 - 1939

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