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 1880s Clear ×
Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889 - 1951
Stefan Zweig
1881 - 1942
Erwin Schrödinger
1887 - 1961
Alban Berg
1885 - 1935
Anton Webern
1883 - 1945
Erich von Stroheim
1885 - 1957
Melanie Klein
1882 - 1960
Karl Polanyi
1886 - 1964
Max Steiner
1888 - 1971
Karl von Frisch
1886 - 1982
Otto Weininger
1880 - 1903
Otto Rank
1884 - 1939
Hermann Broch
1886 - 1951
Otto Neurath
1882 - 1945
Paul Ehrenfest
1880 - 1933
Raoul Hausmann
1886 - 1971
Otto Bauer
1881 - 1938
Vicki Baum
1888 - 1960
Felix Frankfurter
1882 - 1965
Hans Moser (actor)
1880 - 1964
Paul Wittgenstein
1887 - 1961
Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick
1887 - 1953
Ernst Toch
1887 - 1964
Erik Jan Hanussen
1889 - 1933
René Spitz
1887 - 1974
Richard Gerstl
1883 - 1908
Paul Kammerer
1880 - 1926
Rudolph Schindler (architect)
1887 - 1953
Henry Lehrman
1886 - 1946
Josef Thorak
1889 - 1952
Egon Wellesz
1885 - 1974
Joseph Rock
1884 - 1962
Theodor Reik
1888 - 1969
Philipp Frank
1884 - 1966
Rudolf Spielmann
1883 - 1942
Richard Oswald
1880 - 1963
Tilla Durieux
1880 - 1971
Leo Spitzer
1887 - 1960
Paula von Preradović
1887 - 1951
Joe May
1880 - 1954
Otto Erich Deutsch
1883 - 1967
Robert Lowie
1883 - 1957
Albert Ehrenstein
1886 - 1950
Albert Paris Gütersloh
1887 - 1973
Dora (case study)
1882 - 1945
Hanns Sachs
1881 - 1947
Fritzi Massary
1882 - 1969
Annie Rosar
1888 - 1963
Berthold Viertel
1885 - 1953
Walther Penck
1888 - 1923
Franz Theodor Csokor
1885 - 1969
Bernhard Paumgartner
1887 - 1971
Paul Ferdinand Schilder
1886 - 1940
Dora Kallmus
1881 - 1963
Mia May
1884 - 1980
Friedrich Paneth
1887 - 1958
Friedrich Feher
1889 - 1950
Paul Morgan (actor)
1886 - 1938
Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein
1882 - 1958
Hans Thirring
1888 - 1976
Anton Wildgans
1881 - 1932
Max Oppenheimer
1885 - 1954
Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1888 - 1967
Herbert Silberer
1882 - 1923
Fritz Stiedry
1883 - 1968
Paul Jaray
1889 - 1974
Emil Fey
1886 - 1938
Victor Kraft
1880 - 1975
Helene Thimig
1889 - 1974
Karl Weigl
1881 - 1949
Hattie Carnegie
1889 - 1956
Ernst Kurth
1886 - 1946
Franz Exner
1881 - 1947
Frank R. Paul
1884 - 1963
Gustav Renker
1889 - 1967
Heinrich von Handel-Mazzetti
1882 - 1940
Alfred Grünwald (librettist)
1884 - 1951
Erwin Stein
1885 - 1958
Friderike Maria Zweig
1882 - 1971
Hermann Leopoldi
1888 - 1959
Mariette Lydis
1887 - 1970
Richard Kohn
1888 - 1963
Felix Basch
1885 - 1944
Victor Hammer
1882 - 1967
Otto Prutscher
1880 - 1949
Felix Braun
1885 - 1973
Eduard Helly
1884 - 1943
Franz Josef Popp
1886 - 1954
Hans May
1886 - 1958
Grete Wiesenthal
1885 - 1970
Rudolf Allers
1883 - 1963
Mercédès Jellinek
1889 - 1929
Klaus Pohl (actor)
1883 - 1958
Alexander Meissner
1883 - 1958
Felix Bryk
1882 - 1957
Leo Ascher
1880 - 1942
Robert Danneberg
1885 - 1942
Hanns Schwarz
1888 - 1945
Etta Federn
1883 - 1951
Hans Karl Breslauer
1888 - 1965
Rudolf Meinert
1882 - 1943
Gustav Kafka
1883 - 1953
Michel Fingesten
1884 - 1943
Anton Peschka
1885 - 1940
Jan Studnicka
1883 - 1967
Robert Eisler
1882 - 1949
Karl Günther
1885 - 1951
Pierre Ramus
1882 - 1942
Hermynia Zur Mühlen
1883 - 1951
Emanuel List
1888 - 1967
Anton Edthofer
1883 - 1971
Rowena Meeks Abdy
1887 - 1945
Dagobert Frey
1883 - 1962
Else Feldmann
1884 - 1942
Alfred Neugebauer
1888 - 1957
Jacob Fleck
1881 - 1953
Alois Hitler (fils)
1882 - 1956
Josef Krejcik
1885 - 1957
Felix Somary
1881 - 1956
Paul T. Frankl
1886 - 1958
Fritz Wittels
1880 - 1950
Emmerich Hanus
1884 - 1956
Lina Loos
1882 - 1950
Carl Wilhelm
1885 - 1936
Tony Cargnelli
1889 - 1974
Ferdinand Rebay
1880 - 1953
Rudolf Bernauer
1880 - 1953
Colin Ross
1885 - 1945
Viktor Pietschmann
1881 - 1956
Ludwig Flamm
1885 - 1964
Adele Bloch-Bauer
1881 - 1925
Emil Fröschels
1884 - 1972
Johannes Brandt
1884 - 1955
Paul Funk
1886 - 1969
Bernhard Aschner
1883 - 1960
Rosa Rosà
1884 - 1978
Helene Berg
1885 - 1976
Heinrich Retschury
1887 - 1944
Ernst Molden
1886 - 1953
Tom Held
1889 - 1962
Willy Eisenschitz
1889 - 1974
Maximilian Lambertz
1882 - 1963
Karl Ehn
1884 - 1959
Leopold Blauensteiner
1880 - 1947
Ida Roland
1881 - 1951
Arthur Trebitsch
1880 - 1927
Melanie Kurt
1880 - 1941
Karl Sterrer
1885 - 1972
Robert Müller (Schriftsteller)
1887 - 1924
Friedrich Kottler
1886 - 1965
Hermann Rothe
1882 - 1923
Fritz Schwarz-Waldegg
1889 - 1942
Louis Nathaniel de Rothschild
1882 - 1955
Robert Merz
1887 - 1914
Tadeusz Czeżowski
1889 - 1981
Alfons Petzold
1882 - 1923
Oskar Maurus Fontana
1889 - 1969
Rudolf Kalvach
1883 - 1932
Hans Adler (poet)
1880 - 1957
Ella Briggs
1880 - 1977
Karl Ehmann
1882 - 1967
Hermann Felsner
1889 - 1977
Walter Jellinek
1885 - 1955
Richard Romanowsky
1883 - 1968
Gustav Stolper
1888 - 1947
Heinrich Krippel
1883 - 1945
Alfons Fryland
1888 - 1953
Paul Merzbach
1888 - 1943
Robert Valberg
1884 - 1955
Hans Effenberger
1884 - 1950
Herbert Masaryk
1880 - 1915
Olga Hahn-Neurath
1882 - 1937
Camillo Praschniker
1884 - 1949
Else Kleen
1882 - 1968
Arnold Höllriegel
1883 - 1939
Otto Soyka
1882 - 1955
Max Zwerbach
1884 - 1908
Karl Ruberl
1880 - 1966
Arthur Zborzil
1885 - 1937
Robert Weil (writer)
1881 - 1960
Alexander Gettler
1883 - 1968
Jerzy Józef Potocki
1889 - 1961
Heinz Hanus
1882 - 1972
Erica Tietze-Conrat
1883 - 1958
Eduard Schönecker
1885 - 1964
Ernst Nadherny
1885 - 1966
Marta Karlweis
1889 - 1965
Otto Antonius
1885 - 1945
Ludwig Hussak
1883 - 1965
Felix Deutsch (Psychiater)
1884 - 1964
Hermann Wlach
1884 - 1962
Karl Stürmer
1882 - 1943
Lene Schneider-Kainer
1885 - 1971
Ernst Lichtblau
1883 - 1963
Adolf Lantz
1882 - 1949
Willy Bardas
1887 - 1924
Walter Schiller
1887 - 1960
Robert Cimera
Born 1887
Josef Kaltenbrunner
1888 - 1951
Ludwig von Baldass
1887 - 1963
Emil Alphons Rheinhardt
1889 - 1945
Grete Forst
1880 - 1942
Wilhelm Schmieger
1887 - 1950
Franz Ippisch
1883 - 1958
Jakob Hegner
1882 - 1962
Alfred Orel
1889 - 1967
Wilhelm Mautner
1889 - 1944
Helene Wildbrunn
1882 - 1972
Richard Lert
1885 - 1980
Friedrich Schürr
1888 - 1980
Alfred de Pischof
1882 - 1922
Eduard Heinl
1880 - 1957
Karl Pekarna
1881 - 1946
Oscar Sabo
1881 - 1969
Grete Freund
1885 - 1982
Johann Sölch
1883 - 1951
Hanns Sassmann
1882 - 1944
Ernst Lert
1883 - 1955
Eugène Daniel von Rothschild
1884 - 1976
Mela Köhler
1885 - 1960
Otto Kreisler
1889 - 1970
Franz Wallack
1887 - 1966
Ernst Benedikt
1882 - 1973
Elise Hofmann
1889 - 1955
Dionys Schönecker
1888 - 1938
Wilhelm Klitsch
1882 - 1941
Nora Kinsky
1888 - 1923
Otto Walter
1882 - 1965
Fritz Kachler
1888 - 1973
Edmund Sparmann
1888 - 1951
Carl Witzmann
1883 - 1952
Franz Ledwinka
1883 - 1972
Vito Timmel
1886 - 1949
Emma Jacobsson
1883 - 1977
Paul Fillunger
1883 - 1937
Otto Forst de Battaglia
1889 - 1965
Viktor Christian
1885 - 1963
Hans Erl
1882 - 1942
Albert Reuss
1889 - 1975
August von Loehr (Numismatiker)
1882 - 1965
Bertha Braunthal
1887 - 1967
Franz Höbling
1886 - 1965
Adolf Fischera
1888 - 1938
Hermann Blaß
1888 - 1941
Anton Breinl
1880 - 1944
Karl Friedrich Nowak
1882 - 1932
Oskar Wlach
1881 - 1963
Leopold Neubauer
Born 1889
Alfred Kalmus
1889 - 1972
Emma Fordyce MacRae
1887 - 1974
Wilhelm Friedmann
1884 - 1942
Wilhelm Matthäus Schmidt
1883 - 1936
Hans Theyer
1884 - 1955
Elizabeth Gyring
1886 - 1970
Franz Wacik
1883 - 1938
Ernst Epstein
1881 - 1938
Hans Zerny
1887 - 1945
Konrad Mautner
1880 - 1924
Albert Janesch
1889 - 1973
Alois Neurath
1886 - 1955
Käthe Braun-Prager
1888 - 1967
Rudolf Deman
1880 - 1960
Josef Stoitzner
1884 - 1951
Adolf Riebe
1889 - 1966
Josef Reithofer
1883 - 1950
Friedrich Rosenthal
1885 - 1942
Gustav Krojer
1885 - 1945
Carl Furtmüller
1880 - 1951
Gustav Beer
1888 - 1983
Josef Hofbauer
1886 - 1948
Arthur Haberlandt
1889 - 1964
Károly Sterk
1881 - 1946
Ludwig Schaschek
1888 - 1948
Julius Aussenberg
1887 - 1955
Ludwig Valenta
1882 - 1943
Gustav Nebehay
1881 - 1935
Oskar Jascha
1881 - 1948
Bruno Bauer (Architekt)
1880 - 1938
Rudolf Watzl
1882 - 1915
Julius Steger
1886 - 1959
Rudi Gfaller
1882 - 1972
Franz von Zülow
1883 - 1963
Karl Pink
1884 - 1965
Rudolf Neumayer
1887 - 1977
Egon Dietrichstein
1889 - 1937
Robert Hecht
1881 - 1938
Martha Tausk
1881 - 1957
Oscar Werndorff
1880 - 1938
Erwin Merlet
1886 - 1939
Hans Sperber (Linguist)
1885 - 1963
Robert Smallbones
1884 - 1976
Raoul Korty
1889 - 1944
Berthold Sterneck
1887 - 1943
Josef Resch
1880 - 1939
Josef Ignaz Julius Maria Schmutzer
1882 - 1946
Max Beer (Journalist)
1886 - 1965
Franz Weber (footballer)
Born 1888
Gustav Blaha
Born 1888
Ernst Deutsch-Dryden
1887 - 1938
Anton Grath
1881 - 1956