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 ×
Gustav Steinbauer
1889 - 1961
Heinrich Benedikt
1886 - 1981
Egon Berger-Waldenegg
1880 - 1960
Johann Andres (Fußballspieler)
1887 - 1970
Franz Ruschka
1882 - 1942
Artur Marcell Werau
1887 - 1931
Otto Polak-Hellwig
1885 - 1958
Rolf Geyling
1884 - 1952
Frederick Mors
1889 - 1916
Lotte Leonard
1884 - 1976
Paul Frank (Drehbuchautor)
1885 - 1976
Rudolf Kramer
1886 - 1904
Josef Luitpold Stern
1886 - 1966
B. F. Dolbin
1883 - 1971
Felix Kwieton
1887 - 1958
Arnold Winkler
1882 - 1969
Betty Fischer
1887 - 1969
Karl Harmer
1888 - 1966
Wolfgang Schultz (Philosoph)
1881 - 1936
Richard Heuberger der Jüngere
1884 - 1968
Erwin Lang (Maler)
1886 - 1962
Auguste Lazar
1887 - 1970
Hans Böhler
1884 - 1961
Vojislav Kecmanović
1881 - 1961
Eugene Steinhof
1880 - 1952
Emanuel Josef Margold
1889 - 1962
Max Benirschke
1880 - 1961
Ernst Lotz
1887 - 1948
Hugo Sperber
1885 - 1938
Rudolf Junk
1880 - 1943
Béla Kelemen
1887 - 1956
Heinrich Schalit
1886 - 1976
Herbert Müller-Guttenbrunn
1887 - 1945
Alfred Macalik
1888 - 1979
Bernhard Bauer (gynaecologist)
1882 - 1942
Franz Xaver Setzer
1886 - 1939
Karl Flieher
1881 - 1958
Walther Simmer
1888 - 1986
Tadeusz Ostrowski
1881 - 1941
Hermann Gallos
1886 - 1957
Anton Tiller
1881 - 1967
Wilhelm Berliner
1881 - 1936
Ferdinand Leopoldi
1886 - 1944
Ludwig Hirschfeld (Schriftsteller)
1882 - 1942
Franz Karl Delavilla
1884 - 1967
Emil Gaar
1883 - 1953
Otto Schulhof
1889 - 1958
Wilhelm Fischer (Musikwissenschaftler)
1886 - 1962
Moriz Sassi
1880 - 1967
Hilde Exner
1880 - 1922
Hanns Pellar
1886 - 1971
Oskar Czeija
1887 - 1958
Lotte Medelsky
1880 - 1960
Karl Wache
1887 - 1973
Alfred Grünewald
1884 - 1942
Rudolf Österreicher
1881 - 1966
Olga Fabian
1885 - 1983
Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill
1882 - 1961
Friedrich Brauner
1889 - 1942
Rudolf Nilius
1883 - 1962
Marianne Fieglhuber-Gutscher
1889 - 1978
Karl Föderl
1885 - 1953
Dietrich Kralik
1884 - 1959
Ferenc Nagy
1884 - 1962
Walter Steinhauser
1885 - 1980
Hans Pernter
1887 - 1951
Franz Stiasny
1881 - 1941
Erwin Weill
1885 - 1942
Hans Frank (Maler)
1884 - 1948
Emmerich Reimers
1886 - 1970
Josma Selim
1884 - 1929
Kornel Abel
1881 - 1940
Emmy Heim
1885 - 1954
Rudolph G. Kopp
1887 - 1972
Erich Franz Leischner
1887 - 1970
Wilhelm Peters (Psychologe)
1880 - 1963
Nicolas Ladany
Born 1889
Ernst Liebenauer
1884 - 1970
Anton Kling
1881 - 1963
Fritz Schmoll genannt Eisenwerth
1883 - 1963
Theodor Hornbostel
1889 - 1973
Hans Neumann
1888 - 1960
Ernst Theodor von Brücke
1880 - 1941
Edmond Bernhardt
1885 - 1976
Edmund Finke
1888 - 1968
Georg Terramare
1889 - 1948
Karl Figdor
1881 - 1957
Franz Reisinger (Salesianer)
1889 - 1973
Hans Pemmer
1886 - 1972
Paul Barnay
1884 - 1960
Ernst Fellner
1880 - 1900
Theodor Heinrich Mayer
1884 - 1949
Johann Staud
1882 - 1939
Alois Wacha
Born 1888
Josef Plenk
1886 - 1967
Gustav Entz
1884 - 1957
Helene Winger
1884 - 1945
Josef Humplik
1888 - 1958
Hans Schachinger
1888 - 1952
Rudolf Haybach
1886 - 1983
Ferdinand Kitt
1887 - 1961
Ernst Pröckl
1888 - 1957
Egon Glanz
1880 - 1945
Martina Wied
1882 - 1957
Alfred Gerstenbrand
1881 - 1977
Victor A. Reko
Born 1880
Otto Friedländer
1889 - 1963
Bert Silving
1887 - 1948
Emil Karl Blümml
1881 - 1925
Karl von Spieß
1880 - 1957
Franz Frimmel
1888 - 1957
Theo Prosel
1889 - 1955
Editha Moser
1883 - 1969
Mathilde Uhlirz
1881 - 1966
Georg Neumüller
1885 - 1953
Richard Kurt Donin
1881 - 1963
Franz Roubal
1889 - 1967
Kurt Frieberger
1883 - 1970
Hans Prager
1887 - 1940
Harry Martin (cyclist)
1889 - 1922
Heinz Sarnow
1882 - 1943
Heinz Lang
1885 - 1904
Alfred Stix
1882 - 1957
Heinrich von Buol
1880 - 1945
Georg Kotek
1889 - 1977
Dominik Josef Wölfel
1888 - 1963
Paul Ikrath
1888 - 1970
Philipp Nauß
1881 - 1958
Oswald Roux
1880 - 1961
Magda von Hattingberg
1883 - 1959
Oskar Larsen
1882 - 1972
Rudolf von Gutmann
1880 - 1966
Franz Staudigl
1885 - 1944
Theodor Grieg
1889 - 1957
Alfons Stillfried
1887 - 1974
Edwin Zellweker
1883 - 1953
Josef Bock
1883 - 1966
Otto Feldmann
1881 - 1942
Fritz Zerritsch der Jüngere
1888 - 1985
Emil Schipper
1882 - 1957
Karl Theodor Hoeniger
1881 - 1970
Leonore Schwarz-Neumaier
1889 - 1942
Anton Orel
1881 - 1959
Leopold Arzt
1883 - 1955
Hugo Theodor Horwitz
1882 - 1942
Josef Mickl
1885 - 1965
Georg Mannheimer
1887 - 1942
Viktor Lebzelter
1889 - 1936
Leopold Spielmann
1881 - 1941
Else Bäck
1884 - 1968
Josef Franz Riedl
1884 - 1965
Raimund Zoder
1882 - 1963
Hans Rhoden
1882 - 1931
Richard Hutter
1883 - 1947
Heinrich von Kralik
1887 - 1965
Rudolf Eger
1885 - 1965
Egbert Mannlicher
1882 - 1973
Emil Hadina
1885 - 1957
Wolfgang Himmelbaur
1886 - 1937
Erwin Rieger
1889 - 1940
Ernst Wurmser
1882 - 1950
Heinrich Höfflinger
1882 - 1963
Otto Martin Julius Koenig
1881 - 1955
Rudolf Eisler (Architekt)
1881 - 1977
Max Willenz
1888 - 1954
Adolfo Zerkowitz
1884 - 1972
Norbert von Stetten
1885 - 1979
Polly Koss
1880 - 1943
Curt Rotter
1881 - 1945
Aline Furtmüller
1883 - 1941
Karl Wahle
1887 - 1970
Mizzi Jezel
1883 - 1984
Arthur Hellmer
1880 - 1961
Gustav Bohadti
1883 - 1969
Richard Wagner (Kinderarzt)
1887 - 1974
Felix Heuberger
1888 - 1968
Franz Skaupy
1882 - 1969
Max Nekut
1883 - 1960
August Oehler
1881 - 1920
Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg
1881 - 1974
Oskar Dietrich
1888 - 1978
Karl Schubert (Heilpädagoge)
1889 - 1949
Rudolf Hittmair
1889 - 1940
Eduard Hütter
1880 - 1967
Lothar Wimmer
1889 - 1966
Fritz Brukner
1881 - 1944
Maxim Galitzenstein
1886 - 1931
Samuel Shipman
1881 - 1937
Oskar Glück
1887 - 1966
Hans Fiala (Sänger)
1883 - 1945
Max Roden
1881 - 1968
Franz Jung-Ilsenheim
1883 - 1963
Friedrich Heydenau
1886 - 1960
Adolf Stöckl
1884 - 1944
Egon Lustgarten
1887 - 1961
Alfons Erle
1886 - 1939
Otto König (Schriftsteller)
1882 - 1932
Franz Schwaiger (Schauspieler)
1880 - 1926
Karl Borschke
1886 - 1941
Ferdinand Reinold
1885 - 1935
Konstantin Peller
1887 - 1969
Georg von Seybel
1886 - 1924
Hermann Vetters (Geologe)
1880 - 1941
Martha Winternitz-Dorda
1880 - 1958
Karl Krist
1883 - 1941
Joseph Durst
1882 - 1974
August Rieger (Maler)
1886 - 1941
Franz Kienmayer
1886 - 1963
Carl Moritz Cammerloher
1882 - 1945
Marie Louise Poschacher
1886 - 1965
Jenny Schaffer-Bernstein
1888 - 1943
Andreas Thom (Schriftsteller)
1884 - 1943
Hans Leitmeier
1885 - 1967
Elsa Bland
1880 - 1935
Paul Eger
1881 - 1947
Đuro Jakčin
1889 - 1944
Carl Skoda
1884 - 1918
Hermann Suida
1887 - 1973
Fritz Demmer
1884 - 1967
Wilhelm Kerl
1880 - 1945
Karl Jellinek
1882 - 1971
Josef Danegger (Schauspieler, 1889)
1889 - 1948
Karl Dirnhuber
1889 - 1953
Hermann Kner
1888 - 1957
Norbert Weldler
1884 - 1961
Theodor Detter (Maler)
1886 - 1957
Rudolf Frieß
1881 - 1965
Leopold Thaller
1888 - 1971
Josef Stanek (Gewerkschafter)
1883 - 1934
Avraham Deutsch
1889 - 1953
Georg C. Horsetzky
1889 - 1939
Carlo Maximilian Cromer
1889 - 1964
Alfred Himmelbauer
1884 - 1943
Paula Arnold
1885 - 1968
Otto Trauner
1887 - 1918
Ernest Anton Kraft
1880 - 1962
Albert Ziegler (Pilot)
1888 - 1946
Auguste Caroline Lammer
1885 - 1937
Alfred Waagner
1886 - 1960
Josef Reitler
1883 - 1948
Alexander Pawlowitz
1884 - 1955
Heinrich Schmid (Diplomat)
1888 - 1968
Karl Swoboda (Gewichtheber)
1882 - 1933
Heinrich Böhler
1881 - 1940
Melitta Heim
1888 - 1950
Egon Schönhof
1880 - 1942
Franz Meschkan
1881 - 1951
Walter Schmidt (Geologe)
1885 - 1945
Irene Seidner
1880 - 1959
Camillo Fritz Discher
1884 - 1976
Hans Brecka
1885 - 1954
Panteleymon Shpylka
1883 - 1950
Otto Mayr (Rechtsanwalt)
1887 - 1977
Leopold Zechner
1884 - 1968
Paul von Goldberger
Born 1881
Otto Maresch
1886 - 1945
Hans Hermann Schmid
1884 - 1963
Robert Lang (football manager)
1886 - 1941
Artur Hohenberg
1886 - 1938
Karl Čermak
1881 - 1924
Oskar Stracker
1885 - 1973
Robert Meißner
1888 - 1953
Karl Knapp (Politiker)
1888 - 1944
Gustav Siegel (Designer)
1880 - 1970
Franz Markhoff
1880 - 1964
Joe Koukalik
1880 - 1947
Erna Engel-Baiersdorf
1889 - 1970
Joe Hovlik
1884 - 1951
Camillo Kossuth
1888 - 1963
Silvio Mohr
1882 - 1965
Robert Krasser
1882 - 1958
Ludwig Gorm
1884 - 1965
Johann Reif
1887 - 1949
Otto Hellmuth Stowasser
1887 - 1934
Alfred Steinberg-Frank
1888 - 1953
Heinrich Stefan Peschka
1886 - 1937
Hermann L’Estocq
1887 - 1940
Siegfried Abeles
1884 - 1937
Anton Rohrhofer
1882 - 1965
Helmut Wagner Freynsheim
1889 - 1968
Arnold Nechansky
1888 - 1938
Karl Sachs (Elektroingenieur)
1886 - 1980
Josef Zeitlinger
1884 - 1945
Marie-Luise Cavallar von Grabensprung
1889 - 1977
Johann Karl Hellmer
1880 - 1950
Erwin Hubert (Maler)
1883 - 1963
Frank Erlanger
1882 - 1961
Christine Kerry
1889 - 1978
Camilla Gerzhofer
1888 - 1961
Fritz Krenn (Sänger)
1887 - 1963
Gertrud Löw
1883 - 1964
Humbert Dell’mour
1881 - 1948
Paul Schwarz (Sänger)
1887 - 1980
Friedrich Blaschke
1883 - 1911
Wilhelm Klastersky
1880 - 1961
Stefan Hofer (Romanist)
1888 - 1959
Johann Pittner
1887 - 1956
Franz von Hoefft
1882 - 1954
Fritz Hofbauer
1884 - 1968
Caroline Leopoldine Schöner
1882 - 1965