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 1890s Clear ×
Friedrich Kainz
1897 - 1977
Franz Schuster (Architekt)
1892 - 1972
Fred Berger (actor)
1894 - 1961
Otto Isakower
1899 - 1972
Heinz Körner
1893 - 1961
Rudolphina Menzel
1891 - 1973
Sergius Pauser
1896 - 1970
Lily Weiser-Aall
1898 - 1987
Esti Freud
1896 - 1980
Friedrich Jung
1897 - 1975
Hryhoriy Nestor
1891 - 2007
Karl Tekusch
1890 - 1977
Hans Rouc
1893 - 1963
Ernest Lindner
1897 - 1988
Otto Preißecker
1898 - 1963
Binyamin Arditi
1897 - 1981
Erich Boltenstern
1896 - 1991
Josef Halumbirek
1891 - 1968
Ernst Schwadron
1896 - 1979
Karl Egon V. zu Fürstenberg
1891 - 1973
Anton Slupetzky
1899 - 1987
Jacob Kastelic
1897 - 1944
Peter Herz (Librettist)
1895 - 1987
Richard Suchenwirth
1896 - 1965
Alexandre Spitzmüller
1894 - 1962
Franz Rudorfer
1897 - 1919
Hildegard Hetzer
1899 - 1991
Heinrich Kodré
1899 - 1977
Joseph Binder (Designer)
1898 - 1972
Willi Reich
1898 - 1980
Renato Attilio Bleibtreu
1893 - 1945
Bohuslav Kokoschka
1892 - 1976
Anton Proksch
1897 - 1975
Eduard Beninger
1897 - 1963
Franz Engel (Kabarettist)
1898 - 1944
Józef Trenkwald
1897 - 1956
Ernst Steffan
1896 - 1967
Walter Bernheimer
1892 - 1937
Ivan Čargo
1898 - 1958
Helen Adolf
1895 - 1998
Otto Muck (Ingenieur)
1892 - 1956
Josef Floch
1894 - 1977
Kurt Reichl
1899 - 1956
Franz Günther von Stockert
1899 - 1967
Trude Brentina
1899 - 1986
Fritz Wisten
1890 - 1962
Franz Singer (Architekt)
1896 - 1954
Fred Essler
1895 - 1973
Charles Rumbold
Born 1893
Fritzi Jokl
1895 - 1974
Franz Pfaudler
1893 - 1956
Ernst Bachrich
1892 - 1942
Felix Kopstein
1893 - 1939
Paul Schramm
1892 - 1953
Ernest Kanitz
1894 - 1978
Rudolf Stundl
1897 - 1990
Karl Maria Stepan
1894 - 1972
Roland Paris
1894 - 1945
Hermann von Baravalle
1898 - 1973
Walter Prinzl
1891 - 1937
Oscar Pollak
1893 - 1963
Jules Thorn
1899 - 1980
Helene Lauterböck
1895 - 1990
Wilhelm Kaufmann (Maler, 1895)
1895 - 1975
Karl Borromäus Frank
1893 - 1969
Felix Mandl
Born 1898
Rose Laure Allatini
1890 - 1980
Margarete Seemann
1893 - 1949
Lili Réthi
1894 - 1969
Paul Hatvani
1892 - 1975
Joseph Margulies (artist)
1896 - 1984
Maxim Kopf
1892 - 1958
Siegmund Bosel
1893 - 1945
Rudolf Schilberg
1894 - 1961
Joseph Fleck
1892 - 1977
Herwig Hamperl
1899 - 1976
Leopold Hauer
1896 - 1984
Hans Lauda
1896 - 1974
Leopold Kölbl
1895 - 1970
Paul Frischauer
1898 - 1977
Reginald Spevak
1898 - 1959
Hans Chlumberg
1897 - 1930
Luigi Bernauer
1899 - 1945
Erwin Dom Osen
1891 - 1970
Friedrich Engel-Jánosi
1893 - 1978
Othmar Kühn (Paläontologe)
1892 - 1969
Herbert Jansky
1898 - 1981
Karl Maisel
1890 - 1982
Anton Brenner (Architekt)
1896 - 1957
Franz Elsner (Maler)
1898 - 1978
Fritz Heller (Schauspieler)
1893 - 1966
Hans Spialek
1894 - 1983
Ernst Arnold (Komponist)
1892 - 1962
Paul Elbogen
1894 - 1987
Riki Raab
1899 - 1997
Elizaveta Karamihailova
1897 - 1968
Franz Josef Scheidl
1890 - 1971
Martin Costa
1895 - 1974
Robert Eisenschitz
1898 - 1968
Meinhard von Zallinger
1897 - 1990
Margarete Jonas
1898 - 1976
Erwin W. Spahn
1898 - 1941
Wilhelm Marinelli
1894 - 1973
Karl Friedrich von Frank
1894 - 1975
Anton Kreuzer (Fußballspieler)
Born 1895
Hansl Schmid
1897 - 1987
Siegfried Stoitzner
1892 - 1976
Norbert Glas
1897 - 1986
Franz Kieslinger
1891 - 1955
Ernst Lauda (Mediziner)
1892 - 1963
Franz Hančar
1893 - 1968
Anton Valentin
1895 - 1976
Walter Ullmann (Jo Lherman, Gaston Oulmàn) – Wi
1898 - 1949
Walter Rafelsberger
1899 - 1989
Otto Jokl
1891 - 1963
Alice Lach
1893 - 1969
Hermann Kosel
1896 - 1983
Martin Berliner
1896 - 1966
Jacques Hannak
1892 - 1973
Arthur Paunzen
1890 - 1940
Heinrich Sequenz
1895 - 1987
Robert Neubauer
1895 - 1969
Karl Hoffmann (Maler, 1893)
1893 - 1972
Josef Krastel
1899 - 1973
Karl Nowotny
1895 - 1965
Rudolf Schmidt (Bildhauer)
1894 - 1980
Franz zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck
1899 - 1958
Ernst Fabri
1891 - 1966
Willy Fränzl
1898 - 1982
Leo Schidrowitz
1894 - 1956
Rudolf Felmayer
1897 - 1970
Robert Feix
1893 - 1973
Victor Theodor Slama
1890 - 1973
Theodor Seif
1894 - 1939
Adolphe Sibert
1899 - 1991
Ernst Alker
1895 - 1972
Karl Hans Sailer
1890 - 1957
Wilhelm Starlinger
1898 - 1956
Hans Werner (Lyriker)
1898 - 1980
Lotte Meitner-Graf
1898 - 1973
Franz-Wilhelm Matejka
Born 1896
Carl Baierl
1895 - 1977
Jakob Swatosch
Born 1891
Gertrud Herzog-Hauser
1894 - 1953
Rudolf Hanel
Born 1897
Alfred Braunthal
1897 - 1980
Fritz Judtmann
1899 - 1968
Erwin Wexberg
1899 - 1957
Felice Rix-Ueno
1893 - 1967
Adele Jellinek
1890 - 1943
Rudolf Prikryl
1896 - 1965
Karl Burian (Offizier)
1896 - 1944
Marianne Pollak
1891 - 1963
Vilma Mönckeberg-Kollmar
1892 - 1985
Herberth E. Herlitschka
1893 - 1970
Maria Gerhart
1890 - 1975
Otto Schaumann
1891 - 1977
Oskar Spiel
1892 - 1961
Alfons Hetmanek
1890 - 1962
Maria Viktoria von Attems
1899 - 1983
Felix Augenfeld
1893 - 1984
Kurt Ehrenberg
1896 - 1979
Leopold Krauss-Elka
1891 - 1964
Roland Strasser
1892 - 1974
Karl Braunias
1899 - 1965
Lea Seidl
1895 - 1987
Arthur Stadler
1892 - 1937
Josef Berger (Architekt)
1898 - 1989
Hans Tintner
1894 - 1942
Edmund Mudrak
1894 - 1965
Charles Cerné
1897 - 1943
Franz Gschnitzer (Jurist)
1899 - 1968
József Jeszmás
1895 - 1934
Karl Girkmann
1890 - 1959
Hedy Pfundmayr
1899 - 1965
Adelbert Muhr
1896 - 1977
Erhard Amadeus Dier
1893 - 1969
Friedrich Stockinger
1894 - 1968
Josef Albrecht (Schauspieler)
1894 - 1966
Karl Mantler
1890 - 1965
Robert Rammer
Born 1890
Karl Magnus Klier
1892 - 1966
Herbert Reichner
1899 - 1971
Joseph Braunstein
1892 - 1996
Josef Zilker
Born 1891
Anna von Rottauscher
1892 - 1970
Robert Colli
1898 - 1980
Joe Furtner
1893 - 1965
Julius Bürger
1897 - 1995
Anton Tesarek
1896 - 1977
Ferdinand Bellan
1897 - 1976
Rudolf Rauch
Born 1893
Jakob Baxa
1895 - 1979
Ladislaus Kmoch
1897 - 1971
Richard Flatter
1891 - 1960
Richard Löwenbein
1894 - 1943
Richard Duschinsky
1897 - 1990
Charly Gaudriot
1895 - 1978
Arthur Gottlein
1895 - 1977
Fritz Lampl
1892 - 1955
Friedrich Porges
1890 - 1978
Karel Kužel
Born 1899
Franziska Seidl
1892 - 1983
Stefan Weiß (Komponist)
1899 - 1984
Hugo Burghauser
1896 - 1982
Sylva Macharová
1893 - 1968
Erich August Mayer
1894 - 1945
Franz Winterer
1892 - 1971
Paul Pella
1892 - 1965
Friedrich Walter (Historiker, 1896)
1896 - 1968
Lydia Sicher
1890 - 1962
Fritzi Löw
1892 - 1975
Isidor Wozniczak
1892 - 1945
Stefan Eggeler
1894 - 1969
Theophila von Wassilko
1893 - 1973
Franz Juraschek
1895 - 1959
Paul Pálffy ab Erdőd
1890 - 1968
Mihail Xantho
1891 - 1940
Roderich Müller-Guttenbrunn
1892 - 1956
Wilhelm Zedinek
1898 - 1971
Rudolf Hafner (Maler)
1893 - 1951
Norbert Bischoff (Diplomat)
1894 - 1960
Julius Zimpel
1896 - 1925
Helene Weilen
1898 - 1987
Karl Hauschka
1896 - 1981
Adele Hartwig
1893 - 1933
Dora Kaiser
1892 - 1972
Hans Nüchtern
1896 - 1962
Wilhelmine Moik
1894 - 1970
Michel Engelhart
1897 - 1969
Ernst Römer
1893 - 1974
Eduard Göth
1898 - 1944
Felix Tarbuk
1893 - 1982
Hans Behal
1893 - 1957
Max Riederer von Paar
1897 - 1964
Karl Honay
1891 - 1959
Eduard Hartl
1892 - 1953
Georg Weissel (Widerstandskämpfer)
1899 - 1934
Stefan Pollatschek
1890 - 1942
Leo Brauner
1898 - 1974
Carl Krall
1891 - 1975
Richard Kaan
1897 - 1969
Erna Patzelt
1894 - 1987
Alfred Kunz
1894 - 1961
Slavi Soucek
1898 - 1980
Margarete von Bukovics
1892 - 1970
Ferdinand Birnbaum
1892 - 1947
Robert Kautsky
1895 - 1963
Eduard Kranner
1893 - 1977
Karl Höfler
1893 - 1973
Ernst Richter (Filmarchitekt)
1890 - 1961
Tilly Kutschera
1890 - 1920
Nora Duesberg-Baranowski
1895 - 1982
Kapistran Pieller
1891 - 1945
Leopold Mayer (Wirtschaftswissenschaftler)
1896 - 1971
Friedrich Lorenz (Autor)
1898 - 1964
Karl Wiener (Komponist)
1891 - 1942
Walther Tritsch
1892 - 1961
Walter Kratz
1899 - 1957
Karl Ausch
1893 - 1976
Philipp Zeska
1896 - 1977
Jacques Bachrach
1892 - 1954
Franz Winninger
1893 - 1960
Kurt von Barisiani
1895 - 1970
Ernest Adolf Spiegel
1895 - 1985
Frederick C. Schreiber
1895 - 1985
Theodor Allesch-Alescha
1898 - 1991
Anton Velim
1892 - 1954
Toni Birkmeyer
1897 - 1973
Lilly Flohr
1893 - 1978
Emil Beischläger
1897 - 1977
Heinrich Kosina
1899 - 1977
Elisabeth Thury
1894 - 1973
Frederick Schrecker
1892 - 1976
Karl Wondrak
1895 - 1973
Wilhelm Székely
1897 - 1966
Gustav Putzendopler
Born 1893
Josef Krames
1897 - 1986
Ernst Scheibelreiter
1897 - 1973
Felix Greissle
1894 - 1982
Simon Kronberg
1891 - 1947
Arthur Baar
1890 - 1984
Siegfried Fischer (Maler)
1899 - 1974
Siegfried Fussenegger
1894 - 1966
Ilse Bernheimer
1892 - 1985
Johann Heinrich Blumenthal (Offizier)
1895 - 1964
Richard Hoffmann (Übersetzer)
1892 - 1961
Karl Hack
1892 - 1952
Walter Bernatzik
1899 - 1953
Bernhard Scheichelbauer
1890 - 1969
Franz Sekera
1899 - 1955
Heinrich Balcz
1898 - 1944
Paul Kaspar
1891 - 1953
Stephan Hlawa
1896 - 1977
Franz Schehl
1898 - 1956
Hans Glas (Architekt)
1892 - 1960
Hans Schikola
1890 - 1967
Leopold Langhammer
1891 - 1975
Hans Ranzoni der Jüngere
1896 - 1991
Alice Friedmann
1897 - 1980