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 1900s Clear ×
Franz Holzweber
1904 - 1934
Rudolfine Muhr
1900 - 1984
Marianne Gary-Schaffhauser
1903 - 1992
Stefanie Kunke
1908 - 1943
Leopold Babitsch
1903 - 1960
Franz Heindl
1906 - 1944
Helene Winterstein-Kambersky
1900 - 1966
J. A. Vesely
1901 - 1969
Adalbert Dufek
1901 - 1960
Fritz Koubek
1902 - 1988
Franz Fillinger
1909 - 1983
Ludwig Kostroun
1907 - 1972
Wilhelm von Battlehner
1906 - 1992
Hans Baumann (Kaufmann)
1905 - 1941
Leopold Weinmayer
1904 - 1966
Hans Kunke
1906 - 1940
Johann Pölzer junior
1903 - 1964
Franz Bezucha
1904 - 1981
Herta Regina Leng
1903 - 1997
Rudolf Singer (Politiker, 1907)
1907 - 1979
Adolf Lande
1905 - 1970
Michael Heindl
1901 - 1944
Karl Kysela
1901 - 1967
Alois Gulder
1901 - 1972
Josef Kratky
1907 - 1989
Walter Frauenberger
1908 - 1958
Maria Collm
1901 - 1988
Frederick Joss
1908 - 1967
Leopold Mistinger
1904 - 2001
Erich Kabesch
1905 - 1992
Hans Wieseneder
1906 - 1993
Karl Flödl
1900 - 1968
Rudolf Nemetschke
1902 - 1980
Wilfried Fraß
Born 1907
Erwin Puschmann
1905 - 1943
Karl Gruber (Politiker, 1908)
1908 - 1958
Richard Übelhör
1901 - 1977
Leopold Hartl
1906 - 1979
Hermann Fritz (Politiker)
1903 - 1982
Franz Hauer (Widerstandskämpfer)
1905 - 1944
Josef Pleyl
1902 - 1989
Hermann Laforet
1902 - 1979
Rudolf Hautmann (senior)
1907 - 1970
Josef Matejcek
1904 - 1965
Emmerich Nagy
1905 - 1929
Julius Nataly
Born 1901
Helene Potetz
1902 - 1987
Otto Aurich
1900 - 1961
Hans Kulhanek
1906 - 1996
Rudolf Troppert
1909 - 1999
Thomas Kozich
1901 - 1983
Lambert Hofer (Kostümbildner, 1907)
1907 - 1997
Josef Novak (Politiker, 1905)
1905 - 1977
Rudolf Kait
1900 - 1947
Katja Landau
Born 1905
Rudolf Sigmund
1903 - 1976
Eric Halpern
1907 - 1958
Johann Graf (Widerstandskämpfer)
1906 - 1944
Paul Peschke (Bildhauer)
1907 - 1992
Alfred Goldhammer
1907 - 1942
Richard Friedmann
1906 - 1944
Edmund Reismann (Politiker, 1907)
1907 - 1985
Karl Gerhold
1908 - 1985
Hans Löwy
1907 - 1993
August Bischof
1900 - 2006
Karl Wrba
1900 - 1973
Karl Feik
1908 - 1986
Karl Bohmann
1909 - 1999
Hellfried von Krafft-Ebing
1907 - 1990
Grete Margaret Schüller
1900 - 1984
Albert Römer (Politiker)
1900 - 1977
Viktor Kleiner (Politiker)
1902 - 1987
Viktor Altmann
1900 - 1960
George Victor Wolfe
1904 - 1990
Karl Griesbach
1904 - 1950
Karl Sobota
Born 1903
Wilhelm Barbasz
1907 - 1978
Erich Manhardt
1902 - 1973
Joseph Roos
1908 - 1999
Viktor Mrnustik
1902 - 1943
Anton Kimml
1900 - 1977
Friedrich Birsak
1909 - 1997
Josef Walla
1907 - 1994
Josef Eitzenberger
1905 - 1978
Josef Fellner
1909 - 1964
Karl Mühlhauser
1909 - 1979
Theodor Pillich
1902 - 1988
Otto Broschek
1902 - 1978
Wilhelm Sigmund
1903 - 1982
Leopold Hofmann (Widerstandskämpfer)
1900 - 1945
Rudolf Mekiska
1904 - 1945
Franz Kurka
Born 1909
Hans H. Bleich
1909 - 1995
Hans Holfelder (Artamane)
1900 - 1929
Felix Rausch
1908 - 1966
Richard Kurfürst
1909 - 1991
Franz Glaserer
1904 - 1983
Anton Reisinger
1903 - 1943
August Theodor Kirsch junior
1902 - 1959
Johann Vana
Born 1908
Gigi Castellani
1908 - 1995
Genia Quittner
1906 - 1989
Lili Werner-Rizzolli
Born 1907
Anton Matourek
1905 - 1978
John H. Winge
1903 - 1968
Jakob Lob
1902 - 1948
Alois Hammer
1907 - 1983
Karl Cart
Born 1906
Anton Stursa
1902 - 1965
Konrad Zweig
1904 - 1980
Edith Isakiewicz
Born 1907
Robert Dubovsky
1907 - 1991
Leopold Horacek
1907 - 1977
Frank G. Back
1902 - 1983
Otto Zwierina
1900 - 1981
Maria Fischer (Widerstandskämpferin, 1903) – Wi
1903 - 1943
Stephanie Felsenburg
1902 - 1977
Franz Kellinger
1905 - 1941
Bernhard von Kamler
1902 - 1975
Elli Peer
1900 - 1927
Bobby John
1905 - 1966
Rudolf Sleifir
1904 - 1971
Hilde Borik
1908 - 2007
Johann Waltner
1900 - 1987
Otto Zykan
1902 - 1989
Johann Rotter
1905 - 1973
Otto Jahn (Maler)
1900 - 1945
Richard Pöttschacher
1904 - 2008
Fritz Lauscher
1908 - 1996
Hugo-Josef Simecek
1904 - 1965
Karl Marold
1904 - 1943
Ernst Fellinger (Politiker)
1909 - 1990
Alexander Wilberg
1905 - 1992
Ferdinand Schachinger
Born 1903
Ludwig Sexl
1904 - 1964
Paul Grüneis
1908 - 1972
Emmerich Wenger
1902 - 1973
Johann Hatlak
1904 - 1944
Josef Fischer (Politiker, 1903)
1903 - 1979
Hans Grassl
1908 - 1980
Kamila Rosenbaumová
1908 - 1988
Liesl Frick
1908 - 1982