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 1910s Clear ×
Herta Frankel
1913 - 1996
Henry Koerner
1915 - 1991
Edith Kraus
1913 - 2013
Ernst Burger
1915 - 1944
Borys Lewytzkyj
1915 - 1984
Lilly Stepanek
1912 - 2004
Ambros Josef Pfiffig
1910 - 1998
Ernst Topitsch
1919 - 2003
Johann Zehetner
1912 - 1942
Karl Czernetz
1910 - 1978
Heinrich Drimmel
1912 - 1991
Erik Arnberger
1917 - 1987
Herma Kirchschläger
1916 - 2009
John Olden
1918 - 1965
Erika Pelikowsky
1916 - 1990
Hans Hauenstein
1912 - 1989
Ernst Fuhrmann
1918 - 1995
Hans Heinz Theyer
1910 - 1961
Fedir Manailo
1910 - 1978
Karl Wieghardt (Physiker)
1913 - 1996
Erich Wasicky
1911 - 1947
Hermine Diethelm
1915 - 1997
Paula Dvorak
1913 - 1995
Ferdinand Welz
1915 - 2008
Fritz Demmer
Born 1911
Ole Paus (general)
1910 - 2003
Leo Metzenbauer
1910 - 1993
Helly Möslein
1914 - 1998
Karl Gröger
1918 - 1943
Ludwig Jedlicka
1916 - 1977
Fritzi Löwy
1910 - 1994
Nora Minor
1910 - 1995
Bernhard Blumenkranz
1913 - 1989
Eric de Kolb
1916 - 2001
Hans Robert Pippal
1915 - 1998
Adi Vogl
1910 - 1993
Václav Bouška
1910 - 1975
Hertha Natzler
1911 - 1985
Vera Auer
1919 - 1996
Leonard Borkowicz
1912 - 1989
Roman Fischer (fencer)
Born 1915
Litzi Friedmann
1910 - 1991
Hermann Hakel
1911 - 1987
Harald Maresch
1916 - 1986
Franz Csöngei
Born 1913
Elisa Springer
1918 - 2004
Alfred Liebster
Born 1910
Barbara Gallauner
1912 - 2011
Victor J. Pospishil
1915 - 2006
Rudolf Ekstein
1912 - 2005
Leopold Schmidt (Volkskundler)
1912 - 1981
Alfred Diamant
1917 - 2012
Oskar Nowak
Born 1913
Felice Benuzzi
1910 - 1988
Miloš Bič
1910 - 2004
Robert Lindner
1910 - 1967
René Marcic
1919 - 1971
Edward Glaser
1918 - 1972
Anna Maria Jokl
1911 - 2001
Leopold Rudolf
1911 - 1978
Eva Frodl-Kraft
1916 - 2011
Karl Wazulek
1914 - 1958
Ilse Daus
1911 - 2000
Franz Samohyl
1912 - 1999
Constantin von Liechtenstein
1911 - 2001
Poldi Mildner
1913 - 2007
Gotfrid Köchert
1918 - 1986
Henry P. Glass
1911 - 2003
Robert G. Neumann
1916 - 1999
Manina Tischler
1918 - 2010
Auguste Dick
1910 - 1993
Aron Menczer
1917 - 1943
Joachim von Zedtwitz
1910 - 2001
Jakob "Jackie" Gerlich
1917 - 1960
Otto Rösch
1917 - 1995
Harry Fuss
1913 - 1996
Ingrid Leodolter
1919 - 1986
Grete Yppen
1917 - 2008
Franz Eugen Klein
1912 - 1944
Heinrich Treichl
1913 - 2014
Carlo Böhm
1917 - 1997
Rudolf Palme
1910 - 2005
Karl Hermann Spitzy
1915 - 2013
Lajos Szendrődi
1913 - 1968
Ivan Rosenqvist
1916 - 1994
Margarete Schörl
1912 - 1991
Jean Lassner
1913 - 2007
Frederick Kaufman
1919 - 1985
Christl Schönfeldt
1916 - 2013
Leopoldine Kovarik
1919 - 1943
Franz Wimmer-Lamquet
1919 - 2010
Heinrich Brandweiner
1910 - 1997
Waluliso
1914 - 1996
Hans-Paul Ganter-Gilmans
1917 - 1955
Alfred Preis
1911 - 1993
Otto Probst
1911 - 1978
Franz Riegler (Fußballspieler, 1915)
1915 - 1988
Gertrud Burgsthaler-Schuster
1916 - 2004
Vojtěch Cach
1914 - 1980
Erich Erdös
Born 1914
Leo Parthé
1917 - 2014
František Krajčír
1913 - 1986
Georg Scheuer
1915 - 1996
Ewald Kleisinger
1912 - 2000
Dora Komar
1914 - 2006
Walter Hollitscher
1911 - 1986
Eva Lissa
1913 - 1988
Herbert Gruber (producteur)
1913 - 1999
Johann Schneider
1913 - 1993
Josef Kamenitzky Steiner
1910 - 1981
Maria Rehm
1915 - 2002
Edith Hauer-Frischmuth
1913 - 2004
Peter Beck-Mannagetta
1917 - 1998
Irmgard Först
Born 1915
Helmut Wobisch
1912 - 1980
Margaret Diesendorf
1912 - 1993
Franz Podezin
1911 - 1995
Olga von Togni
1914 - 1992
Wilhelm Weber (Ökonom)
1916 - 2005
Anton Marek
1913 - 1963
William Ebenstein
1910 - 1976
Kurt Moldovan
1918 - 1977
Nina Graboi
1918 - 1999
Robert Albert Bauer
1910 - 2003
Günther Stökl
1916 - 1998
Gretl Elb
1917 - 2006
Théodore Brauner
1914 - 2000
Stefan Pospichal
1910 - 1940
Max Strassberg
1913 - 1968
Carl Appel (Architekt)
1911 - 1997
Stella K. Hershan
1915 - 2014
Walter Bor
1916 - 1999
Walter A. Rosenblith
1913 - 2002
Clemens Heller
1917 - 2002
Josef Hindels
1916 - 1990
Ernst Reitermaier
1918 - 1993
August Rieger
1914 - 1984
Franz Schüßler
1911 - 1942
Serge Sabarsky
1912 - 1996
Oskar Weihs
1911 - 1978
Sophie Templer-Kuh
Born 1916
Lucca Chmel
1911 - 1999
Leopold Spira
1913 - 1997
Ernst Girzick
1911 - 1977
Blanche Christine Olschak
1913 - 1989
Kurt Hirsch (Publizist)
1913 - 1994
Karl Schwetter
1914 - 2002
Kurt D. Singer
1911 - 2005
Josef Hendrichs
1915 - 2009
Charly Tabor
1914 - 1999
Hugo Geoffrey
1919 - 2007
Alfred Werner (Kunsthistoriker)
1911 - 1979
Hedwig Kenner
1910 - 1993
Lilly von Sauter
1913 - 1972
Frieda Sembach-Krone
1915 - 1995
Ernst Weiss (boxe anglaise)
1912 - 1997
Emmanuel Bulz
1917 - 1998
Fritz Kalmar
1911 - 2008
Franz Zelwecker
1911 - 1998
Otto Zeiller
1913 - 1988
Engelbert König
1919 - 1997
Hermine Aichenegg
1915 - 2007
Hans Nogler
1919 - 2011
Otto Binder (Manager)
1910 - 2005
Gustav Wendelberger
1915 - 2008
Antony E. Raubitschek
1912 - 1999
Rudolf Geiter
1913 - 1978
Virgilius Altmann
1913 - 1943
Alexander Kardin
1917 - 1994
Stephen Hearst
1919 - 2010
Marina Știrbei
1912 - 2001
Alfred von Wurzian
1916 - 1985
Kurt Koppel
1915 - 1945
Franz Grassler
1912 - 1998
Josef Schneeweiß
1913 - 1995
Hans Strotzka
1917 - 1994
Susi Witt
1910 - 1989
Astrid Krebsbach
1913 - 1995
Bobby Lugano
1917 - 1994
Edi Scholdan
1911 - 1961
Itzhak Nener
1919 - 2012
Michael Danzinger
1914 - 2007
Ulrich Sild
1911 - 1937
Ernst Gruber
1918 - 1979
Paul Blau (Publizist)
1915 - 2005
Carlo Pietzner
1915 - 1986
Erwin Melichar
1913 - 2000
Johann M. Kauffmann
1910 - 1965
Alois Brusatti
1919 - 2008
Elisabeth Sigmund
1914 - 2013
Peter Hey
1914 - 1994
Walter Goldschmidt
1917 - 1986
Barbara Pflaum
1912 - 2002
Veva Tončić
1912 - 1992
Paul Martin Neurath
1911 - 2001
Hilde Firtel
1910 - 1991
Hans Tischler
1915 - 2010
Willfried Gredler
1916 - 1994
Walther Birkmayer
1910 - 1996
Ernst Frey
1915 - 1994
Anna Sebastian
1916 - 1953
Lucia Jirgal
1914 - 2007
Lothar Charoux
1912 - 1987
Fred Oberlander
1911 - 1966
Willy Lorenz (Schriftsteller)
1914 - 1995
Anton Dawidowicz
1910 - 1993
Karl Rössel-Majdan
1916 - 2000
Franz Roth (Fotograf)
1911 - 1943
Walter Zeischegg
1917 - 1983
Emy Ferjanc
1917 - 2010
Josef Genschieder
1915 - 1943
Madi Epply
Born 1910
Olly von Flint
1910 - 1993
Annemarie Roeper
1918 - 2012
Stella Rotenberg
1916 - 2013
Lisl Weil
1910 - 2006
Georg Breuer (Journalist)
1919 - 2009
Károly Kővári
1912 - 1978
Fritz Eckert (Politiker)
1911 - 1980
Ephraim Einhorn
Born 1918
Herbert Weiner
1919 - 2013
Karl Jettmar
1918 - 2002
Otto F. Beer
1910 - 2002
Robert N. Braun
1914 - 2007
Eva Früh Langraf
1918 - 2009
Leopold Bellak
1916 - 2002
Kurt Steiner
1912 - 2003
Etti Plesch
1914 - 2003
Mordechai-Haim Stern
1914 - 1975
Ernest Klein (chess player)
1910 - 1990
Max Heller
1919 - 2011
Alfred Slawik
1913 - 1973
Erich Geiringer
1917 - 1995
Hannah Norbert
1916 - 1998
Hans Thalberg
1916 - 2003
Johann Knobloch (Sprachwissenschaftler)
1919 - 2010
Gerta Stern
1915 - 2018
Walter Wunderlich
1910 - 1998
Wilfried Zeller-Zellenberg
1910 - 1989
Johann Freihsler
1917 - 1981
Karl Schmaderer
1914 - 2000
Zita Linker
1917 - 2009
Robert Mühlher
1910 - 2003
Ludwig Schwarzer
1912 - 1989
Cornelia James (glovemaker)
1917 - 1999
Walter Presch
Born 1910
Kurt Heller (Politiker)
1919 - 1990
Lotte Barthel
1912 - 1992
Georg von Gaupp-Berghausen
1918 - 1985
Karl Kordina
1919 - 2005
Emanuel Treu
1915 - 1976
Hans Zehetner
1914 - 1973
Raimund von Doblhoff
1914 - 1993
Alfred Mohr
Born 1913
Alois Heidel
1915 - 1990
Maria Dorothea Simon
Born 1918
Elly Niebuhr
1914 - 2013
Adolf Kozlik
1912 - 1964
Hedi Stadlen
1916 - 2004
Theodor Prager
1917 - 1986
Franz Stoessl
1910 - 1988
Haim Ben-David
1919 - 1967
George Halban
1915 - 1998
Otto Eiselsberg
1917 - 2001
Hans Braun (Sänger)
1917 - 1992
Karl von Wohlgemuth
1917 - 1983
Hedwig Urach
1910 - 1943
Frank Schon, Baron Schon
1912 - 1995
Marianne Lunzer
Born 1919
Bernd Gallowitsch
1918 - 1983
Rudi Hofstetter
1916 - 2008
Richard Hauser (Sozialwissenschaftler)
1911 - 1990
Margrit Aust
Born 1913
Bruno Thomas
1910 - 1988
Margarete Fries
1911 - 2012
Hans Madin
1911 - 1991
Richard Franz Kreutel
1916 - 1981
Otto Friedrich Winter
1918 - 2003
Paul Arndt (Widerstandskämpfer)
1913 - 1939
Peter Rindl
1915 - 1982
Josef Gerl
1912 - 1934
Johann Muschik
1911 - 1979
Ludwig Vesely
1919 - 1944
Grete Heger
1916 - 2007
Franz Rudolf Thomanek
1913 - 1990
Erwin Straus (Komponist)
1910 - 1966
Karl R. Stadler
1913 - 1987
Senta Foltin
1916 - 2012
György Kalmár
1913 - 1986
Paul Patera
1917 - 2004
Herbert Breth
1913 - 2006
Otto Hoffmann-Ostenhof
1914 - 1992
Franzi Löw
1916 - 1997
Herbert Fladerer
1913 - 1981
Gerhard Frey (Philosoph)
1915 - 2002
Hanns Jäger-Sunstenau
1911 - 2008
Heribert Potuznik
1910 - 1984
Gertrud Seidmann
1919 - 2013
Heinz Reuter
1914 - 1994
Richard Hartenberger
1911 - 1974