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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.
Standouts
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
- Art & Design
- Politics & Law
- Music
- Sports
- Other
- Filtered to 1910s Clear ×
Wilhelm Auerswald
1917 - 1981
Grete Jost
1916 - 1943
Herbert Mytteis
1916 - 1967
Eduard Rabofsky
1911 - 1994
Erwin Weiss (Komponist)
1912 - 2004
Erica Anderson
1914 - 1975
Franz Pleyer
1911 - 1999
Maria Bergson
1914 - 2009
Gottfried W. Stix
1911 - 2010
Georg Wagner (Historiker)
1916 - 1985
Elisabeth Gürt
1917 - 1998
Helmuth Zapfe
1913 - 1996
Franz Horr
1913 - 1974
Heinz Otto Quilitzsch
1919 - 1983
Hannes Hoffmann
1918 - 1988
Bruno Furch
1913 - 2000
Edwin Loebenstein
1911 - 1998
Wolfgang Treichl
1915 - 1944
Walter Goldinger
1910 - 1990
Karl Blühm
1910 - 1996
Wilhelm Mrazek
1913 - 1989
Ladislaus Hruska
1912 - 1983
Eric M. Hassberg
1918 - 1987
Wilhelm Holczabek
1919 - 2001
Edeltrud Posiles
1916 - 2016
Alexander Török
Born 1914
Frits Fronz
1919 - 1990
Ernst Landl
1914 - 1983
Gerhard Wacher
1916 - 1990
Otto Schweda
1919 - 2011
Elisabeth Söderberg
1912 - 1991
Otto Stradal
1911 - 1982
Helene Loebenstein
1918 - 2010
Walter Pongratz
1912 - 1990
Trude Rosen
1912 - 1995
Leopoldine Springschitz
1914 - 2004
Dagmar Hermann
1918 - 1997
Else Liebesberg
1918 - 1996
Rudi Bass
1914 - 2011
Maria Dembińska
1916 - 1996
Karl Etti (Komponist)
1912 - 1996
Richard Czapek
1913 - 1997
Walter Klein (Schriftsteller)
1917 - 1987
Herbert Kersten
1918 - 1996
Franz Kraemer
1914 - 1999
Eberhard Würzl
1915 - 2003
Herbert Reisner
1912 - 1982
Peppino Wieternik
1919 - 1979
George O. Schanzer
1914 - 2011
Oskar Polansky
1919 - 1989
Edwin Rosner
1910 - 2011
Edmund Josef Bendl
1914 - 1984
Hermann Schnell (Politiker)
1914 - 2003
Friedrich Seipelt
1915 - 1981
Manfred Gabe
1916 - 1973
Adolf Heinrich Hobel
1910 - 1995
Leo Glueckselig
1914 - 2003
Fritz Mögle
1916 - 1986
Franz Ockermüller
1915 - 1976
Henry Lang
1919 - 1997
Karl Ammer (Sprachforscher)
1911 - 1970
Rudolf Zöhrer
1911 - 2000
Alfred Freund-Zinnbauer
1910 - 1978
Adolf Papp
1915 - 1983
Rüdiger Engerth
1919 - 2005
Marion von Krafft-Ebing
1911 - 2002
Erich Pohl (Politiker)
1917 - 2002
Oscar Roth
1910 - 1981
Wolfgang Dörich
1918 - 1993
Helene Koller-Buchwieser
1912 - 2008
Hans Heinrich Jantsch
1918 - 1994
Lola Carr
1918 - 2009
Maria Jacobi (Politikerin, 1910)
1910 - 1976
Hugo Kirnbauer
1918 - 2006
Walter Zrenner
1914 - 2009
Kyra Nijinsky
1913 - 1998
Otto Mitterer
1911 - 1994
Herbert Wunsch
1917 - 1970
Fritz Brainin
1913 - 1992
Johanna Jonas-Lichtenwallner
1914 - 2002
Herbert Hinterleithner
1916 - 1942
Walter Berger (Geologe)
1919 - 1976
Fini Littlejohn
1914 - 2004
Hans Redl
1914 - 1976
Hans Wolker
1914 - 2000
Alfred Gisel
1911 - 2012
Paul Mann (Komponist)
1910 - 1983
Hans Heger
1915 - 1993
Gerda Gottlieb
Born 1916
Viktor Ergert
1918 - 1984
Hilde Krones
1910 - 1948
Hans Bock (Politiker)
1914 - 2002
Fritz Walden
1914 - 1992
Josef Kaderka
1910 - 1993
Mario Borriello
1914 - 2000
Fred Kort
1919 - 2004
Hanns Kreczi
1912 - 2003
Valerie Lorenz-Szabo
1916 - 1996
Alfred Lehner (Regisseur)
1913 - 1997
Hans Babuder
1914 - 2006
Leopold Linhart
Born 1914
Max Vehar
1910 - 1992
Kurt Klagsbrunn
1918 - 2005
Johann Sokopp
1913 - 1944
Friedrich Nowakowski
1914 - 1987
Fritz Roubicek
1913 - 1990
Mitzi Tesar
1912 - 1983
Ernst Robetschek
1912 - 1972
Walter Karwath
1919 - 1986
Herbert Pass
1913 - 1983
Franzi Ascher-Nash
1910 - 1991
Helene von Exner
Born 1917
Charles K. Krieger
1914 - 1982
Herbert Hochreiter
1911 - 1979
Bruno Buchwieser junior
1919 - 1993
Hans Krajewski
1910 - 1987
Ernst Faseth
1917 - 2008
Walter Kranzer
1912 - 1988
Dan Yaron
1919 - 1999
Friedrich Robak
1913 - 1994
Marianne Türk
1914 - 2003
Chrystia Kolessa
1916 - 1978
Fred Pressburger
1915 - 1998
Karl Maria Löbl
1911 - 1942
Gertrud Weitensfelder-Anger
1915 - 2007
Friedrich Erban
1914 - 1963
Lucie Gordian
1918 - 2000
Karl Robert Marz
1919 - 1977
Margarete Haimberger-Tanzer
1916 - 1987
Gustav Zeillinger
1917 - 1997
Felix Rinner
1911 - 1976
Wilhelm Freh
1910 - 1986
Josef Kostelecky
1914 - 1997
Anneliese Felsenstein
1918 - 1981
Viktor Pollak
1917 - 1999
Erich Hofstetter
1912 - 1987
Erwin Gröger
1912 - 2008
Ernst Essel
1911 - 1984
Hans Schauder
1911 - 2001
Robert Struckl
1918 - 2013
Philipp Rieger (Ökonom)
1916 - 2007
Jan Bém
1917 - 2005
Josef Sieder
1918 - 1945
Walter Krause (Mediziner)
1910 - 2007
Franz Strahammer
1912 - 1995
Hugo O. Engelmann
1917 - 2002
Karl Randolf
Born 1916
Leopold Jahn
1911 - 1984
Erich Huber (Künstler)
1916 - 1996
Walter Jurecka
1915 - 1994
Alfred Wehmeyer
1919 - 1942
Ernst Epler
1912 - 1985
Gertrud Jaklin
1916 - 1998
Edgar Paul Boyko
1918 - 2002
Susanne Peschke-Schmutzer
1911 - 1991
Josef Laub
1911 - 1991
Norbert Lopper
1919 - 2015
Gustav Hartmann (Maler)
1913 - 1988
Leopold Mayer (Dirigent)
1918 - 2003
Hans Fellinger
1914 - 1974
Alfred Huth (Widerstandskämpfer)
1918 - 1945
Margherita Paulas
1912 - 2000
Hans Böck
1914 - 1991
Franz Balluck
1913 - 1987
Ignatz Schlomowicz
Born 1918
Ferdinand Wultsch
1911 - 1986
Josef Maderner
1915 - 1984
Carlo Battisti (Maler)
1910 - 1985
Ernst Ulbrich
1915 - 1974
Rudolf Appel
1915 - 1967
Anton Leeb
1913 - 2008
Hubert Wingelbauer
1915 - 1987
Sándor Ádám (footballer)
1918 - 1974
Viktor Hammer (Bildhauer)
1913 - 1986
Rosa Weber
1919 - 1967
Josef Brunner (Paläontologe)
1913 - 1943
Richard Jelinek
1914 - 2010
Alfons Vodosek
1912 - 1996
Anton Plügel
1910 - 1945
Egon Komorzynski (Ägyptologe)
1910 - 1989
Alfred Rabofsky
1919 - 1944
Paul Kähsbauer
1912 - 1988
Heinrich Häusler
1919 - 2007
Alfred Hintschig
1919 - 1989
Karl Blaho
1910 - 1962
Ernst Blauensteiner
1911 - 1995
John Hans Stroh
1916 - 1996
Erica Ljungdahl
1919 - 2015
Herbert Heilpern
1919 - 1999
Ferdinand Foltin
1916 - 2007
Walter Greif
1911 - 1944
Maria Zhorella Fedorova
1915 - 2017
Franz Berger
1916 - 1942
Franz Vavra
Born 1915
Edith Klebinder
1914 - 2010
Robert Weisz
1910 - 1987
Hans Battista
1915 - 1995
Lily Goddard
1916 - 2002
Harry Spiegel
1910 - 2000
Johann Benda
1919 - 2012
Agnes Ruttner-Kolisko
1911 - 1991
Willibald Stanek
Born 1913
Rudolf Vojta
1912 - 1984
Hans Riedl
Born 1911
Alfred Baldia
1913 - 1997
Lucas Mahrenbrand
1911 - 1994
Leopold Gotthilf
1918 - 1999
Franz Walzer
1919 - 1975
Therese Klostermann
1913 - 1944
Leopold Wally
1918 - 1978
Robert Geischläger
1919 - 2014
Rudolf Harramach
1915 - 1979
Josef Hans
1913 - 1985
Josef Gelegs
1913 - 1969
Lambert Neumaier
1910 - 1986
Georg Franz Meyer
1917 - 1981
Franz Sarnitz
1919 - 1992
Karl Titze
1914 - 1987
Maria Metzker
1916 - 2010
Ernst Track
1911 - 1987
Wolfgang Milenkovics
1910 - 1983
Hans Ehgartner
1910 - 1999
Josef Reich
1918 - 2006
Walter Macher
1915 - 1993
Miljeva Ypsilanti
1917 - 2013
Rudolf Mackowitz
1915 - 1959
Josef Mirschitzka
Born 1914
Josef Seidl (Politiker)
1913 - 1998
Wilhelm Liwanec
1915 - 1968
Robert Knoll
1912 - 1985
Hubert Hofeneder
1915 - 1996
Franz Mayer (Politiker)
1913 - 1977
Kurt Eckel (Neurologe)
1918 - 1993
Friedrich Karrer
1919 - 1996
Hans Kouba
1912 - 1973
Maria Müller-Lussnigg
1914 - 2012
Sophie Vitek
Born 1919
Elfriede Fliethmann
1915 - 1987
Karl Bocek
1911 - 2000
Joseph Franz Strachota
Born 1910
Franz Müller (Politiker)
1915 - 1999
Stefan Ploc
Born 1914
Fritz Schwager
1913 - 1966
Vladimír Zoul
1914 - 1943
Alfred Gottfried Ochshorn
1915 - 1943
Ladislaus Simacek
1913 - 2004
Fritz Weiss (résistant)
1914 - 1998
Alois Nitsch
1915 - 1989
Friedrich Hedrich
1914 - 1944
Hertha Rosmini
Born 1913
Josef Gnapp
1917 - 1999
Franz Chloupek
Born 1914
Emmerich Zensch
1919 - 2017
Erich Bieber
Born 1910
Emanuel Strunz
1911 - 2011
Emil Sturm
1910 - 1991
Anton Rolleder
1910 - 1976
Emil Fucik
1912 - 1989
Bonifaz Sellinger
1912 - 2002
Erich Wilhelm
1912 - 2005
Hermine Zaynard
1913 - 1943
Josef Jelineck
Born 1916
Paul Zedtwitz
1911 - 1996
John Boxer
1916 - 2009
Hellmut Geringer
1912 - 1989
Franz Lanik
1915 - 1993
Kurt Farbowsky
1911 - 1999
Karl Konrad Bauer
1910 - 1984
Willi Strobl
1914 - 1997
Richard Herzog (Physiker)
1911 - 1999
Erwin Leder (Mediziner)
1914 - 1997
Karl Götzinger
1913 - 1987
Johann Wollinger
1915 - 1965
Johann Berghammer
1917 - 1975
Pius Michael Prutscher
1913 - 1995
Anton Schwaiger (Politiker)
1911 - 1975
Lisl Steinitz
1912 - 1991
Johanna Lachnit
1914 - 2011
Hans Friedrich Freyborn
1913 - 1999
Heinz Standenat
1913 - 1992
Otto Götzinger
1912 - 1999
Alois Cipin
1913 - 1985
Hermann Rippel
1915 - 2006
Fritz Magg
1914 - 1997
Johann Fraissl
1910 - 1997
Heinrich Matza
1918 - 2010
Otto Adler (Zoologe)
1915 - 1967
Franz Jirak
1911 - 1944
Anton Reitzl
1915 - 1994
Friedrich Szenkuröck
1911 - 1961
Ernest Schimmel
1911 - 1977
Herwig Ilkow
1913 - 1939
Franz Zajicek (Architekt)
1912 - 2006
Hans Jordan (Sänger)
1910 - 1978
Josef Haunzwickel
1915 - 2001