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.

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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.

  1. Actor 1,170 1.8×
  2. Politician 1,169 0.8×
  3. Painter 748 2.3×
  4. Football 595 0.4×
  5. Writer 489 1.2×
  6. Author 405 3.8×
  7. Composer 403 2.4×
  8. Academic 293 2.3×
  1. Author 405 3.8×
  2. Architect 282 2.5×
  3. Composer 403 2.4×
  4. Academic 293 2.3×
  5. Painter 748 2.3×
  6. Actor 1,170 1.8×
  7. Sculptor 143 1.8×
  8. Historian 212 1.6×
  1. Football 595 0.4×

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.

1650 1700 1750 1800 1850 1900 1950 2000
  • Writing
  • Film & TV
  • Art & Design
  • Politics & Law
  • Music
  • Sports
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11095 ASSASSINÉ

Hans Ament

1934 - 1944

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11104 ARTIST

Johann Korec

1937 - 2008

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11164 FENCER

Hans Hocke

Born 1939

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11186 FENCER

Josef Wanetschek

Born 1933

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11224 ENGINEER

Alfred Doll-Steinberg

1933 - 2012

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11234 CONDUCTOR

Emmo Diem

Born 1934

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11322 HOCKEY

Michael Horak

1939 - 2014

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11330 COOK

Rudolf Kellner

1938 - 2005

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11334 POLITICIAN

Herbert Schmidtmeier

1937 - 2014

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11384 POLITICIAN

Liane Höbinger-Lehrer

1931 - 2010

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11385 FOOTBALL

Leopold Baumgartner

1932 - 2013

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11394 PUBLISHER

Heinz Pollischansky

1937 - 1991

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11395 POLITICIAN

Peter Kapral

Born 1933

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11398 PHARMACIST

Hans-Heinz Khünl-Brady

1932 - 2013

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11400 POLITICIAN

Leo Pallwein-Prettner

1937 - 2012

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11461 SPORT

Oswald Probst

1935 - 2015

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11482 POLITICIAN

Helmut Klomfar

Born 1939

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11490 ACTOR

Elisabeth Scheickl

Born 1932

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11511 PRIEST

Rudolf Schütz

Born 1939

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11516 SWIMMER

Lore Trittner

Born 1933

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11552 POLITICIAN

Heinrich Wille

1938 - 2018

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11553 MOUNTAINEER

Diether Marchart

1939 - 1962

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11558 POLITICIAN

Ernst Steinbach (Politiker)

Born 1939

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11572 ECONOMIST

Albert Wojnilower

Born 1930

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11586 PHYSICIST

Johannes Ortner (Geophysiker)

Born 1933

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11587 SWIMMER

Nora Novotny

Born 1939

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11591 POLITICIAN

Fred Berger (politician)

1932 - 2009

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11601 POLITICIAN

Hermann Heßl

Born 1938

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11633 POLITICIAN

Hilde Seiler

Born 1931

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11661 SWIMMER

Friedrich Suda

Born 1939

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11678 POLITICIAN

Johann Schmölz (Politiker)

1931 - 2013

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11687 MANUFACTURER

Eduard Harald Schrack

Born 1930

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11719 BOTSCHAFTER

Georg Hennig

Born 1937

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11732 ACTOR

Johanna Wilk-Mutard

Born 1935

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11739 POLITICIAN

Heribert Rahdjian

Born 1936

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11745 POLITICIAN

Gertrude Perl

Born 1937

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11747 SPORT

Peter Seilern

Born 1936

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11761 ZOOKEEPER

Erich Brenner

1930 - 1995

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11778 JUDO

Kurt Kucera

1932 - 2004

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11851 MANAGER

Gustav Chlestil

Born 1938

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11866 POLITICIAN

Hans Ludwig (Politiker, 1932)

1932 - 2000

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11909 BUSINESS

Kurt Ehrenberger

Born 1933

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11929 POLITICIAN

Kurt Korbatits

Born 1937

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11944 POLITICIAN

Gerold Dautzenberg

Born 1939

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11948 POLITICIAN

Gerhard Ammann

1936 - 2004

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11950 FOOTBALL

Bruno Mehsarosch

1934 - 2009

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11956 POLITICIAN

Christine Schirmer

1938 - 2019

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11973 POLITICIAN

Adolf Aigner

Born 1938

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11997 ARTIST

Kurt Yakov Tutter

Born 1930

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12018 OPERA

Helga Meyer-Wagner

Born 1938

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12087 MODEL

Johanna Ehrenstrasser

Born 1939

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12101 RABBI

David Lapp

Born 1931

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12105 POLITICIAN

Walter Fabics

1931 - 2017

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12110 POLITICIAN

Friederike Seidl

1936 - 1987

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12127 POLITICIAN

Othmar Nacovsky

1931 - 2009

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12130 POLITICIAN

Ernst Outolny

1934 - 2019

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12137 POLITICIAN

Anton Böhm (Politiker)

1935 - 2012

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12138 FOLKLORIST

Gerhard Schreiber (Volkskundler)

1939 - 2010

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12141 GRAFIKER

Otto Stefferl

1931 - 2018

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12142 POLITICIAN

Leopold Prucha

Born 1934

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12157 LAWYER

Norbert Faustenhammer

Born 1937

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12175 POLITICIAN

Richard Stockinger

Born 1934

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12221 PHYSICIAN

Walter Grünberg

1934 - 1996

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12223 SKIER

Helga Herdy

Born 1937

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12228 PHYSICIST

Thomas F. Deutsch

1932 - 2006

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12230 PAINTER

Klaus Reisinger

Born 1939

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12238 ACTOR

Eugen Victor

Born 1936

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12263 GEODESIST

Gerhard Palfinger

1938 - 2000

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12301 BOTSCHAFTER

Kurt Robert Samuel von Schirnding

1930 - 2010

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12309 POLITICIAN

Peter Buchleitner

Born 1933

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12399 POLITICIAN

Hubert Auer (Politiker)

1934 - 2000

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12403 POLITICIAN

Herta Slabina

Born 1931

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12444 PAINTER

Grete Peery

Born 1931

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12499 GOLDSMITH

Horst Urban (Goldschmied)

Born 1939

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12533 PAINTER

Gerlinde Wurth

Born 1933

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