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.

Standouts

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
  • Other
All12,535
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Showing 947 of 12,535 notable people

11858 POLITICIAN

Heinz Hufnagl

Born 1949

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11863 MUSIC

Michael Stricharz

Born 1946

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11864 PAINTER

Günter Orban

Born 1947

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11867 POLITICIAN

Bernhard Dworak

Born 1948

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11869 CHOIR DIRECTOR

Eugen Jesser

1946 - 2008

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11887 LAWYER

Karl-Andreas Freiherr von Stenglin

Born 1944

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11898 POLITICIAN

Josefa Tomsik

1945 - 2018

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11904 ASTRONOMER

Rudolf Pressberger

1942 - 2001

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11914 THEATER

Karin H. Veit

Born 1948

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11916 PAINTER

Peter Ruhso

Born 1943

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11938 BASKET

Erich Tecka

1949 - 2020

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11982 FOOTBALL

Willie Postler

Born 1949

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11989 CONSERVATIONIST

Isolde Schönstein

Born 1941

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11993 DIPLOMAT

Wolfgang Paul (Diplomat)

Born 1947

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11994 FOOTBALL

Walter Hiesel

Born 1944

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11998 WRITER

Gerlinde Obermeier

1942 - 1984

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12047 MODERATOR

Heinz-Christian Sauer

Born 1943

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12062 POLITICIAN

Renate Winklbauer

Born 1948

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12069 POLITICIAN

Herbert Machacek

Born 1949

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12072 POLITICIAN

Heinrich Gerstbach

Born 1941

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12097 POLITICIAN

Leopold Plasch

Born 1948

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12153 ACADEMIC

Heinz Irmler

Born 1942

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12160 POLITICIAN

Günther Reiter

Born 1949

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12167 POLITICIAN

Volkmar Harwanegg

Born 1944

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12177 DIPLOMAT

Markus Lutterotti (Diplomat)

Born 1941

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12190 SINGER

Wilhelm Schupp (Sänger)

1947 - 2015

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12206 GOLF

Oswald Gartenmaier

1948 - 2010

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12231 MANAGER

Werner Eidherr

Born 1941

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12249 RADIO

Peter Knicza

1942 - 2012

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12258 POLITICIAN

Leopold Wedel

Born 1941

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12266 POLITICIAN

Franz Grundwalt

Born 1940

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12267 SPORT

Felix Netopilek

Born 1947

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12276 JOURNALIST

Wolfgang Pav

Born 1943

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12279 ANNOUNCER

Gottfried Cervenka

1947 - 2015

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12293 POLITICIAN

Christine Krammer

Born 1943

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12315 RADIO

Richard Schmitz (Politiker, 1940)

Born 1940

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12317 POLITICIAN

Hans-Karl Uhl

1943 - 2020

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12322 ARTIST

Karlheinz Schönswetter

1941 - 2006

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12323 POLITICIAN

Klaus Hofmann (Politiker)

Born 1940

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12329 POLITICIAN

Ernst Herzig (Politiker)

Born 1943

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12356 PHYSICIST

Rudolf Rieder

Born 1940

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12382 CERAMIST

Joseph Hinterleithner

1946 - 2010

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12390 MUSIC

Alaeddin Adlernest

1940 - 2017

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12415 POLITICIAN

Inge Zankl

Born 1947

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12420 POLITICIAN

Elfriede Strobel

Born 1948

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12453 POLITICIAN

Christa Kratohwil

Born 1944

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12485 HANDBALL

Franz Zhorny

1949 - 2006

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