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.

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0015 ACTOR

Christoph Waltz

Born 1956

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0033 SINGER

Falco (musician)

1957 - 1998

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0145 WRITER

Robert Menasse

Born 1954

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0166 FILM

Ulrich Seidl

Born 1952

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0199 FOOTBALL

Hans Krankl

Born 1953

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0264 SINGER

Rainhard Fendrich

Born 1955

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0283 FOOTBALL

Herbert Prohaska

Born 1955

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0404 FOOTBALL

Peter Pacult

Born 1959

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0411 DESIGNER

Helmut Lang (artist)

Born 1956

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0524 ACTOR

Erwin Steinhauer

Born 1951

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0546 FILM

Peter Tscherkassky

Born 1958

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0557 FILM

Paulus Manker

Born 1958

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0579 SINGER

Peter Cornelius (musician)

Born 1951

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0594 POLITICIAN

Johannes Hahn

Born 1957

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0615 PAINTER

Xenia Hausner

Born 1951

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0622 ILLUSTRATOR

Lisbeth Zwerger

Born 1954

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0626 SKATER

Trixi Schuba

Born 1951

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0662 ACTOR

Margarete Tiesel

Born 1959

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0694 FILM

Gabriel Barylli

Born 1957

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0736 ACTOR

Patricia Rhomberg

Born 1953

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0796 WRITER

Erwin Moser

1954 - 2017

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0862 ARTIST

Yadegar Asisi

Born 1955

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0915 MEDIEVALIST

Walter Pohl

Born 1953

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0917 FILM

Ruth Beckermann

Born 1952

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0929 POLITICIAN

Eugen Freund

Born 1951

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0971 COMPOSER

Peter Wolf (producer)

Born 1952

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0988 MUSIC

Harri Stojka

Born 1957

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1019 SINGER

Elisabeth von Magnus

Born 1954

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1038 POLITICIAN

Rudolf Hundstorfer

1951 - 2019

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1053 ACTOR

Andrea Eckert

Born 1958

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1136 ACTOR

Mona Seefried

Born 1957

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1138 PRESENTER

Danielle Spera

Born 1957

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1139 POET

Franz Wright

1953 - 2015

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1142 JOURNALIST

Hubertus Czernin

1956 - 2006

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1150 ENGINEER

Ingeborg Hochmair

Born 1953

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1151 FOOTBALL

Ernst Baumeister

Born 1957

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1169 ACTOR

Christine Böhm

1954 - 1979

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1189 CHESS

Stefan Kindermann

Born 1959

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1197 ORGANIST

Martin Haselböck

Born 1954

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1203 FILM

Martin Arnold

Born 1959

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1206 WRITER

Joesi Prokopetz

Born 1952

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1314 FOOTBALL

Kurt Welzl

Born 1954

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1331 DESIGNER

Robert Kalina

Born 1955

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1345 FILM

Rudi Dolezal

Born 1958

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1357 COMPOSER

Thomas Daniel Schlee

Born 1957

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1441 FOOTBALL

Felix Gasselich

Born 1955

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1452 ACTOR

Konstanze Breitebner

Born 1959

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1453 ACTOR

Michael Schottenberg

Born 1952

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1495 ARTIST

Konrad Becker

Born 1959

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1500 DIPLOMAT

Emil Brix

Born 1956

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1634 RESEARCH

Andreas J. Köstenberger

Born 1957

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1648 HISTORIAN

Oliver Rathkolb

Born 1955

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1657 PLAYER

Peter Feigl

Born 1951

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1660 SONGWRITER

Thomas Rabitsch

Born 1956

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1684 ACTOR

Hansi Dujmic

1956 - 1988

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1687 ACTOR

Larisa Udovichenko

Born 1955

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1721 FOOTBALL

Erich Obermayer

Born 1953

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1759 ECONOMIST

Dennis Snower

Born 1950

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1780 POLITICIAN

Claudia Schmied

Born 1959

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1791 FOOTBALL

Günther Happich

1952 - 1995

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1816 ACTOR

Mijou Kovacs

Born 1957

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1824 ACTOR

Hansi Lang

1955 - 2008

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1856 ART HISTORIAN

Thomas Macho

Born 1952

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1887 FILM

Gustav Deutsch

1952 - 2019

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1890 JOURNALIST

Béla Réthy

Born 1956

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1898 HISTORIAN

Lothar Höbelt

Born 1956

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1903 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Ernst Pernicka

Born 1950

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1931 POLITICIAN

Karin Kadenbach

Born 1958

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1952 BUSINESS

Gerhard Zeiler

Born 1955

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1957 PRODUCER

Reina Reech

Born 1958

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1962 FILM

Michael Kreihsl

Born 1958

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1988 THEATRE

Birgit Doll

1958 - 2015

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1996 FOOTBALL

Johann Pregesbauer

Born 1955

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2022 MUSIC

Robert Ponger

Born 1950

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2029 POET

Gerald Jatzek

Born 1956

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2037 POLITICIAN

Madeleine Petrovic

Born 1956

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2038 ARTIST

Brigitte Kowanz

Born 1957

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2073 PRIEST

Helmut Schüller

Born 1952

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2077 POET

Christian Ide Hintze

1953 - 2012

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2094 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Georg Gottlob

Born 1956

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2173 JOURNALIST

Ben Segenreich

Born 1952

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2180 ART HISTORIAN

Agnes Husslein

Born 1954

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2230 AUTHOR

Martin Auer

Born 1951

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2351 ACADEMIC

Christian Koeberl

Born 1959

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2392 FILM

Danny Krausz

Born 1958

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2442 PAINTER

Bernd Fasching

Born 1955

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2443 MATHEMATICIAN

Robert Tichy

Born 1957

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2446 LAWYER

Barbara Milano Keenan

Born 1950

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2458 ACTOR

William Mang

Born 1954

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2461 COMPOSER

Karl Ratzer

Born 1950

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2474 WRITER

Georg Markus

Born 1951

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2531 MERCHANT

Elisabeth Gürtler

Born 1950

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2536 AUTHOR

Peter Schattschneider

Born 1950

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2562 ACTOR

Dietrich Siegl

Born 1954

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2599 WRITER

Christine Werner

Born 1954

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2611 WRITER

Franz Josef Czernin

Born 1952

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2661 DRIVER

Jo Gartner

1954 - 1986

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2680 FOOTBALL

Reinhard Kienast

Born 1959

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2683 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Peter A. Bruck

Born 1950

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2701 ACTOR

Michaela Rosen

Born 1956

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2722 POLITICIAN

Rudolf Scholten

Born 1955

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2732 BANK

Andreas Treichl

Born 1952

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2772 PAINTER

Thomas Reinhold (artist)

Born 1953

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2786 POLITICAL

Gottfried Küssel

Born 1958

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2793 LINGUIST

Georg Holzer

Born 1957

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2807 MATHEMATICIAN

George Szpiro

Born 1950

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2809 COMPOSER

Gerhard Schedl

1957 - 2000

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2846 POLITICIAN

Christoph Matznetter

Born 1959

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2875 LUGER

Georg Fluckinger

Born 1955

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2881 ART HISTORIAN

Martina Pippal

Born 1957

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2908 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Andre Gingrich

Born 1952

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2922 COMPOSER

Reinhard Flatischler

Born 1950

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2933 FILM

Niki List

1956 - 2009

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2937 ECONOMIST

Christoph Badelt

Born 1951

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2997 MUSIC

Michael Lorenz (musicologist)

Born 1958

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3006 CONDUCTOR

Roberto Paternostro

Born 1957

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3009 AUTHOR

Erwin Riess

Born 1957

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3048 SINGER

Michael Scheickl

Born 1957

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3056 SAXOPHONIST

Harry Sokal (musician)

Born 1954

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3078 SINGER

Christian Dozzler

Born 1958

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3080 COMPOSER

Paul Hertel

Born 1953

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3083 ZOOLOGIST

Gerhard Haszprunar

Born 1957

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3103 BIOLOGIST

Günter P. Wagner

Born 1954

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3188 COLLECTOR

Ernst Hilger

Born 1950

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3210 COMPOSER

Thomas Pernes

1956 - 2018

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3234 COMPOSER

Roland Batik

Born 1951

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3315 ADVISOR

Yvo de Boer

Born 1954

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3331 ARCHITECT

Maria Auböck

Born 1951

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3334 MATHEMATICIAN

Christian Krattenthaler

Born 1958

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3404 NUMISMATIST

Michael Alram

Born 1956

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3406 DRUMMER

Wolfgang Reisinger

Born 1955

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3426 ACTOR

Alfons Haider

Born 1957

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3428 HISTORIAN

Thomas Winkelbauer

Born 1957

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3430 ACTOR

Miki Malör

Born 1957

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3485 WRITER

Paul Chaim Eisenberg

Born 1950

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3496 ACADEMIC

Gerold Gruber

Born 1958

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3497 DESIGNER

Florian Brody

Born 1953

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3514 ACADEMIC

Walter Manoschek

Born 1957

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3528 POLITICIAN

Walter Baier (Politiker)

Born 1954

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3534 ACTOR

Albert Fortell

Born 1952

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3584 JUMPER

Thomas Frühmann

Born 1951

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3592 ACTOR

Andreas Vitásek

Born 1956

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3597 ACADEMIC

Hannes Tretter

Born 1951

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3609 CIVIL SERVICE

Wolfgang Streitenberger

Born 1952

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3628 POLITICIAN

Christian Köck

Born 1958

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3671 JUDGE

Lilian Hofmeister

Born 1950

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3674 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Falko Daim

Born 1953

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3712 MOUNTAINEER

Geri Winkler

Born 1956

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3773 INTERNIST

Michael Frass

Born 1954

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3787 RABBI

Hanoch Teller

Born 1956

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3789 DOCENT

Thomas Wunderlich

Born 1955

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3800 AUTHOR

Barbara Büchner

Born 1950

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3811 JOURNALIST

Conrad Seidl

Born 1958

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3812 JOURNALIST

Wolfgang Fellner

Born 1954

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3827 CONDUCTOR

Martin Sieghart

Born 1951

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3899 WRITER

Ingrid Fischer-Schreiber

Born 1956

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3957 BIOLOGIST

Harald W. Krenn

Born 1958

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3982 FILM

Georg Riha

Born 1951

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3991 ACTOR

Birgit Zamulo

Born 1952

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4001 HISTORIAN

Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer

Born 1955

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4029 WRITER

Hannes Hofbauer

Born 1955

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4060 COMPOSER

Ulf-Diether Soyka

Born 1954

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4134 POLITICIAN

Josef Cap

Born 1952

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4143 ACTOR

Olivia Silhavy

Born 1957

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4170 POLITICIAN

Peter Kolba

Born 1959

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4171 BASSIST

Roland Neuwirth

Born 1950

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4188 ETHNOLOGIST

Helga Maria Wolf

Born 1951

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4215 TRANSLATOR

Brigitte Große

Born 1957

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4217 POLITICIAN

Brigitte Ederer

Born 1956

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4224 ACTOR

Georg Biron

Born 1958

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4246 ACTOR

Ulli Maier

Born 1957

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4252 POLITICIAN

Johannes Hübner

Born 1956

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4267 PRIEST

Heinz Lederleitner

Born 1958

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4298 COMPOSER

Manfred Porsch

Born 1950

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4314 EDUCATION

Herbert Altrichter

Born 1954

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4337 WRITER

Günter Brödl

1955 - 2000

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4338 AUTHOR

Michael Amon

1954 - 2018

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4362 MUSIC

Heribert Metzger

Born 1950

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4378 JOURNALIST

Gerhard Jelinek

Born 1954

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4388 JUDGE

Elisabeth Steiner

Born 1956

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4391 AUTHOR

Karl Ferdinand Kratzl

Born 1953

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4401 ACTOR

Christian Spatzek

Born 1956

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4416 HISTORIAN

Brigitte Bailer-Galanda

Born 1952

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4449 PRESENTER

Vera Russwurm

Born 1959

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4478 POLITICIAN

Karl Schlögl (Politiker)

Born 1955

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4481 ACADEMIC

Michael Winkler (Pädagoge)

Born 1953

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4488 LAWYER

Friedrich Rödler

Born 1954

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4491 SINGER

Ulli Bäer

Born 1955

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4508 ACTOR

Irene Kugler

Born 1954

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4536 PIANIST

Claus-Christian Schuster

Born 1952

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4545 FOOTBALL

Mike Winter

Born 1952

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4583 HISTORIAN

Raimund Löw

Born 1951

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4597 ACTOR

Franz Suhrada

Born 1954

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4603 AUTHOR

Robert Sedlaczek

Born 1952

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4614 PRESENTER

Barbara Rett

Born 1953

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4620 ARCHITECT

Georg W. Reinberg

Born 1950

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4621 JUDGE

Eduard Strauss III

Born 1955

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4656 ACTOR

Alexander Lhotzky

1959 - 2016

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4676 JOURNALIST

Peter Pelinka

Born 1951

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4689 ACTOR

Alexander Strobele

Born 1953

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4702 SINGER

Michael Kraus (Sänger)

Born 1957

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4703 PRESENTER

Helmut Brandstätter

Born 1955

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4708 ENTREPRENEUR

Martin Schlaff

Born 1953

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4713 BASSIST

Joschi Schneeberger

Born 1957

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4750 PHILOLOGIST

Karl A. E. Enenkel

Born 1959

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4756 LITERARY

Gerhard Scheit

Born 1959

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4757 AUTHOR

Ulrich Weinzierl

Born 1954

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4765 FILM

Norbert Blecha

Born 1950

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4783 ACTOR

Oliver Stern (Schauspieler)

1959 - 2011

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4795 HISTORIAN

Fritz Keller (Historiker)

Born 1950

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4812 FILM

Michael Bindlechner

Born 1957

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4817 LAWYER

Gabriel Lansky

Born 1955

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4839 COMPOSER

Wolfgang Staribacher

Born 1955

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4850 SPORT

Wolfgang Ullrich

Born 1950

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4858 POLITICIAN

David Lasar

Born 1952

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4867 BUSINESS

Werner Rydl

Born 1957

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4877 POLITICIAN

Elisabeth Vitouch

Born 1951

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4879 THEOLOGIAN

Heinrich Schmidinger

Born 1954

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4882 COMPOSER

Erwin Kiennast

Born 1955

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4891 ACTOR

Gudrun Gabriel

Born 1955

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4907 ART HISTORIAN

Robert Fleck

Born 1957

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4912 WRITER

Christian Mikunda

Born 1957

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4914 MUSIC

Woody Schabata

Born 1955

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4915 ACTOR

Gaby Fuchs

Born 1950

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4938 INTENDANT

Roland Geyer

Born 1954

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4945 POLITICIAN

Wolfgang Zinggl

Born 1954

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4959 ACTOR

Nicolin Kunz

1953 - 1997

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4971 ACTOR

Elisabeth Augustin (Schauspielerin)

Born 1953

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5011 SONGWRITER

Heli Deinboek

Born 1955

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5059 SCREENWRITER

Stefan Fleming

Born 1959

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5063 LAWYER

Elisabeth Lovrek

Born 1958

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5070 ACADEMIC

Christine Neugebauer-Maresch

Born 1956

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5134 ACADEMIC

Gabriele Kucsko-Stadlmayer

Born 1955

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5143 PHILOSOPHER

Isolde Charim

Born 1959

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5159 ACADEMIC

Wolfgang Mazal

Born 1959

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5162 HISTORIAN

Daniel Heinz

Born 1957

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5180 COMPOSER

Andy Manndorff

1957 - 2017

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5197 HISTORIAN

Andrea Komlosy

Born 1957

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5198 COMPOSER

Rudolf Berger (Geiger)

Born 1954

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5201 INTERNIST

Siegfried Meryn

Born 1954

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5205 PROFESSOR

Max Krott

Born 1955

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5218 POLITICIAN

Andreas Mailath-Pokorny

Born 1959

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5237 BANK

Stephan Koren (Manager)

Born 1957

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5246 ART HISTORIAN

Eva Berger

Born 1955

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5248 WRITER

Helmut Seethaler

Born 1953

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5251 ROMANIST

Michael Rössner

Born 1953

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5262 POLITICIAN

Andreas Staribacher

Born 1957

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5273 ART HISTORIAN

Herbert Giese (Kunsthistoriker)

Born 1950

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5277 POLITICIAN

Renate Brauner

Born 1956

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5313 ACADEMIC

Roland Burkart

Born 1950

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5314 HISTORIAN

Ingrid Loschek

1950 - 2010

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5321 WRITER

Ilse Kilic

Born 1958

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5358 AUTHOR

Brigitte Johanna Henkel-Waidhofer

Born 1958

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5392 LITERARY

Liliane Weissberg

Born 1953

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5401 CONDUCTOR

Wolfgang Doerner

Born 1959

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5405 FILM

Johannes Fabrick

Born 1958

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5407 GERMANIST

Wolfgang Neuber

Born 1956

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5409 ACTOR

Karl Künstler (Schauspieler)

Born 1957

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5417 WRITER

Heinz Sichrovsky

Born 1954

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5439 GESCHÄFT

Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly

Born 1953

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5442 REGISSEUR

Philipp Harnoncourt (Regisseur)

Born 1955

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5450 PRESENTER

Gertrude Aubauer

Born 1951

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5460 EDUCATION

Georg Danek

Born 1957

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5461 BUSINESS

Julius Meinl V

Born 1959

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5463 HISTORIAN

Erwin A. Schmidl

Born 1956

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5466 ARTIST

ManfreDu Schu

Born 1959

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5483 JOURNALIST

Isabella Klausnitzer

Born 1957

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5521 AUTHOR

Bernd Euler-Rolle

Born 1957

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5564 ARCHITECT

Martin Kohlbauer

Born 1956

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5596 PSYCHOLOGIST

Elmar R. Gruber

Born 1955

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5598 ARTIST

Rudolf Polanszky

Born 1951

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5599 WRITER

Gerhard Blaboll

Born 1958

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5624 POLITICIAN

Wolfgang Ruttenstorfer

Born 1950

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5627 INTENDANT

Elisabeth Schweeger

Born 1954

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5630 WRITER

Gerhard Loibelsberger

Born 1957

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5647 COMPOSER

Michael Langer (Gitarrist)

Born 1959

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5651 JOURNALIST

Joachim Riedl

Born 1953

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5653 ACTOR

Elisabeth Stepanek

1952 - 1995

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5669 ACTOR

Marina Wandruszka

Born 1954

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5678 ACTOR

Haymon Maria Buttinger

Born 1953

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5684 PAINTER

Peter Marquant

Born 1954

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5695 JOURNALIST

Christian Ortner (Journalist)

Born 1958

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5700 SCREENWRITER

Wilhelm Pellert

Born 1950

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5712 JOURNALIST

Andreas Novak

Born 1958

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5730 AUTHOR

Brigitta Falkner

Born 1959

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5763 WRITER

Gerd Schilddorfer

Born 1953

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5772 HISTORIAN

Wolfgang Johannes Bandion

Born 1950

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5794 PROFESSOR

Gustaf Neumann (Wirtschaftsinformatiker)

Born 1958

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5799 MANAGER

Herbert Demel

Born 1953

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5806 LINGUIST

Arthur Mettinger

Born 1956

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5817 THEATER

Paul Esterházy (Theaterintendant)

Born 1955

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5839 PRESENTER

Ernst A. Grandits

Born 1951

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5873 PIANIST

Peter Ponger

Born 1950

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5883 HISTORIAN

Ernst Strouhal

Born 1957

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5886 ACADEMIC

Franz Marhold

Born 1955

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5901 POLITICIAN

Erich Schreiner

Born 1950

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5911 CINEMA

Stephan Mussil

Born 1952

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5962 UNITED NATION

Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal

Born 1957

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5963 CINEMA

Karl Kases

Born 1951

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5981 PHOTOGRAPHER

Krista Beinstein

Born 1955

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