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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.

Through the Centuries

One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Vienna during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1920s with 1,083 notable births.

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. Actor1,170
  2. Politician1,169
  3. Painter748
  4. Football595
  5. Writer489
  6. Author405
  7. Composer403
  8. Academic293
  1. Author4053.8×
  2. Architect2822.5×
  3. Composer4032.4×
  4. Academic2932.3×
  5. Painter7482.3×
  6. Actor1,1701.8×
  7. Sculptor1431.8×
  8. Historian2121.6×
  1. Football5950.4×

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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8295 AUTHOR

August Oehler

1881 - 1920

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8387 AUTHOR

Andrea Fehringer

Born 1959

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8419 AUTHOR

Irene Heise

Born 1956

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8446 AUTHOR

Anton Waldt

Born 1966

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8467 AUTHOR

Otto Stradal

1911 - 1982

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8472 AUTHOR

Albert Frank (Dramatiker)

Born 1959

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8512 AUTHOR

Simon Kronberg

1891 - 1947

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8514 AUTHOR

Adolf von Zemlinszky

1845 - 1900

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8543 AUTHOR

Josef Modl (Sänger)

1863 - 1915

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8587 AUTHOR

Patricia Brooks (Schriftstellerin)

Born 1957

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8611 AUTHOR

Herbert Fleck

Born 1941

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8636 AUTHOR

Adele Berger

1868 - 1900

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8660 AUTHOR

Bernhard Scheichelbauer

1890 - 1969

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8665 AUTHOR

Otto Kreiner (Schriftsteller)

1931 - 1993

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8670 AUTHOR

Helga Engin-Deniz

Born 1941

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8743 AUTHOR

Sepp Redl

Born 1944

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8744 AUTHOR

Herbert Viktor Patera

1900 - 1986

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8745 AUTHOR

Leopold Florian Meissner

1835 - 1895

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8751 AUTHOR

Heinrich Weingartner

Born 1939

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8774 AUTHOR

Karl Franz Henisch

1745 - 1776

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8779 AUTHOR

Kurt Kahl

1929 - 2012

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8781 AUTHOR

Otto Licha (Schriftsteller)

Born 1952

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8792 AUTHOR

Veronika A. Grager

Born 1948

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8815 AUTHOR

Anna Hottner-Grefe

1867 - 1946

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8839 AUTHOR

Alois Essigmann

1878 - 1937

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8848 AUTHOR

Alfred W. Kneucker

1904 - 1960

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8853 AUTHOR

Margarita Kinstner

Born 1976

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8854 AUTHOR

Wolfgang Madjera

1868 - 1926

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8910 AUTHOR

Wilhelm von Wymetal (Journalist)

1838 - 1896

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8941 AUTHOR

Isabella Straub (Autorin)

Born 1968

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8960 AUTHOR

Marion von Krafft-Ebing

1911 - 2002

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8977 AUTHOR

Eduard Christoph Heinisch

1931 - 1999

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9015 AUTHOR

Anni Bürkl

Born 1970

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9019 AUTHOR

Josef Rabl (Alpinist)

1844 - 1923

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9033 AUTHOR

Erwin Chvojka

1924 - 2013

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9052 AUTHOR

Traude Veran

Born 1934

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9123 AUTHOR

Barbara Stieff

Born 1968

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9136 AUTHOR

Franz Mailer

1920 - 2010

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9149 AUTHOR

Robert Braun (Schriftsteller)

1896 - 1972

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9156 AUTHOR

Elsa Plessner

1877 - 1932

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9158 AUTHOR

Lisa Baumfeld

1877 - 1897

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9185 AUTHOR

Michael Horvath (Autor)

Born 1963

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9191 AUTHOR

Norbert Weldler

1884 - 1961

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9201 AUTHOR

Josefine von Hoffinger

1820 - 1868

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9203 AUTHOR

Johanna Jonas-Lichtenwallner

1914 - 2002

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9205 AUTHOR

Rudolf Frieß

1881 - 1965

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9206 AUTHOR

Wilhelm Svetlin

1849 - 1914

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9222 AUTHOR

Walter Bäck

1931 - 2004

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9238 AUTHOR

Herbert Hinterleithner

1916 - 1942

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9281 AUTHOR

Michael Thanhoffer

Born 1949

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9289 AUTHOR

Therese Rie

1878 - 1934

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9308 AUTHOR

Josef Pfundheller

1813 - 1889

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9366 AUTHOR

Heinrich Reinhart (Museumsleiter)

1927 - 2013

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9371 AUTHOR

Heinrich Joseph Adami

1807 - 1895

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9403 AUTHOR

Karl Ziak

1902 - 1987

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9418 AUTHOR

Nicole Makarewicz

Born 1976

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9421 AUTHOR

Victoria Schlederer

Born 1985

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9456 AUTHOR

Berthold Sengschmitt

1801 - 1852

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9509 AUTHOR

Klaus-M. Schremser

Born 1975

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9516 AUTHOR

Jürgen Heimlich (Schriftsteller)

Born 1971

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9526 AUTHOR

Nikolaus Scheibner

Born 1976

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9535 AUTHOR

Valerie Lorenz-Szabo

1916 - 1996

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9555 AUTHOR

Elfriede Huber-Abrahamowicz

1922 - 2001

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9580 AUTHOR

Miroslava Svolikova

Born 1986

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9587 AUTHOR

Martin Luksan

Born 1947

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9644 AUTHOR

Thomas Wollinger

Born 1968

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9664 AUTHOR

Viktor Brod

1894 - 1969

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9688 AUTHOR

Benedikt Fantner

1893 - 1942

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9716 AUTHOR

Raimund Hinkel

1924 - 2002

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9729 AUTHOR

Ludwig Gorm

1884 - 1965

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9767 AUTHOR

Alfred Steinberg-Frank

1888 - 1953

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9785 AUTHOR

Peter F. Kinauer

Born 1939

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9840 AUTHOR

Oskar Feifar

Born 1967

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9850 AUTHOR

Hedwig Rossi

1891 - 1985

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9878 AUTHOR

Anton Wais

Born 1948

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9922 AUTHOR

Niklas Tripolt

Born 1964

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9929 AUTHOR

Paul Lahninger

Born 1955

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9938 AUTHOR

Wilhelm Maximilian Kisch

1827 - 1893

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9943 AUTHOR

Johann Langer (Autor)

1793 - 1858

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9972 AUTHOR

Richard Kühnelt

1877 - 1930

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10035 AUTHOR

Theodor Feldmann

1891 - 1957

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10074 AUTHOR

Renate Yates

Born 1933

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10106 AUTHOR

Marie Luise Lehner

Born 1995

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10207 AUTHOR

Alois Roßmanith

1909 - 1957

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10236 AUTHOR

Willy Miksch

1904 - 1992

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10268 AUTHOR

Roman Klementovic

Born 1982

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10293 AUTHOR

Josef Tichy (Übersetzer)

1894 - 1973

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10356 AUTHOR

Karl Kaniak

1872 - 1931

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10385 AUTHOR

Lucia Heilman

Born 1929

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10401 AUTHOR

Lothar Ring

1882 - 1974

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10430 AUTHOR

Adele Kment

1883 - 1950

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10508 AUTHOR

Josef Pechacek

1906 - 1945

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10516 AUTHOR

Magdalena von Callot

1774 - 1847

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10580 AUTHOR

Nadja Bucher

Born 1976

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10588 AUTHOR

Rudolf Kalmar senior

1870 - 1939

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10616 AUTHOR

Ernst Epler

1912 - 1985

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10662 AUTHOR

Hans Winterl

1900 - 1970

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10859 AUTHOR

Gudrun Lerchbaum

Born 1965

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10868 AUTHOR

Leopold Pötzlberger

1927 - 1962

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10984 AUTHOR

Helga Zankl

Born 1927

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10997 AUTHOR

Annett Krendlesberger

Born 1967

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11014 AUTHOR

Martina Winkelhofer

Born 1972

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11442 AUTHOR

Adolf Lande

1905 - 1970

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11484 AUTHOR

Theodor Meidl

1891 - 1969

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12473 AUTHOR

Johann Spissak

1889 - 1942

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