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.

Through the Centuries

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

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 author3.8× 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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12,535 notable people

3301 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Joseph M. Baumgarten

1928 - 2008

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3302 PAINTER

Florentina Pakosta

Born 1933

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3303 FOOTBALL

Franz Jelinek

1922 - 1944

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3304 PHYSICIST

Heinrich Streintz

1848 - 1892

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3305 PAINTER

Josef Feid

1806 - 1870

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3306 COMPOSER

Wilhelm Jerger

1902 - 1978

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3307 MILITAR

Gustav von Myrdacz

1874 - 1945

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3308 DANCER

Kathrin Menzinger

Born 1988

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3309 ASTRONOMER

Hermann Mucke (astronomer)

1935 - 2019

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3310 FOOTBALL

József Moravetz

1911 - 1990

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3311 CURATOR

Michael Loebenstein

Born 1974

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3312 ACTOR

Traudl Stark

Born 1930

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3313 ACTOR

Elisabeth Orth

Born 1936

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3314 PRODUCER

Susanne Kirchmayr

Born 1965

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3315 ADVISOR

Yvo de Boer

Born 1954

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3316 COMPOSER

Ernst Lert

1883 - 1955

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3317 FOOTBALL

Mario Sara

Born 1982

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3318 HANDBALL

Ferdinand Kiefler

1913 - 1945

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3319 POLITICIAN

Hermann von Ramberg

1820 - 1899

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3320 ARCHITECT

Walter Loos

1905 - 1974

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3321 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Gerhard Chroust

Born 1941

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3322 ACTOR

Margarethe Noé von Nordberg

1905 - 1995

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3323 CHILD

Eugène Daniel von Rothschild

1884 - 1976

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3324 PHOTOGRAPHER

Theodor Jung

1906 - 1996

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3325 PAINTER

Leopold Krakauer

1890 - 1954

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3326 PLAYER

Gertrude Pritzi

1920 - 1968

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3327 SCULPTOR

Franz Xaver Bergmann

1861 - 1936

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3328 ACTOR

Herta Konrad

Born 1928

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3329 FOOTBALL

Daniel Weber (footballer)

Born 1990

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3330 MINERALOGIST

Albrecht Schrauf

1837 - 1897

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3331 ARCHITECT

Maria Auböck

Born 1951

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3332 FOOTBALL

Marco Sahanek

Born 1990

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3333 PRINCESS

Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein

1837 - 1899

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3334 MATHEMATICIAN

Christian Krattenthaler

Born 1958

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3335 ILLUSTRATOR

Mela Köhler

1885 - 1960

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3336 PAINTER

Franz Schrotzberg

1811 - 1889

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3337 ACTRESS

Valerie Huber

Born 1996

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3338 LITERARY

Charles Glossy

1848 - 1937

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3339 EGYPTOLOGIST

Peter Jánosi

Born 1960

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3340 COMPOSER

Sigizmund Kats

1908 - 1984

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3341 PAINTER

Anton Hlavaček

1842 - 1926

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3342 BOTANIST

Johann Heinrich von Heucher

1677 - 1746

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3343 NUN

Gelongma Lama Palmo

Born 1970

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3344 LIBRARIAN

Bert Roth

1917 - 1994

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3345 ACTOR

Coco König

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3346 PAINTER

Herbert von Reyl-Hanisch

1898 - 1937

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3347 CONDUCTOR

Nazanin Aghakhani

Born 1980

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3348 DIVER

Anja Richter

Born 1977

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3349 HANDBALL

Thomas Bauer

Born 1986

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3350 BANK

Sonja Kohn

Born 1948

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3351 MINERALOGIST

Victor Leopold Ritter von Zepharovich

1830 - 1890

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3352 FOOTBALL

Hans Leitert

Born 1973

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3353 ACTOR

Georgia Doll

Born 1980

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3354 PLAYWRIGHT

Carl Karlweis

1850 - 1901

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3355 LAWYER

Klaus Liebscher

Born 1939

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3356 AUTHOR

Maxi Böhm

1916 - 1982

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3357 PAINTER

Anton Elfinger

1821 - 1864

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3358 GEODESIST

Karl Ledersteger

1900 - 1972

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3359 COMPOSER

Franz Pecháček

1793 - 1840

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3360 FOOTBALL

Mario Konrad

Born 1983

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3361 SINGER

Anna D'Angeri

1853 - 1907

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3362 EDUCATION

Karl Járay

1878 - 1947

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3363 ACTOR

Julia Arnall

1930 - 2018

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3364 PIANIST

Joseph Schalk

1857 - 1900

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3365 ACTOR

Herbert Dirmoser

1896 - 1978

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3366 SCREENWRITER

Eduard Klein

1923 - 1999

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3367 JUDO

Hilde Drexler

Born 1983

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3368 LAWYER

Camilla Jellinek

1860 - 1940

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3369 FILM

Otto Kreisler

1889 - 1970

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3370 SOCIOLOGIST

Otto Newman

1922 - 2015

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3371 PAINTER

Elise Ransonnet-Villez

1843 - 1899

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3372 COMPOSER

Kurt Overhoff

1902 - 1986

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3373 LINGUIST

Ernst Pulgram

1915 - 2005

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3374 WRITER

Friedrich Schlögl (Autor)

1821 - 1892

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3375 HANDBALL

Alois Schnabel

1910 - 1982

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3376 PAINTER

Helene von Taussig

1879 - 1942

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3377 ARTIST

Antoni Lange (Maler)

1774 - 1842

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3378 FOOTBALL

Bernhard Hendl

Born 1992

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3379 BIOCHEMIST

Ines Mandl

1917 - 2016

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3380 PHILOSOPHER

Markus F. Peschl

Born 1965

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3381 FILM

Anthony Kramreither

1926 - 1993

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3382 FOOTBALL

Michael Blauensteiner

Born 1995

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3383 SPORT

Roland Garber

Born 1972

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3384 WRITER

Henry Kreisel

1922 - 1991

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3385 ACTOR

Olly Gebauer

1908 - 1937

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3386 PAINTER

Franz Geyling

1803 - 1875

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3387 LAWYER

Christoph Ignaz Abele

1627 - 1685

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3388 PRESENTER

Walter Richard Langer

1936 - 1995

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3389 MATHEMATICIAN

Walter Philipp

1936 - 2006

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3390 THERAPIST

Elisabeth Lukas

Born 1942

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3391 WRITER

Gretel Beer

1921 - 2010

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3392 TEACHER

Theodor Heller

1869 - 1938

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3393 SCREENWRITER

Thomas Wiseman

1931 - 2018

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3394 ACADEMIC

Helmut Paul

1929 - 2015

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3395 VIOLIN

Helena Dunicz-Niwińska

1915 - 2018

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3396 ACTOR

Cornelius Obonya

Born 1969

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3397 OPERA

Rudolf Christ

1916 - 1982

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3398 COMPOSER

Robert Schollum

1913 - 1987

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3399 WRITER

Arild Feldborg

1912 - 1987

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3400 ACTOR

Michael von Newlinsky

1891 - 1964

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3401 ACTOR

Hilde Sochor

1924 - 2017

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3402 MILITAR

Artur von Mecenseffy

1865 - 1917

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3403 ACTOR

Norbert Rohringer

1927 - 2009

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3404 NUMISMATIST

Michael Alram

Born 1956

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3405 JOURNALIST

David Pryce-Jones

Born 1936

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3406 DRUMMER

Wolfgang Reisinger

Born 1955

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3407 ACTOR

Alexander Trojan

1914 - 1992

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3408 AUTHOR

Harry Zohn

1923 - 2001

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3409 COMPOSER

Ernst Reiterer

1851 - 1923

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3410 ENGINEER

Franz Wallack

1887 - 1966

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3411 POLITICIAN

Bruno Marek

1900 - 1991

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3412 PAINTER

Lukas Pusch

Born 1970

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3413 CINEMA

Heinrich Balasch

Born 1899

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3414 WRITER

Ernst Benedikt

1882 - 1973

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3415 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Etta Becker-Donner

1911 - 1975

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3416 POLITICIAN

Eugen Megerle von Mühlfeld

1810 - 1868

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3417 AUTHOR

Ann Tizia Leitich

1891 - 1976

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3418 HANDBALL

Jaroslav Volak

Born 1915

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3419 ACTOR

Julian Looman

Born 1985

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3420 MATHEMATICIAN

Hans J. Reiter

1921 - 1992

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3421 JOURNALIST

Günther Schifter

1923 - 2008

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3422 JOCKEY

Andreas Suborics

Born 1971

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3423 ACTOR

Kurt Heintel

1924 - 2002

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3424 HEIRESS

Princess Maria Theresia of Liechtenstein

1694 - 1772

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3425 PRIEST

Ferdinand Stanislaus Pawlikowski

1877 - 1956

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3426 ACTOR

Alfons Haider

Born 1957

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3427 PHOTOGRAPHER

Wolfgang Wolfram von Wolmar

1910 - 1987

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3428 HISTORIAN

Thomas Winkelbauer

Born 1957

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3429 BOTANIST

Elise Hofmann

1889 - 1955

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3430 ACTOR

Miki Malör

Born 1957

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3431 PAINTER

Josef von Hempel

1800 - 1871

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3432 WORKER

Anitta Müller-Cohen

1890 - 1962

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3433 ACTOR

Paul Löwinger junior

1949 - 2009

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3434 PAINTER

Martha Jungwirth

Born 1940

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3435 OPERA

Hans von Rokitansky

1835 - 1909

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3436 COMPOSER

Wolfram Wagner

Born 1962

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3437 SWIMMER

Nina Dittrich

Born 1990

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3438 SPORT

Thomas Farnik

Born 1967

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3439 CHEMIST

Werner Kutzelnigg

1933 - 2019

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3440 FOOTBALL

Dionys Schönecker

1888 - 1938

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3441 ACADEMIC

Hans von Frisch

1875 - 1941

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3442 FOOTBALL

Alexander Aschauer

Born 1992

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3443 COMPOSER

Adalbert von Goldschmidt

1848 - 1906

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3444 POLITICIAN

Ignaz zu Hardegg

1772 - 1848

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3445 WRITER

Franz Schuhmeier

1864 - 1913

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3446 ACTOR

Ulrike Beimpold

Born 1964

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3447 COMPOSER

Rudi Wilfer

Born 1936

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3448 FOOTBALL

Michael Wagner (footballer)

Born 1975

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3449 ACTOR

Wilhelm Klitsch

1882 - 1941

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3450 COMPOSER

Egon Kemény

1905 - 1969

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3451 OFFICER

Josef Latour

1820 - 1903

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3452 EMPEROR

Archduke Joseph Franz of Austria

1799 - 1807

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3453 COSTUME DESIGNER

Thomas Oláh

Born 1966

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3454 SPORT

Paul Popp

Born 1963

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3455 HISTORIAN

Erich Zöllner

1916 - 1996

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3456 HOCKEY

Patrick Harand

Born 1984

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3457 AUTHOR

Moritz West

1840 - 1904

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3458 FOOTBALL

Tin Plavotic

Born 1997

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3459 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Friedrich Bieber

1873 - 1924

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3460 ACTOR

Klaramaria Skala

1921 - 2006

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3461 ARCHAEOLOGIST

Emil Reisch

1863 - 1933

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3462 POLITICIAN

Friedrich Verzetnitsch

Born 1945

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3463 ACTOR

Beatrice von Dovsky

1866 - 1923

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3464 COMPOSER

Raoul Pleskow

Born 1931

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3465 EDUCATION

Josef Derbolav

1912 - 1987

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3466 ACTOR

Chris Lohner

Born 1943

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3467 ARTIST

Katharina Fröhlich

1800 - 1879

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3468 WRITER

Hans Janitschek

1934 - 2008

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3469 MUSIC

Walter Arlen

Born 1920

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3470 PIANIST

Henriette von Pereira-Arnstein

1780 - 1859

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3471 POLITICIAN

Rudolf Häuser

1909 - 2000

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3472 POLITICIAN

Adolfo Giuseppe di Schwarzenberg

1832 - 1914

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3473 DARTS PLAYER

Rowby-John Rodriguez

Born 1994

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3474 WRITER

Nora Kinsky

1888 - 1923

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3475 GRAF

Karl Georg Huyn

1857 - 1938

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3476 CONDUCTOR

Christian Pollack

Born 1946

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3477 WRITER

Hans-Georg Behr

1937 - 2010

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3478 SINGER

Nikolaus Kalita

Born 1943

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3479 COMPOSER

Hans Redlich

1903 - 1968

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3480 FILM

Peter Hajek (Journalist)

Born 1941

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3481 ARCHITECT

Alexander Wielemans von Monteforte

1843 - 1911

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3482 CHEMIST

Hans Kautsky

1891 - 1966

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3483 FOOTBALL

Christian Hayden

Born 1994

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3484 POLITICIAN

Josef Georg Hörl

1722 - 1806

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3485 WRITER

Paul Chaim Eisenberg

Born 1950

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3486 VIOLA PLAYER

Franz Patay

Born 1961

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3487 COSTUME DESIGNER

Leo Bei (costumier)

1918 - 2005

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3488 ACTOR

Florian Teichtmeister

Born 1979

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3489 PAINTER

Friedrich Schilcher

1811 - 1881

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3490 ART HISTORIAN

Franz Miltner

1901 - 1959

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3491 FOOTBALL

Zeljko Radovic

Born 1974

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3492 JOURNALIST

Alex W. du Prel

1944 - 2017

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3493 ACTOR

Felix Franchy

Born 1940

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3494 JOURNALIST

Friedrich Hiebel

1903 - 1989

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3495 PHILOSOPHER

Béla Juhos

1901 - 1971

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3496 ACADEMIC

Gerold Gruber

Born 1958

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3497 DESIGNER

Florian Brody

Born 1953

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3498 SCULPTOR

Theodor Friedl

1842 - 1900

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3499 ART HISTORIAN

Otto Walter

1882 - 1965

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3500 POLITICIAN

Karl Fischer (Widerstandskämpfer)

1918 - 1963

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3501 ACTOR

Lotte Tobisch

1926 - 2019

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3502 PHYSICIST

Karl Przibram

1878 - 1973

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3503 ACTOR

Ernst Meister (Schauspieler)

1926 - 1986

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3504 WRITER

Joseph August Lux

1871 - 1947

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3505 SINGER

Herta Glaz

1908 - 2006

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3506 COMPOSER

Johann Mederitsch

1752 - 1835

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3507 SINGER

Agnese Schebest

1813 - 1870

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3508 SKATER

Fritz Kachler

1888 - 1973

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3509 ACTOR

Józef Orwid

1891 - 1944

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3510 HISTORIAN

Emil Szántó

1857 - 1904

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3511 PSYCHIATRIST

Otto Pötzl

1877 - 1962

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3512 PHYSICIAN

Norbert Hirschhorn

Born 1938

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3513 ACTOR

Karl Lindau

1853 - 1934

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3514 ACADEMIC

Walter Manoschek

Born 1957

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3515 COMPOSER

Bruno Uher

1912 - 1976

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3516 PAINTER

Inge Dick

Born 1941

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3517 ENGINEER

Edmund Sparmann

1888 - 1951

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3518 DIPLOMAT

Maria-Pia Kothbauer

Born 1960

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3519 ETHNOLOGIST

Robert Bleichsteiner

1891 - 1954

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3520 PROFESSOR

Ludwig Wahrmund

1860 - 1932

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3521 SINGER

MC Yankoo

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3522 BUSINESS

Fritz Waerndorfer

1868 - 1939

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3523 HISTORIAN

Felix Kreissler

1917 - 2004

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3524 ARCHITECT

Carl Witzmann

1883 - 1952

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3525 WRITER

Alexander Julius Schindler

1818 - 1885

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3526 PAINTER

Trude Waehner

1900 - 1979

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3527 FOOTBALL

Ludwig Durek

1921 - 2000

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3528 POLITICIAN

Walter Baier (Politiker)

Born 1954

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3529 FOOTBALL

Sargon Duran

Born 1987

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3530 SINOLOGIST

Arthur von Rosthorn

1862 - 1945

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3531 ATHLETIC

Gregor Högler

Born 1972

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3532 FOOTBALL

Sascha Pichler

Born 1986

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3533 FOOTBALL

Christopher Knett

Born 1990

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3534 ACTOR

Albert Fortell

Born 1952

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3535 ACTOR

Dolores Schmidinger

Born 1946

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3536 DIPLOMAT

Dominik Andreas von Kaunitz-Rietberg-Questenberg �

1739 - 1812

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3537 COMPOSER

Albert Hetényi Heidelberg

1875 - 1951

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3538 ARCHITECT

Karl König (Architekt)

1841 - 1915

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3539 OFFICER

Sigmund von Reischach

1809 - 1878

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3540 OPERA

Daniel Johannsen

Born 1978

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3541 PIANIST

Manfred Clynes

1925 - 2020

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3542 COMPOSER

Wenzel Raimund Birck

1718 - 1763

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3543 FOOTBALL

Willy Fitz

1918 - 1993

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3544 DIPLOMAT

Alfred Missong jun.

Born 1934

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3545 ACADEMIC

Wilhelm Anton Neumann

1837 - 1919

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3546 POLITICIAN

Johann Prix

1836 - 1894

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3547 POLITICIAN

Anna Boschek

1874 - 1957

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3548 COMEDIAN

Richard Waldemar

1869 - 1946

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3549 ILLUSTRATOR

Ignaz Alberti

1760 - 1794

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3550 ACTOR

Joseph Lewinsky

1835 - 1907

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3551 BISHOP

Ernst von Trautson

1633 - 1702

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3552 POLITICIAN

Friedrich Hillegeist

1895 - 1973

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3553 POLITICIAN

Hilde Hawlicek

Born 1942

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3554 SINGER

Adolf Wallnöfer

1854 - 1946

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3555 FOOTBALL

Josef Brandstätter

1891 - 1945

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3556 BANK

Guido Schmidt-Chiari

1932 - 2016

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3557 COMPOSER

Ludwig Gruber (Komponist)

1874 - 1964

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3558 COMPOSER

Waldemar Bloch

1906 - 1984

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3559 DIPLOMAT

Ernst Christoph von Kaunitz-Rietberg

1737 - 1797

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3560 FILM

Bernhard Kammel

Born 1962

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3561 SCIENTIST

Peter Weish

Born 1936

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3562 MATHEMATICIAN

Herta Freitag

1908 - 2000

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3563 ACTOR

Hary Prinz

Born 1965

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3564 CONDUCTOR

Helmuth Froschauer

1933 - 2019

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3565 ARCHIDUC

Léopold Joseph d'Autriche (1700-1701)

1700 - 1701

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3566 PHILOSOPHER

Benno Kerry

1858 - 1889

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3567 OPERA

Aloys Pennarini

1870 - 1927

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3568 WRITER

Karl Bednarik

1915 - 2001

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3569 SINGER

Viktor Madin

1876 - 1968

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3570 POLITICIAN

Richard Frey

1920 - 2004

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3571 HOCKEY

Philipp Lukas

Born 1979

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3572 PAINTER

Carl Wenzel Zajicek

1860 - 1923

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3573 MUSIC

Christoph Berner

Born 1971

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3574 COMPOSER

Franz Mixa

1902 - 1994

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3575 ARCHITECT

Alexander Bodon

1906 - 1993

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3576 NEUROLOGIST

Franz Seitelberger

1916 - 2007

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3577 SINGER

Oliver Wimmer

Born 1991

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3578 CRIMINAL

Elfriede Blauensteiner

1931 - 2003

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3579 ENTREPRENEUR

Eduard von Todesco

1814 - 1887

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3580 TRADE UNION

Emily Rosdolsky

1911 - 2001

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3581 AUTHOR

Karl Adolph

1869 - 1931

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3582 FOOTBALL

Karl Kanhäuser

Born 1900

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3583 HANDBALL

Anton Perwein

1911 - 1981

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3584 JUMPER

Thomas Frühmann

Born 1951

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3585 ART HISTORIAN

Hermann Vetters

1915 - 1993

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3586 ENGINEER

Christian Veder

1907 - 1984

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3587 LIEDERMACHER

Ernst Molden (Schriftsteller)

Born 1967

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3588 CINEMA

Hans Jura

1921 - 1996

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3589 CONDUCTOR

Franz Ledwinka

1883 - 1972

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3590 FOOTBALL

Danijel Klarić

Born 1995

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3591 ACTOR

Rudolf del Zopp

1861 - 1927

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3592 ACTOR

Andreas Vitásek

Born 1956

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3593 PHYSICIAN

Otto Wolken

1903 - 1975

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3594 ARCHITECT

Oswald Haerdtl

1899 - 1959

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3595 JOURNALIST

Ilse Barea-Kulcsar

1902 - 1973

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3596 PATHOLOGIST

Friedrich Feyrter

1895 - 1973

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3597 ACADEMIC

Hannes Tretter

Born 1951

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3598 FOOTBALL

Petar Zivkov

Born 1995

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3599 PAINTER

Ali Hubert

1878 - 1940

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3600 COMPOSER

Silvia Sommer

Born 1944

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