List of people from Vienna

This is a list of notable people from Vienna, Austria.

A–C

Carlo Abarth (1908–1979), Italian race car driver and tuner. Gustav Abel (1902–1963), film architect and stage designer. Othenio Abel (1875–1946), paleontologist and evolutionary biologist. Wolfgang Abel (1905–1997), anthropologist. Christoph Ignaz Abele (1627–1685), lawyer and court official. Leo Aberer (born 1978), musician. Walter Abish (1931–2022), American writer. Leopold Ackermann (1771–1831), theologian. Antonie Adamberger (1790–1867), actress, fiancé of Theodor Körner. Karl Adamek (1910–2000), footballer and coach. Alfred Adler (1870–1937), founder of individual psychology. Victor Adler (1852–1918), social democrat and activist for the rights of workers. Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016), writer. David Alaba (born 1992), Austrian footballer. Christopher Alexander (1936–2022), England-based architect and design theorist; wrote book A Pattern Language (1977). Peter Altenberg (1859–1919), fin de siècle writer and poet. Wolfgang Ambros (born 1952), one of the founders of the musical movement Austropop. Bernard Amtmann (1907–1979), antiquarian bookseller, bibliographer, publisher. Ludwig Anzengruber (1839–1889), Austrian dramatist, novelist and poet. Walter Arlen (1920–2023), composer; music critic in LA Times. Alfred Ritter von Arneth (1819–1897), Austrian historian, wrote about Maria Theresa. Hans Asperger (1906–1980), pediatrician; discoverer of Asperger syndrome. Carl Auer von Welsbach (1858–1929), chemist. Ilse Barea-Kulcsar (1902–1973), journalist, translator, writer and communist activist. Haim Bar-Lev (1924–1994), Israeli general and government minister. Fanny Basch-Mahler (1854–1942), pianist and music teacher. Polly Batic (1906–1992), operatic mezzo-soprano. Eduard von Bauernfeld (1802–1890), Austrian dramatist. Vicki Baum (1888–1960), novelist. Alban Berg (1885–1935), composer. Herbert Berghof (1909–1990), late actor. Turhan Bey (1922–2012), actor. Hedy Bienenfeld (1907–1976), Austrian-American Olympic swimmer. Theodore Bikel (1924–2015), actor and singer. Karl Bitter (1867–1915), American architectural sculptor of memorials and residential works. John Paul Blass (1937–2023), physician, biochemist and neurochemist. Ludwig Boltzmann (1844–1906), physicist. Arik Brauer (1929–2021), painter, poet and singer. Eugene Braunwald (born 1929), cardiologist. Jenny Broch (1864–?), soprano Arnolt Bronnen (1895–1959), Austrian playwright and director. Vanessa Brown (born Smylla Brind, 1928–1999), actress. Martin Buber (1878–1965), philosopher. Ignaz Franz Castelli (1781–1862), Austrian dramatist. Dorrit Cohn (1924–2012), professor of comparative literature. Heinrich Joseph von Collin (1771–1811), Austrian dramatist. Carl Czerny (1791–1857), Austrian composer, teacher and pianist. Tadeusz Czeżowski (1889–1981), philosopher and logician.

D–G

Georg Danzer (1946–2007), songwriter. Elfi von Dassanowsky (1924–2007), film producer, pianist and singer. Marlene Engelhorn (born 1992), activist. Leopold Joseph von Daun (1705–1766), Austrian field marshal, later Prince of Thiano. Helmut Deutsch (born 1945), pianist. Oskar Deutsch (born 1963), entrepreneur and President of the Jewish Community of Vienna. Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739–1799), Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist. Carl Djerassi (1923–2015), chemist, novelist, and playwright; developer of the oral contraceptive pill. Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966), writer. Georgia Doll (born 1980), theatre director, playwright and poet. Ludwig Donath (1900–1967), actor. Peter Drucker (1909–2005), economist. Eva Duldig (born 1938), Austrian-born Australian and Dutch tennis player, author. Klaus Ebner (born 1964), writer. Albert Ehrenstein (1886–1950), writer. Fanny Elssler (1810–1884), ballerina of the Romantic Period. Carl Esmond (1902–2004), actor. Constantin von Ettingshausen (1826–1897), botanist, studied of flora from the Tertiary era. Falco (1957–1998), instrumentalist and singer. Maria Zhorella Fedorova (1915–2017), lyric soprano. Robert Fein (1907–1975), Olympic Champion weightlifter. Ferdinand I of Austria (1793–1875), Emperor of Austria. Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (1861–1948), Tsar of Bulgaria. Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben (1806–1849), physician, poet and philosopher. Paul Feyerabend (1924–1994), philosopher. Otto Fischer (1901–1941), football player and coach. Trude Fleischmann (1895–1990), photographer. Willi Forst (1903–1980), actor, director, singer and writer. Francis I of Austria & Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (1768–1835), Holy Roman Emperor and Emperor of Austria. Viktor Frankl (1905–1997), neurologist and psychiatrist; founder of logotherapy. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863–1914), heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830–1916), Emperor of Austria. Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), neurologist; founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Karl von Frisch (1886–1982), animal psychologist, beekeeper and zoologist; co-recipient 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Nathan Michael Gelber (1891–1966), Austrian-Israeli historian Hilda Geiringer (1893–1973), mathematician. Karl Geiringer (1899–1989), musicologist. Amon Göth (1908–1946), Nazi SS concentration camp commandant executed for war crimes. Maximilian Grabner (1905–1948), Nazi Gestapo chief in Auschwitz executed for crimes against humanity. Ilona Graenitz (1943–2022), Austrian MP and MEP. Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), writer and dramatist. Victor Gruen (1903–1980), architect. Ruth Grützbauch (born 1978), astronomer. Friedrich Gulda (1930–2000), composer and pianist. Alfred Guth (1908–1996), Austrian-born American water polo player, swimmer, and Olympic modern pentathlete.

H–L Eduard Haas (1897–1989), inventor of Pez candy. Walter Hahn (born 1987), professional wrestler, performs under the name Gunther. Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795–1871), Austrian mineralogist. Franz Ritter von Hauer (1822–1899), an Austrian geologist. Friedrich Hayek (1899–1992), economist; co-recipient of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Andre Heller (born 1947), artist, poet and songwriter. Gottfried Helnwein (born 1948), artist. Dr. Otto Herschmann (1877–1942), saber fencer, Olympic silver; 100-m freestyle in swimming, Olympic silver. Theodor Herzl (1860–1904), journalist; founder of modern political Zionism. Mickey Hirschl (1906–1991), Olympic-medal-winning wrestler, shot put and discus junior champion, weightlifting junior champion, and pentathlon champion. Pavla Hočevar (1889–1972), Slovenian teacher, writer, socialist and suffragist Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), writer; founder of the Salzburg Festival. Oskar Homolka (1898–1978), actor. Moritz Hörnes (1815–1868), Austrian palaeontologist. Count Joseph Alexander Hübner (1811–1892), Austrian diplomat. Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928–2000), architect and painter. Wolfgang Hutter (1928–2014), artist, painter and university art professor. Ernst Jandl (1925–2000), poet and writer. Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (1678–1711), ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1705 until his death Josef Jungwirth (1869–1950), painter Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), photographer Martin Karplus (1930–2024), theoretical chemist; co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711–1794), Austrian and Czech diplomat and statesman Count Alajos Károlyi de Nagykároly (1825–1889), Austro-Hungarian diplomat Gina Kaus (1893–1985), novelist Abraham Klausner (Austrian rabbi), 14th-century rabbi Melchior Klesl (1552–1630), Austrian statesman and cardinal of the Roman Catholic church Gustav Klimt (1862–1918), painter Pina Kollar, singer-songwriter Alfred König (1913–1987), Austrian-Turkish Olympic sprinter Franz König (1905–2004), Cardinal Archbishop Karl Kordesch (1922–2011), chemist and inventor Hans Krankl (born 1953), football player Karl Kraus (1874–1936), satirist; publisher of the newspaper Die Fackel Klaus Kubinger (born 1949), psychologist, statistician, and university professor Steffi Kunke (1908–1942), teacher and anti-fascist activist Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000), actress and inventor Karl Landsteiner (1868–1943), biologist and physician; discoverer of blood group; recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Fritz Lang (1890–1976), director Ruth Langer (1921–1999), national champion swimmer Josef Lanner (1801–1843), composer Niki Lauda (1949–2019), entrepreneur and race car driver Henry Lehrman (1881–1946), silent film director Bill Leeb (born 1966), musician Lotte Lenya (1898–1981), actor and singer Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747–1792), Archduke of Austria from 1790 to 1792 Leopold Lindtberg (1902–1984), director Edie Locke (1921–2020), fashion journalist Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989), behavioural scientist; co-recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Josef Lorenzl (1892–1950), sculptor Tilly Losch (1903–1975), actress and dancer Fritzi Löwy (1910–1994), Olympic swimmer Bernhard Ludvik (born 1961), physician

M–R

Anna Mahler (1904–1988), sculptor Gustav Mahler (1860–1911), composer and conductor Natascha Mair (born 1995), ballet dancer Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria; last absolute Queen of France (1774–1792) Maria Theresa (1717–1780), daughter of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor; Queen of Bohemia and Hungary (1740–1780) Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (1557–1619), Archduke of Austria from 1608 to 1619 Alice Mavrogordato (1916–2000), painter, translator during the Nuremberg trials Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (1459–1519), Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1527–1576,) Holy Roman Emperor from 1564 until his death Maximilian I of Mexico (1832–1867), Emperor of Mexico Friederike Mayröcker (1924–2021), writer Lise Meitner (1878–1968), physicist Carl Menger (1840–1921), economist and founder of the Austrian School of economics Karl Menger (1902–1985), mathematician and son of Carl Menger Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973), economist Špelca Mladič (1894–1981), Slovenian painter and designer Johann August Georg Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvar (1839–1907), Austro-Hungarian geologist and palaeontologist. Adele Molnar, voice actress of Piglett in the German dub of "Winnie the Poo". Elfriede Moser-Rath (1926–1993), folklorist. Karl Motesiczky (1904–1943), psychoanalyst. Felix Josef von Mottl (1856–1911), Austrian conductor and composer. Reggie Nalder (1907–1991), film and television character actor. Itzhak Nener (1919–2012), jurist who cofounded the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and served as vice-president of Liberal International. Johann Nestroy (1801–1862), playwright. Fritz Neugebauer (born 1944), second president of the Austrian National Council. Peter C. Newman (1929–2023), journalist. Saul K. Padover (1905–1981), historian and political scientist at The New School of Social Research in New York City, New York, US. Alfred Pal (1920–2010), Croatian graphic designer and painter. Bertha Pappenheim (1859–1936), feminist. Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958), physicist. August von Pettenkofen (1822–1889), Austrian painter. Ida Laura Pfeiffer (1797–1858), Austrian explorer, travel writer and ethnographer. Caroline Pichler (1769–1843), Austrian historical novelist. Johannes Pietsch (born 2001), singer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. Anton Piëch (1894–1952), lawyer, son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche. Thila Plaichinger (1868–1939), opera singer. Friderika Podgornik (1880–1948), Slovenian pianist and music educator. Karl Polanyi (1886–1964), economic historian. Alfred Polgar (1873–1955), author and journalist. Józef Poniatowski (1763–1813), Polish general. Karl Popper (1902–1994), philosopher.