List of people from Vienna
A–G
- 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 (born 1931), American writer
- Leopold Ackermann (1771-1831), theologian
- Antonie Adamberger (1790-1867), actress, fiance of Theodor Körner
- Karl Adamek (1910-2000), footballer and coach
- Alfred Adler – founder of individual psychology
- Victor Adler – social democrat and activist for the rights of workers
- Ilse Aichinger[1] – writer
- David Alaba[2] – Austrian footballer
- Christopher Alexander[3] – England-based architect and design theorist; wrote book A Pattern Language (1977)
- Peter Altenberg – fin de siècle writer and poet
- Wolfgang Ambros – one of the founders of the musical movement Austropop
- Walter Arlen – composer; music critic in LA times
- Hans Asperger – pediatrician; discoverer of Asperger syndrome
- Carl Auer von Welsbach – chemist
- Haim Bar-Lev – Israeli general and government minister
- Vicki Baum – novelist
- Alban Berg – composer
- Turhan Bey – actor
- Theodore Bikel – actor and singer
- Ludwig Boltzmann – physicist
- Arik Brauer – painter, poet and singer
- Eugene Braunwald – cardiologist
- Vanessa Brown (born Smylla Brynd) – actress
- Martin Buber – philosopher
- Dorrit Cohn – professor of comparative literature
- Georg Danzer – songwriter
- Elfi von Dassanowsky – film producer, pianist and singer
- Carl Djerassi – chemist, novelist, and playwright; developer of the oral contraceptive pill
- Heimito von Doderer – writer
- Georgia Doll – theatre director, playwright and poet
- Peter Drucker – economist
- Klaus Ebner – writer
- Albert Ehrenstein – writer
- Carl Esmond – actor
- Falco – instrumentalist and singer
- Paul Feyerabend – philosopher
- Trude Fleischmann – photographer
- Willi Forst – actor, director, singer and writer
- Viktor Frankl – neurologist and psychiatrist; founder of logotherapy
- Ferdinand I – Emperor of Austria
- Francis I – Holy Roman Emperor and Emperor of Austria
- Franz Ferdinand – Archduke
- Franz Joseph I – Emperor of Austria
- Sigmund Freud – neurologist; founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology
- Karl von Frisch – animal psychologist and beekeeper and zoologist; co-recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Hilda Geiringer – mathematician
- Karl Geiringer – 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
- Franz Grillparzer – playwright
- Victor Gruen – architect
- Friedrich Gulda – composer and pianist
H–M
- Eduard Haas – inventor of Pez candy
- Friedrich Hayek – economist; co-recipient of the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
- Andre Heller – artist, poet and songwriter
- Max Heller (born in Vienna in 1919) – politician in Greenville, South Carolina, United States
- Gottfried Helnwein – artist
- Dr. Otto Herschmann – saber fencer, Olympic silver; 100-m freestyle in swimming, Olympic silver
- Theodor Herzl – journalist; founder of modern political Zionism
- Mickey Hirschl – Olympic-medal-winning wrestler, shot put and discus junior champion, weightlifting junior champion, and pentathlon champion
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal – writer; founder of the Salzburg Festival
- Oskar Homolka – actor
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser – architect and painter
- Wolfgang Hutter – artist, painter and university art professor
- Ernst Jandl – poet and writer
- Dora Kallmus – photographer
- Martin Karplus – theoretical chemist; co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Gina Kaus – novelist
- Gustav Klimt – painter
- Pina Kollar – singer and songwriter
- Franz König – Cardinal Archbishop
- Karl Kordesch – chemist and inventor
- Hans Krankl – footballer
- Karl Kraus – satirist; publisher of the newspaper Die Fackel
- Hedy Lamarr – actress and inventor
- Karl Landsteiner – biologist and physician; discoverer of blood group; recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Fritz Lang – director
- Josef Lanner – composer
- Niki Lauda – entrepreneur and race car driver
- Henry Lehrman – silent film director
- Lotte Lenya – actor and singer
- Leopold Lindtberg – director
- Konrad Lorenz – behavioural scientist; co-recipient of the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Tilly Losch – actress and dancer
- Anna Mahler – sculptor
- Gustav Mahler – composer and conductor
- Natascha Mair – ballet dancer
- Marie Antoinette (née Maria Antonia) – daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria; last absolutistic Queen of France (1774–1792)
- Maria Theresa – daughter of Emperor Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor; Queen of Bohemia and Hungary (1740–1780)
- Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico
- Friederike Mayröcker – writer
- Lise Meitner – physicist
- Carl Menger – economist and founder of the Austrian School of economics
- Karl Menger – mathematician and son of Carl Menger
- Ludwig von Mises – economist
- Adele Molnar – voice actress of Piglett in the German dub of “Winnie the Poo”
- Elfriede Moser-Rath – folklorist
- Karl Motesiczky – psychoanalyst
N–Z
- Itzhak Nener, jurist who cofounded the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists and served as vice-president of Liberal International
- Johann Nestroy – playwright
- Fritz Neugebauer – second president of the Austrian National Council
- Peter C. Newman – journalist
- Saul K. Padover – historian and political scientist at The New School of Social Research in New York City, New York, United States
- Alfred Pal – Croatian graphic designer and painter
- Bertha Pappenheim – feminist
- Wolfgang Pauli – physicist
- Anton Piëch – lawyer, son-in-law of Ferdinand Porsche
- Karl Polanyi – economic historian
- Alfred Polgar – author and journalist
- Karl Popper – philosopher
- Ellen Preis (Ellen Müller-Preis) (1912–2007) – German-born Austrian Olympic champion foil fencer
- Helmut Qualtinger – actor, cabaret performer and writer
- Doron Rabinovici – writer
- Ferdinand Raimund – playwright
- Shoshana Ribner—Israeli Olympic swimmer
- Alma Rosé – violinist; killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp
- Stella Rotenberg – poet and Shoah victim
- Felix Salten – writer
- Fritz Saxl – art historian
- Egon Schiele – artist
- Romy Schneider – actress
- Arthur Schnitzler – story teller and playwright
- Arnold Schoenberg – composer, music theorist and painter
- Joseph Schildkraut – actor
- Erwin Schrödinger – physicist; co-recipient of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Franz Schubert – composer
- Ernst Schwadron – architect
- Peter Seisenbacher – judoka
- Hans Selye – physiologist
- Dovid Shmidel[4] – rabbi
- Matthias Sindelar – footballer
- Josef Singer (1923-2009) – Israeli President of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
- Josef von Sternberg – film director
- Eduard Strauss – composer
- Johann Strauss I – composer
- Johann Strauss II – composer
- Josef Strauss – composer
- Erich von Stroheim – actor
- Friedrich Torberg – writer and journalist
- Barbara Valentin – actress
- Thomas Vanek – professional ice hockey player
- Otto Wagner – architect
- Bruno Walter – conductor
- Christoph Waltz – actor
- Katia Wagner – Miss Earth Air 2013
- Erich Wasicky, Nazi SS pharmacist at Mauthausen concentration camp in charge of gassing victims; was executed
- Anton von Webern – composer
- Otto Weininger – philosopher
- Franz Werfel – writer
- Christine Werner – writer
- Friedrich von Wieser – economist
- Geri Winkler – mountaineer
- Ludwig Wittgenstein – philosopher
- Joe Zawinul – composer, keyboard player and jazz pianist
- Alexander von Zemlinski – composer
- Fred Zinnemann – director
- Birgit Zotz – writer
- Stefan Zweig – writer
See also
References
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