List of Austrians

Actors/actresses

Leon Askin, actor

Helmut Berger, actor

Senta Berger, actress

Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor

Käthe Gold, stage actress

Liane Haid, first Austrian movie star

Attila Hörbiger, actor

Christiane Hörbiger, actress

Paul Hörbiger, actor

Melanie Kogler, television and theatre actress

Hedy Lamarr, actress; also co-inventor of spread spectrum radio technology; became U.S. citizen

Karl Merkatz, actor (most notable for his role as a Viennese in "Mundl")

Birgit Minichmayr, actress

Hans Moser, comedy actor

Reggie Nalder, actor

Maximilian Schell, actor

Romy Schneider, actress

Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder, actor, became U.S. citizen, governor of the U.S. state of California (2003–2011)

Erich von Stroheim, actor and film director

Christoph Waltz, actor

Oskar Werner, actor

Artists/architects

Maria Auböck, landscape architect

Bernhard Cella, conceptual artist

Albin Egger-Lienz, painter

Karl Ehn, architect, designer of the Karl-Marx-Hof

Trude Fleischmann, photographer

Ernst Fuchs, artist

Xenia Hausner, painter

Gottfried Helnwein, artist, born in Vienna

Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist

Gustav Klimt, artist, helped found Vienna Secession

Oskar Kokoschka, painter

Alfred Kubin, graphic artist

Adolf Loos, architect, born in Brno (Moravia, present-day Czech Republic)

Hans Makart, history painter, designer and decorator

Inge Morath, photographer

Richard Neutra, architect

Willy Puchner, photographer

Arnulf Rainer, painter

Johann Michael Rottmayr, Baroque painter

Egon Schiele, painter

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, architect and political activist

De Es Schwertberger, artist

Harry Seidler, architect

Aloys Wach, painter

Otto Wagner, Jugendstil architect behind much of turn-of-the-century Viennese architecture

Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, painter

Franz West, artist

Olga Wisinger-Florian, painter

Composers/musicians

Wolfgang Ambros, pop musician

Louie Austen, composer and musician

Alban Berg, composer

Alfred Brendel, pianist

Anton Bruckner, composer

Carl Czerny, pianist and composer

Anton Diabelli, publisher, editor and composer

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer

Karlheinz Essl, composer and electronical musician

Falco, pop musician

Christian Fennesz, electronic musician

Bernhard Gál, composer and artist

Georg Friedrich Haas, composer

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor

Joseph Haydn, composer

Michael Haydn, composer, younger brother of Joseph Haydn

Udo Jürgens, singer-songwriter

Herbert von Karajan, conductor

Bernhard Lang, composer

Thomas Lang, drummer and composer

Joseph Lanner, composer

Elisabeth Leonskaja, pianist, Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, First Class, in 2006

Gustav Mahler, composer

Penny McLean, singer with the disco group Silver Convention

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, musician and composer

Gerhard Potuznik, electronic musician

Franz Schmidt, composer

Arnold Schoenberg, composer

Franz Schubert, composer and musician

Sissi Schulmeister, musician with the punk band Alice Donut

Parov Stelar, electronic musician

Eduard Strauss, composer

Johann Strauss, Jr., composer

Johann Strauss, Sr., composer

Josef Strauss, composer

Franz von Suppé, composer

Anton Webern, composer

Franz Welser-Möst, conductor

Hugo Wolf, composer

Conchita Wurst, pop musician

Joe Zawinul, jazz musician, composer

Eric Zeisl (1905–1959) composer

Alexander von Zemlinsky, composer

Entrepreneurs

Hannes Androsch, former minister of finance in the government of Bruno Kreisky

Ignaz Glaser, entrepreneur

Gaston Glock, inventor, founder of Glock Ges.m.b.H.

Niki Lauda, Formula One race car driver and aviation entrepreneur

Richard Lugner, entrepreneur and society figure

Dietrich Mateschitz, businessman behind the Red Bull brand

Ludwig (Louis) von Nathaniel, banker

Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer, designed the Volkswagen (the "people's car"), born in Vratislavice nad Nisou (Austria-Hungary, Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic), 1875–1951

Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, automotive engineer and entrepreneur, he expanded the sports car manufacturer Porsche AG to what it is now

Johann Puch, inventor, mechanic, co-founder of Steyr-Daimler-Puch

Albert Salomon von Rothschild, banker

Anselm von Rothschild, banker

Ferdinand James von Rothschild, investor

Nathaniel Mayer Anselm von Rothschild, banker

Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, banker

Robert Schlumberger, entrepreneur

Frank Stronach, (born in Austria), entrepreneur

Daniel Swarovski, founder of Swarovski AG, world-famous crystals, born in Jiřetín pod Bukovou, (Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic), 1862–1956

Filmmakers

Barbara Albert, film director, producer and writer

Franz Antel, director, actor and writer

Axel Corti, director

Elfi von Dassanowsky, film producer, singer, pianist

Andrea Maria Dusl, film director and writer

Amir Esmann, director, director of photography, writer

Michael Haneke, film director (born in Germany, however lives and works in Austria)

Fritz Lang, film director

Francis Lawrence, Austrian-American film director

Otto Preminger, film director

Stefan Ruzowitzky, film director and writer

Ulrich Seidl, film director and writer

Josef von Sternberg, film director

Erich von Stroheim, director

Wolfgang Suschitzky, director of photography.

Hans Weingartner, film director, producer and writer

Virgil Widrich, film director, producer and writer

Billy Wilder, film director, born in Austria-Hungary

Fred Zinnemann, film director

Mountaineers

Peter Aufschnaiter, mountaineer and co-traveller of Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet)

Karl Blodig, mountaineer (first to climb all alpine mountains above 4000 m)

Hermann Buhl, first ascent of Nanga Parbat 1953, first ascent of Broad Peak

Kurt Diemberger, first ascents of Broad Peak (1957) and Dhaulagiri (1960)

Peter Habeler, first ascent of Mount Everest without oxygen (together with Reinhold Messner)

Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer (first ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid) and writer (Seven Years in Tibet)

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, first woman to ascend all eight-thousanders without oxygen (2011)

Ludwig Purtscheller, first ascent of Kilimanjaro in 1889

Marcus Schmuck, first ascent of Broad Peak in 1957 as expedition leader

Herbert Tichy, geologist, journalist and mountaineer (first ascent of Cho Oyu)

Luis Trenker, mountaineer, film director and writer (born in the southern part of Tyrol then Austrian-Hungarian)

Fritz Wintersteller, first ascent of Broad Peak in 1957

Military leaders

Haim Bar-Lev, Israeli general and government minister

Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Field marshal

Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, military leader

Prince Eugene of Savoy, general in the war against the Turks (17th–18th century)

Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, admiral

Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz, general

Archduke Charles of Austria, fight against Napoleon

Politicians

Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni, statesman and diplomat

Leopold Graf Berchtold, foreign minister at the outbreak of the First World War

Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, politician and writer

Engelbert Dollfuß, Chancellor 1932–1934 (First Republic), established Austrofascism

Leopold Figl, Chancellor 1945–1953, foreign minister 1953–1959

Heinz Fischer, former President

Werner Faymann, former Chancellor

Jörg Haider, politician, governour of Carinthia until his death in 2008

Adolf Hitler, head of state in the Third Reich 1933–1945, gained German citizenship in 1932, and became German dictator 1938, annexed Austria through the Anschluß

Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, statesman and historian

Theodor Innitzer, cardinal archbishop of Vienna 1932–1955, minister of social affairs 1929–1930

Ernst Kaltenbrunner, NSDAP politician

Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, statesman

Rudolf Kirchschläger, judge, diplomat and President 1974–1986

Thomas Klestil, diplomat, President 1992–2004

Teddy Kollek, Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem

Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor 1970–1983, foreign minister 1959–1966

Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, diplomat and statesman

Julius Raab, Chancellor 1953–1961

Karl Renner, Chancellor 1918–1920 and 1945, first President of the Second Republic 1945–1950

Adolf Schärf, President 1957–1965

Anton von Schmerling, statesman (liberal movement of the 19th century)

Kurt Schuschnigg, Chancellor 1934–1938

Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor 2000–2007

Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor of California

Ignaz Seipel, Catholic priest, Chancellor 1922–1924 and 1926–1929

Arthur Seyß-Inquart, NSDAP politician, last Chancellor before the Anschluss in 1938

Johann Philipp von Stadion, statesman, foreign minister and diplomat 1763–1824

Alexander Van der Bellen, former chairman of the Austrian Green Party

Kurt Waldheim, diplomat and politician, UN Secretary-General 1972–1982, President of Austria 1986–1992

Religious leaders

Theodor Innitzer, cardinal archbishop of Vienna 1932–1955, minister of social affairs 1929–1930

Franz König, 1905–2004, Cardinal Archbishop of Vienna (1956–1985)

Christoph Schönborn, archbishop and cardinal

Ignaz Seipel, Catholic priest, Chancellor 1922–1924 and 1926–1929

Royalty

Elisabeth, Empress-Consort of Austria, wife of Francis Joseph I

Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria

Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria

Francis II/I, Holy Roman Emperor, first Emperor of Austria

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke (assassinated in 1914)

Frederick II of Austria, last Babenberger duke of Austria

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, reformer (abolished the death penalty) 1780–1790

Karl I, last Emperor of Austria

Karl V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500–1558

Leopold V, Babenberg duke of Austria, participated in the Third Crusade

Maria Leopoldina, Archduchess, became Empress of Brazil

Maria Theresia, Archduchess of Austria, Holy Roman Empress-Consort, last male-line Habsburg

Marie Antoinette, Archduchess, became Queen of France

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459–1519

Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico, Archduke of Austria

Rudolph I, King of Germany, first Habsburg king

Rudolf IV of Austria, Duke of Austria, self-styled archduke 1358–1365 (Privilegium Maius)

Economists

Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk economist and early member of the Austrian School of Economics

Friedrich Hayek, economist and social scientist, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974 (became a British citizen in 1938)

Leopold Kohr, (1909–1994), economist, jurist and political scientist

Fritz Machlup

Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics

Ludwig von Mises, free-market economist

Oskar Morgenstern, co-founder of game theory

Otto Neurath, socialist, economist and philosopher

Joseph Schumpeter, economist, born in Triesch, Austria-Hungary

Friedrich von Wieser, economist of the Austrian School

Engineers/inventors

Anselm Franz, pioneer in jet engine engineering, designed the world's first turbojet

Gaston Glock, inventor, founder of firearms company GLOCK GmbH

Eduard Haas, inventor of the Pez candy

Hedy Lamarr, co-inventor of spread spectrum wireless communications, along with George Antheil

Viktor Kaplan, inventor of turbines for river power plants

Wilhelm Kress, aviation pioneer, inventor of the stick control for airplanes

Josef Madersperger, invented the sewing machine in 1818

Siegfried Marcus, automobile pioneer, inventor of the first gasoline powered automobile (vehicles of 1870 and 1889)

Alois Negrelli, engineer and railroad pioneer (created the plans for the Suez Canal)

Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer, designed the Volkswagen (the "people's car"), inventor of the hybrid car, contributed to the design of the Tiger I and Tiger II tanks. Born in Austria-Hungary

Josef Ressel, inventor of the marine screw propeller, pneumatic post and ball bearing

Alois Senefelder, inventor of the printing technique of lithography

Max Valier, rocketry pioneer

Auer von Welsbach, inventor of gaslight

Theodor Scheimpflug, inventor of Scheimpflug photography

Philosophers

Franz Brentano, philosopher and psychologist

Martin Buber, philosopher

Christian von Ehrenfels, philosopher

Herbert Feigl, philosopher (member of the Vienna Circle)

Paul Feyerabend, philosopher (died 1994)

Philipp Frank, philosopher and physicist (member of the Vienna Circle)

Edmund Husserl, philosopher (born in Prossnitz, Austria-Hungary)

Wilhelm Jerusalem, philosopher, born 1854 in Drenitz, died in 1923 in Vienna

Hans Köchler, philosopher (born in Schwaz, 1948)

Georg Kreisel, philosopher and mathematician

Alexius Meinong, philosopher (theory of objects) 1853–1920

Otto Neurath, socialist, economist and philosopher

Karl Popper, philosopher (born in Austria, became British)

Friedrich Waismann, mathematician, philosopher and physicist (member of the Vienna Circle)

Otto Weininger, philosopher

Felix Weltsch, journalist, philosopher, student of Christian von Ehrenfels

Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher, born 1889 in Vienna

Physicists, mathematicians and chemists

Emil Artin, mathematician (Artin's conjecture)

Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, 1844–1906, born in Vienna

Fritjof Capra

Carl Cori, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947

Christian Doppler, physicist, 1803–1853, born in Salzburg (See Doppler effect)

Paul Ehrenfest, physicist & mathematician

Felix Ehrenhaft, maverick physicist, 1879–1952

Josef Finger, physicist and mathematician

Heinz von Foerster, cyberneticist, 1911–2002

Kurt Gödel, mathematician (born in Austria-Hungary, became naturalized U.S. citizen)

Hans Hahn, mathematician (member of the Vienna Circle)

Friedrich Hasenöhrl, physicist

Victor Franz Hess, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics

Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, chemist

Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998

Georg Kreisel, philosopher and mathematician

Richard Kuhn, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1938

Johann Josef Loschmidt, physicist and chemist

Ernst Mach, physicist and philosopher (Mach number)

Lise Meitner, physicist

Richard von Mises, physicist (younger brother of Ludwig von Mises)

John von Neumann, mathematician (Hungarian, Budapest-born)

Wolfgang Pauli, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics 1945

Max Ferdinand Perutz, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962

Fritz Pregl, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1923

Erwin Schrödinger, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics

Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze, mathematician

Carl Auer von Welsbach, chemist

Gernot Zippe, physicist (developed Zippe-type centrifuge to extract uranium-235 for nuclear weapons)

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925 (Hungarian origin)

Physicians

Alfred Adler, psychiatrist, father of Individual Psychology

Hans Asperger, pediatrician who studied autism, person for whom Asperger syndrome is named

Leopold Auenbrugger, physician 1722–1809 (method of percussion)

Robert Bárány, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Josef Breuer, physician (forerunner in psychoanalysis)

Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow, physician and physiologist (studies of nerves and the brain)

Viktor Frankl, psychiatrist, father of logotherapy

Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist, father of psychoanalysis

Karl von Frisch, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Leo Kanner, child psychiatrist

Karl Landsteiner, physician, serologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1886–1943

Otto Loewi, pharmacologist (born in Germany, but spent 40 years (age 25–65) of his life in Austria) Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Franz Mesmer, physician, developed an early form of hypnotism 1734–1815

Paracelsus, (real name: Theophrast von Hohenheim), alchemist and physician

Clemens von Pirquet, pediatrician and scientist in bacteriology and immunology

Wilhelm Reich, psychiatrist, (1897–1957)

Erwin Ringel, Austrian psychiatrist (presuicidal syndrome)

Ignaz Semmelweis, physician (born in Hungary, Austria-Hungary)

Julius Wagner-Jauregg, physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927

Psychologists

Paul Watzlawick, communication theory

Sigmund Freud, Psychoanalysis

Other scientists

Othenio Abel, paleontologist

Hans Hass, biologist and diving pioneer

Hans Kelsen, jurist (father of the Austrian constitution)

Konrad Lorenz zoologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Gregor Mendel, pioneer of genetics

Julius Pokorny, linguist

Rupert Riedl, zoologist

Sports

Margarete Adler, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-meter (m) freestyle relay)

David Alaba, footballer, winner of 2012-13 UEFA Champions League with FC Bayern Munich

Felix Baumgartner, world record setting skydiver

Gerhard Berger, racing driver

Richard Bergmann, 7-time world table tennis champion, ITTF Hall of Fame

Albert Bogen (Albert Bógathy), saber fencer, Olympic silver

Fritzi Burger, figure skater, Olympic 2-time silver, World Championship 2-time silver

Michaela Dorfmeister, alpine skier

Erich Eliskases, chess grandmaster

Siegfried Flesch, sabre fencer, Olympic bronze

Toni Fritsch, soccer and football player who won the Super Bowl in 1972

Ernst Grünfeld, chess grandmaster

Hans Haas, Olympic champion weightlifter (lightweight), silver

Tunc Hamarat, correspondence chess world champion (2004)

Ernst Happel, football player and coach

Judith Haspel (born "Judith Deutsch"), held every Austrian women's middle and long distance freestyle record in 1935

Dr. Otto Herschmann, Olympic 2-silver (in saber fencing/team sabre and 100-m freestyle)

Hansi Hinterseer, skier, singer, actor, entertainer

Nickolaus Hirschl, 2-time Olympic bronze wrestler (heavyweight freestyle and Greco-Roman), Shotput and Discus Junior Champion, Weightlifting Junior Champion, and Pentathlon Champion

Felix Kasper, figure skater, Olympic bronze

Franz Klammer, Olympic alpine ski champion

Hans Krankl, football player and coach

Niki Lauda, Formula One race car driver and aviation entrepreneur

Hermann Maier, Olympic alpine ski champion

Alex Manninger, professional footballer for Arsenal F.C., winner of 1997-98 FA Premier League title

Klara Milch, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-m freestyle relay)

Annemarie Moser-Pröll, alpine skier

Thomas Muster, tennis champion

Paul Neumann, Olympic champion swimmer (500 m freestyle)

Fred Oberlander, wrestler; world champion (freestyle heavyweight); Maccabiah champion

Eva Pawlik, European figure skating Champion

Felix Pipes, Olympic silver tennis player (doubles)

Maxim Podoprigora, Olympic swimmer

Jakob Pöltl, basketball player; played two seasons of U.S. college basketball at Utah before declaring for the 2016 NBA draft

Ellen Preis, foil fencer, 3-time world champion (1947, 1949, and 1950), Olympic champion, 17-time Austrian champion

Herbert Prohaska, football player and coach

Roland Ratzenberger, race car driver, Formula One driver

Jochen Rindt, race car driver, Formula One World Champion of 1970

Toni Sailer, 1956 Olympic Games – won all three gold medals earning himself the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing; born 1935

Otto Scheff (born "Otto Sochaczewsky"), Olympic champion swimmer (400 m freestyle) and 2-time bronze (400 m freestyle, 1,500-m freestyle)

Werner Schlager, 2003 Table Tennis World Champion

Carl Schlechter, chess grandmaster

Gregor Schlierenzauer, Olympic bronze medalist,world and 4 Hills Tournament champion ski jumper

Matthias Sindelar, regarded by many as Austria's greatest ever footballer

Wilhelm Steinitz, winner of first ever world chess championship in 1886

Josephine Sticker, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-m freestyle relay)

Rudolf Spielmann, chess grandmaster

Herma Szabo, Olympic and five-time World figure skating champion

Dominic Thiem, top-20 tennis player

Nicole Trimmel, kickboxing champion

Thomas Vanek, NHL hockey player for the Montreal Canadiens

Anita Wachter, Olympic alpine ski champion, born 1967 in Schruns

Otto Wahle, 2-time Olympic silver swimmer (1,000 m freestyle, 200-m obstacle race) and bronze (400 m freestyle); International Swimming Hall of Fame

Writers

Ingeborg Bachmann, poet, 1926–1973

Hermann Bahr, playwright, novelist 1863–1934

Ludwig Bemelmans, author of the Madeline books, 1898–1962

Thomas Bernhard, dramatist, novelist, poet, 1931–1989, born in Cloister Heerlen, Netherlands

Max Brod, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, (Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic) 1884–1968, wrote in German

Heimito von Doderer, writer, 1896–1966, born in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau near Vienna

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer (style: psychological novelist)

Franz Grillparzer, poet, 1791–1872, Vienna

Robert Hamerling, poet 1830–1889

Peter Handke, author, born in 1942 in Griffen (Carinthia)

Hugo von Hofmannsthal, dramatist, writer

Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer, born 1936, novelist, poet

Werner Kofler, novelist and dramatist.

Karl Gottfried Ritter von Leitner, poet, writer, 1800–1890, born in Graz

Alexander Lernet-Holenia, novelist, poet, dramatist, critic, 1897–1976

Robert Musil, writer

Johann Nestroy, famous playwright

Christine Nöstlinger, writer (especially literature for children)

Ferdinand Raimund, writer and dramatist

Christoph Ransmayr, writer

Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and novelist, born in Prague, (Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic) 1875–1926

Peter Rosegger, writer, teacher & Styrian hero & visionary 1843–1918

Adalbert Stifter, poet and artist (died 1869)

Bertha von Suttner, writer and pacifist Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Prague, (Bohemia, present-day Czech Republic) 1843–1914

Georg Trakl, poet

Josef Weinheber, poet and essayist

Oswald von Wolkenstein, writer and composer 1376–1445

Personalities of the Nazi Party and regime

Amon Leopold Göth

Aribert Heim, physician ("Dr. Death") in the Mauthausen concentration camp

Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party and regime

Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Other notables

Maria Altmann, niece of Adele Bloch-Bauer

Oscar Baumann, explored the interior of German East Africa (present-day Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi)

Robert Bernardis, resistance fighter during WW2 (July 20 Plot)

Rudolf Bing, opera manager

Adele Bloch-Bauer, subject of famous painting by Gustav Klimt

Josef Fritzl, notorious rapist

Otto von Habsburg, politician, writer, heir to the thrones of Austria-Hungary

Theodor Herzl, "father of Zionism," lived most of his life in Austria

Andreas Hofer, Tyrolian freedom fighter (against Napoleon)

Heinrich Kanner, journalist and editor of the newspaper "Die Zeit" in the k.u.k. Monarchy

Alma Mahler, wife and muse to Mahler, Gropius, Werfel

Andreas Maislinger, founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service

Julius von Payer, polar explorer

Wolfgang Puck, celebrity chef and restaurateur

Max Reinhardt, renowned theatre director

Sister Maria Restituta, nun and nurse murdered by the Nazis

Günther Schifter, radio personality

Oskar Schindler, industrialist and famous WWII hero (saved his Jewish factory workers from Auschwitz), born in Svitavy, Moravia, 1908–1974

Otto Skorzeny, Nazi commando (rescuer of Benito Mussolini)

Carl Szokoll, resistance fighter ("saviour of Vienna"), author and film producer

Georg Ludwig von Trapp, head of The Sound of Music family

Franz Viehböck, cosmonaut

Karl Weyprecht, polar explorer

Simon Wiesenthal, 1908–2005, pre-eminent Nazi hunter