List_of_Austrians

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of Austrians List of Austrians Famous or notable Austrians include: Arts/culture • Pauline von Metternich, patron of music and culture Actors/Actresses • • • • • • Leon Askin, actor Senta Berger, actress Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor Käthe Gold, stage actress Liane Haid, first Austrian movie star. 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") Hans Moser, comedy actor Maximilian Schell, actor Romy Schneider, actress Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder, actor, became U.S. citizen, governor of the U.S. state of California (2003– ) Erich von Stroheim, actor and film director Oskar Werner, actor • • • • • • • Egon Schiele • Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, architect and political activist • De Es Schwertberger, artist • Harry Seidler, architect • Helmut Skrdla, photographer • 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 Artists/Architects • Albin Egger-Lienz, painter • Karl Ehn, architect, designer of the KarlMarx-Hof. • Ernst Fuchs, artist • 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 • 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 Composers/Musicians • • • • • 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 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of Austrians Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Johann Strauss II Joseph Haydn • Karlheinz Essl, composer and electronical musician • Falco, pop musician • Wolfgang Ambros, famous Austro pop musician • Christian Fennesz, electronic musician • Bernhard Gál, composer and artist • Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor • Joseph Haydn, composer Arnold Schoenberg, Los Angeles, 1948 • Michael Haydn, composer, younger brother of Joseph Haydn • Klaus Hübler, composer • Udo Jürgens, singer-songwriter • Herbert von Karajan, conductor 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Bernhard Lang, composer • Herbert Lauermann, composer and professor for composition • Gustav Mahler, composer • Penny McLean, singer with the disco group Silver Convention • Leopold Mozart, composer and musician • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer and musician • Gerhard Potuznik, electronic musician • Werner Raditschnig, composer and musician • Arnold Schönberg, composer • Franz Schubert, composer and musician • Johann Strauss, Sr., composer • Johann Strauss, Jr., composer • Josef Strauss, composer • Franz von Suppé, composer • Anton Webern, composer • Hugo Wolf, composer • Joe Zawinul, jazz musician, composer • Eric Zeisl (1905-1959) composer • Alexander von Zemlinsky, composer • • • • List of Austrians Eugène Daniel von Rothschild, investor Ferdinand James von Rothschild, investor Ludwig (Louis) von Nathaniel, banker Nathaniel Mayer Anselm von Rothschild, banker • Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, banker Filmmakers • Amir Esmann, director, director of photography , writer • 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 • Michael Glawogger, film director and writer • Michael Haneke, film director (born in Germany, however lives and works in Austria) • Fritz Lang, film director • Otto Preminger, film director • Ulrich Seidl, film director and writer • Josef von Sternberg, film director • Erich von Stroheim, director • Hans Weingartner, film director, producer and writer • Virgil Widrich, film director, producer and writer • Billy Wilder, film director, born in AustriaHungary • Fred Zinnemann, film director Entrepreneurs • Ignaz Glaser, entrepreneur • Gaston Glock, inventor, founder of Glock • Niki Lauda, Formula One race car driver and aviation entrepreneur • Richard Lugner, entrepreneur and society figure • Dietrich Mateschitz, businessman behind the Red Bull brand • Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer, designed the Volkswagen (the "people’s car"), born in Austria-Hungary • Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, automotive engineer and entrepreneur, he expanded the sports car manufacturer Porsche AG to what it is now • Bela Rabelbauer • Johann Puch, inventor, mechanic, cofounder of Steyr-Daimler-Puch. • Robert Schlumberger, entrepreneur • Frank Stronach, (born in Austria), entrepreneur • Daniel Swarovski, founder of Swarovski AG, world famous crystals • Hannes Androsch, former minister of finance in the government of Bruno Kreisky • Max Riedel, fine glass • Albert Salomon von Rothschild, banker • Alfons von Rothschild, banker • Anselm von Rothschild, banker Mountaineers • Peter Aufschnaiter, mountaineer and cotraveller of Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet) • Karl Blodig, mountaineer (first to climb all alpine mountains above 4000m) • Hermann Buhl, first ascent of Nanga Parbat 1953, first ascent of Broad Peak • Kurt Diemberger, first ascents of Broad Peak (1957) and Dhaulagiri (1960) • Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer (first ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid) and writer (Seven Years in Tibet) • Peter Habeler, first ascent of Mount Everest without oxygen (together with Reinhold Messner) • Ludwig Purtscheller, first ascent of Kilimanjaro in 1889 3 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Marcus Schmuck, first ascent of Broad Peak in 1957 as expedition leader • Herbert Tichy, geologist, journalist and mountaineer (first ascent of Cho Oyo) • Luis Trenker, mountaineer, film director and writer (born in Tyrol, AustriaHungary) • Fritz Wintersteller, first ascent of Broad Peak in 1957 List of Austrians Military leaders Klemens von Metternich • Dr. Otto Bauer, Social democrat politician, writer and marxist ideologist • Count Leopold von Berchtold, foreign minister at the outbreak of the First World War • Richard Nikolaus Graf CoudenhoveKalergi, politician and writer • Engelbert Dollfuß, Chancellor 1932-1934 (First Republic), established Austrofascism • Leopold Figl, Chancellor 1945-1953, foreign minister 1953-1959 • Heinz Fischer, current President (elected 2004) • Werner Faymann, current Chancellor (since 2008), chairman of the Austrian Socialdemocrats • Jörg Haider, right-wing populist politician, governour of Carinthia until his death in 2008 • Adolf Hitler, dictator of Nazi Germany 1933-1945, gained German citizenship in 1932 • Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, statesman and historian • Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, archbishop of Vienna 1932-1955, minister of social affairs 1929-1930 • Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Nazi politician • Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, statesman • Rudolf Kirchschläger, judge, diplomat and President 1974-1986 • Thomas Klestil, diplomat, President 1992-2004 Radetzky • Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Field marshall • 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 Fürst zu Windisch-Grätz, general • Archduke Charles of Austria, fight against Napoleon Politicians • Viktor Adler, Social democrat • Friedrich Adler, Social democrat • Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni, statesman and diplomat 4 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor 1970-1983, first Jewish Austrian in that office • 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, current governor of California • Ignaz Seipel, Catholic priest, Chancellor 1922-1924 and 1926-1929 • Arthur Seyß-Inquart, Nazi 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, Secretary-General of the United Nations 1972-1982, President of Austria 1986-1992 List of Austrians Religious leaders • Ignaz Seipel, Catholic priest, Chancellor 1922-1924 and 1926-1929 • Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna 1932-1955, minister of social affairs 1929-1930 • Franz Cardinal König, 1905-2004, Archbishop of Vienna (1956–1985) • Christoph Schönborn, archbishop and cardinal Franz Joseph I • 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 maleline 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, selfstyled archduke 1358-1365 (Privilegium Maius) Royalty • Elisabeth, Empress-Consort of Austria, wife of Francis Joseph I. • Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria • Franz Ferdinand, Archduke (assassinated in 1914) • Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria • Francis II/I, Holy Roman Emperor, first Emperor of Austria • Frederick II of Austria, last Babenberger duke of Austria • Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, reformer (abolished the death penalty) 1780-1790 • Karl V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500-1558 • Karl I, last Emperor of Austria Science 5 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of Austrians • Josef Ressel, inventor of the marine screw propeller, pneumatic post and ball bearing Economists • Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics • Friedrich von Wieser, economist of the Austrian School • Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk economist and early member of the Austrian School of Economics • Ludwig von Mises, free-market economist • 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) • Oskar Morgenstern, co-founder of game theory • Otto Neurath, socialist, economist and philosopher • Joseph Schumpeter, economist, born in Triesch, Austria-Hungary • Jeffrey Herbener, economist, fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute 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 • Georg Kreisel, philosopher and mathematician • Hans Köchler, philosopher (born in Schwaz, 1948) • Alexius Meinong, philosopher (theory of objects) 1853-1920 • Otto Neurath, socialist, economist and philosopher • Karl Popper, philosopher (born in Austria, became British) • Otto Weininger, philosopher • Friedrich Waismann, mathematician, philosopher and physicist (member of the Vienna Circle) • Felix Weltsch, journalist, philosopher, student of Christian von Ehrenfels • Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher, born 1889 in Vienna Engineers/Inventors • Anselm Franz, pioneer in jet engine engineering, designed the world’s first turbojet • Gaston Glock, inventor, founder of GLOCK GmbH • Hedy Lamarr, (known for research in frequencies, needed for mobile phones) • 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) • Peter Mitterhofer, inventor of typewriter • 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 • Alois Senefelder, inventor of the printing technique of lithography • Max Valier, rocketry pioneer • Auer von Welsbach, inventor of gaslight • Eduard Haas, inventor of PEZ Physicists, mathematicians and chemists • Emil Artin, mathematician (Artin’s conjecture) • Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, 1844-1906, born in Vienna • Carl Cori, born in Prague, AustriaHungary, biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1947 • Christian Andreas Doppler, physicist, 1803-1853, born in Salzburg (See Doppler effect) • Paul Ehrenfest, physicist & mathematician • Felix Ehrenhaft, maverick physicist, 1879-1952 • Kurt Gödel, mathematician (born in Austria-Hungary, became naturalized U.S. citizen) 6 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Hans Hahn, mathematician (member of the Vienna Circle) • Friedrich Hasenöhrl, physicist • Victor Franz Hess, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics • Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, chemist • Georg Kreisel, philosopher and mathematician • Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1998 • 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) • 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 Zippetype centrifuge to extract Uranium-235 for nuclear weapons) • Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925 List of Austrians • 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 • Bruno Bettelheim, psychologist • Otto Rank, pioneer psychologist • Paul Watzlawick, communication theory Other scientists • Othenio Abel, paleontologist • Hans Hass, biologist • 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 Physicians • Alfred Adler, psychiatrist, father of Individual Psychology • Hans Asperger, pediatrician (most known for work on autism; see Asperger’s syndrome) • 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 Sports • • • • • • • • • Gerhard Berger, racing driver Michaela Dorfmeister, alpine skier Erich Eliskases, chess grandmaster Toni Fritsch, soccer and football player who won the Super Bowl in 1972 Ernst Grünfeld, chess grandmaster Tunc Hamarat, correspondence chess world champion (2004) Ernst Happel, football player and coach. Hansi Hinterseer, skier, singer, actor, entertainer Franz Klammer, Olympic alpine ski champion 7 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Hans Krankl, football player and coach • Niki Lauda, Formula One race car driver and aviation entrepreneur • Hermann Maier, Olympic alpine ski champion • Annemarie Moser-Pröll, alpine skier • Thomas Muster, tennis champion • Eva Pawlik, European figure skating Champion, • Herbert Prohaska, football player and coach • Jochen Rindt, race car driver, Formula One World Champion of 1970 • Gigi Rüf, snowboarder • Toni Sailer, 1956 Olympic Games - won all three gold medals earning himself the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing; born 1935 • Wilhelm Steinitz, winner of first ever world chess championship in 1886 • Prince Max Schaumburg-Lippe, Austria’s first race car driver. Drove BMW and Mercedes. • Carl Schlechter, chess grandmaster • Nicole Trimmel, kickboxing champion • Matthias Sindelar, regarded by many as Austria’s greatest ever footballer. • Rudolf Spielmann, chess grandmaster • Herma Szabo, Olympic and five-time World figure skating champion • Anita Wachter, Olympic alpine ski champion, born 1967 in Schruns. List of Austrians Adalbert Stifter • Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer (style: psychological novelist) • Alfred Fried, writer, pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1911 • 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 • Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946), 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature • Franz Kafka, writer • Alexander Lernet-Holenia, novelist, poet, dramtist, critic, 1897-1976 • Robert Menasse, writer and publicist • Robert Musil, writer • Johann Nestroy, famous playwright • Christine Nöstlinger, writer (especially literature for children) • Christoph Ransmayr, writer • Ferdinand Raimund, writer and dramatist • Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and novelist • Peter Rosegger, writer 1843-1918 • Joseph Roth, writer (Radetzkymarsch) • Arthur Schnitzler, writer • Hilde Spiel, writer and journalist • Adalbert Stifter, poet and artist (died 1869) 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, AustriaHungary 1884, wrote in German • Elias Canetti, writer (born in Rousse, Bulgaria 1905), wrote in German, Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 • Otto Maria Carpeaux, literary critic and foremost historian of Literature, 1900-1978 • Paul Celan, poet (born in Romania, Austria-Hungary), wrote in German • Heimito von Doderer, writer, 1896-1966, born in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau near Vienna 8 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Bertha von Suttner, writer and pacifist Nobel Peace Prize winner • Friedrich Torberg, narrative writer, essayist, script author 1908-1979, born in Vienna • Georg Trakl, poet • Josef Weinheber, poet and essayist • Franz Werfel, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German) • Oswald von Wolkenstein, writer and composer 1376-1445 • Stefan Zweig, writer, 1881-1942, born in Vienna List of Austrians • Julius von Payer, polar explorer • Wolfgang Priklopil, kidnapped Natascha Kampusch and kept her captive for over 8 years • Wolfgang Puck, celebrity chef and restaurateur • Ben Markham, wealthy Austrian businessman and traveller. • 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) • Otto Skorzeny, Nazi commando (rescuer of Benito Mussolini) • Rudolf Muhs, philosopher, Nobel Prize in Peace, historian, eugenicist, politician. • 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, preeminent Nazi hunter • Katherine Schindle, founder of Imadumbsczer Press Other notables • Maria Altmann, niece of Adele BlochBauer • Oscar Baumann, explored the interior of German East Africa (present-day Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi) • Robert Bernardis, resistance fighter during WW2 (July 20 Plot) • Rudolph Bing, opera manager • Adele Bloch-Bauer, subject of famous painting by Gustav Klimt • Amon Göth, commander of KrakówPłaszów concentration camp • HI & RH Otto Von Habsburg-Lothringen 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) • Natascha Kampusch, girl who was kidnapped for 8 years. • 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 See also • • • • • • • • • • List List List List List List List List List List of of of of of of of of of of Austrian Jews Germans Slovenians Hungarians Croatians Serbs Czechs Slovaks Poles people by nationality Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Austrians" Categories: Lists of Austrians, Austrian people, Lists of people by nationality This page was last modified on 8 May 2009, at 20:49 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a U.S. registered 501(c)(3) taxdeductible nonprofit charity. Privacy policy About Wikipedia Disclaimers 9