List of Viennese

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

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A–G

• Alfred Adler – founder of individual psychology
• Victor Adler – social democrat and activist for the rights of workers
• Ilse Aichinger – writer
• David Alaba – Austrian footballer
• Christopher Alexander – 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
• 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
• 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
• Heimito von Doderer – writer
• Georgia Doll – theatre director, playwright and poet
• Peter Drucker – economist
• Klaus Ebner – writer
• Albert Ehrenstein – writer
• 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
• 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 Goeth – Nazi
• 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
• Theodor Herzl – journalist; founder of modern political Zionism
• Mickey Hirschl – Olympic-medal-winning wrestler, shotput 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
• 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 – actor 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
• 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)
• Friederike Mayröcker – writer
• Lise Meitner – physicist
• Karl Menger – mathematician
• Elfriede Moser-Rath – folklorist
• Karl Motesiczky – psychoanalyst

N–Z

• 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
• Helmut Qualtinger – actor, cabaret performer and writer
• Doron Rabinovici – writer
• Ferdinand Raimund – playwright
• Alma Rosé – violinist; killed at the Auschwitz concentration camp
• 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
• Erwin Schrödinger – physicist; co-recipient of the 1933 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Franz Schubert – composer
• Ernst Schwadron – architect
• Peter Seisenbacher – judoka
• Hans Selye – physiologist
• Matthias Sindelar – footballer
• Josef von Sternberg – film director
• Johann Strauss I – composer
• Johann Strauss II – 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
• 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

• List of Austrians