List of Austrians
Famous Austrians include:
- Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, 1844-1906, born in Vienna
- Fritjof Capra physicist
- Englebert Dolfuss, politician, 1892-1934, born in Texing
- Christian Andreas Doppler, physicist, 1803-1853, born in Salzburg
- Paul Ehrenfest physicist & mathematician
- Elisabeth of Austria ("Sisi")
- Sigmund Freud father of psychoanalysis
- Eduard Haas inventor of PEZ
- Otto Habsburg-Lothringen
- Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933-1945, born in 1888 in Braunau
- Ludwig von Köchel writer, composer, botanist, music historian
- Niki Lauda race car driver
- Gustav Mahler composer
- Lise Meitner physicist
- Gregor Mendel pioneer of genetics
- Klemens Wenzel von Metternich diplomat
- Ludwig von Mises free-market economist
- Leopold Mozart composer & musician
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composer & musician
- Robert Musil writer
- Otto Rank pioneer psychologist
- Jochen Rindt race car driver
- Erwin Schrödinger physicist
- Clara Schumann pianist, composer
- Robert Schumann composer
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder and actor, born 1955, in Graz (became naturalized U.S. citizen)
- Johann Strauss, Sr., 1809-1849, Johann Strauss, Jr., 1825-1899, and Josef Strauss, 1827-1870, the "Waltz Kings" of the latter 19th century
- Anton Sailer, 1956 Olympic Games - Won all three gold medals earning himself the Triple Crown of alpine skiing; born 1935
- Romy Schneider, actress (Sissi)
- Rudolf Steiner mystic & philosopher
- Georg Trakl poet
- Georg Ritter von Trapp head of Sound of Music family
- Kurt Waldheim, diplomat and politician; former Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1982, former President of Austria from 1986 to 1992 born 1918
- Simon Wiesenthal, b. 1908, Nazi-hunter
- Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein, philosopher, born 1889, in Vienna
- Fred Zinnemann film director
- Stefan Zweig, writer, 1881-1942, born in Vienna