List of people from Vienna
This is a list of notable people from Vienna, Austria.
A–G
- Carlo Abarth, Italian race car driver and tuner
- Gustav Abel, film architect and stage designer
- Othenio Abel, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist
- Wolfgang Abel, anthropologist
- Christoph Ignaz Abele, lawyer and court official
- Leo Aberer, musician
- Walter Abish, American writer
- Leopold Ackermann, theologian
- Antonie Adamberger, actress, fiance of Theodor Körner
- Karl Adamek, footballer and coach
- 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
- 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
- Turhan Bey actor
- Theodore Bikel actor and singer
- Ludwig Boltzmann physicist
- Arik Brauer painter, poet and singer
- Eugene Braunwald cardiologist
- Vanessa Brown 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 FerdinandArchduke
- 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, Nazi SS concentration camp commandant executed for war crimes
- Maximilian Grabner, 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 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 daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria; last absolutistic Queen of France
- Maria Theresa daughter of Emperor Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor; Queen of Bohemia and Hungary
- 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 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 Schwadronarchitect
- Peter Seisenbacher judoka
- Hans Selye physiologist
- Dovid Shmidel rabbi
- Matthias Sindelar footballer
- Josef Singer 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