List of Famous people born in Austria
Ilse Aichinger
Ilse Aichinger was an Austrian writer known for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry. She wrote poems, short stories and radio plays, and won multiple European literary prizes.
Roswitha Steiner
Roswitha Steiner is a former Austrian alpine skier.
Sigrid Maurer
Sigrid Maurer is an Austrian politician, and former student representative, (GRAS). From 2013 to 2017, she was a member of the Austrian Greens.
Kristina Inhof
Kristina Inhof is an Austrian presenter and sports journalist at ORF.
Hans Peter Haselsteiner
Hans Peter Haselsteiner is an Austrian industrialist and former politician.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo is considered the most immediate cause of World War I.
Prince Louis of Battenberg
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven,, formerly Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a British naval officer and German prince related to the British royal family.
Nadja Tiller
Nadja Tiller is an Austrian actress. She was one of the most popular Austrian actresses of international films of the 1950s and 1960s.
Anna Kiesenhofer
Anna Kiesenhofer is an Austrian cyclist and postdoctoral fellow in mathematics at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). Kiesenhofer won the gold medal in the women's individual road race in the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics held in 2021, the first Summer Olympics gold medal for Austria since 2004.
Nikolas Vogel
Nikolas Vogel was an Austrian-German film actor and news camera operator. Nikolas Vogel belonged to a family of famous actors and he also became an actor. Vogel left the acting profession to report the news and worked for a short time as journalist before he was killed in the Ten-Day War as Yugoslavia was dividing in the aftermath of Marshall Josip Broz Tito's death. Vogel was killed in a missile incident along with his Austrian colleague Norbert Werner.