List of Famous people born in Austria

Margarete Charlotte Haimberger-Tanzer was an Austrian lawyer, prosecutor and judge. Haimberger-Tanzer was the first woman to serve as a criminal judge at a court in the Republic of Austria and one of the first female judges in Austrian legal history. In 1950, Margarete Haimberger was appointed as the first woman criminal judge and thereby initially transferred to the district court Bad Ischl. A year later, she returned to the Vienna Regional Court for Criminal Matters, where she was the first examining magistrate and in 1956 was the first woman chairing a Schöffenverhandlung.

Gerhard Wimberger was an Austrian composer and conductor.

Fritz Moravec was an Austrian mountaineer and author. He is best known for his numerous expeditions in the Karakoram range, where he participated in the first ascent of Gasherbrum II. Moravec was the founder of the Glockner-Kaprun mountaineering school.

Ari Rath was an Austrian-Israeli journalist and writer.

Barbara Haas is an Austrian tennis player.

Astrid Krebsbach, was a German international table tennis player.

Willy Hagara was an Austrian schlager pop singer and actor.

Doris Bures is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ) who serves as the Second President of the Austrian National Council. From September 2014 to November 2017, she was its President. She served as Minister of Transport, Innovation and Technology from 2008 to 2014.

Elise Richter was a Viennese philologist and the only woman at any Austrian university, pre-World War I, to hold an academic appointment. Persecuted by Nazi officials during World War II, she was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia in October 1942, and died there in June 1943.

Teresa Präauer is an Austrian writer and visual artist.