List of Famous people born in Austria
Fritz Kortner
Fritz Kortner was an Austrian stage and film actor and theatre director.
Walter Horak
Walter Horak was an Austrian football player.
Franz M. Wuketits
Franz Manfred Wuketits was an Austrian biologist, university teacher and epistemologist. He wrote extensively on epistemology, the history and theory of biology, evolution theory, evolutionary ethics, evolutionary epistemology and sociobiology.
Heinz Schilcher
Heinz Schilcher was an Austrian football player and manager, who worked as a scout for AFC Ajax.
Judy Cassab
Judy Cassab, born Judit Kaszab, was an Australian painter.
Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza
Dom Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza was the claimant to the defunct Portuguese throne, as both the Miguelist successor of his father, Miguel, Duke of Braganza, and later as the head of the only Brigantine house, after the death of the last Legitimist Braganza, King Manuel II of Portugal. In 1952, when the Portuguese Laws of Banishment were repealed, the Duke moved his family to Portugal, thus returning the Miguelist Braganzas to their homeland and becoming the first of the former Portuguese royal dynasty to live in Portugal since the deposition of the monarchy, in 1910.
Ursula Poznanski
Ursula Poznanski is an Austrian writer. She won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, Jugendjury prize in 2011 for her thriller novel Erebos, which has been translated into 22 languages.
Sandra Wollner
Sandra Wollner is an Austrian film director and screenwriter. She made her feature directorial debut with The Impossible Picture (2016), and also directed and co-wrote The Trouble with Being Born (2020).
Philomena de Tornos y Steinhart
Philomena, Countess of Paris is an aristocrat of Hispanic-Austrian descent. She is the wife of Jean, Count of Paris, Orléanist claimant to the throne of France and head of the House of Orléans.
Franz Josef Altenburg
Franz Josef Georg Clemens Maria Leopold Salvator, Prince of Altenburg was an Austrian ceramicist and sculptor. He was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. He was regarded as a leading modern ceramicist of Austria, and received awards including the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.