List of Famous people born in Austria
Trixi Schuba
Beatrix "Trixi" Schuba is an Austrian former competitive figure skater who competed in ladies' singles. She is a six-time Austrian national champion (1967–1972), a two-time European champion, a two-time World champion, and 1972 Olympic champion.
Raul Hilberg
Raul Hilberg was an Austrian-born Jewish-American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the preeminent scholar on the Holocaust. Christopher R. Browning has called him the founding father of Holocaust Studies and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus The Destruction of the European Jews is regarded as seminal for research into the Nazi Final Solution.
Hans Ettmayer
Hans "Buffy" Ettmayer is an Austrian retired footballer and coach. He lives in Notzingen.
Käthe Leichter
Marianne Katharina "Käthe" Leichter was an Austrian economist, women's rights activist, journalist and politician. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria and the Viennese Labour Chamber. She was detained in Ravensbrück concentration camp during the Nazi regime and killed by gas at the Bernburg Euthanasia Centre in 1942.
Max Steiner
Maximilian Raoul Steiner was an Austrian-born American music composer for theatre and films, as well as a conductor. He was a child prodigy who conducted his first operetta when he was twelve and became a full-time professional, either composing, arranging, or conducting, when he was fifteen.
Gerald Melzer
Gerald Melzer is a professional Austrian tennis player. As a qualifier, he reached the semifinals of Munich in 2015. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. 68 in November 2016.
Lukas Pöstlberger
Lukas Pöstlberger is an Austrian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe. He won the Austrian National Road Race Championships in 2012.
Christoph Grabenwarter
Christoph Grabenwarter is an Austrian legal scholar and professor, currently serving as the President of the Constitutional Court.
Karl Korinek
Karl Korinek was an Austrian constitutional scholar and educator. Korinek taught law at the University of Graz, the Vienna University of Economics and Business, the University of Vienna, and the Danube University Krems. In 1978, Korinek was appointed to the Austrian Constitutional Court; he served as the president of the court from 2003 until his retirement in 2008.
Andre Asriel
Andre Asriel was an Austrian-German composer.