List of Famous people born in Austria
Julius Wess
Julius Erich Wess was an Austrian theoretical physicist noted as the co-inventor of the Wess–Zumino model and Wess–Zumino–Witten model in the field of supersymmetry. He was also a recipient of the Max Planck medal, the Wigner medal, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the Heineman Prize, and of several honorary doctorates.
Claudia Riegler
Claudia Riegler is a snowboarder from Austria. She competed for Austria at the 2010 Winter Olympics in parallel giant slalom, finishing seventh. Riegler later captured silver and bronze medals at the 2011 FIS Snowboarding World Championships.
Walter Mischel
Walter Mischel was an Austrian-born American psychologist specializing in personality theory and social psychology. He was the Robert Johnston Niven Professor of Humane Letters in the Department of Psychology at Columbia University. A Review of General Psychology survey, published in 2002, ranked Mischel as the 25th most cited psychologist of the 20th century.
Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg
Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg was an Austrian poet of the Baroque era. Greiffenberg is one of the most significant German-language female writers of the early modern era. Her work is regularly profoundly close to home, as often as possible communicated as an inward monologue.
Sascha Horvath
Sascha Horvath is an Austrian professional footballer who plays for TSV Hartberg. He plays as a central midfielder.
Ernst L. Freud
Ernst L. Freud was an Austrian architect and the fourth child of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his German-born wife Martha Bernays. In honour of his wife, Ernst Freud added the initial L. to his name when he married in early 1920, making the middle initial stand for Lucie and not Ludwig as is often assumed.
Franz Schuh
Franz Schuh is an Austrian novelist, literary critic and, above all, essayist in the tradition of Karl Kraus and Alfred Polgar. Schuh was born, and lives, in Vienna, where, just like his predecessors, he prefers to write in one of the traditional coffeehouses.
Georg Streitberger
Georg Streitberger is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Born in Zell am See, Salzburg, he specialized in the speed events and won three World Cup races, two in super G and one in downhill.
Ingrid Leodolter
Ingrid Maria Margarete Leodolter was a physician and Austria's first Minister of Public Health and Environmental Protection.
Carl Czerny
Carl Czerny was an Austrian composer, teacher, and pianist of Czech origin whose music spanned the late Classical and early Romantic eras. His vast musical production amounted to over a thousand works and his books of studies for the piano are still widely used in piano teaching. He was one of Ludwig van Beethoven's numerous pupils.