List of Famous people born in Austria
Alfred Bader
Alfred Robert Bader, CBE was a Canadian chemist, businessman, philanthropist, and collector of fine art. He was considered by the Chemical & Engineering News poll of 1998 to be one of the "Top 75 Distinguished Contributors to the Chemical Enterprise" during C&EN's 75-year history.
Andreas Daniel Onea
Andreas Daniel Onea is an Austrian Paralympic swimmer. He represented Austria at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. In 2016, he won the bronze medal in the men's 100 metre breaststroke SB8 event. His left arm got amputated after injuries sustained in a car accident.
Marco Friedl
Marco Friedl is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a left-back or centre-back for Werder Bremen.
Ludwig Purtscheller
Ludwig Purtscheller was an Austrian mountaineer and teacher.
Heidi Neururer
Heidi Neururer is a professional snowboarder from Austria. Her speciality is the Parallel (Giant) Slalom.
Tobias Wagner
Tobias Wagner is an Austrian handball player for Fivers Margareten and the Austrian national team.
Karl Böhm
Karl August Leopold Böhm was an Austrian conductor. He was best known for his performances of the music of Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss.
Georg von Peuerbach
Georg von Peuerbach was an Austrian astronomer, mathematician and instrument maker, best known for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.
Franz Wittmann
Franz Wittmann is an Austrian rally driver, who won the 1987 Rally New Zealand, a round of the World Rally Championship (WRC).
Franziska Donner
Francesca Maria Barbara Donner was the inaugural First Lady of South Korea, from 1948 to 1960, as the second wife of Syngman Rhee, the first President of the Republic of Korea.