List of Famous people born in Austria
Kathrin Menzinger
Kathrin Menzinger is an Austrian dancer
Larissa Marolt
Larissa-Antonia Marolt is an Austrian fashion model and actress. She was the winner of the first cycle of Austria's Next Topmodel. After her victory she also participated in the fourth season of Germany's Next Top Model, where she was placed eighth.
Matthias Steiner
Matthias Steiner is a retired Austrian-German weightlifter, and Olympic gold medalist.
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power".
David Lama
David Lama was an Austrian sport climber and mountaineer. He won the European Championship in bouldering in 2007 and the European Championship in lead climbing in 2006. He is known for his first free ascent of the Compressor Route on Cerro Torre. In 2018, in a solo expedition, he was the first to reach the summit of Lunag Ri in the Himalayas. In 2019, he was posthumously honoured with a Piolet d'Or for this first ascent.
Hans von Dohnányi
Hans von Dohnanyi was a German jurist of Hungarian ancestry, Righteous Among the Nations, and German resistance member against the Nazi régime.
Robert Stadlober
Robert Stadlober is an Austrian actor and musician. His sister is Anja Stadlober, also an actress.
Johannes Hahn
Johannes Hahn is an Austrian politician who has served as European Commissioner for Budget and Administration since 1 December 2019.
Johann Gudenus
Johann Gudenus is a former Austrian politician who served as a deputy leader of the Freedom Party. Following the Ibiza affair, Gudenus resigned from all political posts in May 2019.
Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objects d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. In addition to his figurative works, which include allegories and portraits, he painted landscapes. Among the artists of the Vienna Secession, Klimt was the most influenced by Japanese art and its methods.