List of Famous people born in Austria
Maria Rauch-Kallat
Maria Rauch-Kallat is a former Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) politician who served as Minister of Health and Women from 2003 to 2007 in the Austrian government. She is currently a management consultant.
Helga Anders
Helga Anders was an Austrian actress.
Erni Mangold
Erni Mangold is an Austrian actress and stage director. Since 1948, she had appeared in more than 75 films and TV productions.
Rainhard Fendrich
Rainhard Jürgen Fendrich is an Austrian singer, composer, entertainer, and actor. He is one of the most successful Austropop musicians, and his songs are written in Viennese German. He is very popular in Austria, but less so in other German-speaking countries. In non-German-speaking countries he is little known. His song from 1990, "I Am from Austria" is still popular in Austria.
Philippa Strache
Pia Philippa Strache is an Austrian presenter and politician (FPÖ).
Otto Skorzeny
Otto Skorzeny was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved in several operations, including the removal from power of Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy and the Gran Sasso raid which rescued Benito Mussolini from captivity. Skorzeny led Operation Greif in which German soldiers infiltrated Allied lines by using their opponents' uniforms, equipment, language and customs. He was charged for that at the Dachau Military Tribunal with breaching the 1907 Hague Convention, but was acquitted after a former British SOE agent F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas testified that he and his operatives had worn German uniforms behind enemy lines.
Werner Kogler
Werner Kogler is an Austrian politician of the Green Party who has been serving as the Vice-Chancellor of Austria and the minister for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz since 7 January 2020.
Larisa Udovichenko
Larisa Ivanovna Udovichenko is a Russian actress. People's Artist of Russia (1998).
Marcel Sabitzer
Marcel Sabitzer is an Austrian professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga and the Austria national team.
Susanne Riess
Susanne Riess is a former Austrian politician of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).