List of Famous people born in Austria
Gert-René Polli
Gert-René Polli was head of the Austrian Office for the Protection of the Constitution and Counterterrorism.
Marco Rossi
Marco Rossi is an Austrian professional ice hockey player for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL). Rossi grew up in Austria and moved to Switzerland in 2011 to further his career. He spent several years there, making his professional debut in 2018 with the GCK Lions of the Swiss League, the second tier of hockey in Switzerland. Selected by the 67s in the 2018 CHL Import Draft, Rossi moved to North America that year and has played two seasons there. In 2019–20 he led the OHL in scoring and was awarded the Red Tilson Trophy as the most valuable player in the league. Regarded as a top prospect for the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, Rossi was selected 9th overall by the Wild. Internationally Rossi has played for the Austrian national junior team at the under-18 World Championships and World Junior Championships.
Gertrude Pritzi
Gertrude Pritzi was a female international table tennis player from Austria.
Michael Konsel
Michael Konsel is a retired Austrian football goalkeeper.
Leopold Joseph von Daun
Count Leopold Joseph von Daun, later Prince of Thiano, was an Austrian field marshal of the Imperial Army in the War of the Austrian Succession and Seven Years' War.
Christine Böhm
Christine Böhm was an Austrian actress. She performed in many comedies and appeared on Arsen Lupin, a 1970s television series. She died in an accident at age 25.
Adam Albert von Neipperg
Adam Albert, Count von Neipperg was an Austrian general and statesman. He was the son of a diplomat famous for inventing a letter-copying machine, and the grandson of Count Wilhelm Reinhard von Neipperg.
Carl Zeller
Carl Adam Johann Nepomuk Zeller was an Austrian composer of operettas.
Hermann Leopoldi
Hermann Leopoldi was an Austrian composer and cabaret star who survived Buchenwald. Einzi Stolz, wife of composer Robert Stolz, remembered him thus:
- "Leopoldi was for us all some sort of creature from a different planet. Through a salvation bordering on a wonder he had survived the horrors of concentration camps Buchenwald and Dachau. He maintained his belief in the good in humanity and remained an optimist, who gave courage and confidence to many in times of difficulty."
Reinhold Ranftl
Reinhold Ranftl is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Schalke 04.