List of Famous people born in Austria
Dora
Dora is the pseudonym given by Sigmund Freud to a patient whom he diagnosed with hysteria, and treated for about eleven weeks in 1900. Her most manifest hysterical symptom was aphonia, or loss of voice. The patient's real name was Ida Bauer (1882–1945); her brother Otto Bauer was a leading member of the Austro-Marxist movement.
Archduke Friedrich of Austria
Archduke Friedrich Ferdinand Leopold of Austria was a member of the House of Habsburg and Commander-in-Chief of the Austrian Navy.
Carl Djerassi
Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-born Bulgarian-American chemist, novelist, playwright and co-founder of Djerassi Resident Artists Program with Diane Wood Middlebrook. He is best known for his contribution to the development of oral contraceptive pills, nicknamed the father of the pill.
Franz Xaver Süssmayr
Franz Xaver Süssmayr was an Austrian composer and conductor. Popular in his day, he is now known primarily as the composer who completed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's unfinished Requiem. In addition, there have been performances of Süssmayr's operas at Kremsmünster, and his secular political cantata (1796), Der Retter in Gefahr, SmWV 302, received its first full performance in over 200 years in June 2012 in a new edition by Mark Nabholz, conducted by Terrence Stoneberg. There are also CD recordings of his unfinished clarinet concerto, one of his German requiems, and his Missa Solemnis in D.
Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe
Eduard Franz Joseph Graf von Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe was an Austrian statesman, who served for two terms as Minister-President of Cisleithania, leading cabinets from 1868 to 1870 and 1879 to 1893. He was a scion of the Irish Taaffe noble dynasty, who held hereditary titles from two countries: Imperial Counts (Reichsgrafen) of the Holy Roman Empire and viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland.
Thomas Geierspichler
Thomas Geierspichler is a Paralympic wheelchair racer from Austria. He competes in the T52 classification.
Albert Rohan
Albert Rohan was an Austrian diplomat. He served as Secretary General (Generalsekretär) of the Austrian Foreign Ministry from 1996 to 2001.
Immy Schell
Prince Georg, 3rd Duke of Hohenberg
Georg, Duke of Hohenberg, was a grandson of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. At the time of his death he was the senior agnate of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria
Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Further Austria was the ruler of Further Austria including Tyrol from 1662 to 1665.