List of Famous people born in Austria
Archduke Maximilian Eugen of Austria
Archduke Maximilian of Austria was a member of the House of Habsburg and the younger brother of the Emperor Charles I of Austria. From 10 April 1919, according to republican Austrian law, his name was Maximilian Eugen Habsburg-Lothringen.
Nikolas Berger
Nikolas "Nik" Berger is an Austrian beach volleyball player.
Adolf Lieben
Adolf Lieben was an Austrian Jewish chemist. He was born in Vienna the son of Ignatz Lieben. He studied at the University of Vienna, University of Heidelberg, and Paris, and subsequently held the positions of privat-docent at the University of Vienna (1861), and professor in the universities of Palermo (1863), Turin (1867), and Prague (1871). From 1875 until his death he held the chair of general and pharmacological chemistry at the University of Vienna, and is a member of the Vienna Academy of Sciences.
Gerhard Deimek
Gerhard Deimek is an Austrian politician who has been a Member of the National Council for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) since 2008.
Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria
Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria, later known as Ferdinand Burg
Sophie Esterházy-Liechtenstein
Sophie Esterházy-Liechtenstein, was an Austrian courtier. She served as Oberhofmeisterin to Empress Elisabeth of Austria in 1854-1862. She was disliked by the Empress, as she was a confidante of the Empress' mother-in-law, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, and suspected to be her spy. She was also described as very strict, and her attitude toward Elisabeth was compared to a governess. She was replaced by Pauline von Königsegg. She has been portrayed in numerous books about Elisabeth.
Claudia Riegler
Claudia Riegler is an alpine skier from Austria who competes in slalom skiing for New Zealand.
Count Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf
Franz Xaver Josef Conrad von Hötzendorf, sometimes anglicised as Hoetzendorf, was an Austrian general who played a central role in World War I. He served as K.u.k. Feldmarschall and Chief of the General Staff of the military of the Austro-Hungarian Army and Navy from 1906 to 1917. He was in charge during the July Crisis of 1914 that caused World War I. For years he had repeatedly called for preemptive war against Serbia to rescue the multiethnic Habsburg Empire, which was, he believed, nearing disintegration. Later on, he came to believe that the Dual Monarchy had taken action at the eleventh hour. The Army was also unprepared and he had resorted to politics to further his goals. He was unaware that Germany would relocate the majority of his forces to the East, rather than in the Balkans. Conrad was anxious about invading Russia and when the Tsar's armies had captured the Carpathian mountain passes and were on the verge of invading Hungary, Italy entered the war on the side of the Allies. Nevertheless, the Austro-Germans cleared Galicia and Poland during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive in the summer of 1915 and later conquered Serbia in October. From 1915 his troops were increasingly reliant on German support and command. Without support from its German allies the Austro-Hungarian Army was an exhausted force. In March 1917, Charles I of Austria dismissed him as Chief of Staff after Emperor Franz Joseph died and Conrad's Trentino Offensive had failed to achieve its objective; he then commanded an army group on the Italian Front until he retired in the summer of 1918. He died in 1925.
Gregor Mühlberger
Gregor Mühlberger is an Austrian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.
Manon Gropius
Alma Manon Gropius was the daughter of the architect Walter Gropius and the composer and diarist Alma Mahler and the stepdaughter of the novelist and poet Franz Werfel. She is a Randfigur whose importance lies in her key relationships to major figures: a muse who inspired the composer Alban Berg as well as Werfel and the Nobel Prize-winning writer Elias Canetti. Manon Gropius is most often cited as the "angel" and dedicatee of Berg's Violin Concerto (1935).