List of Famous people born in Austria
Christof Straub
Evelyn Lauder
Evelyn Lauder was an Austrian American businesswoman, socialite and philanthropist who has been credited as one of the creators and popularizers of the pink ribbon as a symbol for awareness of breast cancer.
Jacob Taubes
Jacob Taubes was a sociologist of religion, philosopher, and scholar of Judaism.
Erika Weinzierl
Erika Weinzierl was an Austrian historian, gender researcher, and historian of Nazism. A member of the Austrian People's Party and the Curatorium of the Austrian Mauthausen Committee, she was the second director of the Department of Contemporary History of the University of Vienna, succeeding Ludwig Jedlicka. Weinzierl was a recipient of the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, the Preis der Stadt Wien für Geisteswissenschaften, the Benemerenti medal, and the Theodor Körner Prize.
Christoph von Friedl
Robert von Lieben
Robert von Lieben was an Austrian entrepreneur, and self-taught physicist and inventor. Lieben and his associates Eugen Reisz and Siegmund Strauss invented and produced a gas-filled triode – the first thermionic valve with a control grid that was designed specifically for amplification rather than demodulation of signals, and is a distant ancestor of the thyratron. After Lieben's death, the "Lieben valve", which is also known in English as the "Lieben-Reisz valve" and in German as the "LRS-Relais", was used in the world's first continuous wave radio frequency generator designed for radio telephony.
Ricarda Reinisch
Michael Hadschieff
Michael Florian Hadschieff is a former speed skater from Austria.
Max Hermann Jellinek
Liselotte Landbeck
Liselotte Landbeck was an Austrian athlete who competed at a high level in both figure skating and speed skating in the 1930s. In figure skating, she won the bronze medal at the 1934 World Championships. In speed skating, she won the first unofficial World Championship for ladies in 1933, and held the ladies' world record in the 500m as well as the 1000 m.