List of Famous people born in Austria
Franz Viehböck
Franz Artur Viehböck is an Austrian electrical engineer, and was Austria's first cosmonaut. He was titulated „Austronaut“ by his country's media. He visited the Mir space station in 1991 aboard Soyuz TM-13, returning aboard Soyuz TM-12 after spending just over a week in space.
Alexandra Meissnitzer
Alexandra Meissnitzer is a retired World Cup alpine ski racer from Austria. Her specialities were the downhill, super-G, and giant slalom disciplines.
Alexander Wurz
Alexander Wurz is an Austrian former professional racing driver, driver training expert and businessman. He competed in Formula One from 1997 until 2007, and is also a two-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Siegfried Nagl
Siegfried Nagl is, since 2003, the current mayor of Graz. He is a member of ÖVP, the Austrian People's Party. He was one of the many witnesses to the 2015 Graz van attack that killed three and injured more than 30.
Christine Ostermayer
Christine Ostermayer is an Austrian actress.
Walter
Walter Hahn is an Austrian professional wrestler and trainer. He is currently signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Gunther and is the current WWE Intercontinental Champion in his first reign.
Hans Moser
Hans Moser was an Austrian actor who, during his long career, from the 1920s up to his death, mainly played in comedy films. He was particularly associated with the genre of the Wiener Film. Moser appeared in over 150 films.
Christian Hirschbühl
Christian Hirschbühl is an Austrian alpine ski racer. Hirschbuehl specializes in the technical events of Slalom and Giant slalom. Hirschbühl made his World Cup debut on 17 January 2015.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal was an Austrian prodigy, a novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.
Simone Stelzer
Simone Stelzer alias Simone is an Austrian pop singer. She was born in Vienna, Austria on 1 October 1969.