List of Famous people born in Austria

Leopold Wagner

First Name Leopold
Last Name Wagner
Born on December 4, 1927
Died on September 26, 2008 (aged 80)
Born in Austria, Carinthia

Leopold Wagner was an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), serving as governor (Landeshauptmann) of Carinthia from 1974 to 1988.

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Paul Aste

First Name Paul
Last Name Aste
Born on December 5, 1916 (age 109)
Born in Austria, Tyrol
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Paul Aste was an Austrian bobsledder and luger who competed during the 1950s and the 1960s. He also took the Olympic Oath for athletes at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.

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Rudolf Goldscheid

First Name Rudolf
Last Name Goldscheid
Born on August 12, 1870
Died on October 6, 1931 (aged 61)
Born in Austria
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Christoph Badelt

First Name Christoph
Last Name Badelt
Born on February 26, 1951 (age 75)
Born in Austria

Christoph Badelt is the current director of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research and professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. He was the Vienna University of Economics and Business's vice-chancellor from March 2002 until September 2015.

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Manuel Witting

First Name Manuel
Last Name Witting
Born on July 26, 1977 (age 48)
Born in Austria
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Karl Sigmund

First Name Karl
Last Name Sigmund
Born on January 1, 1945 (age 81)

Karl Sigmund is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Vienna and one of the pioneers of evolutionary game theory.

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Karl Schnabl

First Name Karl
Last Name Schnabl
Born on March 8, 1954 (age 72)
Born in Austria, Carinthia

Karl Schnabl is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed during the 1970s.

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Berta Karlik

First Name Berta
Last Name Karlik
Born on January 24, 1904
Died on February 4, 1990 (aged 86)
Born in Austria

Berta Karlik was an Austrian physicist. She worked for the University of Vienna, eventually becoming the first female professor at the institution. While working with Ernst Foyn she published a paper on the radioactivity of seawater. She discovered that the chemical element 85 astatine is a product of the natural decay processes. The element was first synthesized in 1940 by Dale R. Corson, K. R. MacKenzie, and Emilio Segrè, after several scientists in vain searched for it in radioactive minerals.

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Raoul Schrott

First Name Raoul
Last Name Schrott
Born on January 17, 1964 (age 62)
Born in Austria, Tyrol

Raoul Schrott is an Austrian poet, writer, literary critic, translator and broadcast personality.

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Felix Slavik

First Name Felix
Last Name Slavik
Born on May 3, 1912
Died on October 16, 1980 (aged 68)
Born in Austria
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