List of Famous people born in Austria
Rudolf von Tiefenbach
Rudolf von Tiefenbach was a German military commander who served the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
Friderike Maria Zweig
Friderike Maria Zweig was an Austrian writer.
Eckart Witzigmann
Eckart Witzigmann is an Austrian chef.
Alexander Pointner
Alexander Pointner is the former head coach of Austria ski jumping team.
Gustav Bergmann
Gustav Bergmann was an Austrian-born American philosopher. He studied at the University of Vienna and was a member of the Vienna Circle. Bergmann was influenced by the philosophers Moritz Schlick, Friedrich Waismann, and Rudolf Carnap who were members of the Circle. In the United States, he was a professor of philosophy and psychology at the University of Iowa.
Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick III was Holy Roman Emperor from 1452 until his death. He was the first emperor of the House of Habsburg, and the fourth member of the House of Habsburg to be elected King of Germany after Rudolf I of Germany, Albert I in the 13th century and his predecessor Albert II of Germany. He was the penultimate emperor to be crowned by the Pope, and the last to be crowned in Rome.
Oliver Vitouch
Oliver Vitouch is an Austrian psychologist and cognitive scientist. He has served as Rector of the University of Klagenfurt since 2012, and as Vice-President and President, respectively, of Universities Austria since 2016.
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is an Austrian mountaineer. In August 2011, she became the second woman to climb the fourteen eight-thousanders and the first woman to do so without the use of supplementary oxygen or high altitude porters. In 2012, she won the prestigious National Geographic Explorer of the Year Award.
Max Reinhardt
Max Reinhardt was an Austrian-born theatre and film director, intendant, and theatrical producer. With his innovative stage productions, he is regarded as one of the most prominent directors of German-language theatre in the early 20th century. In 1920, he established the Salzburg Festival with the performance of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Jedermann.
Hermann Nitsch
Hermann Nitsch is an Austrian avant-garde artist who works in experimental and multimedia modes.