List of Famous people born in Austria

Leo Mittler (1893–1958) was an Austrian playwright, screenwriter and film director. Mittler was born in Vienna, then the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, to a Jewish family. He attended the University of Music and Performing Arts and worked as a playwright and director in the German theatre. Mittler then switched to work in the booming German film industry during the silent era.

Hans Emil Thimig, pseudonym: Hans Werner was an Austrian actor, film director, and stage director.

Fritz Eduard Josef Maria Sauter was an Austrian-German physicist who worked mostly in quantum electrodynamics and solid-state physics.

Hanno Pöschl is an Austrian actor.

Franz Novotny is an Austrian film producer, director and screenwriter. His 2003 film Yu was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival.

Kurt Kren was an Austrian avant-garde filmmaker. He is best known for his involvement with the Vienna Aktionists and the group of films that resulted, although this accounts for only a part of his career, and he later returned to the Structural roots of his third film 3/60: Bäume Im Herbst. Although not a seminal Structural film, 31/75: Asyl is arguably one of the more satisfying films of the movement.

Florian Seer is a retired Austrian alpine skier.