List of Famous people born in Austria
Richard Tauber
Richard Tauber was an Austrian tenor and film actor.
Karl Farkas
Karl Farkas was an Austrian actor and cabaret performer.
Lise Meitner
Lise Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who contributed to the discoveries of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute on radioactivity, she discovered the radioactive isotope protactinium-231 in 1917. In 1938, Meitner and nephew-physicist Otto Robert Frisch discovered nuclear fission. She was praised by Albert Einstein as the "German Marie Curie".
Archduchess Gisela of Austria
Archduchess Gisela Louise Marie of Austria was the second daughter and eldest surviving child of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Elisabeth in Bavaria.
Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal
Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal served as the Under-Secretary-General for Public Information at the United Nations from August 2012 to January 2015, succeeding Kiyotaka Akasaka. He is also the United Nations Coordinator for Multilingualism, a position in which he coordinates the issue of multilingualism throughout the UN Secretariat.
Theodor Kery
Theodor Kery was an Austrian politician, who was the Governor of Burgenland (1966–1987).
Christoph Leitl
Christoph Leitl is an Austrian politician, former president of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and president of EUROCHAMBRES since 2018.
Martin Sellner
Martin Michael Sellner is a far-right Austrian Neue Rechte and Identitarian activist, and leader of the Identitäre Bewegung Österreichs.
Josef Meinrad
Josef Meinrad was an Austrian actor. From 1959 until his death in 1996, Meinrad held the Republic of Austria's Iffland-Ring, which passes from actor to actor — each bequeathing the ring to the next holder, judging that actor to be the "most significant and most worthy actor of the German-speaking theatre"
Valentino Lazaro
Valentino Lando Lazaro is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a right midfielder for Borussia Mönchengladbach, on loan from Inter Milan.