List of Famous people born in Austria

Hugo Riesenfeld was an Austrian-American composer. As a film director, he began to write his own orchestral compositions for silent films in 1917, and co-created modern production techniques where film scoring serves an integral part of the action. Riesenfeld composed about 100 film scores in his career.

Ignaz Bösendorfer was an Austrian musician and piano manufacturer, who in 1828 founded the Bösendorfer company in Vienna-Josefstadt.

Johannes Maria Gföllner was an Austrian clergyman and bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Linz. He was ordained in 1883. He was appointed bishop in 1914. He died in 1941.

Johann Baptist Drechsler was an Austrian painter of flowers

Vera Complojer (1896–1969) was an Austrian stage and film actress.

Anna Bellschan von Mildenburg was an eminent Wagnerian soprano of Austrian nationality. Known as Anna Bahr-Mildenburg after her 1909 marriage, she had been a protégé of the composer/conductor Gustav Mahler during his musical directorship at the Hamburg State Opera. In 1898, Mahler took her to the Vienna State Opera, where she established herself as one of the great stars during his celebrated tenure there as music director.