List of Famous people born in Austria

Rudolf Meinert (1882–1945) was an Austrian screenwriter, film producer and director.

Günther Krampf was an Austrian cinematographer who later settled and worked in the UK. Krampf has been described as a "phantom of film history" because of his largely forgotten role working on a number of important films during the silent and early sound era. Only two of Krampf's films The Student of Prague (1926) and The Ghoul (1933) were expressionist, as he generally used a naturalistic style.

Othmar Spann was a conservative Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist whose radical anti-liberal and anti-Socialist views, based on early 19th century Romantic ideas expressed by Adam Müller et al. and popularized in his books and lecture courses, helped antagonise political factions in Austria during the interwar years.

Fritz Eichler was an Austrian archaeologist.

Leopold Trattinnick was an Austrian botanist and mycologist. He was a curator of the Royal Natural History collection in Vienna. He published several mycological and other botanical works. Most of these works were illustrated with engravings and many of them were hand coloured. He also gave out collections of wax replicas of species of fungi and later sponges.

Othmar Zeidler was an Austrian chemist credited with the first synthesis of DDT.