List of Famous people born in Austria

Heinrich Raphael Eduard Freiherr von Handel-Mazzetti was an Austrian botanist best known for his many publications on the flora of China and botanical explorations of that country. He was the cousin of novelist Enrica von Handel-Mazzetti (1871-1955).

Maria Thaddäus von Trautmannsdorff was a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Martin Zeiler was a Baroque era German author.

Gomes Freire de Andrade, ComC was a field marshal and officer of the Portuguese army who served France at the end of his military career.

Rainer Küchl is an Austrian violinist who was born in Waidhofen an der Ybbs, Austria, in August 1950.

Karl Paul Polanyi was an Austro-Hungarian economic historian, economic anthropologist, economic sociologist, political economist, historical sociologist and social philosopher. He is known for his opposition to traditional economic thought and for his book The Great Transformation, which argued that the emergence of market-based societies in modern Europe was not inevitable but historically contingent. Polanyi is remembered best as the originator of substantivism, a cultural version of economics, which emphasizes the way economies are embedded in society and culture. This opinion is counter to mainstream economics but is popular in anthropology, economic history, economic sociology and political science.