List of Famous people born in Austria
Josef Straka
Josef "Sepp" Straka, is an Austrian professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour.
Lukas Müller
Lukas Müller is an Austrian former ski jumper who competed from 2007 to 2016.
Vanessa Herzog
Vanessa Herzog is an Austrian speed skater. She competed at the 2013 World Sprint Championships in Salt Lake City, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Friedrich Achleitner
Friedrich Achleitner was an Austrian poet and architecture critic. As a member of the Wiener Gruppe, he wrote concrete poems and experimental literature. His magnum opus is a multi-volume documentation of 20th-century Austrian architecture. Written over several decades, Achleitner made a personal visit to each building described. He was a professor of the history and theory of architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Max Merkel
Max Merkel was an Austrian footballer who played international football for both Germany and Austria as a defender. At club level, he played for Rapid Wien, Wiener SC, and Luftwaffen SV Markersdorf.
Hans Dieter Pötsch
Hans Dieter Pötsch is an Austrian businessman, the chairman of the executive board of Porsche SE, and chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen since 2015, when he succeeded Ferdinand Piëch.
Pænda
Gabriela Horn, known professionally as Pænda, is an Austrian singer, songwriter and music producer. She represented Austria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with the song "Limits", which was released on 8 March.
Franz Antel
Franz Antel was a veteran Austrian filmmaker.
Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator. He became known for his experimental lyric, mainly sound poems (Sprechgedichte) in the tradition of concrete and visual poetic forms.
Danielle Spera
Danielle Spera is an Austrian journalist, writer, and the current director of the Jewish Museum Vienna.