List of Famous people born in Austria
Elisabeth Gürtler
Elisabeth Gürtler-Mauthner is an Austrian businesswoman. She is managing director of the Hotel Sacher, Vienna's most famous hotel.
Stefan Kraft
Stefan Kraft is an Austrian ski jumper. He is one of the most successful contemporary athletes in ski jumping, having won the Ski Jumping World Cup and Ski Flying World Cup overall titles twice each, the Four Hills Tournament and Raw Air Tournament once each, and two individual gold medals at the World Championships. Since March 2017, he has held the ski flying world record of 253.5 metres (832 ft).
Gerd Honsik
Gerd Honsik was an Austrian writer and lyric poet, and a prominent neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier.
Stefanie Sargnagel
Jan-Carl Raspe
Jan-Carl Raspe was a member of the German militant group, the Red Army Faction (RAF).
Katharina Schratt
Katharina Schratt was an Austrian actress who became "the uncrowned Empress of Austria" as a confidante of Emperor Franz Joseph.
John Ruggie
John Gerard Ruggie was the Berthold Beitz Research Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and an Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He was an influential scholar in the field of international relations, as well as an influential policy-maker in the United Nations.
Joseph Mohr
Josephus Franciscus Mohr, sometimes spelled Josef was an Austrian Roman Catholic priest and writer, who wrote the words to the Christmas carol "Silent Night."
Adrian Hoven
Adrian Hoven was an Austrian actor, producer and film director. He appeared in 100 films between 1947 and 1981. He was born in Wöllersdorf, Austria as Wilhelm Arpad Hofkirchner and died in Tegernsee, Germany.
Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior. He developed an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.