List of Famous people born in Austria
Marianne Zoff
Marianne Josephine Zoff was an Austrian actress and opera singer (mezzo-soprano).
Mario Kunasek
Mario Kunasek is an Austrian politician and noncommissioned officer, who was the Minister of Defense from December 2017 to May 2019.
Maria Perschy
Herta-Maria Perschy was an Austrian actress whose career included performances on screen with actor Rock Hudson and on American television in both daytime and prime time.
Carl Manner
Carl Manner was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Josef Manner & Comp. AG, a Viennese confectionery factory.
Stefan Weber
Stefan Weber was an Austrian art teacher and the lead singer and Kapellmeister of the Viennese band Drahdiwaberl.
Nicola Spieß
Nicola Spieß is an Austrian former alpine skier who competed in the 1976 Winter Olympics.
Alma Rosé
Alma Maria Rosé was an Austrian violinist of Jewish descent. Her uncle was the composer Gustav Mahler. She was deported by the Nazis to the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. There, for 10 months, she directed an orchestra of female prisoners who played for their captors to stay alive. As director, Rosé held the status of kapo of the music block.
Frederick the Fair
Frederick the Fair or the Handsome, from the House of Habsburg, was the duke of Austria and Styria from 1308 as well as the anti-king of Germany from 1314 until 1325 and then co-king until his death.
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe is an Austrian businessman. He is the chairman emeritus, former chairman and CEO of the Nestlé Group, and former chairman of Formula One.
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
Irenäus Eibl-Eibesfeldt was an Austrian ethnologist in the field of human ethology. In authoring the book which bears that title, he applied ethology to humans by studying them in a perspective more common to volumes studying animal behavior.