List of Famous people born in Austria
Rudolf Prack
Rudolf Prack was an Austrian film actor.
Sonja Hammerschmid
Sonja Hammerschmid is an Austrian molecular biologist and politician. She was Rector of the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna from 2010 to 2016 and minister of education in the Kern government from 2016 to 2017. Since 2017, Hammerschmid has been a member of the Austrian National Council. Hammerschmid is a member of the Social Democratic Party.
Eckart Ratz
Eckart Ratz is an Austrian jurist serving as a judge and the President of the Supreme Court of Justice. From 2011 to 2012 he was a vice president of the Supreme Court. On 22 May 2019 he was appointed as Federal Minister for the Interior of the Republic of Austria, replacing Herbert Kickl who was deposed from office by Federal President Alexander van der Bellen. Eckart Ratz was going to serve as a cabinet minister of the transitional government until the General Elections in fall 2019 but the new government has been crashed by most opposition parties. Van der Bellen then appointed the Bierlein cabinet which got the support of all National Council parties.
Gerhard Riedmann
Gerhard Riedmann (1925–2004) was an Austrian film actor. He was married to the actress Eva Probst.
Heinz Oberhummer
Heinz Oberhummer was an Austrian physicist and skeptic.
Nadine Prohaska
Nadine Prohaska is an Austrian football midfielder, currently playing for SC Sand in the Frauen Bundesliga. She previously played for USC Landhaus and SV Neulengbach, and Bayern Munich in the German Bundesliga.
Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria
Maria Amalia was the Duchess of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla by marriage. Maria Amalia was a daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. She was thus younger sister to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor and older sister to Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, Maria Carolina, Queen of Naples and Marie Antoinette, Queen of France.
Niki Stajković
Nikola "Niki" Stajković was an Austrian diver who competed at five Olympics between 1972 and 1992. His best position was eighth at the 1980 Olympics. He became one of the youngest Olympic competitors ever when he made his Olympic debut in 1972 at age thirteen.
Andi Knoll
Andreas "Andi" Knoll is an Austrian radio and television presenter. Knoll is Austria's commentator at the Eurovision Song Contest each year.
Maria Theresia von Paradis
Maria Theresia von Paradis, was an Austrian musician and composer who lost her sight at an early age, and for whom Mozart may have written his Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major.