List of Famous people born in Austria

Max Franz is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Klagenfurt, Carinthia, he focuses on the speed events of Downhill and Super-G.

Soshana Afroyim was an Austrian painter of the Modernism period. Soshana was a full-time artist and traveled frequently, exhibiting her work internationally. During her journeys, she portrayed many well known personalities and her art developed in different directions. Her early period artwork was largely naturalistic in nature, showing landscapes and portraits. Later her style developed towards abstract art, strongly influenced by Asian calligraphy.

Hellmuth Matiasek, also Helmuth Matiasek, is an Austrian theatre and film director.

Marianne, Dowager Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, is a German noble, the mother of Alexander, 7th Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn.

Stefan Ilsanker is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie B club Genoa and the Austria national team. Ilsanker has represented his country at the Under-19 European Championship and was also a member of the under-21 team. He has been a full senior international since 2014.

Rudolf Gelbard was an Austrian Holocaust survivor and political campaigner against anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism. He lectured in schools and universities about his experiences during the Holocaust, and also appeared in a 2007 documentary film about his experiences.

Soap&Skin is the experimental musical project of Austrian artist Anja Plaschg.

Hermine "Miep" Gies, was one of the Dutch citizens who hid Anne Frank, her family and four other Dutch Jews from the Nazis in an annex above Otto Frank's business premises during World War II. She was Austrian by birth, but in 1920, at the age of eleven, she was taken in as a foster child by a Dutch family to whom she became very attached. Although she was initially only to stay for six months, this stay was extended to one year because of frail health, after which Gies chose to remain with them, living the rest of her life in the Netherlands. She died in 2010 at age 100.

Herbert Nitsch is an Austrian freediver who has held world records in all of the eight freediving disciplines recognised by AIDA International. He is the current freediving world record champion and "the deepest man on earth". This title was given to him when he set a world record in the "No Limits" discipline at the depth of 214 meters. To date, he has achieved 33 official World Records across all freediving disciplines, and one world record in the traditional Greek discipline of Skandalopetra 107 m (351 ft). He surpassed his own No Limits depth with a dive in June 2012 to 253.2 meters, suffering injury in the process.

Gustav Franz Wagner was an Austrian member of the SS with the rank of Staff sergeant (Oberscharführer). Wagner was a starter deputy commander of the Sobibor extermination camp in German-occupied Poland, where 200,000-250 000 Jews were gassed during Operation Reinhard. Due to his brutality, he was known as "The Beast" and "Wolf".