List of Famous people born in Austria

Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright, and teacher best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement.

Angela Franziska Johanna Hammitzsch was the elder half-sister of Adolf Hitler. By her first husband, Leo Raubal Sr., she was the mother of Geli Raubal.

Markus Antonius Rogan is a retired Austrian swimmer, who won two silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece and a gold medal for 200 m backstroke at the 2008 World Short Course Championships in Manchester. He also was the world record holder in 200 metres backstroke in that year.

Ernst Franz Hermann Happel was an Austrian football player and manager.

Ernst Fehr is an Austrian-Swiss behavioral economist and neuroeconomist and a Professor of Microeconomics and Experimental Economic Research, as well as the vice chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. His research covers the areas of the evolution of human cooperation and sociality, in particular fairness, reciprocity and bounded rationality.

Rudolf Zehetgruber is an Austrian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor who directed 17 films between 1960 and 1985. He is most known for writing and directing the Superbug/Dudu film series that featured his wife Kathrin Oginski and two entries in the Kommissar X film series.

Johann Luif is an Austrian politician and military officer. From 22 May 2019 – 3 June 2019 he was the Minister of Defense.

Gabriel Felbermayr is an Austrian economist who specializes in international economics, international trade agreements, economic policy, and environmental economics. Felbermayr is a leading economist in the field of international economics, as cited in the top 5% of all economists and has been referred to as "Germany's Chief Economist of the North". Felbermayr is currently a professor of economics at the University of Munich (LMU) and Director of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, which is based in Munich. He is the incoming president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

Karl Thomas Mozart was the second son, and the elder of the two surviving sons, of Wolfgang and Constanze Mozart. The other was Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart.

The poet Ava, also known as Frau Ava, Ava of Göttweig or Ava of Melk, was the first named female writer in any genre in the German language. She is the author of five poems which focused on Christian themes of salvation and the second coming of Christ. Her work on the lives of John the Baptist and Jesus, according to Sarah Westphal-Wihl, "has been praised as the first German epic". She is known for her simple rhyming couplets written in the vernacular, making complex biblical teachings accessible to the people of her time.