List of Famous people born in Austria
Martha Wallner
Martha Wallner was an Austrian stage actress. She also appeared in films and television. She was awarded the Kammerschauspielerin. Married to the actor Erich Auer, she died a week before her 91st birthday.
Erich Fried
Erich Fried was an Austrian-born poet, writer and translator. He initially became known to a broader public in both Germany and Austria for his political poetry, and later for his love poems. As a writer he mostly wrote plays and short novels. He also translated works by different English writers from English into German, most notably works by William Shakespeare.
Edward Bernays
Edward Louis Bernays was an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". Bernays was named one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century by Life. He was the subject of a full length biography by Larry Tye called The Father of Spin (1999) and later an award-winning 2002 documentary for the BBC by Adam Curtis called The Century of the Self.
Christine Schuberth
Christine Schuberth is an Austrian film and television actress.
Judith Haspel
Judith Deutsch-Haspel was a swimming champion who held every Austrian women's middle and long distance freestyle record in 1935.
Elisabeth von Matt
Elisabeth von Matt (1762–1814) was an Austrian astronomer active in the late 18th and early 19th century who is regarded as the only female scientist to have her observations published in European astronomy journals during the period. She worked primarily in positional astronomy, documenting the asteroids Pallas and Juno.
Ina Duscha
Ina Duscha is a former Austrian film actress. After marrying in 1963, she retired from the German film industry.
Andreas Felder
Andreas Felder is an Austrian former ski jumper. During this period he dominated the sport, together with contemporaries Jens Weißflog and Matti Nykänen. He finished in the top three overall six times in the World Cup and won the 1990/91 overall. He won his first international championship medal at the 1982 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oslo with a silver medal in the team large hill event.
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis
Frederika "Friedl" Dicker-Brandeis, was an Austrian artist and educator murdered by the Nazis in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
Heidemarie Hatheyer
Heidemarie Hatheyer was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1938 and 1988.