List of Famous people born in Austria

Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor

First Name Matthias,
Last Name Emperor
Born on February 24, 1557
Died on March 20, 1619 (aged 62)
Born in Austria

Matthias was Holy Roman Emperor from 1612 to 1619, Archduke of Austria from 1608 to 1619, King of Hungary and Croatia from 1608 to 1618, and King of Bohemia from 1611 to 1617. His personal motto was Concordia lumine maior.

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Stefan Lainer

First Name Stefan
Last Name Lainer
Born on August 27, 1992 (age 33)
Born in Austria, Salzburg
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Stefan Lainer is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as right-back for Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach and the Austria national team.

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Walter Knödel

First Name Walter
Last Name Knödel
Born on May 20, 1926
Died on October 19, 2018 (aged 92)
Born in Austria

Walter Knödel was an Austrian mathematician and computer scientist. He was a computer science professor at the University of Stuttgart.

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Erika Mahringer

First Name Erika
Last Name Mahringer
Born on November 16, 1924
Died on October 30, 2018 (aged 93)

Erika "Riki" Mahringer was an Austrian alpine skier who competed in the 1948 and 1952 Winter Olympics. In 1948 she won the bronze medal in the slalom event as well as in the Alpine combined competition. In the downhill contest she finished 19th. Four years later she finished fourth in the 1952 Olympic downhill event. In the same year she finished 17th in the giant slalom competition and 22nd in the slalom contest.

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Felix Landau

First Name Felix
Last Name Landau
Born on May 21, 1910
Died on April 20, 1983 (aged 72)
Born in Austria

Felix Landau, was a SS Hauptscharführer, a member of an Einsatzkommando during World War II, based first in Lwów, Poland, and later in Drohobycz. He was a "central figure in the Nazi program of the extermination of Galician Jews". He is known for his daily diary and for temporarily sparing the life of the Jewish/Polish artist Bruno Schulz in 1942. Landau liked Schulz's art and supplied him with protection and extra food. In return, he ordered the artist to paint a set of murals for his young son's bedroom, depicting scenes from the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Landau also was the SS officer assigned to watch over Maria Altmann, the subject of the film Woman in Gold (2015).

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Mirjam Puchner

First Name Mirjam
Born on May 18, 1992 (age 33)
Born in Austria, Salzburg

Mirjam Puchner is an Austrian World Cup alpine ski racer from St Johann im Pongau in Salzburg. She made her World Cup debut on 12 January 2013 in St. Anton, Austria. Puchner attained her first World Cup podium in March 2016 at St. Moritz, Switzerland, where she won the downhill event at the season finals.

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Hedwig Bleibtreu

First Name Hedwig
Last Name Bleibtreu
Born on December 23, 1868
Died on January 24, 1958 (aged 89)

Hedwig Bleibtreu was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in more than thirty films from 1919 to 1952. Bleibtreu is perhaps best-known to international audiences as Alida Valli's furious landlady in The Third Man (1949). From 1893 to 1956 she played at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Hedwig Bleibtreu is the great aunt of actress Monica Bleibtreu, and the great-great aunt of Monika's son actor Moritz Bleibtreu.

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Helene A. von Damm

First Name Helene
Born on May 4, 1938 (age 87)

Helene Antonia von Damm is a former United States diplomat and Ambassador to Austria who also worked as an assistant to President Ronald Reagan.

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Rosina Wachtmeister

First Name Rosina
Last Name Wachtmeister
Born on January 7, 1939 (age 87)
Born in Austria

Rosina Wachtmeister is an Austrian artist, whose work includes cat sculptures and portraits. Her Das Lied von der Liebe is a book whose graphics illustrate the biblical Song of Songs.

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Babsie Steger

First Name Babsie
Born on January 1, 1968 (age 58)

Babsie Steger is an Austrian television actress, dancer, singer and television presenter.

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