List of Famous people born in Austria
Andreas Treichl
Andreas Treichl is an Austrian bank manager.
Alexander Wrabetz
Alexander Wrabetz is the Director General of the Austrian public broadcaster Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) and Member of the Executive Board of the European Broadcasting Union.
Elsa Asenijeff
Elsa Asenijeff, was an Austrian writer and partner of Max Klinger.
Peter Westenthaler
Peter Westenthaler is an Austrian politician. He assumed his mother's maiden name Westenthaler instead of his former surname Hojač (Czech). A member of Jörg Haider's Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) up to the so-called "Knittelfeld Putsch" of 2002, he then worked for Frank Stronach's Magna Steyr, and in June 2006 was elected chairman of the newly founded Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ).
Leopold Hawelka
Leopold Hawelka was an Austrian coffee house owner. He and his wife, Josefine Hawelka, founded and operated Café Hawelka.
Christine Buchegger
Christine Buchegger was an Austrian theater and television actress, born in Vienna, Austria.
Verena Madner
Verena Madner is an Austrian legal scholar, university professor and constitutional judge. She has been Professor of Public Law at the Department of Socio-Economics at the Vienna University of Economics and Business since 2011. In 2020, she was appointed Vice President of the Austrian Constitutional Court.
Erich Linemayr
Erich Linemayr was an Austrian football referee. He is known for having refereed three matches in the FIFA World Cup, two in 1974 and one in 1978. He also refereed two matches in the 1980 UEFA European Football Championship in Italy and the European Cup final in 1979.
Hans Weigel
Julius Hans Weigel was an Austrian Jewish writer and a theater critic. He lived in Vienna, except during the period between 1938 and 1945, when he lived in exile in Switzerland. He was a lifetime companion of the Austrian actress Elfriede Ott.
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria
Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria was an archduchess of Austria and princess of Tuscany, as the semestral daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis Stephan. She was an abbess of the Convent for Noble Ladies in Innsbruck from 1780 until 1806.