List of Famous people born in Austria
Nicola Kuhn
Nicola Kuhn is an Austrian-born Spanish tennis player. He has a career high ATP singles ranking of world No. 174, achieved in October 2019.
Edith Hahn Beer
Edith Hahn Beer was an Austrian Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust by hiding her Jewish identity and marrying a Nazi officer.
Berta Zuckerkandl
Berta Zuckerkandl-Szeps was an Austrian writer, journalist, and art critic.
Clarissa Stadler
Clarissa Stadler is an Austrian journalist, moderator and writer.
Thomas Schellenbacher
Thomas Schellenbacher is an Austrian politician who has been a Member of the National Council for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) since 2013.
Georg Preidler
Georg Preidler is an Austrian cyclist, who is currently suspended from the sport after being implicated in the Operation Aderlass doping scandal.
Eduard Strauss
Eduard "Edi" Strauss was an Austrian composer who, together with his brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss made up the Strauss musical dynasty. He was the son of Johann Strauss I and Maria Anna Streim. The family dominated the Viennese light music world for decades, creating many waltzes and polkas for many Austrian nobility as well as dance-music enthusiasts around Europe. He was affectionately known in his family as 'Edi'.
André Gorz
André Gorz French: [ɑ̃dʁe ɡɔʁts], more commonly known by his pen names Gérard Horst [ʒeʁaʁ ɔʁst] and Michel Bosquet [miʃɛl bɔskɛ], was an Austrian and French social philosopher and journalist.
Hannes Wolf
Hannes Wolf is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach, on loan from RB Leipzig.
Placidus Fixlmillner
Dom Placidus Fixlmillner, O.S.B., was a Benedictine monk and priest and was one of the first astronomers to compute the orbit of Uranus.