List of Famous people born in Linz, Austria

Fritz Eckhardt was an Austrian actor, director, and writer. He is remembered for playing the lead role as chief inspector Marek in the Österreichischer Rundfunk version of the detective series Tatort. He also played cabaret and wrote numerous theatre plays and film scripts.

Johann Gregor Memhardt or Memhard was a master builder, architect and politician.

Franz Sebastian Obermayr is an Austrian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2009 to 2019. He was the President of the European Alliance for Freedom from 2012 to 2015.

Nikolaus Hofreiter was an Austrian mathematician who worked mainly in number theory.

Maria Hofstätter is an Austrian actress. She appeared in more than thirty films since 1993.

Walter Schmidinger was an Austrian actor.

Dorothea Macheiner is an Austrian writer.

Birgit Minichmayr is an Austrian actress born in Linz, Austria. She studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. For her work in Maren Ade's film Everyone Else she won Silver Bear for Best Actress at 59th Berlin International Film Festival. She is the only Austrian actress to win this award in history of the festival and the first Austrian actress to win best actress award at a major European film festival since 1956. She worked with several major European directors including Michael Haneke, Tom Tykwer and Jessica Hausner.