List of Famous people born in Lower Austria, Austria
Dominic Thiem
Dominic Thiem is an Austrian professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) is world No. 3, which he first achieved in March 2020. He is the second-highest ranked Austrian player in history, behind former world No. 1 Thomas Muster. He has won 17 ATP Tour singles titles, including one Grand Slam title at the 2020 US Open where he came back from two sets down to defeat Alexander Zverev in the final. With the win, Thiem became the first male player born in the 1990s to claim a Grand Slam singles title, as well as the first Austrian to win a US Open singles title. He had previously reached three other Grand Slam finals, losing at the 2018 and 2019 French Open to Rafael Nadal, and at the 2020 Australian Open to Novak Djokovic. Thiem was also the runner-up of the 2019 and 2020 ATP Finals, where he lost to Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev respectively.
Anna Kiesenhofer
Anna Kiesenhofer is an Austrian cyclist and postdoctoral fellow in mathematics at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). Kiesenhofer won the gold medal in the women's individual road race in the postponed 2020 Summer Olympics held in 2021, the first Summer Olympics gold medal for Austria since 2004.
Erni Mangold
Erni Mangold is an Austrian actress and stage director. Since 1948, she had appeared in more than 75 films and TV productions.
Ursula Strauss
Ursula Strauss is an Austrian actress. She is best known for her role as inspector Angelika Schnell in the television series Schnell ermittelt.
Wolfgang Ambros
Wolfgang Ambros is an Austrian singer-songwriter who sang Austropop in the 1970s.
Alexander Wurz
Alexander Wurz is an Austrian former professional racing driver, driver training expert and businessman. He competed in Formula One from 1997 until 2007, and is also a two-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Christian Fuchs
Christian Fuchs is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Leicester City.
Sasa Kalajdzic
Saša Kalajdžić is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a forward for VfB Stuttgart. He is of Serbian descent.
Michael Spindelegger
Michael Spindelegger is an Austrian politician. He served in the cabinet of Chancellor Werner Faymann as foreign minister of Austria from 2008 to 2013 and as finance minister from 2013 to 2014; additionally, he held the office of vice-chancellor from 2011 to 2014. Spindelegger was also the leader of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) from 2011 to 2014. In August 2014 he unexpectedly resigned from all political positions. Since 2016, he has been serving as Director General of the Vienna-based International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD).
Dietmar Kühbauer
Dietmar ("Didi") Kühbauer is an Austrian former professional football midfielder and current head coach of SK Rapid Wien.