List of Famous people born in Styria, Austria
Leonore Gewessler
Leonore Gewessler is an Austrian Green politician who has served as Minister of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz since January 2020.
Clemens J. Setz
Clemens J. Setz, is an Austrian writer and translator.
Ferdinand Feldhofer
Ferdinand Feldhofer is an Austrian football coach and a former player. His last managerial position was at Wolfsberger AC.
Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power".
Werner Kogler
Werner Kogler is an Austrian politician of the Green Party who has been serving as the Vice-Chancellor of Austria and the minister for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz since 7 January 2020.
Marcel Sabitzer
Marcel Sabitzer is an Austrian professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for RB Leipzig in the Bundesliga and the Austria national team.
Johann Lafer
Johann Lafer is an Austrian chef living in Germany.
Christian Anders
Christian Anders is an Austrian singer, musician, composer, author and conspiracy theorist.
Peter Simonischek
Peter Simonischek is an Austrian actor. He is a praised stage actor and is a steady ensemble member of the Burgtheater since 1999. The actor also often appears at the Salzburg Festival and played there the title role in the play Jedermann numerous times.
Hartwig Löger
Hartwig Löger is an Austrian politician and former business executive. From 2011 to 2017 he was chief executive officer of UNIQA Austria and since 2017 he served as Minister of Finance. On 22 May 2019, following the Ibiza affair, he was named vice chancellor, and on 28 May 2019, he was sworn in as acting chancellor after Austria's first ever successful vote of no confidence against a cabinet, leaving this post on 3 June 2019.