List of Famous people born in Upper Austria, Austria

Verena Preiner is an Austrian athlete who specialises in the heptathlon. She won the bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships.

Ernst Strasser is a former Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) politician and former Federal Minister of the Interior in Austria (2000–2004), Member of the European Parliament (2009–2011) and bearer of the "Grand Decoration of Honour in Gold with Sash". Since 2014, he works as an Entrepreneur in the Mergers and acquisitions sector and is also a hotel owner.

Josef Penninger is an Austrian biomedical researcher specialising in molecular immunology. He was the scientific director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology located at the Vienna Biocenter until 2018. In February 2018, he announced his decision to leave Vienna and become the head of the Life Sciences Institute of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Princess Alexandra of Hanover is the fourth child of Princess Caroline of Monaco and third of Prince Ernst August of the defunct Kingdom of Hanover.

Barbara Haas is an Austrian tennis player.

Teresa Präauer is an Austrian writer and visual artist.

Peter Müller is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland.

Anton Zeilinger is an Austrian quantum physicist who in 2008 received the Inaugural Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics (UK) for "his pioneering conceptual and experimental contributions to the foundations of quantum physics, which have become the cornerstone for the rapidly-evolving field of quantum information". Zeilinger is professor of physics at the University of Vienna and Senior Scientist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information IQOQI at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Most of his research concerns the fundamental aspects and applications of quantum entanglement.

August "Gustl" Auinger is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Austria. His best year was in 1985 when he finished in third place in the 125cc world championship, winning three Grand Prix races in the process. Auinger won a total of five Grand Prix races during his career.

Marko Raguž is an Austrian professional footballer of Bosnian Croat descent. He plays for LASK and represents Austria internationally at youth level.