List of Famous people born in Vorarlberg, Austria
Rudolf Rhomberg
Rudolf Rhomberg was an Austrian film actor.
Manfred Honeck
Manfred Honeck is an Austrian conductor and Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since the 2008/2009 season. In 2018, he was named Artist of the Year by the International Classical Music Awards. On January 28, 2018, Honeck and the PSO were awarded the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance for their recording of Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 and Barber Adagio for Strings. The recording won a second Grammy for Best Engineered Album.
Robert Weber
Robert Weber is an Austrian handball player for HSG Nordhorn-Lingen and the Austrian national team.
Manfred Rein
Manfred Rein was an Austrian politician for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and president of the Economic Chamber of Vorarlberg.
Tamira Paszek
Tamira Shelah Paszek is an Austrian tennis player.
Ludwig Leitner
Ludwig Leitner was a German alpine ski racer and world champion, born in Mittelberg, Austria.
Norbert Bischofberger
Dr. Norbert Bischofberger is an Austrian scientist and one of the inventors of the antiviral drug Tamiflu generically known as oseltamivir, which is, as of 2009, the only oral medication on the market to treat influenza A and B as well as the 2009 Pandemic H1N1, the spread of which caused an ongoing pandemic in 2009. Bischofberger was the Executive Vice President, Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer at Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in antivirals.
Marco Rossi
Marco Rossi is an Austrian professional ice hockey player for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL). Rossi grew up in Austria and moved to Switzerland in 2011 to further his career. He spent several years there, making his professional debut in 2018 with the GCK Lions of the Swiss League, the second tier of hockey in Switzerland. Selected by the 67s in the 2018 CHL Import Draft, Rossi moved to North America that year and has played two seasons there. In 2019–20 he led the OHL in scoring and was awarded the Red Tilson Trophy as the most valuable player in the league. Regarded as a top prospect for the 2020 NHL Entry Draft, Rossi was selected 9th overall by the Wild. Internationally Rossi has played for the Austrian national junior team at the under-18 World Championships and World Junior Championships.
Bruno Pezzey
Bruno Edmund Pezzey was an Austrian footballer who played as a defender.