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List of Austrians

Famous Austrians include:

Alfred Adler father of Individual Psychology
Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, 1844-1906, born in Vienna
Fritjof Capra, physicist
Englebert Dolfuss, politician, 1892-1934, born in Texing[?]
Christian Andreas Doppler, physicist, 1803-1853, born in Salzburg
Paul Ehrenfest, physicist & mathematician
Elisabeth of Austria ("Sisi")
Viktor Frankl father of logotherapy
Sigmund Freud father of psychoanalysis
Eduard Haas[?] inventor of PEZ
Otto Habsburg-Lothringen
Liane Haid, first Austrian movie star
Joseph Haydn Composer of the former "Imperial Hymn" now German Hymn
Friedrich Hayek, nobel prize winner
Theodor Herzl "founder" of Israel, lived most of his life in Austria
Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany from 1933-1945, born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn
Udo Jürgens, singer-songwriter
Ludwig von Köchel writer, composer, botanist, music historian
Viktor Kaplan[?] inventor of turbines for river power plants
Johann Korbuly[?] inventor of matador (special wooden toy)
Niki Lauda race car driver
Josef Madersberger[?] invented the sewing-machine in 1818
Gustav Mahler composer
Sigfried Marcus[?] inventor of automobile in 1864 in Vienna, lived most of his life in Austria
Lise Meitner physicist
Gregor Mendel pioneer of genetics
Klemens Wenzel von Metternich diplomat
Ludwig von Mises free-market economist
Leopold Mozart composer & musician
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composer & musician
Robert Musil writer
Otto Preminger, film director
Otto Rank pioneer psychologist
Jochen Rindt race car driver
Arthur Schnitzler writer
Erwin Schrödinger physicist and nobel price winner
Franz Schubert composer & musician
Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilder and actor, born 1955, in Graz (became naturalized U.S. citizen)
Johann Strauss, Sr., 1809-1849, Johann Strauss, Jr., 1825-1899, and Josef Strauss[?], 1827-1870, the "Waltz Kings" of the latter 19th century
Toni Sailer, 1956 Olympic Games - Won all three gold medals earning himself the Triple Crown of alpine skiing; born 1935
Günther Schifter, radio personality
Romy Schneider, actress (Sissi)
Paul Schwarzkopf[?], inventor of powder metallurgy
Rudolf Steiner mystic & philosopher
Berta von Suttner, Nobel Prize winner
Georg Trakl poet
Georg Ritter von Trapp head of Sound of Music family
Kurt Waldheim, diplomat and politician; former Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1982, former President of Austria from 1986 to 1992 born 1918
Otto Weininger, philosopher
Auer von Welsbach[?] inventor of gaslight
Oskar Werner, actor
Simon Wiesenthal, b.1908, Nazi hunter
Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher, born 1889 in Vienna
Fred Zinnemann film director
Stefan Zweig, writer, 1881-1942, born in Vienna