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
See also: List of people by nationality