Top 40 most important and famous people from Austria

Painter of The Kiss

Painter, his works are known for their intensity and sexuality. He made many nude self-portraits

Architect, figure of modernism and critic of the Art Nouveau movement

Writer, author of The Man Without Qualities

Writer, author of Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Confusion of Feelings

Writer who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilization in general and Austrian culture in particular

Writer, author of Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus

Philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language

Neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis

Writer, author of Offending the Audience and Kaspar, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019

Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 to 1519, named Heart of steel

Holy Roman Emperor, who considered the regulation of religious issues as a royal prerogative and introduced strict Counter-Reformation measures from 1598

Holy Roman Emperor known for conflicts with the Ottoman Empire in the Great Turkish War and rivalry with Louis XIV

Holy Roman Emperor of Pragmatic Sanction of 1713

Queen ruler of Habsburg dominions, who promulgated institutional, financial, medical and educational reforms. She also advocated for the state church

The last queen of France before the French Revolution

Holy Roman Emperor, a proponent of enlightened absolutism, one of the three great Enlightenment monarchs

Statesman who was at the center of the European balance of power known as the Concert of Europe for three decades

Emperor of Austria from 1848 to 1916

Empress of Austria killed in 1898

Archduke killed in Sarajevo in 1914

The last Habsburg monarch, beatified by Catholic Church

Theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945

Physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory, famous for the experiment with a cat, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933

Founder of modern ethology(the study of animal behavior), winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1973

Doctor, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2000 for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons

Director of Metropolis

Director of The Search, The Men, From Here to Eternity and Oklahoma!. Four times winner of Academy Award

Director of The Man with the Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder

Actor, bodybuilder and politician. Famous for his role in The Terminator film series

One of the greatest composers of all time. The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute

Composer of Classical Era, named Father of the Symphony and Father of the String Quartet

Composer of the late Classical Era and early Romantic Era

Composer of The Blue Danube, named The Waltz King

One of the most influential composers of the XX century

Composer of late XIX century, one of the greatest conductors of his generation

The greatest Austrian footballer of all time. He played in 1930s

Footballer, who played in Bayern Munich and Real Madrid

Driver, 3 times Formula One champion

Skydiver, known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 as part of the Red Bull Stratos project