Politicians
- Kasimir Felix Graf Badeni, statesman and diplomat
- Count Leopold von Berchtold, foreign minister at the outbreak of the First World War
- Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, politician and writer
- Engelbert Dollfuß, Chancellor 1932–1934 (First Republic), established Austrofascism
- Leopold Figl, Chancellor 1945–1953, foreign minister 1953–1959
- Heinz Fischer, current President (elected 2004)
- Werner Faymann, current Chancellor (since 2008), chairman of the Austrian Socialdemocrats
- Jörg Haider, politician, governour of Carinthia until his death in 2008
- Adolf Hitler, head of state in the Third Reich 1933–1945, gained German citizenship in 1932, and became German dictator 1938, annexed Austria through the Anschluß
- Joseph Hormayr Freiherr zu Hortenburg, statesman and historian
- Theodor Innitzer, cardinal archbishop of Vienna 1932–1955, minister of social affairs 1929–1930
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, NSDAP politician
- Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, statesman
- Rudolf Kirchschläger, judge, diplomat and President 1974–1986
- Thomas Klestil, diplomat, President 1992–2004
- Teddy Kollek, Israeli Mayor of Jerusalem
- Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, diplomat and statesman
- Julius Raab, Chancellor 1953–1961
- Karl Renner, Chancellor 1918–1920 and 1945, first President of the Second Republic 1945–1950
- Adolf Schärf, President 1957–1965
- Anton von Schmerling, statesman (liberal movement of the 19th century)
- Kurt Schuschnigg, Chancellor 1934–1938
- Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor 2000–2007
- Arnold Schwarzenegger, former governor of California
- Ignaz Seipel, Catholic priest, Chancellor 1922–1924 and 1926–1929
- Arthur Seyß-Inquart, NSDAP politician, last Chancellor before the Anschluss in 1938
- Johann Philipp von Stadion, statesman, foreign minister and diplomat 1763- 1824
- Alexander van der Bellen, former chairman of the Austrian Green Party
- Kurt Waldheim, diplomat and politician, Secretary-General of the United Nations 1972–1982, President of Austria 1986–1992
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“Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
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