This is a list of famous Viennese - it is not meant to be inclusive.
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- Peter Altenberg, fin de siècle writer, poet
- Christopher Alexander, England-based architect and prolific design theorist, author of "A Pattern Language"
- Marie Antoinette, née 'Maria Antonia', daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, last absolutistic Queen of France (1774-1792)
- Maria Theresia, daughter of Emperor Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary (1740-1780)
- Alfred Adler, founder of individual psychology
- Victor Adler, social democrat and activist for the rights of workers
- Ilse Aichinger, writer
- Wolfgang Ambros, one of the founders of Austropop
- Hans Asperger, pediatrician, discoverer of Asperger syndrome
- Carl Auer von Welsbach, chemist
- Haim Bar-Lev, Israeli general and government minister
- Alban Berg, composer
- Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist
- Arik Brauer, painter, singer, and poet
- Eugene Braunwald, pioneering cardiologist
- Martin Buber, philosopher
- Georg Danzer, song writer
- Elfi von Dassanowsky, singer, pianist, film producer
- Heimito von Doderer, writer
- Peter Drucker, economist
- Klaus Ebner, writer
- Albert Ehrenstein, writer
- Falco, singer and musician
- Paul Feyerabend, philosopher
- Viktor Frankl, psychologist, neurologist, founder of Logotherapy
- Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology
- Willi Forst, director, actor, writer, singer
- Karl von Frisch, zoologist, animal psychologist, bee keeper, Nobel Prize Laureate
- Franz Grillparzer, playwright
- Friedrich Gulda, pianist and composer
- Eduard Haas, inventor of Pez candy
- Friedrich Hayek, economist, Nobel Prize winner
- Andre Heller, poet, song writer, artist
- Gottfried Helnwein, artist
- Mickey Hirschl, Olympic medal-winning wrestler, Shotput and Discus Junior Champion, Weightlifting Junior Champion, and Pentathlon Champion
- Theodor Herzl, journalist, founder of modern political Zionism
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, writer, founder of the Salzburger Festspiele
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist, architect, painter
- Wolfgang Hutter - artist, painter, university art professor
- Ernst Jandl, poet and writer
- Franz König, Cardinal Archbishop
- Gustav Klimt, painter
- Karl Kordesch, chemist and inventor
- Hans Krankl, footballer
- Karl Kraus, satirist, publisher of "Die Fackel"
- Wolfgang Kraus, essayist, leader for many years of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur
- Hedy Lamarr, actor, inventor
- Karl Landsteiner, doctor, bacteriaologist, discoverer of blood group, Nobel Prize Laureate
- Fritz Lang, director
- Josef Lanner, composer
- Niki Lauda, race car driver and entrepreneur
- LegenDerek, party extraordinaire
- Henry Lehrman, silent film director
- Lotte Lenya, actor, singer
- Leopold Lindtberg, director
- Konrad Lorenz, behavioural scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate
- Gustav Mahler, composer and conductor
- Friederike Mayröcker, writer
- Lise Meitner, physicist
- Elfriede Moser-Rath, folklorist
- Johann Nestroy, playwright
- Fritz Neugebauer, Second President of the National Council of Austria
- Saul K. Padover, historian and political scientist at The New School of Social Research in New York City
- Alfred Pal, known Croatian painter and graphic designer
- Wolfgang Pauli, physicist
- Karl Popper, philosopher
- Helmut Qualtinger, actor, writer, cabaret actor
- Doron Rabinovici, writer
- Ferdinand Raimund, play writer
- Alma Rosé, violin virtuoso, killed in Auschwitz
- Egon Schiele, Artist
- Arthur Schnitzler, story teller and playwright
- Arnold Schönberg, composer, music theorist, painter
- Erwin Schrödinger, physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
- Franz Schubert, composer
- Peter Seisenbacher, judoka
- Matthias Sindelar, footballer
- Josef von Sternberg, fim director
- Johann Strauss I, composer
- Johann Strauss II, composer
- Erich von Stroheim, actor
- Friedrich Torberg, writer and journalist
- Thomas Vanek, professional ice hockey player
- Otto Wagner, architect
- Bruno Walter, conductor
- Anton von Webern, composer
- Otto Weininger, philosopher
- Franz Werfel, writer
- Christine Werner, writer
- Geri Winkler, mountaineer
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
- Joe Zawinul, jazz pianist, keyboard player, and composer
- Fred Zinnemann, director
- Birgit Zotz, writer
- Stefan Zweig, writer
- Christoph Waltz, actor
- Amon Goeth, nazi
- Hans Selye, physiologist
Famous quotes containing the words list of and/or list:
“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior F.B.I.- men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep- hole and missing laundry list school.... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)