Celebrities
- Hans Blietel was a martyr of the Hutterites and was burnt to death around 1545.
- Hans Schwabenthaler settled in Ried in 1632 and died in 1682.
- Thomas Schwanthaler, born in 1634.
- Bonaventura Schwanthaler, born in 1678.
- Emmy Woitsch, born on June 9, 1894, died in 1981, painter.
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, born in 1903, from January 1943 forward, director of the SS-Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) of Nazi Germany; thus chief over the RSHA departments of the Gestapo, Kripo, and the SD (Security Services). He was sentenced to death by the Nuremberg Trials and executed on October 16, 1946.
- Daria Karanowicz, born in 1908, musician.
- Ludwig Pasch, born in 1919, writer and founder of the Innviertler Schulspatzen.
- Anton Zeilinger, born in 1945, physicist, nickname: "Mr. Beam".
- Sybil Danning, born on May 24, 1952, Hollywood actress.
- Wilhelm Dachauer, born on April 5, 1881, died in 1951, painter.
- August Humer, born in 1947 died in 2007, organist and harpsichordist.
- Andreas Goldberger, born on November 29, 1972, former ski jumping world champion
- Heribert Reitboeck, born on June 22, 1933, neuroscientist
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“A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
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—For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)