List of Austrians - Other Notables

Other Notables

  • Maria Altmann, niece of Adele Bloch-Bauer
  • Oscar Baumann, explored the interior of German East Africa (present-day Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi)
  • Robert Bernardis, resistance fighter during WW2 (July 20 Plot)
  • Rudolph Bing, opera manager
  • Adele Bloch-Bauer, subject of famous painting by Gustav Klimt
  • Josef Fritzl, notorious rapist
  • Amon Göth, commander of Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
  • HI & RH Otto Von Habsburg-Lothringen Politician, writer, heir to the thrones of Austria-Hungary
  • Theodor Herzl, "father of Zionism," lived most of his life in Austria
  • Andreas Hofer, Tyrolian freedom fighter (against Napoleon)
  • Heinrich Kanner, journalist and editor of the newspaper "Die Zeit" in the k.u.k. Monarchy
  • Alma Mahler, wife and muse to Mahler, Gropius, Werfel
  • Andreas Maislinger, founder of the Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service
  • Julius von Payer, polar explorer
  • Wolfgang Puck, celebrity chef and restaurateur
  • Max Reinhardt, renowned theatre director
  • Sister Maria Restituta, nun and nurse murdered by the Nazis
  • Günther Schifter, radio personality
  • Oskar Schindler, industrialist and famous WWII hero (saved his Jewish factory workers from Auschwitz), born in Svitavy, Moravia, 1908–1974
  • Otto Skorzeny, Nazi commando (rescuer of Benito Mussolini)
  • Carl Szokoll, resistance fighter ("saviour of Vienna"), author and film producer
  • Georg Ludwig von Trapp, head of The Sound of Music family
  • Franz Viehböck, cosmonaut
  • Karl Weyprecht, polar explorer
  • Simon Wiesenthal, 1908–2005, pre-eminent Nazi hunter

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