Mountaineers
- Peter Aufschnaiter, mountaineer and co-traveller of Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet)
- Karl Blodig, mountaineer (first to climb all alpine mountains above 4000m)
- Hermann Buhl, first ascent of Nanga Parbat 1953, first ascent of Broad Peak
- Kurt Diemberger, first ascents of Broad Peak (1957) and Dhaulagiri (1960)
- Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer (first ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid) and writer (Seven Years in Tibet)
- Peter Habeler, first ascent of Mount Everest without oxygen (together with Reinhold Messner)
- Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, first woman to ascend all Eight-thousanders without oxygen (2011)
- Ludwig Purtscheller, first ascent of Kilimanjaro in 1889
- Marcus Schmuck, first ascent of Broad Peak in 1957 as expedition leader
- Herbert Tichy, geologist, journalist and mountaineer (first ascent of Cho Oyu)
- Luis Trenker, mountaineer, film director and writer (born in the southern part of Tyrol then Austrian-Hungarian)
- Fritz Wintersteller, first ascent of Broad Peak in 1957
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