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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