Sports
- Margarete "Grete" Adler, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-meter (m) freestyle relay)
- Felix Baumgartner, world record setting skydiver
- Gerhard Berger, racing driver
- Richard Bergmann, 7-time world table tennis champion, ITTF Hall of Fame
- Albert Bogen (Albert Bógathy), saber fencer, Olympic silver
- Fritzi Burger, figure skater, Olympic 2-time silver, World Championship 2-time silver
- Michaela Dorfmeister, alpine skier
- Erich Eliskases, chess grandmaster
- Siegfried "Fritz" Flesch, sabre fencer, Olympic bronze
- Toni Fritsch, soccer and football player who won the Super Bowl in 1972
- Ernst Grünfeld, chess grandmaster
- Hans Haas, Olympic champion weightlifter (lightweight), silver
- Tunc Hamarat, correspondence chess world champion (2004)
- Ernst Happel, football player and coach
- Judith Haspel (born "Judith Deutsch"), held every Austrian women's middle and long distance freestyle record in 1935
- Dr. Otto Herschmann, Olympic 2-silver (in saber fencing/team sabre and 100-m freestyle)
- Hansi Hinterseer, skier, singer, actor, entertainer
- Nickolaus "Mickey" Hirschl, 2-time Olympic bronze wrestler (heavyweight freestyle and Greco-Roman), Shotput and Discus Junior Champion, Weightlifting Junior Champion, and Pentathlon Champion
- Felix Kasper, figure skater, Olympic bronze
- Franz Klammer, Olympic alpine ski champion
- Werner Schlager, 2003 Table Tennis World Champion
- Hans Krankl, football player and coach
- Niki Lauda, Formula One race car driver and aviation entrepreneur
- Hermann Maier, Olympic alpine ski champion
- Alex Manninger, Professional footballer for Arsenal F.C. Winner of 1997-98 FA Premier League title.
- Klara Milch, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-m freestyle relay)
- Annemarie Moser-Pröll, alpine skier
- Thomas Muster, tennis champion
- Paul Neumann, Olympic champion swimmer (500 m freestyle)
- Fred Oberlander, wrestler; world champion (freestyle heavyweight); Maccabiah champion
- Eva Pawlik, European figure skating Champion
- Felix Pipes, Olympic silver tennis player (doubles)
- Maxim Podoprigora, Olympic swimmer
- Ellen Preis, foil fencer, 3-time world champion (1947, 1949, and 1950), Olympic champion, 17-time Austrian champion
- Herbert Prohaska, football player and coach
- Jochen Rindt, race car driver, Formula One World Champion of 1970
- Toni Sailer, 1956 Olympic Games – won all three gold medals earning himself the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing; born 1935
- Otto Scheff (born "Otto Sochaczewsky"), Olympic champion swimmer (400 m freestyle) and 2-time bronze (400 m freestyle, 1,500-m freestyle)
- Wilhelm Steinitz, winner of first ever world chess championship in 1886
- Carl Schlechter, chess grandmaster
- Josephine Sticker, Olympic bronze swimmer (4x100-m freestyle relay)
- Nicole Trimmel, kickboxing champion
- Matthias Sindelar, regarded by many as Austria's greatest ever footballer.
- Rudolf Spielmann, chess grandmaster
- Herma Szabo, Olympic and five-time World figure skating champion
- Thomas Vanek, NHL Hockey player for the Buffalo Sabres.
- Anita Wachter, Olympic alpine ski champion, born 1967 in Schruns.
- Otto Wahle, 2-time Olympic silver swimmer (1,000 m freestyle, 200-m obstacle race) and bronze (400 m freestyle); International Swimming Hall of Fame
- Gregor Schlierenzauer, Olympic bronze medalist,world and 4 Hills Tournament champion ski jumper.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)