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01. junio 2005
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WELL-KNOWN AUSTRIANS
* Gottfried Helnwein, artist, born in Vienna, 1948
* Alfred Hrdlicka, sculptor and graphic artist, born in Vienna, 1928 * Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist, 1928-2000, born in Vienna * Gustav Klimt, artist, helped found Vienna Secession * Oskar Kokoschka, painter, 1886-1980, born in Pöchlarn (Lower Austria) * Inge Morath, photographer * Hermann Nitsch, artist, painter, born in Vienna, 1938 * Alf Poier, artist and stand-up comedian * Arnulf Rainer, painter, born 1929 * Egon Schiele, painter, 1890-1918 |
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Actors/Actresses
* Leon Askin, actor * Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor * Liane Haid, first Austrian movie star * Hedy Lamarr, (1913-2000), actress; also co-inventor of spread spectrum radio technology; became U.S. citizen * Romy Schneider, actress (Sissi) * Arnold Schwarzenegger, (born 1947), bodybuilder, actor, Governor of California; became U.S. citizen * Oskar Werner, actor Artists * Herbert Bayer, artist, typographer, art director, graphic designer * Ernst Fuchs, painter and sculptor, born in Vienna, 1930 * Rudolf Hausner, painter and graphic artist, 1914-1995 * Gottfried Helnwein, artist, born in Vienna, 1948 * Alfred Hrdlicka, sculptor and graphic artist, born in Vienna, 1928 * Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist, 1928-2000, born in Vienna * Gustav Klimt, artist, helped found Vienna Secession * Oskar Kokoschka, painter, 1886-1980, born in Pöchlarn (Lower Austria) * Inge Morath, photographer * Hermann Nitsch, artist, painter, born in Vienna, 1938 * Alf Poier, artist and stand-up comedian * Arnulf Rainer, painter, born 1929 * Egon Schiele, painter, 1890-1918 * Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, architect and political activist Filmmakers * Fritz Lang, film director, December 05, 1890 - August 02, 1976 * Josef von Sternberg, film director, 1894-1969 * Billy Wilder, film director, 1906-2002, born in Austria-Hungary * Otto Preminger, film director * Fred Zinnemann, film director * Franz Antel, filmmaker Inventors * Gaston Glock, inventor, founder of Glock * Eduard Haas, inventor of PEZ * Viktor Kaplan, inventor of turbines for river power plants * Johann Korbuly, inventor of matador (special wooden toy) * Josef Madersberger, invented the sewing-machine in 1818 * Sigfried Marcus, inventor of automobile in 1864 in Vienna, lived most of his life in Austria * Paul Schwarzkopf, inventor of powder metallurgy * Auer von Welsbach, inventor of gaslight Musicians * Ludwig van Beethoven composer, born in Bonn but spent most of his life in Vienna * Alban Berg, composer, 1885-1935, born in Vienna * Anton Bruckner, composer, 1824-1896 * Falco, (1957-1998), pop musician * Friedrich Gulda, pianist and composer, born in 1930 in Vienna * Joseph Haydn, Composer with Croatian connections. Author of "Imperial Hymn" now German Hymn * Udo Jürgens, singer-songwriter * Walter Jurmann, composer * Gustav Mahler, composer * Leopold Mozart, composer & musician * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer & musician * Franz Schubert, composer & musician * Johann Strauss, Sr., 1809-1849, Johann Strauss, Jr., 1825-1899, and Josef Strauss, 1827-1870, the "Waltz Kings" of the latter 19th century * Fritz Wotruba, sculptor, 1907-1975, born in Vienna * Joe Zawinul, jazz musician, composer, born in Vienna, 1932 Philosophers * Martin Buber, philosopher, 1878-1965, born in Vienna * Heinrich Gomperz, philosopher, 1873-1942, born in Vienna * Karl Popper, philosopher (born in Austria, became British) * Othmar Spann, philosopher and economist * Rudolf Steiner, mystic & philosopher * Otto Weininger, philosopher * Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher, born 1889 in Vienna Politicians * Engelbert Dolfuss, politician, 1892-1934, born in Texing * Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (1970-1983) * Karl Renner, (1870-1950), Chancellor and President of Austria * Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, diplomat * Kurt Waldheim, diplomat and politician; former Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1982, former President of Austria from 1986 to 1992 born 1918 Psychologists * Alfred Adler, father of Individual Psychology * Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis * Otto Rank, pioneer psychologist * Wilhelm Reich, psychologist, (1897-1957) Scientists * Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist, 1844-1906, born in Vienna * Fritjof Capra, physicist * Christian Andreas Doppler, physicist, 1803-1853, born in Salzburg * Paul Ehrenfest, physicist & mathematician * Viktor Frankl, father of logotherapy * Kurt Gödel, mathematician (born in Austria-Hungary, became naturalized U.S. citizen) * Hans Hass, biologist * Friedrich Hayek, Nobel Prize winner (economics) * Karl Landsteiner, physician, serologist, Nobel Prize winner, 1886-1943 * Konrad Lorenz zoologist, Nobel prize 1973 (physiology/medicine) * Lise Meitner, physicist * Gregor Mendel, pioneer of genetics * Ludwig von Mises, free-market economist * Wolfgang Pauli, Nobel prize winner (Physics, 1945) * Ferdinand Porsche, automotive engineer, designed the Volkswagen (the "people's car"), born in Austria-Hungary * Erwin Schrödinger, physicist and Nobel Prize winner * Berta von Suttner, Nobel Prize winner Sportsmen/Sportswomen * Franz Klammer, downhill skier, born in Mooswald (Carinthia), 1953 * Niki Lauda, (born 1949), race car driver and aviation entrepreneur * Hermann Maier, skier, born 1972 * Thomas Muster, tennis champion, born 1967 * Gernot Reinstadler, skier (1970-1991) * Jochen Rindt, race car driver * Toni Sailer, 1956 Olympic Games - Won all three gold medals earning himself the Triple Crown of Alpine Skiing ; born 1935 Writers * Ingeborg Bachmann, poet, 1926-1973 * Otto Maria Carpeaux, literary critic and foremost historian of Literature, 1900-1978 * Thomas Bernhard, dramatist, novelist, poet, 1931-1989, born in Cloister Heerlen, Netherlands * Heimito von Doderer, writer, 1896-1966, born in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau near Vienna * Peter Handke, author, born in 1942 in Griffen (Carinthia) * Franz Kafka, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German) * Ludwig von Köchel, writer, composer, botanist, music historian * Karl Kraus, essayist, poet, dramatist, 1874-1936 * Frederic Morton, journalist and novelist, born 1924 * Robert Musil, writer * Günther Nenning, journalist, born 1921 * Arthur Schnitzler, writer * Fritz Spiegl, journalist * Friedrich Torberg, narrative writer, essayist, script author 1908-1979, born in Vienna * Georg Trakl, poet * Stefan Zweig, writer, 1881-1942, born in Vienna Other Notables * Marie Antoinette, born in Vienna, became Queen of France * Elisabeth of Austria ("Sissi"), born in Munich (Bavaria) * Otto Habsburg-Lothringen * Theodor Herzl, "founder" of Israel, lived most of his life in Austria * Adolf Hitler, unsuccessful artist; dictator of Germany from 1933-1945; born on April 20, 1889 in Braunau am Inn * Franz Cardinal König, 1905-2004, Archbishop of Vienna (1956-1985) * Alma Mahler, wife and muse to Mahler, Gropius, Werfel * Max Reinhardt, renowned theatre director * Günther Schifter, radio personality * Georg Ritter von Trapp, head of The Sound of Music family * Simon Wiesenthal, b.1908, Nazi hunter |
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