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, actorArtists* 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 activistFilmmakers* 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, filmmakerInventors* 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 gaslightMusicians* 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, 1932Philosophers* 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 ViennaPoliticians* 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 1918Psychologists* 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 winnerSportsmen/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 1935Writers* 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 ViennaOther 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