List of Austrian Americans
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This is a list of famous Austrian Americans.
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- Fred Astaire - dancer/actor[1]
- Kirk Baltz, actor
- Bibi Besch - actress[2]
- Ricardo Cortez - silent film actor[3]
- Robert von Dassanowsky - academic, writer and film producer[4]
- Victor Francis Hess - physicist[5]
- Hans Kelsen - jurist[6]
- Greta Kempton - artist[7]
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold - composer[8]
- Hedy Lamarr - actress[9]
- Elissa Landi - actress[10]
- Richard Neutra - architect[11]
- Wolfgang Pauli - physicist[12]
- Wolfgang Puck - celebrity chef, restaurateur[13]
- Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist[14]
- Fritzi Scheff - actress
- Arnold Schoenberg - composer[15]
- Alfred Schütz - philosopher/sociologist[16]
- Arnold Schwarzenegger - actor and 38th Governor of California[17]
- Lilia Skala - actress[18]
- Walter Slezak - actor[19]
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908 - 2002) physicist. During World War II, he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons; medal received in 1979[20]
- Billy Wilder - director[21]
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- ^ [1] "Fritz Austerlitz, the Austrian American who went to Hollywood and emerged as Fred Astaire."
- ^ [2] "Bibi Besch was an Austrian actress."
- ^ [3] "Though his professional name was suggestive of a Latin Lover type, actor Ricardo Cortez was actually an Austrian Jew, born Jacob Krantz. He arrived in Hollywood in 1922, at a time when the Rudolph Valentino craze was at its height."
- ^ [4] regarding an Austrian decoration: "I have focused on Austrian studies most of my academic life. As an Austrian-American, it makes me especially proud."
- Henry Ellenbogen - US Congressman from Pennsylvania<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000111] "Born and educated in Vienna. Immigrated to the United States and served in the 33rd Congressional District ([[Pittsburgh, PA]])."</li>
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