List of famous Viennese
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This is a list of famous Viennese - it is not meant to be inclusive.
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- Marie Antoinette, née 'Maria Antonia', daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, last absolutistic Queen of France (1774-1792)
- Maria Theresia, daughter of Emperor Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Empress of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (1740-1780)
- Alfred Adler, founder of individual psychology
- Victor Adler, social democrat and activist for the rights of workers
- Ilse Aichinger, writer
- Wolfgang Ambros, one of the founders of Austropop
- Hans Asperger, pediatrician, discoverer of Asperger syndrome
- André Asriel, composer
- Carl Auer von Welsbach, chemist
- Alban Berg, composer
- Ludwig Boltzmann, physicist
- Arik Brauer, painter, singer, and poet
- Martin Buber, philosopher
- Georg Danzer, song writer
- Elfi von Dassanowsky, singer, pianist, film producer
- Heimito von Doderer, writer
- Peter Drucker, economist
- Albert Ehrenstein, writer
- Falco, singer and musician
- Viktor Frankl, psychologist, neurologist, founder of Logotherapy
- Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of the psychoanalytic school of psychology
- Karl von Frisch, zoologist, animal psychologist, bee keeper, Nobel Prize Laureate
- Franz Grillparzer, playwright
- Friedrich Gulda, pianist and composer
- Eduard Haas III, inventor of PEZ candy
- Friedrich Hayek, economist, Nobel Prize winner
- Andre Heller, poet, song writer, artist
- Theodor Herzl, journalist, founder of modern political Zionism
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, writer, founder of the Salzburger Festspiele
- Robert Horn, luxury leather accessory designer and style guru
- Friedensreich Hundertwasser, artist, architect, painter
- Ernst Jandl, poet and writer
- Franz König, Cardinal Archbishop
- Gustav Klimt, painter
- Karl Kraus, satirist, publisher of "Die Fackel"
- Wolfgang Kraus, essayist, leader for many years of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur
- Karl Landsteiner, doctor, bacteriaologist, discoverer of blood group, Nobel Prize Laureate
- Fritz Lang, director
- Josef Lanner, composer
- Niki Lauda, race car driver and entrepreneur
- Henry Lehrman, silent film director
- B.M. Leser-Lasario, singer
- Leopold Lindtberg, director
- Konrad Lorenz, behavioural scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate
- Friederike Mayröcker, writer
- Lise Meitner, physicist
- Johann Nestroy, playwright
- Karl Popper, philosopher
- Helmut Qualtinger, actor, writer, cabaret actor
- Ferdinand Raimund, play writer
- Alma Rosé, violin virtuoso, killed in Auschwitz
- Arthur Schnitzler, story teller and playwright
- Arnold Schönberg, composer, music theorist, painter
- Erwin Schrödinger, physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate
- Franz Schubert, composer
- Matthias Sindelar, footballer
- Erwin Steinhauer, actor
- Johann Strauss I, composer
- Johann Strauss II, composer
- Johann Georg Stuwer, fireworks foreman
- Friedrich Torberg, writer and journalist
- Otto Wagner, architect
- Anton von Webern, composer
- Otto Weininger, philosopher
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
- Joe Zawinul, jazz pianist, keyboard player, and composer
- Stefan Zweig, writer
