Archduke Ferdinand of Austria

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There have been several men titled Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, including:

• Archduke Ferdinand Karl Anton Joseph Johann Stanislaus of Austria-Este (1754-1806), fourth son and fourteenth child of Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and Maria Theresa, became heir to the Duchies of Modena and Reggio through his marriage to the Este heiress, and served as commander of an Austrian army in the War of the Third Coalition (1805).
• Archduke Ferdinand Joseph Johann Baptist (1769-1824), second son of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, became Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany.
• Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este (1781-1850), younger son of Archduke Ferdinand Karl Anton Joseph Johann Stanislaus.
• Archduke Ferdinand Karl Leopold Joseph Franz Marcelin (1793-1875), eldest son of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II, became Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria upon his father's death in 1835.
• Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este (1821-1849), was the younger son of Duke Francis IV of Modena.
• Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph (1832-1867), second son of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria and brother of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria; became Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico in 1864.
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph (1863-1914), better known as Franz Ferdinand, was Heir to the Austrian throne from 1896 until he was assassinated in 1914, sparking the First World War.
• Archduke Ferdinand Karl Ludwig Joseph Johann Maria (1868-1915), younger brother of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, abandoned his dynastic rights to marry Bertha Czuber in 1909.
• Archduke Ferdinand Zvonimir of Austria (born 1997), son of Archduke Karl of Austria, grandson of Crown Prince Otto of Austria, and second-in-line to the headship of the House of Habsburg