List of Austrian Americans

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This is a list of famous Austrian Americans.

Lists of
famous Americans
by U.S. state
by ethnicity:
African American
Albanian | Arab
Armenian | Australian
Austrian | Bahamian
Bangladeshi | Belgian
Brazilian | Bulgarian
Cajun
Cambodian | Chinese
Croatian | Cuban
Danish | Dutch
English | Estonian
Filipino | Finnish
French
German | Greek
| Hmong
Hungarian
Indian | Iranian
Irish | Italian
Israeli
Jamaican | Japanese
Jewish | Korean
Laotian
Louisiana Creole
Mexican
Muslim
Native American
Native Hawaiian
Norwegian | Polish
Portuguese | Romanian
Russian | Salvadoran
Scots-Irish | Scottish
Swedish | Swiss
Taiwanese | Ukrainian
Vietnamese | Welsh

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ [1] "Fritz Austerlitz, the Austrian American who went to Hollywood and emerged as Fred Astaire."
  2. ^ [2] "Bibi Besch was an Austrian actress."
  3. ^ [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. ^ [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>
    <li id="_note-4">'''[[#_ref-4|^]]''' [http://physics.nobel.brainparad.com/victor_francis_hess.html] "Austrian-born physicist who was a joint recipient, with Carl D. Anderson of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of cosmic rays--high-energy radiation originating in outer space."</li> <li id="_note-5">'''[[#_ref-5|^]]''' [http://wwwa.britannica.com/eb/article-9045034] "Austrian-American legal philosopher, teacher, jurist, and writer on international law..."</li> <li id="_note-6">'''[[#_ref-6|^]]''' [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_13_15/ai_54359965] "sat for Austrian native Greta Kempton five times in 1947..."</li> <li id="_note-7">'''[[#_ref-7|^]]''' [http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0714831557] "A study of the life and work of Austrian composer Korngold..."</li> <li id="_note-8">'''[[#_ref-8|^]]''' [http://britneyspears.ac/physics/intro/hedy.htm] "Austrian born film star, Hedy Lamarr, of the 1930 and 40s was also a gifted electrical engineer." [http://www.hedylamarr.at/story4e.html] "Hedy Lamarr had been an American citizen since 1953."</li> <li id="_note-9">'''[[#_ref-9|^]]''' [http://elissa.org/landi.shtml] "Elissa Landi Austrian/Italian leading lady."</li> <li id="_note-10">'''[[#_ref-10|^]]''' [http://www.nbm.org/Exhibits/current/Neutra.html] "Austrian-American modernist architect Richard Neutra."</li> <li id="_note-11">'''[[#_ref-11|^]]''' [http://fusionanomaly.net/wolfgangpauli.html] "was developed in 1925 by Austrian-American theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli..."</li> <li id="_note-12">'''[[#_ref-12|^]]''' [http://www.wolfgangpuck.com/company/bio.php?id=11] "The Austrian-born Puck began..."; WolfgangPuck.com (2005); retrieved 2006-08-31</li> <li id="_note-13">'''[[#_ref-13|^]]''' [http://www.orgonelab.org/wrhistory.htm] "Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian-Ukrainian of Jewish background."</li> <li id="_note-14">'''[[#_ref-14|^]]''' [http://fusionanomaly.net/arnoldschoenberg.html] "Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951, Austrian composer. He became a U.S. citizen in 1941."</li> <li id="_note-15">'''[[#_ref-15|^]]''' [http://rss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/16/1/45]</li> <li id="_note-16">'''[[#_ref-16|^]]''' [http://www.schwarzenegger.it/mro/schwarzenegger.html] "Arnold Schwarzenegger, "The Austrian Oak", was a bodybuilding prodigy who won the..." [http://www.thespiannet.com/actors/S/schwarzenegger_arnold/index.shtml] "Arnold was the embodiment of the American (a naturalized citizen since 1983) dream..."</li> <li id="_note-17">'''[[#_ref-17|^]]''' [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800046364/bio] "Galvanizing, stern-featured Viennese character actress with extensive Broadway experience..."</li> <li id="_note-18">'''[[#_ref-18|^]]''' [http://www.members.tripod.com/erika_slezak/ESFC/losttouch.htm] "That's Erika Slezak, daughter of the famous Austrian-American actor Walter Slezak..."</li> <li id="_note-19">'''[[#_ref-19|^]]''' [http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/vweisskopf.html] "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family..." [http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,12212,750171,00.html] "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution..."</li> <li id="_note-20">'''[[#_ref-20|^]]''' [http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/apr2002/wild-a03.shtml] "Wilder, Austrian-born, but in the US since 1934, directed his last film in 1981."</li></ol></ref>