List of Austrian Americans

Fred Astaire - dancer/actor^[1]
Kirk Baltz - actor^{[citation needed]}
Hank Bauer - former MLB player
Bibi Besch - actress^[2]
Ricardo Cortez - silent film actor^[3]
Robert von Dassanowsky - academic, writer and film producer^[4]
Henry Ellenbogen - US Congressman from Pennsylvania^[5]
Max Fleischer - cartoonist
Victor Francis Hess - physicist^[6]
Hans Kelsen - jurist^[7]
Greta Kempton - artist^[8]
Joseph Keppler - cartoonist, best known for the illustrated magazine Puck^[9]
Erich Wolfgang Korngold - composer^[10]
Hedy Lamarr - actress^[11]
Elissa Landi - actress^[12]
Fritz Lang - director
Erich Leinsdorf - conductor
Peter Lorre - actor
Arthur Murray - dancer, entreprenuer
Richard Neutra - architect^[13]
Frederick Burr Opper - cartoonist
Wolfgang Pauli - physicist^[14]
Otto Preminger - director
Wolfgang Puck - celebrity chef, restaurateur^[15]
Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist^[16]
Leah Remini - actress. Mother is Austrian
Martin Roscheisen - entrepreneur
Fritzi Scheff - actress
Joseph Schildkraut - actor
Arnold Schoenberg - composer^[17]
Kurt von Schuschnigg - Austrian federal Chancellor 1936-1938 and professor of political sciences at St. Louis University 1948-1967
Alfred Schütz - philosopher/sociologist^[18]
Arnold Schwarzenegger - actor and 38th Governor of California^[19]
Lilia Skala - actress^[20]
Walter Slezak - actor^[21]
Georg Ludwig von Trapp - headed the Austrian singing family portrayed in The Sound of Music. His exploits at sea in World War I earned him numerous decorations, including elevation to the Austrian nobility
Agathe von Trapp - the eldest daughter of Baron Georg von Trapp and Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, The von Trapp Family from The Sound of Music
Maria F. von Trapp - the second-oldest daughter of Baron Georg von Trapp and Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, The von Trapp Family from The Sound of Music
Werner von Trapp - second-oldest son of Georg Ritter von Trapp and Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, The von Trapp Family from The Sound of Music
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^[22]
Billy Wilder - director^[23]
Ernst Florian Winter - diplomat
Joe Zawinul - jazz pianist
Fred Zinnemann - director

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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."
^ [5] "Born and educated in Vienna. Immigrated to the United States and served in the 33rd Congressional District (Pittsburgh, PA)."
^ [6] "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."
^ [7] "Austrian-American legal philosopher, teacher, jurist, and writer on international law..."
^ [8] "sat for Austrian native Greta Kempton five times in 1947..."
^ [9] "Joseph Keppler was born in Vienna, Austria, on 1st February, 1838."
^ [10] "A study of the life and work of Austrian composer Korngold..."
^ [11] "Austrian born film star, Hedy Lamarr, of the 1930 and 40s was also a gifted electrical engineer." [12] "Hedy Lamarr had been an American citizen since 1953."
^ [13] "Elissa Landi Austrian/Italian leading lady."
^ [14] "Austrian-American modernist architect Richard Neutra."
^ [15] "was developed in 1925 by Austrian-American theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli..."
^ [16] "The Austrian-born Puck began..."; WolfgangPuck.com (2005); retrieved 2006-08-31
^ [17] "Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian-Ukrainian of Jewish background."
^ [18] "Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951, Austrian composer. He became a U.S. citizen in 1941."
^ Alfred schutz, Austrian Economists and the Knowledge Problem - Knudsen 16 (1): 45 - Rationality and Society
^ [19] "Arnold Schwarzenegger, "The Austrian Oak", was a bodybuilding prodigy who won the..." [20] "Arnold was the embodiment of the American (a naturalized citizen since 1983) dream..."
^ [21] "Galvanizing, stern-featured Viennese character actress with extensive Broadway experience..."
^ [22] "That's Erika Slezak, daughter of the famous Austrian-American actor Walter Slezak..."
^ [23] "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family..." [24] "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution..."
^ [25] "Wilder, Austrian-born, but in the US since 1934, directed his last film in 1981."