Category
page 1Austrian Jews

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)

Karl Landsteiner
Jewish-Austrian biologist, physician and Nobel Prize laureate

Arnold Schoenberg
Austrian-Jewish American composer (1874-1951)
Arthur Schnitzler
Austrian writer (1862–1931)

Billy Wilder
Austrian-born American filmmaker and screenwriter (1906-2002)
Peter Drucker
American business consultant (1909–2005)
Robert Bárány
Austri-Hungarian otologist and Nobel Prize laureate

Walter Kohn
American physicist (1923–2016)

Alfred Hermann Fried
Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1864–1921)

György Ligeti
Hungarian composer (1923-2006)

Otto Robert Frisch
Austrian-born British nuclear physicist

Fritz Kreisler
Austrian violinist and composer (1875-1962)

Rudolf Hilferding
German politician (1877-1941)

Eduard Hanslick
Austrian musician and musicologist (1825–1904)
Josef Breuer
Austrian physician (1842-1925)

Erwin Chargaff
Ukrainian-born biochemist who emigrated to the United States (1905–2002)

Alexander von Zemlinsky
Austrian Jewish composer, conductor, and teacher (1871-1942)
Teddy Kollek
Israeli politician (1911–2007)

Margaret Mahler
Hungarian born American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (1897-1985)
Oscar Straus
Viennese composer (1870-1954)

Ernst Haas
American photographer (1921-1986)
Hilda Geiringer
Austrian mathematician (1893–1973)
Mercédès Jellinek
namesake of Mercedes-Benz

Emil Jellinek
German automotive pioneer (1853–1918)
Eva Schloss
Austrian‑British Holocaust survivor and memoirist (1929–2026)
Wilhelm Stekel
Austrian physician and psychologist (1868-1940)
Ernst Fuchs
Austrian artist (1930-2015)
Maurice Goldhaber
American physicist (1911-2011)
Walter Mischel
Austrian-born Jewish American psychologist
Herbert Feigl
Austrian philosopher (1902–1988)
Moritz Gottlieb Saphir
Austrian writer (1795–1858)
Ignaz Brüll
Austrian musician (1846–1907)
Joseph von Sonnenfels
Austrian noble (1733-1817)
Leo Fall
Austrian composer (1873–1925)
Walter Munk
American oceanographer (1917–2019)
Abraham Brill
American psychiatrist & psychoanalyst (1874–1948)
Friedrich Waismann
Austrian philosopher (1896–1959)
Eric Wolf
American anthropologist (1923-1999)
Ignatz Kolisch
Austro-Hungarian chess player (1837-1889)
Erich von Hornbostel
Austrian ethnomusicologist (1877–1935)

Michael Gielen
Austrian conductor
René Spitz
Austrian-American psychoanalyst
Joe May
Austrian film director (1880–1954)
Eva May
Austrian actress (1902–1924)
Otto F. Kernberg
Austrian psychoanalyst and psychologist

Rudolph Schindler
American architect (1887–1953)
Wolfgang Rindler
Austrian physicist (1924–2019)
Timna Brauer
Austrian singer
Eddie Polo
actor (1875–1961)

Hanns Sachs
Austrian psychoanalyst (1881-1947)
Moriz Winternitz
Austrian Indologist (1863–1937)
Beate Sirota Gordon
Austrian-born performing arts producer and women's rights activist
Nathan Juran
American film director (1907-2002)
Viktor Tausk
Austro-Hungarian psychiatrist & psychoanalyst
Princess Elisabeth, Princess Consort of Liechtenstein
Consort of Liechtenstein (1929-1938)
Adolf Schwarz
Austro-Hungarian chess player
Berta Zuckerkandl-Szeps
Austrian writer, art critic and salonholder (1864-1945)
Maurice Bloomfield
American classical philologist (1855-1928)
Fritz Stiedry
Austrian conductor (1883–1968)
Edmund Rumpler
Austrian automobile and aircraft designer (1872-1940)