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Jews from Austria-Hungary

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Sigmund Freud
Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis (1856–1939)
Franz Kafka
Bohemian writer from Prague (1883–1924)
Gustav Mahler
Austrian late-Romantic composer (1860–1911)
Stefan Zweig
Austrian writer (1881–1942)
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Ukrainian-born Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature (1888–1970)
Harry Houdini
Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer (1874–1926)
Gerty Cori
Austro-Hungarian-American biochemist (1896–1957)
Isidor Isaac Rabi
American physicist (1898–1988)
Wilhelm Steinitz
Austrian-American chess player (1836–1900)
Karl Kraus
Austrian playwright and publicist (1874–1936)
Joseph Roth
Austrian novelist and journalist (1894–1939)
Franz Werfel
Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright and poet (1890-1945)
Paul Muni
Austrian-born American stage and film actor (1895-1967)
Melanie Klein
british Austrian born psychoanalyst (1882–1960)
Peter Lorre
Hungarian and American actor (1904–1964)
Felix Salten
Austro-Hungarian author and critic in Vienna (1869–1945)
Otto Bauer
Austrian Social Democrat (1881-1938)
Paul Lukas
Hungarian-American actor (1891-1971)
Lee Strasberg
American theatre director, actor and acting teacher (1901–1982)
Ferenc Molnár
Hungarian-born dramatist and novelist (1878-1952)
Karl Polanyi
Hungarian economist, philosopher and historian
Fritz Kreisler
Austrian violinist and composer (1875-1962)
Richard Réti
Czechoslovakian chess player (1889–1929)
Alfréd Hajós
Hungarian swimmer, footballer, and architect (1878-1955)
Béla Guttmann
Hungarian football player and manager (1899–1981)
Rudolf Hilferding
German politician (1877-1941)
Leopold Auer
Hungarian violinist, conductor and composer (1845–1930)
Victor Adler
foreign minister of Austria, editor (1852–1918)
Egon Friedell
Austrian philosopher, historian, journalist, actor, cabaret performer (Kabarettist) and theatre critic (1878–1938)
Erwin Chargaff
Ukrainian-born biochemist who emigrated to the United States (1905–2002)
Adolph Zukor
Hungarian-American film producer (1873–1976)
Muhammad Asad
Austrian-born Pakistani writer and social activist (1900–1992)
Leo Perutz
Austrian mathematician and writer (1882-1957)
Abraham Wald
American mathematician, statistician, and scientist (1902–1950)
Salo Flohr
Czech chess player, arbiter, theoretician, organiser and writer (1908–1983)
Paul Henreid
Austrian-American actor and film director
Ludwig Gumplowicz
Polish sociologist (1838–1909)
Guido Adler
Austrian musicologist, writer (1855–1941)
Eduard Bloch
Austrian physician (1872-1945)
Fritz Mauthner
Austrian philosopher, writer and opinion journalist (1849-1923)
Paul Neumann
Austrian Swimmer (1875-1932)
Otto Herschmann
Swimmer, fencer, and lawyer (1877–1942)
Emma Eckstein
Austrian author and psychoanalysis subject (1865–1924)
Julius Pokorný
linguist (1887-1970)
Ivan Merz
Bosnian-Croatian academic, Catholic layperson, writer, schoolteacher, polyglot and blessed of the Catholic Church (1896–1928)
Felix Frankfurter
former Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1882–1965)
František Langer
Czechoslovak playwright, general, doctor and writer (1888–1965)
Rudolf Kastner
Jewish-Hungarian lawyer and journalist (1906-1957)
Sigmund Romberg
Hungarian-born American composer (1887–1951)
Henry Lehrman
American actor, director, screenwriter and producer (1881–1946)
David Frankfurter
Croatian Jew (1909-1982)
Karel Ančerl
Czech conductor, composer and director conductor of Czech Philharmonic (1908–1973)
Elek Schwartz
Romanian footballer, football manager (1908-2000)
Uberto de Morpurgo
Italian tennis player (1896–1961)
Ephraim Moses Lilien
Polish illustration artist and painter (1874-1925)
Carl Flesch
Hungarian violinist and teacher, 1873-1944
Mór Kaposi
(1837–1902) Hungarian physician and dermatologist
Eugenie Schwarzwald
Austrian educator and writer (1872-1940)
Leo Sternbach
Polish-American chemist