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Gustav Mahler
Austrian late-Romantic composer (1860–1911)
Karl Popper
Austrian-British philosopher of science and social and política e falsificationism and for criticism of Plato, Hegel and Marx as totalitarian opponents of open society (1902-1994)

Kurt Gödel
Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)
Friedrich Hayek
Austrian and British economist (1899–1992)

Alfred Adler
Austrian psychotherapist (1870–1937)
Theodor Herzl
father of modern political Zionism (1860–1904)
Edmund Husserl
German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology (*1859 – †1938)

Huldrych Zwingli
Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484-1531)
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist and philosopher; first Czechoslovak president (1850–1937)
Konrad Lorenz
Austrian zoologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973 (1903–1989)
Ludwig Boltzmann
Austrian physicist and philosopher (1844–1906)
Kurt Waldheim
Austrian politician and diplomat (1918–2007)
Heinz Fischer
Austrian politician (SPÖ), 8th president of Austria (born 1938)
France Prešeren
Slovene national poet, a Carniolan Romantic poet of Slovene descent (1800–1849)
Ignaz Semmelweis
Hungarian physician, early pioneer of antiseptic procedures (1818–1865)
Ludwig von Mises
Austrian-American economist (1881–1973)
Joseph Schumpeter
Austrian political economist (1883–1950)

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy
Austrian chemist (1865-1929)
Rudolf Carnap
German philosopher and logician (1891–1970)
Michael Haneke
Austrian film director and screenwriter (born 1942)
Jörg Haider
Austrian politician (1950-2008)

Joseph Roth
Austrian novelist and journalist (1894–1939)
Richard Nikolaus von Coudenhove-Kalergi
Austrian-Japanese politician and philosopher

Karl von Frisch
German-Austrian ethologist (1886-1982)
Alexander Schallenberg
Chancellor of Austria in 2021 and 2025
Richard Kuhn
Austrian-German biochemist (1900-1967)
Anton Webern
Austrian composer and conductor
Carl Menger
founder of the Austrian School of economics (1840–1921)
Brigitte Bierlein
Austrian jurist and politician, former federal chancellor of Austria and president of the Austrian constitutional court (1949–2024)
Jozef Tiso
Slovak politician, priest and president of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945
Nataša Pirc Musar
President of Slovenia since 2022

Bruno Kreisky
Austrian diplomat and chancellor (1911–1990)
Hans Kelsen
Austrian lawyer (1881–1973)
Alfred Gusenbauer
Austrian chancellor

Johann Palisa
Austrian astronomist (1848–1925)
Wolfgang Schüssel
Chancellor of Austria from 2000 to 2007
Christian Kern
Austrian politician and businessman
Aurel Stein
Hungarian-British archaeologist (1862-1943)
Hans Asperger
Austrian pediatrician, medical theorist, and medical professor (1906-1980)

Rudolf Kirchschläger
Austrian diplomat, politician, judge, and eighth President of Austria (1915–2000)
Adalbert Stifter
Austrian painter, pacifist and writer (1805-1868)

Friedrich von Wieser
Austrian economist (1851-1926)
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Austrian economist (1851-1914)

Fritjof Capra
American physicist (1939-)

Petrus Apianus
German astronomer, mathematician and cartographer (1495-1552)

Ilse Aichinger
Austrian writer (1921–2016)
Alfred Schütz
American sociologist (1899–1959)
Eric Voegelin
American philosopher (1901–1985)

Michael Hainisch
President of Austria (1858–1940)

Bruno Bettelheim
Austrian-American child psychologist and writer (1903–1990)

Rudolf Hilferding
German politician (1877-1941)

Bedřich Hrozný
Czech archeologist, linguist and orientalist (1879-1952)

Georg von Peuerbach
Austrian mathematician and astronomer (1423-1461)
Karekin II
Catholicoi of Armenia

Aribert Heim
Austrian SS member and physician in Mauthausen concentration camp (1914-1992)
Sándor Ferenczi
Hungarian psychoanalyst (1873–1933)

Milan Vidmar
Slovenian chess player (1885–1962)
Leopold Fitzinger
Austrian zoologist (1802-1884)
Josef Breuer
Austrian physician (1842-1925)

Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein
Prince of Liechtenstein (1853-1938)