Entertainment •
Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg) – actor, director, screenwriter, comedian, author, playwright, and musician •
Gabrielle Anwar – actress •
Bea Arthur (born Bernice Franke), actress, comedienne, and singer •
Adele Astaire (born Adele Austerlitz) – dancer, actress, sister of Fred Astaire •
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz) – dancer, actor •
Sean Astin – actor •
Roseanne Barr, actress, comedian, writer, and producer •
Roger Bart, actor and singer. •
David Benioff (born David Friedman), writer and producer. •
Bibi Besch – actress •
Theodore Bikel – actor, singer, musician •
Peter Bogdanovich – director, writer, actor, producer, critic and film historian •
Abigail Breslin, actress •
Spencer Breslin, actor and songwriter. •
Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein), actor, director, and screenwriter •
Pauline Chalamet, American-French actress and producer •
Timothée Hal Chalamet, French-American actor and film producer •
Hans Conried – actor •
Ricardo Cortez (born Jacob Krantz) – silent film actor, of Austrian Jewish descent •
Stanley Cortez (born Stanislaus Kranz) – cinematographer •
Bryan Cranston, actor. •
Billy Crystal – actor, comedian, and filmmaker •
Robert von Dassanowsky – academic, writer and film producer •
Alden Ehrenreich, actor •
Norman Fell (born Norman Feld), actor of film and television •
Max Fleischer – animator •
Richard Fleischer – director, son of Max Fleischer •
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American socialite and actress •
Teri Garr – actress, comedian, dancer and voice artist •
Jeff Goldblum – actor and musician •
Alex Hafner – actor •
Colin Hanks, actor and filmmaker. •
Mark Harmon – actor •
Kurt Kasznar (born Kurt Servischer) – Austrian-born American actor •
Larry King (born Lawrence Zeiger), author, radio host and television host •
Stanley Kubrick – director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer •
Hedy Lamarr (born Hedwig Kiesler) – actress, inventor, and producer; from an Austrian Jewish family •
Martin Landau, actor. •
Elissa Landi – actress •
Fritz Lang – director •
Jennifer Jason Leigh, actress •
Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Blamauer) – actress, singer and diseuse •
Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein) – actor •
Joe Manganiello – actor, grandmother was of Austrian descent •
Julianna Margulies, actress •
Samantha Mathis – actress, daughter of Bibi Besch •
T.J. Miller, stand-up comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter •
Zero Mostel, actor, comedian, and singer •
Paul Muni (born Frederich Meier Weisenfreund) – actor •
Arthur Murray (born Moses Teichman) – dancer, entrepreneur •
Suzanne Pleshette, actress •
Natalie Portman (born Natalie Hershlag) – actress, born to a Jewish family, some of whom came from Austria •
Otto Preminger – director •
Carl Reiner, actor, author, comedian, director and screenwriter •
Leah Remini – actress, mother has Austrian Jewish descent •
Don Rickles – actor and comedian, of Jewish descent •
Tanya Roberts (born Victoria Blum), actress •
Eli Roth, film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor •
Lionel Royce (born Leon Moriz Reiss), actor of stage and screen •
Fritzi Scheff – actress •
Joseph Schildkraut – actor •
Arnold Schwarzenegger – actor and 38th
Governor of California •
Patrick Schwarzenegger – actor, son of Arnold, brother of Katherine Schwarzenegger •
Amanda Setton, actress. •
Harry Shearer – actor •
Lilia Skala (born Lilia Sofer) – actress •
Walter Slezak – actor •
Howard Stern, broadcaster and media personality. •
Eric Stonestreet – actor, original family name before World War I was Steingassner •
Edgar G. Ulmer – director •
Erich von Stroheim – director •
Josef von Sternberg – director •
Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff – American socialite, writer, and actress who is a member of the Austrian noble family Walderdorff •
Johnny Weissmuller, Johann Peter Weißmüller (Johnny Weissmüller) - actor ("Tarzan") •
Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder) – director, of Jewish descent •
Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift) – actress, of Jewish descent •
Elijah Wood – actor •
Ian Ziering, actor •
Fred Zinnemann – director
Music •
Walter Arlen (born Walter Aptowitzer) – composer, music critic at the
Los Angeles Times •
Elmer Bernstein – composer and conductor •
Hal David, lyricist •
Arthur Fiedler, conductor •
G-Eazy (born 1989) – rapper •
Marvin Hamlisch, composer and conductor •
James Horner, film composer and conductor •
Erich Wolfgang Korngold – composer and conductor •
Erich Leinsdorf (born Erich Landauer) – conductor •
Bobby Schayer – musician •
Arnold Schoenberg – composer, of Jewish descent •
Max Steiner – composer •
Richard Stöhr (born Richard Stern), composer, music author, and teacher. •
Nita Strauss – rock guitarist •
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. •
Agathe von Trapp – 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 – 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 •
Joe Zawinul – jazz pianist
Arts & literature •
Maria Altmann – art collector •
Gustav Bergmann – philosopher •
Bela Borsodi – photographer •
Art Buchwald, humorist •
Eric de Kolb – painter and designer •
Felix de Weldon – sculptor, best known for the
Marine Corps War Memorial •
Victor Gruen – architect and designer of shopping malls •
Raul Hillberg – author,
political scientist and historian, who is widely considered to be one of the world's
preeminent scholars of the
Holocaust •
Jerry Iger – famed American
cartoonist, founder of
Eisner & Iger, an industry trailblazer during the
Golden Age of Comics; born to an
Austrian-Jewish family in New York City and Bob Iger's paternal great-uncle •
Otto Kallir (born Otto Nirenstein), art historian, author, publisher, and gallerist. •
David Karfunkle – painter, muralist •
Greta Kempton – artist •
Joseph Keppler – cartoonist, best known for the illustrated magazine
Puck •
Jack Kirby – cartoon artist •
Vivian Maier –
street photographer •
Eric Kandel – neuroscientist •
Gerda Lerner (née Kronstein), historian and woman's history author •
Richard Neutra – architect •
Frederick Burr Opper – cartoonist •
Sylvia Plath – poet, mother of Austrian descent •
Katherine Schwarzenegger – author, daughter of Arnold Schwarzenegger, sister of Patrick Schwarzenegger •
Franz Werfel, novelist, playwright, and poet
Journalism •
Gene Siskel – critic, journalist •
Michael Smerconish – CNN journalist •
Matthew Winter – journalist
Science and medicine Economics •
Alexander Gerschenkron, economic historian and professor at Harvard University •
Friedrich von Hayek – Austrian-born economist and philosopher •
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises – economist, philosopher, author and classical liberal •
Joseph Warkany –
pediatrician Medicine •
Godfrey Edward Arnold – medical doctor and researcher •
Karl Landsteiner –
biologist and
physician, best known for having distinguished the main
blood groups •
Ignatz Leo Nascher – doctor and
gerontologist Physics •
Heinz von Foerster – scientist combining
physics and
philosophy, originator of
Second-order cybernetics •
Wolfgang Pauli – theoretical physicist and pioneer of quantum physics, received the Nobel Prize in Physics. •
Victor Frederick Weisskopf – physicist of Jewish descent. 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
Psychology •
Bruno Bettelheim –
child psychologist, psychoanalyst and concentration camp survivor •
Ernest Dichter, psychologist and marketing expert known as the "father of motivational research". •
Heinz Kohut, psychoanalyst best known for his development of
self psychology •
Walter Mischel – psychologist specializing in personality theory and social psychology; professor at Columbia University •
Wilhelm Reich – psychiatrist •
Paul Watzlawick – psychologist, communications theorist, and philosopher
Sociology •
Peter L. Berger – sociologist •
Peter Blau, sociologist and theorist. •
Paul Lazarsfeld, sociologist and mathematician; founder of Columbia University's Bureau of Applied Social Research •
Alfred Schütz – philosopher/sociologist
Other •
Carl Djerassi –
chemist, novelist, and
playwright •
Irene Fischer, mathematician and
geodesist. •
Kurt Gödel – logician, mathematician, philosopher •
Hans Holzer – paranormal researcher and author
Law •
Felix Frankfurter – U.S. Supreme Court Justice •
Ruth Bader Ginsburg – U.S. Supreme Court Justice •
Fred F. Herzog – only Jewish judge in Austria between the world wars, he fled to America and became Dean of two different law schools •
Hans Kelsen – jurist •
Richard Posner, legal scholar and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Politics •
Victor L. Berger –
socialist politician and journalist •
Barbara Boxer (née Levy), US Senator and member of the US House of Representatives •
Dagmar Braun Celeste, former First Lady of
Ohio •
Henry Ellenbogen – U.S. Congressman from
Pennsylvania •
John Kerry – politician, current
United States Special PresidentialEnvoy for Climate, former
Senator from Massachusetts,
U.S. presidential candidate of 2004 (
D), former
U.S. Secretary of State •
Joseph Lieberman, US senator •
Jacky Rosen (née Spekto), US senator and member of the House of Representatives •
Chuck Schumer, US senator •
Arthur Schneier, rabbi and human rights activist •
Kurt von Schuschnigg –
Austrofascist politician and Austrian federal Chancellor 1936-1938 and professor of political sciences at St. Louis University 1948-1967 •
Ernst Florian Winter – diplomat
Business and technology •
Edward Bernays – Austrian-American pioneer in public relations, referred to in his obituary as "the father of public relations". •
Michael Eisner – media executive, successive CEO of
Paramount Pictures and the
Walt Disney Company •
Anselm Franz – pioneering turbojet engineer, designer of the
Jumo 004 and
Lycoming T53 engines •
Joseph Gerber, inventor and businessman. •
Bob Iger – longtime
CEO of the
Walt Disney Company, who oversaw a fourfold increase in its
market capitalization; born in New York City to a
Jewish family, in particular an
Austrian-Jewish father •
Travis Kalanick – founder,
Uber Technologies; born in California to a family of
Jewish-Austrian and
Slovak-Austrian extraction •
Dylan Lauren, businesswoman •
Ernst Mahler – chemist and industrialist •
Jillian Michaels, fitness expert, nutritionist, businesswoman, media personality, and author. •
Roy Niederhoffer, hedge fund manager •
Wolfgang Puck – celebrity chef, restaurateur •
Martin Roscheisen – entrepreneur •
Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks •
Lewis Strauss. government official, businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer •
Elisha Wiesel, businessman and hedge fund manager.
Sports American football •
Toni Fritsch -
NFL player •
Mark Herzlich, sports commentator and former NFL football linebacker •
Joe Theismann – NFL quarterback, Super Bowl XVII champion
Baseball •
Richard von Foregger, Major League Baseball player •
Corey Kluber –
Major League Baseball pitcher, 2014 Cy Young pitcher •
Mose Solomon ("Rabbi of Swat") – Major League Baseball player, of Jewish descent
Swimming •
Hedy Bienenfeld, also known after marriage as Hedy Wertheimer, Olympic swimmer •
Andrea Murez, Olympic swimmer •
Otto Wahle, Austrian-American Olympic medalist swimmer
Other •
Benny Feilhaber, professional soccer player •
Alfred Guth, water polo player, swimmer, and Olympic modern pentathlete. •
Sylven Landesberg, American-Israeli-Austrian professional basketball player •
Samuel Mosberg, Olympic champion boxer •
Joe Schilling – kickboxer •
Frank Spellman, machinist, photographer, and Olympic champion weightlifter. •
Eliot Teltscher – top-10 tennis player •
Ken Uston – blackjack player, strategist, and author •
Gunther - professional wrestler signed to
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