List of Austrian Jews

• Margarete "Grete" Adler (1896–1990), swimmer, Olympic bronze (4x100-m freestyle relay) • Richard Bergmann (1919–1970), Austria/Britain table tennis player, seven-time world champion, ITTF Hall of Fame • Hedy Bienenfeld (1907–1976), Austrian-American Olympic swimmer • Albert Bogen (Albert Bógathy) (1882–1961), fencer (saber), Olympic silver • Fritzi Burger (1910–1999), figure skater, two-time Olympic silver, two-time World Championship silver • Robert Fein (1907–1975), Olympic Champion weightlifter • Siegfried "Fritz" Flesch (1872–1939), fencer (sabre), Olympic bronze • Alfred Guth (1908–1996), Austrian-born American water polo player, swimmer, and Olympic modern pentathlete • Hans Haas (1906–1973), weightlifter, Olympic champion (lightweight), silver • Judith Haspel (born "Judith Deutsch") (1918–2004), Austrian-born Israeli swimmer, held every Austrian women's middle and long-distance freestyle record in 1935, refused to represent Austria in 1936 Summer Olympics along with Ruth Langer and Lucie Goldner, protesting Hitler, stating, "I refuse to enter a contest in a land which so shamefully persecutes my people." • Dr. Otto Herschmann (1877–1942), fencer (saber), 2-time Olympic silver winner (in fencing/team sabre and 100-m freestyle); arrested by Nazis, and died in Izbica concentration camp • Nickolaus "Mickey" Hirschl (1906–1991), wrestler, two-time Olympic bronze (heavyweight freestyle and Greco-Roman), shot put and discus junior champion, weightlifting junior champion, and pentathlon champion • Felix Kasper (1915–2003), figure skater, Olympic bronze • Alfred König (1913–1987), Austrian-Turkish Olympic sprinter • Ruth Langer (1921–1999), Austrian national champion swimmer who refused to attend the 1936 Summer Olympics, along with Judith Haspel and Lucie Goldner • Fritzi Löwy (1910–1994), Austrian Olympic swimmer • Klara Milch (1891–1970), swimmer, Olympic bronze (4x100-m freestyle relay) • Paul Neumann (1875–1932), swimmer, Olympic champion (500-m freestyle) • Fred Oberlander (1911–1996), Austrian, British, and Canadian wrestler; world champion (freestyle heavyweight); Maccabiah champion • Felix Pipes (1887–1983), tennis player, Olympic silver (doubles) • Maxim Podoprigora (born 1978), Olympic swimmer • Ellen Preis (1912–2007), fencer (foil), three-time world champion (1947, 1949, and 1950), Olympic champion, 17-time Austrian champion • Otto Scheff (born "Otto Sochaczewsky") (1889–1956), swimmer, Olympic champion (400-m freestyle) and two-time bronze (400-m freestyle, 1,500-m freestyle) • Josephine Sticker (1894–1963), swimmer, Olympic bronze (4x100-m freestyle relay) • Otto Wahle (1879–1963), Austrian/US swimmer, two-time Olympic silver (1,000-m freestyle, 200-m obstacle race) and bronze (400-m freestyle); International Swimming Hall of Fame ==Historical figures==

Politicians • Bruno Kreisky (1911–1990), Chancellor of Austria 1970–1983, agnostic • Ignaz Kuranda (1812–1884), politician • (1857–1943), politician, Minister of Finance in the early 1930s • Otto Bauer (1881–1938), Foreign Minister 1918–1919 • Franz Klein (1854–1926), Minister of Justice 1906–1908, and in 1916 Revolutionaries • Simon Deutsch (1822–1877), revolutionary ==Academic figures==

Lawyers • Fred F. Herzog (1907–2008), only Jewish judge in Austria between the World Wars; fled to the United States and became the dean of two law schools Scientists • Carl Djerassi (1923–2015), chemist, inventor of the pill • Sir Otto Frankel (1900–1998), geneticist • Jakob Erdheim (1874–1937), pathologist (Erdheim–Chester disease). • Eric Kandel (born 1929), neuroscientist, winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine • Karl Koller (1857–1944), ophthalmologist; first to use cocaine as an anaesthetic • Hans Kronberger (1920–1970), nuclear physicist • Robert von Lieben (1878–1913), physicist (Jewish father) • Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908–2002), physicist; during World War II, worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb; later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons • Max Perutz (1914–2002), molecular biologist, winner of 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry • Lise Meitner (1878–1968), physicist, discovered nuclear fission of uranium with * Otto Hahn, namegiver of element 109 * meitnerium Psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists • Alfred Adler (1870–1937), founding member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society and founder of the school of individual psychology • Anna Freud (1895–1982), Vienna-born child psychologist and daughter of Sigmund Freud • Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Moravian-born founder of psychoanalysis and neurologist • Marie Jahoda (1907–2001), psychologist • Helen Singer Kaplan (1929–1995), sex therapist • Melanie Klein (1882–1960), psychotherapy • Heinz Kohut (1913–1981), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst • Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), psychiatry and psychoanalysis • Viktor Frankl (1905–1997), psychiatrist and psychologist Social and political scientists • Guido Adler (1855–1941), Moravian musicologist • Hugo Bergmann (1883–1975), philosopher • Hugo Botstiber (1875–1941), musicologist • Paul Edwards (1923–2004), philosopher • Heinrich Friedjung (1851–1920), Moravian historian and politician • Norbert Jokl (1877–1942), founder of Albanology • Otto Kurz (1908–1975), historian • Emil Lederer (1882–1939), economist • Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973), economist • Otto Neurath (1882–1945), economist, sociologist, philosopher • Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher (of largely Jewish descent but given a Catholic burial) ==Cultural figures==

Film and stage • Gabrielle Anwar, actress • John Banner, actor, well known for the character of sgt. Schultz • Rudolf Bing (1902–1997), opera impresario, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1950 to 1972 • Fritz Grünbaum (1880–1941), cabaret artist, operetta and pop songwriter, director, actor and master of ceremonies • Alber Misak, actor • Kurt Kren (1929–1998), experimental filmmaker, director of the avant garde films 8/64: Ana – Aktion Brus, 10/65: Selbstverstümmelung, 10b/65: Silber – Aktion Brus, 16/67: 20. September, and 10c/65: Brus wünscht euch seine Weihnachten (Jewish father) • Reggie Nalder (1907–1991), cabaret dancer, stage, film and television actor • Joseph Schildkraut (1896–1964), stage and film actor • Frederick Schrecker (1892–1976), actor of film, stage and TV • Harry Schein (1924–2006), founder of the Swedish Film Institute, writer, chemical engineer • Elisabeth Freundlich (1906–2001), playwright and journalist who reported on the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials - Holocaust survivor Musicians • Kurt Adler (1907–1977), Bohemian born Austrian chorus master, conductor, pianist, author, Metropolitan Opera New York City, United States • Fanny Basch-Mahler (1854–1942), pianist and music teacher • Ignaz Brüll (1846–1907), composer and pianist • Hanns Eisler (1898–1962), composer and co-author (with Theodor W. Adorno) of Komposition für den Film (Jewish father) • Joseph Joachim (1831–1907), violinist (born in Kittsee, Austria, at that time Hungary) • Hans Keller (1919–1985), musicologist • Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962), violinist and composer, one of the most famous of his day • Erica Morini (1919–1995), violinist • Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942), composer and pianist • Julius Schulhoff (1825–1898), pianist and composer • Rudolf Schwarz (1905–1994), conductor • Walter Susskind (1913–1980), conductor • Richard Tauber (1891–1948), singer and composer • Egon Wellesz (1885–1974), composer Composers • Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957), composer (born in Bohemia) • Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962), violinist and composer, one of the most famous of his day • Arnold Schoenberg (1871–1954), composer (born in Vienna); founder of Second Viennese School; music theorist ==Writers==

• Peter Altenberg (1859–1919), writer and poet • Ludwig Basch (1851–1940), editor and journalist • Raphael Basch (1813–1907), journalist and politician • Abraham Benisch (1814–1878), Hebraist and journalist; born Bohemia • Henri Blowitz (1825–1903), journalist • Boris Brainin (Sepp Österreicher) (1905–1996), poet and translator • Fritz Brainin (1913–1992), poet • Rudolf Flesch (1911–1986), naturalized American writer noted for his book ''Why Johnny Can't Read'' • Bernard Friedberg (1876–1961), Hebraist, scholar and bibliographer • Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946), Nobel Prize-winning (2004) novelist (Jewish father). • Franz Kafka (1883–1924), writer • Paul Kornfeld (1889–1942), writer, author of many expressionist plays • Karl Kraus (1874–1936), author • Heinrich Landesmann (1821–1902), poet • Robert Lucas (1904–1984), writer, emigrated to Britain in 1934 • Joseph Roth (1894–1939), novelist and journalist • Felix Salten (1869–1945), Hungarian-born Austrian writer • Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), writer and physician • Alice Schwarz-Gardos (1915–2007), writer, journalist and editor-in-chief of Israel-Nachrichten 1975–2007 • Hugo Sonnenschein (1889–1953), Bohemia-born writer • Regine Ulmann (1847–1938), editor, educator and feminist • Franz Werfel (1890–1945), novelist and playwright • Alma Wittlin (1899–1992), art historian and museologist • Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), writer ==Miscellaneous==

• Haim Bar-Lev (1924–1994), Chief of Staff of Israel Defence Forces (1968–1971) • Dan Laner (1922–1988), Deputy Commander of Northern Command • Alfred Edersheim (1825–1889), Bible scholar • Rudolf Eisler (1873–1926), philosopher, born in Vienna • Josef Frank (1885–1967), architect • Maurice de Hirsch (1831–1896), banker • Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1759–1849), merchant • Gisela Januszewska (1867–1943), physician • Moritz Steinschneider (1816–1907), bibliographer and Orientalist • George Weidenfeld (1919–2016), publisher • Marion Wiesel (born Mary Renate Erster; 1931–2025), Austrian-American Holocaust survivor, humanitarian, writer, and translator • Simon Wiesenthal (1908–2005), Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter ==Others==

• Viktor Aptowitzer (1871–1942), born in Tarnopol, Galizien, Jewish theologian, Talmudist • Rudolf Auspitz (1837–1906), Austrian politician, entrepreneur (Unternehmer) • Joseph Samuel Bloch (1850–1923), born in Dukla, Galizien, Austrian publicist, politician • Ludo Moritz Hartmann (1865–1924), Austrian Jewish historian and statesman • Paul Hatvani, Paul Hirsch (1892–1975), born in Kew, near Melbourne, Austrian Jewish writer, chemist • Neta Alchimister (born 1994), Israeli model ==See also==