List of Austrian Americans

This is a list of notable Austrian Americans.

List

*Fred Astaire - dancer/actor [ [http://btobsearch.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?z=y&btob=Y&pwb=1&ean=9780743225397] "Fritz Austerlitz, the Austrian American who went to Hollywood and emerged as Fred Astaire."]
*Bibi Besch - actress [ [http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Bibi+Besch&offset=0] "Bibi Besch was an Austrian actress."]
*Ricardo Cortez - silent film actor [ [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=15158] "Though his professional name was suggestive of a Latin Lover type, actor Ricardo Cortez was actually an Austrian Jew, born Jacob Krantz. He arrived in Hollywood in 1922, at a time when the Rudolph Valentino craze was at its height."]
*Robert von Dassanowsky - academic, writer and film producer [ [http://www.uccs.edu/~ur/media/mediawatch/view_article.php?y=mediawatch_articles&article_id=15278] regarding an Austrian decoration: "I have focused on Austrian studies most of my academic life. As an Austrian-American, it makes me especially proud." ]
*Henry Ellenbogen - US Congressman from Pennsylvania [ [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000111] "Born and educated in Vienna. Immigrated to the United States and served in the 33rd Congressional District (Pittsburgh, PA)."]
* Max Fleischer - cartoonist
*Victor Francis Hess - physicist [ [http://physics.nobel.brainparad.com/victor_francis_hess.html] "Austrian-born physicist who was a joint recipient, with Carl D. Anderson of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of cosmic rays--high-energy radiation originating in outer space."]
*Hans Kelsen - jurist [ [http://wwwa.britannica.com/eb/article-9045034] "Austrian-American legal philosopher, teacher, jurist, and writer on international law..."]
*Greta Kempton - artist [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_13_15/ai_54359965] "sat for Austrian native Greta Kempton five times in 1947..."]
*Joseph Keppler - cartoonist, best known for the illustrated magazine Puck [ [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTkeppler.htm] "Joseph Keppler was born in Vienna, Austria, on 1st February, 1838."]
*Erich Wolfgang Korngold - composer [ [http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0714831557] "A study of the life and work of Austrian composer Korngold..."]
*Hedy Lamarr - actress [ [http://britneyspears.ac/physics/intro/hedy.htm] "Austrian born film star, Hedy Lamarr, of the 1930 and 40s was also a gifted electrical engineer." [http://www.hedylamarr.at/story4e.html] "Hedy Lamarr had been an American citizen since 1953."]
*Elissa Landi - actress [ [http://elissa.org/landi.shtml] "Elissa Landi Austrian/Italian leading lady."]
*Fritz Lang - director
*Erich Leinsdorf - conductor
*Peter Lorre - actor
*Arthur Murray - dancer, entreprenuer
*Richard Neutra - architect [ [http://www.nbm.org/Exhibits/current/Neutra.html] "Austrian-American modernist architect Richard Neutra."]
*Frederick Burr Opper - cartoonist
*Wolfgang Pauli - physicist [ [http://fusionanomaly.net/wolfgangpauli.html] "was developed in 1925 by Austrian-American theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli..."]
*Otto Preminger - director
*Wolfgang Puck - celebrity chef, restaurateur [ [http://www.wolfgangpuck.com/company/bio.php?id=11] "The Austrian-born Puck began..."; WolfgangPuck.com (2005); retrieved 2006-08-31]
*Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist [ [http://www.orgonelab.org/wrhistory.htm] "Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian-Ukrainian of Jewish background."]
*Martin Roscheisen - entrepreneur
*Fritzi Scheff - actress
*Joseph Schildkraut - actor
*Arnold Schoenberg - composer [ [http://fusionanomaly.net/arnoldschoenberg.html] "Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951, Austrian composer. He became a U.S. citizen in 1941."]
*Kurt von Schuschnigg - Austrian federal Chancellor 1936-1938 and professor of political sciences at St. Louis University 1948-1967
*Alfred Schütz - philosopher/sociologist [ [http://rss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/16/1/45 Alfred schutz, Austrian Economists and the Knowledge Problem - Knudsen 16 (1): 45 - Rationality and Society ] ]
*Arnold Schwarzenegger - actor and 38th Governor of California [ [http://www.schwarzenegger.it/mro/schwarzenegger.html] "Arnold Schwarzenegger, "The Austrian Oak", was a bodybuilding prodigy who won the..." [http://www.thespiannet.com/actors/S/schwarzenegger_arnold/index.shtml] "Arnold was the embodiment of the American (a naturalized citizen since 1983) dream..."]
*Lilia Skala - actress [ [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800046364/bio] "Galvanizing, stern-featured Viennese character actress with extensive Broadway experience..."]
*Walter Slezak - actor [ [http://www.members.tripod.com/erika_slezak/ESFC/losttouch.htm] "That's Erika Slezak, daughter of the famous Austrian-American actor Walter Slezak..."]
* 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, including elevation to the Austrian nobility
* Agathe von Trapp - the 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 - the 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
* Joseph Warkany - pediatrician
*Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908 - 2002) physicist. 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 [ [http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/vweisskopf.html] "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family..." [http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,12212,750171,00.html] "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution..."]
*Billy Wilder - director [ [http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/apr2002/wild-a03.shtml] "Wilder, Austrian-born, but in the US since 1934, directed his last film in 1981."]
*Ernst Florian Winter - diplomat
*Joe Zawinul - jazz pianist
*Fred Zinnemann - director

ee also

*List of Austrian Jews

References