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Notables interred at the Zentralfriedhof (selection)

• Wolf Albach-Retty
  Wolf Albach-Retty
  
  Wolf Albach-Retty was a Vienna-born Austrian actor. He had a daughter with German actress Magda Schneider named Romy Schneider.Albach-Retty was the son of actress Rosa Albach-Retty and Kaiserlich und k?niglich officer Karl Albach....
   (1906–1967), Austrian actor
• Rudolf von Alt (1812–1905), painter
• Franz Antel
  Franz Antel
  
  Franz Antel was a veteran Austrian filmmaker.Born in Vienna, Antel worked mainly as a film producer in the interwar years. After World War II, he began writing and directing films on a large scale....
   (1913–2007), film director, writer and producer
• Leon Askin
  Leon Askin
  
  Leon Askin was an Austrian actor.Askin was born Leon Aschkenasy into a Jewish family in Vienna, the son of Malvine and Samuel Aschkenazy....
   (1907–2005), actor
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical music era and Romantic music eras in classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time....
   (1770–1827), composer
• Erna Berger
  Erna Berger
  
  Erna Berger was a Germany soprano of the coloratura style. Along with Elisabeth Gr?mmer, Hilde Gueden, Lotte Lehmann, Martha M?dl, Gundula Janowitz, Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Anja Silja, she joined the ranks of the prominent German sopranos of the 20th century....
   (1900–1990), opera singer
• Theodor Billroth
  Theodor Billroth
  
  Christian Albert Theodor Billroth was a Germany-born Austrian surgeon and amateur musician.As a surgeon, he is generally regarded as the founding father of modern abdominal surgery....
   (1829–1894), surgeon
• Ludwig Boltzmann
  Ludwig Boltzmann
  
  Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist famous for his founding contributions in the fields of statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics....
   (1844–1906), physicist/mathematician
• Max Böhm (1916–1982), actor
• Johannes Brahms
  Johannes Brahms
  
  Johannes Brahms , composer and pianist, was one of the leading musicians of the Romantic music. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene....
   (1833–1897), composer
• Ignaz Brüll
  Ignaz Brüll
  
  Ignaz Br?ll was an Austrian pianist and composer.Ignaz Br?ll was born the eldest son of a prosperous Jewish merchant family in the Moravian provincial town of Prostejov ....
   (1846–1907), composer
• Carl Czerny
  Carl Czerny
  
  Carl Czerny was an Austrian pianist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for his books of etudes for the piano.Biography...
   (1791–1857), piano teacher and composer
• Elfi von Dassanowsky
  Elfi von Dassanowsky
  
  Elfriede "Elfi" von Dassanowsky was an Austrian-American singer, pianist, film producer and humanitarian....
   (1924–2007), singer and film producer
• Otto Erich Deutsch
  Otto Erich Deutsch
  
  Otto Erich Deutsch was an Austrians musicology. He is best known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of the works of Franz Schubert, first published in 1951 in English, new edition in 1978 in German....
   (1883–1967), musicologist
• Anton Dominik Fernkorn
  Anton Dominik Fernkorn
  
  File:Anton Dominik Fernkorn.jpgAnton Dominick Ritter von Fernkorn was an Austrian sculptor. He was born in Erfurt, Thuringia and died in Vienna, Austria....
   (1813–1878), sculptor
• Leopold Figl
  Leopold Figl
  
  Leopold Figl was an Austrian politician of the ?VP and the first Chancellor of Austria after the World War II. He was also the List of Austrian Chancellors by Longevity after the Second World War....
   (1902–1965), statesman
• Carl von Ghega (1802–1860), engineer
• Alexander Girardi (1850–1918), actor
• Christoph Willibald Gluck
  Christoph Willibald Gluck
  
  Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years....
   (1714–1787), composer
• Karl Goldmark
  Karl Goldmark
  
  Karl Goldmark, also known originally as K?roly Goldmark and later sometimes as Carl Goldmark; 18 May 1830 – 2 January 1915) was a Hungary composer....
   (1830–1915), composer
• Theophil Freiherr von Hansen
  Theophil Freiherr von Hansen
  
  Baron Theophil Edvard von Hansen was a Denmark architect who later became an Austrian citizen. He became particularly well-known for his buildings and structures in Vienna, and is considered an outstanding representative of neoclassicism....
   (1813–1891), architect
• Johann Ritter von Herbeck (1831–1877), composer
• Falco
  Falco (musician)
  
  Johann H?lzel , better known by his stage name Falco, was an Austrian rap music, Pop music and rock music musician and had four #1 Hits - "Der Kommissar ," "Rock Me Amadeus," "Jeanny," and "Coming Home ." He is the first and so far only artist to score a #1 Hit in the U.S....
   civil name Johann (Hans) Hölzel (1957–1998), rock singer
• Curd Jürgens
  Curd Jürgens
  
  Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz J?rgens was a Germany-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens....
   (1912–1982), actor
• Thomas Klestil
  Thomas Klestil
  
  Thomas Klestil was an Austrian diplomat and politician. He was elected President of Austria in 1992 and was re-elected to the position in 1998....
   (1932–2004), the president of Austria (1992–2004)
• Friedrich Carl Knauer (1850–1926), zoologist
• Bruno Kreisky
  Bruno Kreisky
  
  Bruno Kreisky served as Chancellor of Austria from 1970 to 1983. Aged 72 at the end of his chancellorship, he was the List of Austrian Chancellors by Longevity after the Second World War....
   (1911–1990), statesman
• Karl Kraus
  Karl Kraus
  
  Karl Kraus was an Austrian German literature and journalism, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorism, playwright and poet. He is regarded as one of the foremost German-language satirists of the 20th century, especially for his witty criticism of the press, Germany culture, and German and Austrian politics....
   (1874–1936), writer
• Josef Lanner
  Josef Lanner
  
  Josef Franz Karl Lanner was an Austrian dance music composer. He was best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake....
   (1801–1843), composer
• Lotte Lehmann
  Lotte Lehmann
  
  Lotte Lehmann was a Germany soprano opera and Lieder singer who was especially associated with German repertory. She gave memorable performances in the operas of Richard Strauss; the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier was considered her greatest role....
   (1888–1976), opera singer
• György Ligeti
  György Ligeti
  
  Gy?rgy S?ndor Ligeti was a composer, born in a Hungarian History of the Jews in Romania family in Transylvania, Romania. He briefly lived in Hungary before later becoming an Austrian citizen....
   (1923–2006), composer
• Theo Lingen
  Theo Lingen
  
  Theo Lingen , born Franz Theodor Schmitz, was a German people film actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in over 230 films between 1929 and 1978, and directed 21 films between 1936 and 1960....
   (1903–1978), actor/director
• Guido von List
  Guido von List
  
  Guido Karl Anton List, better known as Guido von List was an Austrian German poet, journalist, writer, businessman and dealer of leather goods, mountaineer, hiker, dramatist, playwright, and rower, but was most notable as an occultist and V?lkisch movement author who is seen as one of the most important figures in Germanic neopa...
   (1848–1919) 19th-century mystic Germanic and Runic revivalist
• Adolf Loos
  Adolf Loos
  
  Adolf Loos was one of the most important and influential Austrian and Czechoslovak architects of European Modern architecture. In his essay "Ornament and Crime" he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession, the Austrian version of Art Nouveau....
   (1870–1933), architect
• Max Lorenz (1901–1975), German tenor
• Karl Lueger
  Karl Lueger
  
  Karl Lueger was an Austrian politician and mayor of Vienna....
   (1844–1910), politician
• Hans Moser
  Hans Moser (actor)
  
  Hans Moser was an Austrian actor who, during his long career, from the 1920s up to his death, mainly played in comedy films. He was particularly associated with the genre of the Wiener Film....
   (1880–1964), actor
• Siegfried Marcus
  Siegfried Marcus
  
  Siegfried Samuel Marcus was a Germany-born Austrian inventor and automobile pioneer.Marcus was born in Malchin in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He moved to Vienna, the capital of the Austrian Empire, in 1852....
   (1831–1898), automobile pioneer
• Karl Millöcker
  Karl Millöcker
  
  Karl Joseph Mill?cker , was an Austrian composer of operettas and a Conducting.He was born in Vienna, where he studied the flute at the Conservatory....
   (1842–1899), composer
• Karl Eugen Neumann
  Karl Eugen Neumann
  
  Karl Eugen Neumann was the first translator of large parts of the Pali Canon of Buddhist scriptures from the original Pali into a European language and one of the pioneers of European Buddhism....
   (1865–1915), European pioneer of Buddhism
• Walter Nowotny
  Walter Nowotny
  
  Major Walter "Nowi" Nowotny was an Austrian-born Germany fighter ace of World War II. He is credited with 258 aerial victories claimed in 442 combat missions....
   (1920–1944), World War II
  World War II
  
  World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
   Luftwaffe
  Luftwaffe
  
  is a generic German term for an air force. It is also the official name for two of the four historic German air forces, the Wehrmacht air arm founded in 1933 and disbanded in 1946; and the current Bundeswehr air arm founded in 1956....
   pilot
• Helen Odilon (1865–1939), actor
• Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885–1967), film director
• Clemens von Pirquet
  Clemens von Pirquet
  
  Clemens Peter Freiherr von Pirquet was an Austrian scientist and pediatrics best known for his contributions to the fields of bacteriology and immunology....
   (1874–1929), scientist and pediatrician
• Paula von Preradovic
  Paula von Preradovic
  
  Paula Preradovic , known professionally as Paula von Preradovic or by her married name as Paula Molden, was a Croatian and Austrian writer and narrator....
   (1887–1951), writer
• Helmut Qualtinger
  Helmut Qualtinger
  
  Helmut Qualtinger was an Austrian actor, writer and cabaret performer.BiographyHelmut Qualtinger was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1928....
   (1928–1986), actor
• Julius Raab
  Julius Raab
  
  Julius Raab was a Austrian People's Party Austrian politician. He was Federal Chancellor of Austria from 1953 to 1961.Born in St. P?lten , he trained as a technical engineer but he is chiefly remembered today for being a good economist....
   (1891–1964), statesman
• Geli Raubal
  Geli Raubal
  
  Angelika Maria "Geli" Raubal was Adolf Hitler's niece. Born in Linz, Austria, she was the second child and eldest daughter of Leo Raubal Sr. and Hitler's half-sister, Angela Hitler....
   (1908–1931), Hitler's niece and rumoured lover
• Karl Renner
  Karl Renner
  
  Karl Renner was an Austrian politician. He was born in Untertannowitz and died in Vienna. He is called the Father of the Republic because he was the 1st President of Austria in 1919/20 and refounded the Republic in 1945 that lasts till today....
   (1870–1950), statesman
• Albert Salomon von Rothschild
  Albert Salomon von Rothschild
  
  Albert Salomon von Rothschild was a banker in Austria-Hungary and a member of the Rothschild banking family of Austria....
   (1844–1911), financier
• Nathaniel Mayer Anselm von Rothschild (1836–1905), financier
• Léonie Rysanek
  Leonie Rysanek
  
  Leopoldine "Leonie" Rysanek was an Austrian dramatic soprano.Rysanek was born in Vienna and made her operatic debut in 1949 in Innsbruck. Her Metropolitan Opera debut came in 1959 as Lady Macbeth , replacing Maria Callas who had been "fired" from the production....
   (1926–1998), opera singer
• Antonio Salieri
  Antonio Salieri
  
  Antonio Salieri , was a Republic of Venice composer and Conducting. As the Austrian imperial Kapellmeister from 1788 to 1824, he was one of the most important and famous musicians of his time....
   (1750–1825), composer
• Franz Schmidt
  Franz Schmidt
  
  Franz Schmidt was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist....
   (1874–1939), composer
• Arthur Schnitzler
  Arthur Schnitzler
  
  File:Arthur_Schnitzler_1912.jpgDr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrians Austrian literature and dramatist....
   (1862–1931), writer
• Arnold Schoenberg
  Arnold Schoenberg
  
  Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School....
   (1874–1951), composer
• Franz Schubert
  Franz Schubert
  
  Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer. He wrote some 600 lieder, nine symphonies , liturgy music, operas, and a large body of chamber music and solo piano music....
   (1797–1828), composer
• Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
  Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
  
  Margarete Sch?tte-Lihotzky was the first female Austrian architect and an activist in the Nazism resistance movement. She is mostly remembered today for designing the so-called Frankfurt Kitchen....
   (1897–2000), architect
• Alma Seidler (1899–1977), actress
• Matthias Sindelar
  Matthias Sindelar
  
  Matthias Sindelar was an Austrian football .He played Striker for the celebrated Austria national football team of the early 1930s known as the Wunderteam, which he captain at the 1934 FIFA World Cup....
   (1903–1939), footballer
• Robert Stolz
  Robert Stolz
  
  Robert Elisabeth Stolz was an Austrian songwriter and Conducting as well as a composer of operettas and Film score....
   (1880–1975), composer
• Eduard Strauss
  Eduard Strauss
  
  Eduard Strauss was an Austrian composer who, together with brothers Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss, formed the Strauss musical dynasty. The family dominated the Vienna light music world for decades, creating many waltzes and polkas for many Austrian nobility as well as well as dance-music enthusiasts around Europe....
   (1835–1916), composer
• Johann Strauss I
  Johann Strauss I
  
  Johann Strauss I , born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic music composer famous for his waltzes, and for popularizing them alongside Josef Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty....
   (1804–1849), composer
• Johann Strauss II
  Johann Strauss II
  
  Johann Strauss II was an Austrian composer famous for having written over 500 waltzes, polkas, March , and galops. He was the son of the composer Johann Strauss I, and brother of composers Josef Strauss and Eduard Strauss....
   (1825–1899), composer
• Josef Strauss
  Josef Strauss
  
  Josef Strauss was an Austrian composer.He was born in Vienna, the son of Johann Strauss I and brother of Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss....
   (1827–1870), composer
• Franz von Suppé
  Franz von Suppé
  
  Franz von Supp? was a composer and conducting of the Romantic_music period notable for his four dozen operettas....
   (1819–1895), composer
• Friedrich Torberg
  Friedrich Torberg
  
  Friedrich Torberg is the pen-name of Friedrich Kantor, an Austrian German literature....
   (1908–1979), writer
• Kurt Waldheim
  Kurt Waldheim
  
  Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and President of Austria from 1986 to 1992....
   (1918–2007), UN Secretary-General, Austrian president
• Franz Werfel
  Franz Werfel
  
  Franz Werfel was an Austrian people-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet....
   (1890–1945), poet
• Anton Wildgans
  Anton Wildgans
  
  Anton Wildgans is an Austrian poet and playwright. His works, wherein Realism , neo-romanticism and expressionism mingle, and is focused on the drama of daily life....
   (1881–1932), poet
• Hugo Wolf
  Hugo Wolf
  
  Hugo Wolf was an Austrian composer of Slovenes origin, particularly noted for his art songs, or Lieder. He brought to this form a concentrated expressive intensity which was unique in late Romantic music, somewhat related to that of the Second Viennese School in concision but utterly unrelated in technique....
   (1860–1903), composer
• Fritz Wotruba
  Fritz Wotruba
  
  Fritz Wotruba was an Austrian sculptor of Czecho-Hungary descent. He was considered one of the most notable Austrian 20th century sculpture. In his work, he increasingly dissolves figurative components in favor of geometrical abstraction with the shape of the cube as the basic form....
   (1907–1975), sculptor
• Alexander von Zemlinsky
  Alexander von Zemlinsky
  
  Alexander Zemlinsky or Alexander von Zemlinsky was an Austrian composer, conducting, and teacher....
   (1871–1942), composer

See also

• List of famous cemeteries

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