35 Notable alumni of Johannes Kepler University Linz
Updated: May 26, 2026 EliteDegrees
Johannes Kepler University Linz is ranked #624 in the world and #7 in Austria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 35 notable alumni from Johannes Kepler University Linz sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with Johannes Kepler University Linz won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Wolfgang Pree
1964-. (aged 62)
computer scientist
university teacher
Wolfgang Pree is a computer scientist and professor at the University of Salzburg, Austria.
2. Ingo Mörth
1949-. (aged 77)
university teacher
sociologist
Ingo Mörth is an Austrian sociologist.
3. Claudia Bauer
1994-. (aged 32)
politician
Claudia Bauer is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). She served as a member of the National Council from 9 November 2017. Since 15 May 2021 she has been the federal chairwoman of the Young People's Party (JVP). On 3 March 2025 she became Federal Minister for Europe, Integration and Family in the Christian Stocker government. Before...
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4. Josef Weidenholzer
1950-. (aged 76)
university teacher
sociologist
politician
Josef Weidenholzer is an Austrian politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2011 until 2019. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
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5. Martin Ehrenhauser
1978-. (aged 48)
politician
Martin Ehrenhauser is an Austrian former Member of the European Parliament (MEP). He took his seat in the parliament in July 2009, when Hans-Peter Martin's List, an independent Austrian list led by author and MEP Hans-Peter Martin gained 17.7% of the Austrian vote in the 2009 elections for the European Parliament. He was defeated in 2014.
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6. Andreas Altmann
1963-. (aged 63)
professor
economist
Andreas Altmann is an Austrian economist.
7. Agnes Sirkka Prammer
1977-. (aged 49)
association football referee
politician
lawyer
contract servant
legal counselor
Agnes Sirkka Prammer is an Austrian politician of The Greens. She has been a member of the National Council since 2020, and a municipal councillor of Leonding since 2015.
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8. Maksym Kovalenko
1982-. (aged 44)
chemist
Maksym V. Kovalenko is a full professor of inorganic chemistry and the head of the Functional Inorganic Materials group at ETH Zurich. A part of the research activities of the group are conducted at Empa (Dübendorf). He is working in the fields of solid-state chemistry, quantum dots and other nanomaterials, surface chemistry, self-assembly, optical spectroscopy, optoelectronics and energy storage.
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9. Wolfgang F. Danspeckgruber
1956-. (aged 70)
academic
university teacher
Wolfgang Franz Danspeckgruber was the Founding Director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University and has been teaching on issues of state, international security, self-determination, diplomacy, and crisis diplomacy at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Politics since 1988. He is also founder and chair of the Liechtenstein Colloquium on European...
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10. Rosa Ecker
1969-. (aged 57)
politician
Rosa Ecker is an Austrian politician who has been a Member of the Federal Council for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) since 2015.
11. Magdalena Lobnig
1990-. (aged 36)
rower
Magdalena Lobnig is an Austrian rower. She won the double scull World U23 Championship in 2012 and the singles European Championship in 2016. In 2021, at the 2020 Summer Olympics she won the bronze medal in the Women's single sculls event.
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12. Thomas Henzinger
1962-. (aged 64)
computer scientist
researcher
university teacher
Thomas Henzinger is an Austrian computer scientist, researcher, and former president of the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.
13. Paul Rübig
1953-. (aged 73)
blacksmith
politician
Paul Rübig is an Austrian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1996 until 2019. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party, part of the European People's Party.
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14. Michael Raml
1987-. (aged 39)
politician
Michael Raml is an Austrian politician who was a Member of the Federal Council for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) from 2015 to 2019.
15. Thomas Drozda
1965-. (aged 61)
statesperson
politician
Thomas Drozda is an Austrian politician and a member of the National Council. From 2016 to 2017 he was chancellery minister under the Kern government. Since September 2018 he has been serving as managing director of the Social Democratic Party.
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16. Maria Fekter
1956-. (aged 70)
politician
Maria Theresia Fekter is an Austrian politician and was the Austrian Minister of Finance between 2011 and 2013. Before that, she was Minister of the Interior.
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17. Eva-Maria Holzleitner
1993-. (aged 33)
politician
Eva-Maria Holzleitner is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) who has served as the Minister of Women, Science and Research in the Stocker government since 2025. She was first elected to the National Council in the 2017 legislative election, and was re-elected in the 2019 election. Since 2021, she has served as a deputy leader of the...
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18. Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer
1979-. (aged 47)
politician
Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer is an Austrian politician of the People's Party. He was elected as a member of the National Council in the 2024 legislative election. He currently serves as Austria's Minister for Economy, Energy and Tourism. He has previously served as state councillor for social affairs, integration and youth of Upper Austria.
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19. Ridho Rahmadi
1985-. (aged 41)
computer scientist
academic
lecturer
politician
Ridho Rahmadi is an Indonesian politician, computer scientist and academic who is the current chairman of the Ummat Party, serving since the party's founding in 2021. He is the son-in-law of the party's founder Amien Rais.
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20. Christoph Leitl
1949-. (aged 77)
entrepreneur
politician
Christoph Leitl is an Austrian politician. A member of the Austrian People's Party, he is the former president of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber and president of EUROCHAMBRES since 2018.
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21. Josef Pühringer
1949-. (aged 77)
jurist
politician
Josef Pühringer is a former Austrian politician.
22. Wilhelm Molterer
1955-. (aged 71)
politician
Wilhelm Molterer is an Austrian politician, who currently serves as the managing director of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI). Between 2011 and 2015 he was the vice-president and member of the Management Committee of the European Investment Bank (EIB). Before joining the EIB, he was Member of the Austrian Parliament. He has been Vice Chancellor and Finance Minister...
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23. Ewald Nowotny
1944-. (aged 82)
economist
banker
university teacher
politician
Ewald Nowotny is an Austrian economist and social democratic politician and former governor of Austria's central bank Oesterreichische Nationalbank. He was also a member of the European Central Bank’s governing council.
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24. Nina Tomaselli
1985-. (aged 41)
politician
political economist
Nina Tomaselli is an Austrian politician of The Greens. Since 2019, she has been a member of the National Council. She was a member of the Landtag of Vorarlberg from 2014 to 2019, and a deputy spokesperson of The Greens from 2019 to 2022.
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25. Heinz Engl
1953-. (aged 73)
mathematician
university teacher
Heinz Werner Engl is an Austrian mathematician who served as the rector of the University of Vienna.
26. Roman Haider
1967-. (aged 59)
politician
Roman Haider is an Austrian politician who has been a member of European Parliament since 2019, and formerly a member of the National Council, for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).
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27. Reinhold Mitterlehner
1955-. (aged 71)
jurist
politician
Reinhold Mitterlehner is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) who served as minister of economy in Austria's government from 2008 until 2017. In September 2014 he also became vice chancellor of Austria and chairman of the ÖVP. On 9 May 2016 he briefly assumed powers and duties as Acting Chancellor of Austria while his coalition partner, the...
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28. Volker Türk
1965-. (aged 61)
jurist
Volker Türk is an Austrian lawyer and United Nations official. He has been the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights since October 2022.
29. Udo Landbauer
1986-. (aged 40)
politician
Udo Landbauer is an Austrian far-right politician from the FPÖ. From 2011 to 2018 he was head of the FPÖ Youth Ring, from 2010 to 2018 Landbauer was a municipal politician in Wiener Neustadt and from 2013 to 2018 he was a member of the provincial parliament (Landtag) of Lower Austria. He was the leading candidate of the FPÖ in...
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30. Manfred Haimbuchner
1978-. (aged 48)
jurist
politician
Manfred Haimbuchner is a Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) politician. He served in the National Council from 2006 to 2009, and in the Landtag of Upper Austria as his party's leader since 2009. In 2015, he became Deputy Governor of the state.
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31. Barbara Prammer
1954-2014 (aged 60)
wedding officiant
civil servant
politician
Barbara Prammer was an Austrian politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). In 2006 she was the first woman to become President of the National Council of Austria, an office she held until her death.
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32. Gabriel Felbermayr
1976-. (aged 50)
university teacher
economist
Gabriel Felbermayr is an Austrian economist who has been serving as president of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) since 2021. He specializes in international economics, international trade agreements, economic policy, and environmental economics. Considered a leading economist in the field of international economics, he is cited in the top 5% of all economists and has been referred to...
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33. Thomas Stelzer
1967-. (aged 59)
politician
Thomas Stelzer is an Austrian politician who is serving as the current Governor of Upper Austria since 2017. Stelzer studied law at the Johannes Kepler University Linz from 1985 to 1990. Before becoming Governor, Stelzer was the Deputy Governor of Upper Austria from 2015 to 2017. He was a member of the Upper Austrian Parliament from 1997 to 2015.
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34. Hans Jörg Schelling
1953-. (aged 73)
politician
economist
Johann Georg "Hans Jörg" Schelling is an Austrian entrepreneur and politician of the Austrian People's Party and who served as Minister of Finance of Austria in the governments of chancellors Werner Faymann and Christian Kern.
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35. Andreas Kiefer
1957-. (aged 69)
politician
Andreas Kiefer is an Austrian politician. Since 2010, he is Secretary General of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, an institution representing local and regional authorities of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe.
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