Notable Alumni of University of Graz [Sorted List]

1. Karl Ritter von Stremayr

1823-1904 (aged 81)

pedagogue judge politician

Karl Ritter von Stremayr was an Austrian statesman. He served as the 9th Minister-President of Cisleithania.

2. Gabriele Schaunig-Kandut

1965-. (aged 61)

politician

Gabriele "Gaby" Schaunig-Kandut is an Austrian lawyer, politician from the (SPÖ) and since 2013 state councilor in the Carinthian state government Kaiser II, responsible for finance, investments, development and research since 2018. Since 13 April 2023, she has been 1st Deputy Governor, previously she was 2nd Deputy Governor.

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3. Axel Kassegger

1966-. (aged 60)

politician

Axel Kassegger is an Austrian politician who has been a Member of the National Council for the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) since 2013.

4. Christian Buchmann

1962-. (aged 64)

politician

Christian Buchmann is an Austrian politician (Austrian People's Party) and Member of the Styrian Parliament. He was the President of the Austrian Federal Council from 1 January 2021 to 30 June 2021.

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5. Izidor Cankar

1886-1958 (aged 72)

journalist linguist theologian writer translator

Izidor Cankar was a Slovenian author, art historian, diplomat, journalist, translator, and liberal conservative politician. He was one of the most important Slovenian art historians of the first part of the 20th century, and one of the most influential cultural figures in interwar Slovenia.

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6. Gabriel Anton

1858-1933 (aged 75)

physician psychiatrist university teacher neurologist

Gabriel Anton was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist. He is primarily remembered for his studies of psychiatric conditions arising from damage to the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia.

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7. Martin Eichtinger

1961-. (aged 65)

diplomat

Martin Eichtinger is an Austrian diplomat, lawyer and former politician (ÖVP, Austrian People's Party, member of the EPP - European People's Party). From March 2018 to March 2023, Martin Eichtinger served as a member of the Regional Government of Lower Austria responsible for Housing, Labour and International Relations. After completing his term of office, he returned to the Federal Ministry...

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8. Helga Konrad

1948-2024 (aged 76)

politician

Helga Konrad was an Austrian politician.

9. Milan Zver

1962-. (aged 64)

politician sociologist

Milan Zver is a Slovenian politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Slovenia. He is a member of the Slovenian Democratic Party, part of the European People's Party. He is the Vice-President of the Slovenian Democratic Party. He served as Minister of Education and Sports from 2004 to 2008.

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10. Matko Laginja

1852-1930 (aged 78)

jurist writer politician

Matko Laginja was a Croatian lawyer and politician.

11. György Almásyn

1867-1933 (aged 66)

explorer ethnographer ornithologist zoologist

György Ede Almásy de Zsadány et Törökszentmiklós was a Hungarian Asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer. His son, László Almásy, was an aviator, Afrologist and soldier.

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12. Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff

1950-. (aged 76)

diplomat jurist

Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, is the Austrian ambassador in Prague.

13. Franz Unger

1800-1870 (aged 70)

scientific collector botanist writer mycologist university teacher

Franz Joseph Andreas Nicolaus Unger was an Austrian botanist, paleontologist and plant physiologist.

14. Axel van Trotsenburg

1958-. (aged 68)

Axel van Trotsenburg is a dual Dutch-Austrian economist and development expert. He had a distinguished 37 year career at the World Bank and was the World Bank’s number two as the Senior Managing Director (SMD) responsible for Development Policy and Partnerships until the end of November 2025, where he oversaw the expansion of engagement on global public goods, climate change,...

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15. Johann Weber

1927-2020 (aged 93)

Catholic priest Catholic bishop

Johann Weber was an Austrian Catholic bishop.

16. Gabriel Gruber

1740-1805 (aged 65)

astronomer engineer theologian architect

Gabriel Gruber, SJ was an Austrian Jesuit and polymath of Slovenian descent. Aside from his classical formation for the priesthood, his interests ranged across agriculture, architecture, astronomy, engineering, hydrology, physics, chemistry and art.

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17. Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac

1621-1684 (aged 63)

diplomat statesperson politician

Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac was a nobleman and statesman of Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Chancellor (1658–1684) of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

18. Gottfried Schatz

1936-2015 (aged 79)

biochemist chemist non-fiction writer university teacher

Gottfried Schatz was a Swiss-Austrian biochemist.

19. Sofia Galechko

1891-1918 (aged 27)

military personnel soldier

Sofia Halechko was an Austro-Hungarian soldier and Ukrainian nationalist that was a member of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen during World War I. Her first language was Polish but she hoped to achieve independence for Ukrainians and joined the riflemen to do so.

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20. Lazar Tomanović

1845-1932 (aged 87)

teacher civil servant politician writer journalist

Lazar Tomanović, PhD was a Montenegrin and Dalmatian Serb writer, politician and diplomat, who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Montenegro, as well the first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Montenegro, under the regime of King Nikola I.

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21. Kurt Otto Friedrichs

1901-1982 (aged 81)

mathematician university teacher

Kurt Otto Friedrichs was a German-American mathematician. He was the co-founder of the Courant Institute at New York University, and a recipient of the National Medal of Science.

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22. Alfred Kolleritsch

1931-2020 (aged 89)

writer poet philosopher university teacher

Alfred Kolleritsch was an Austrian journalist, poet and philosopher.

23. Ines Stilling

1976-. (aged 50)

civil servant politician

Ines Stilling is an Austrian civil servant who served as the Minister for Women, Families and Youth in the Bierlein government.

24. August Musger

1868-1929 (aged 61)

Catholic priest physicist

Professor August Musger was an Austrian priest and physicist who is best remembered for his invention of slow motion.

25. Wilhelm Krautwaschl

1963-. (aged 63)

Catholic deacon Catholic bishop Catholic priest

Wilhelm Krautwaschl is an Austrian Roman Catholic prelate. He has served as the bishop of Graz-Seckau since 2015.

26. Siegmund von Hausegger

1872-1948 (aged 76)

composer conductor university teacher writer

Siegmund von Hausegger was an Austrian composer and conductor.

27. Beatrix Karl

1967-. (aged 59)

university teacher politician

Beatrix Karl is an Austrian academic and politician. A former member of the National Council, she served as Minister for Science and Research (2010–2011) and as Minister of Justice (2011–2013) in the first Faymann government.

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28. Claudia Bandion-Ortner

1966-. (aged 60)

jurist judge politician

Claudia Bandion-Ortner is an Austrian judge and politician, who served as the minister of justice.

29. Sabine Ladstätter

1968-2024 (aged 56)

classical archaeologist

Sabine Ladstätter was an Austrian classical archaeologist. She was Director of the Austrian Archaeological Institute (ÖAI) from 2009 to 2024.

30. Alois Riehl

1844-1924 (aged 80)

university teacher botanist philosopher

Alois Adolf Riehl was an Austrian neo-Kantian and anti-psychologistic philosopher. He was born in Bozen (Bolzano) in the Austrian Empire (now in Italy). He was the brother of the Austrian engineer and building contractor Josef Riehl.

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31. Otto Erich Deutsch

1883-1967 (aged 84)

music historian librarian musicologist composer biographer

Otto Erich Deutsch was an Austrian musicologist. He is known for compiling the first comprehensive catalogue of Franz Schubert's compositions, first published in 1951 in English, with a revised edition published in 1978 in German. It is from this catalogue that the D numbers used to identify Schubert's works derive.

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32. Josef Krainer junior

1930-2016 (aged 86)

jurist politician

Josef Krainer junior was an Austrian politician and Governor of Styria from 1981 to 1996. He was the son of Governor Josef Krainer Sr. and a member of the Austrian People's Party.

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33. Franz Dinghofer

1873-1956 (aged 83)

minister judge politician

Franz Seraph Dinghofer was an Austrian politician, lawyer and judge who served as the President of the Supreme Court of Justice from 1928 to 1938, having previously served as Minister of Justice from 1926 to 1927 and Vice-Chancellor of Austria from 1926 to 1928.

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34. Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg

1806-1876 (aged 70)

poet lawyer poet writer translator statesperson

Count Anton Alexander von Auersperg, also known under the name Anastasius Grün, was an Austrian poet and liberal politician from Carniola, a former Habsburg crown land in today's Slovenia.

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35. Constant von Wurzbach

1818-1893 (aged 75)

bibliographer librarian official opinion journalist lexicographer

Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg was an Austrian biographer, lexicographer and author.

36. Jörg Leichtfried

1967-. (aged 59)

politician

Jörg Leichtfried is an Austrian politician of the Social Democratic Party who has been serving as a member of the National Council since the 2017 elections. Since 3 March 2025 he is the State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior responsible for the Directorate State Protection and Intelligence Service (DSN).

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37. Franz Miklosich

1813-1891 (aged 78)

professor librarian censor linguist pedagogue

Franz Miklosich was a Slovenian philologist and rector of the University of Vienna.

38. Martin Bartenstein

1953-. (aged 73)

politician

Martin Bartenstein is an Austrian businessman and politician who held different cabinet portfolios between 1995 and 2008. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party.

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39. Ivan Bobersky

1873-1947 (aged 74)

pedagogue physical education teacher scout

Ivan Mykolayovych Bobersky, was a Ukrainian teacher and theorist who played a key role in promoting Ukrainian national physical culture.

40. Richard Mollier

1863-1935 (aged 72)

professor engineer physicist

Richard Mollier was a German professor of Applied Physics and Mechanics in Göttingen and Dresden, a pioneer of experimental research in thermodynamics, particularly for water, steam, and moist air.

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41. Siegfried Nagl

1963-. (aged 63)

politician

Siegfried Nagl is an Austrian politician with the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). He was mayor of Graz from 2003 to 2021.

42. Robert Holzmann

1949-. (aged 77)

economist

Robert Holzmann is an Austrian economist who was Governor of Austria’s central bank, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB) from 2019 to 2025. His term of appointment runs from September 1, 2019, to August 31, 2025.

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43. Aurel Popovici

1863-1917 (aged 54)

opinion journalist politician journalist

Aurel Constantin Popovici was an ethnic Romanian Austro-Hungarian lawyer and politician.

44. Janko Kersnik

1852-1897 (aged 45)

literary critic poet jurist writer mayor

Janko Kersnik was a writer and politician from Austria-Hungary who was an ethnic Slovene. Together with Josip Jurčič, he is considered the most important representative of literary realism in the Slovene language.

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45. Gerald Klug

1968-. (aged 58)

politician

Gerald Klug is an Austrian jurist and politician who served as minister of transport, innovation and technology in 2016. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he previously served as minister of defence and sports from 2013 to 2016.

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46. Hans Friderichs

1931-2025 (aged 94)

jurist politician

Hans Friderichs was a German politician who served as the minister of economy from 1972 to 1977. He was also a jurist and businessman.

47. Martin Polaschek

1965-. (aged 61)

university teacher jurist legal historian

Martin F. Polaschek is an Austrian legal scholar and legal historian who has served as Federal Minister for Education, Science and Research in the Nehammer government since 6 December 2021. An Independent, he was nominated by the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP).

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48. Alfons Gorbach

1898-1972 (aged 74)

civil servant politician

Alfons Gorbach was an Austrian politician of the conservative People's Party (ÖVP). He served as Chancellor of Austria from 1961 to 1964.

49. Heinz Oberhummer

1941-2015 (aged 74)

astronomer university teacher physicist astrophysicist non-fiction writer

Heinz Oberhummer, was an Austrian physicist and skeptic.

50. Marko Krizin

1589-1619 (aged 30)

missionary Catholic theologian Catholic priest

Marko Stjepan Krizin, or Marko Križevčanin (Hungarian: Kőrösi Márk, lit. 'Mark of Križevci') was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest, professor of theology and missionary, who was active in the 17th century. In the course of the struggle between Catholicism and Calvinism in the region then, he was executed for his faith. He has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church,...

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51. Alois Stadlober

1962-. (aged 64)

cross-country skier

Alois Stadlober is an Austrian former cross-country skier who competed from 1988 to 2000. He earned two medals at the 1999 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in the 4 x 10 km relay and a silver in the 10 km.

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52. Juliane Bogner-Strauß

1971-. (aged 55)

researcher biochemist molecular biologist politician

Juliane Bogner-Strauß, is an Austrian molecular biologist, biochemist, and politician in the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Since October 2013 she is Associate Professor at the Institute of Biochemistry of Graz University of Technology. From 18 December 2017 she was Federal Minister for Families and Youth of the Republic of Austria, since 8 January 2018 she is Federal Minister for Women,...

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53. Barbara Frischmuth

1941-2025 (aged 84)

playwright poet writer translator prose writer

Barbara Frischmuth was an Austrian writer and translator. She travelled the world, open to other cultures, which influenced her works. Her first novel, Die Klosterschule, shows a student's experiences in a convent school, as well as a feminist attitude and criticism of authorities. She wrote two trilogies of novels in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as a series of...

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54. Henrik Dam

1895-1976 (aged 81)

chemist pedagogue university teacher biochemist physiologist

Carl Peter Henrik Dam was a Danish biochemist and physiologist.

55. Ernst Moro

1874-1951 (aged 77)

university teacher physician

Ernst Moro was a Slovenian physician and pediatrician who was the first in western medicine to describe an infant reflex that was named after him (Moro reflex).

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56. Joseph Marx

1882-1964 (aged 82)

composer pianist university teacher musicologist music critic

Joseph Rupert Rudolf Marx was an Austrian composer, teacher and critic. He is best known for his 150 lieder, most accompanied by piano, with a some scored with orchestra.

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57. Nadezhda Suslova

1843-1918 (aged 75)

physician gynecologist obstetrician surgeon

Nadezhda Prokofyevna Suslova was Russia's first woman medical doctor and the sister of Polina Suslova. She worked as a gynecologist in Nizhny Novgorod, and was involved in many charity efforts.

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58. Count Karl von Stürgkh

1859-1916 (aged 57)

politician

Count Karl von Stürgkh was an Austrian politician and Minister-President of Cisleithania during the 1914 July Crisis that led to the outbreak of World War I. He was shot and killed by the Social Democratic politician Friedrich Adler.

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59. Reinhold Lopatka

1960-. (aged 66)

politician

Reinhold Lopatka is an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) who has been serving as a member of the European Parliament since the 2024 European Parliament election in Austria. He led the ÖVP list in the elections.

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60. John Ogilvie

1579-1615 (aged 36)

Catholic priest

John Ogilvie, SJ was a Scottish Jesuit priest. For his work in service to a persecuted Catholic community in 17th century Scotland, and in being hanged for his faith, he became the only post-Reformation Scottish saint.

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61. Christian Wehrschütz

1961-. (aged 65)

television presenter jurist journalist

Christian Ferdinand Wehrschütz, born October 9, 1961, in Graz, is an Austrian journalist. He speaks German, English, Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian/Croatian, French, Slovenian, Macedonian and Albanian and is a military interpreter of Russian and Ukrainian. He is married and has two daughters.

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62. Andreas Mölzer

1952-. (aged 74)

politician writer journalist

Andreas Mölzer is an Austrian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Freedom Party of Austria.

63. John Sarkander

1576-1620 (aged 44)

Catholic priest Christian minister

Jan Sarkander was a Polish-Czech Roman Catholic priest. Sarkander was married for a short period of time before he became widowed and pursued a path to the priesthood where he became active in defence of Catholicism during a period of anti-Catholic sentiment and conflict. He himself was arrested on false accusations as a means of silencing him and he refused...

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64. Hermann Heller

1891-1933 (aged 42)

jurist philosopher university teacher politician

Hermann Heller was a German legal scholar and philosopher of Jewish descent. He was active in the non-Marxist wing of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) during the Weimar Republic. He attempted to formulate the theoretical foundations of the social-democratic relations to the state, and nationalism. He was politically active in the relatively conservative Hofgeismarer Kreis of the SPD...

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65. Beate Hartinger-Klein

1959-. (aged 67)

businessperson politician

Beate Hartinger-Klein is an Austrian healthcare and insurance manager, educator and politician. A member of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ), she was a member of the National Council from October 1999 to December 2002. From December 2017 to May 2019, Hartinger-Klein served as minister of social affairs in the first government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.

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66. Eduard von Keyserling

1855-1918 (aged 63)

writer playwright

Johann Heinrich Eduard Nicolaus Graf von Keyserling was a Baltic German fiction writer and dramatist, an exponent of literary impressionism and associated with the historic region of Courland.

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67. Michael Fleischhacker

1969-. (aged 57)

journalist television presenter

Michael Fleischhacker is an Austrian journalist. He was director and editor-in-chief of Austrian daily Die Presse from 2004 until 2012.

68. Fritz Pregl

1869-1930 (aged 61)

physicist professor chemist pharmacist physician

Fritz Pregl, was a Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician from a mixed Slovene-German-speaking background. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1923 for making important contributions to quantitative organic microanalysis, one of which was the improvement of the combustion train technique for elemental analysis.

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69. Christina Pluhar

1965-. (aged 61)

choir director conductor theorbist classical guitarist harpist

Christina Pluhar is a theorbist, harpist, conductor, and the founder of the early music ensemble L'Arpeggiata.

70. Clemens J. Setz

1982-. (aged 44)

translator poet novelist writer

Clemens J. Setz is an Austrian writer and translator.

71. Anton Korošec

1872-1940 (aged 68)

Catholic priest theologian politician writer

Anton Korošec was a Slovene Yugoslav politician, a prominent member of the conservative People's Party, a Roman Catholic priest and a noted orator.

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72. Victor Francis Hess

1883-1964 (aged 81)

university teacher researcher physicist

Victor Franz Hess was an Austrian–American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson for his discovery of cosmic rays.

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73. Gordon Gollob

1912-1987 (aged 75)

military personnel soldier aircraft pilot

Gordon Gollob was an Austrian fighter pilot during World War II. A fighter ace, he was credited with 150 enemy aircraft shot down in over 340 combat missions. Gollob claimed the majority of his victories over the Eastern Front, and six over the Western Front.

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74. Lasgush Poradeci

1899-1987 (aged 88)

translator of Adam Mickiewicz writer linguist translator poet

Llazar Sotir Gusho, commonly known by the pen name Lasgush Poradeci, was an Albanian philologist, poet, translator, writer and pioneer of modern Albanian literature. He is regarded as one of the most influential Albanian writers of the 20th century whose works are directly connected with Romanticism and Realism.

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75. Gerhard Liebmann

1970-. (aged 56)

actor

Gerhard Liebmann is an Austrian actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1998.

76. Peter Struve

1870-1944 (aged 74)

writer economist journalist politician

Peter Berngardovich Struve (Russian: Пётр Бернга́рдович Стру́ве, IPA: [pʲɵtr bʲɪrnˈɡardəvʲɪtɕˈstruvʲɪ]; 7 February [O.S. 26 January] 1870 – 22 February 1944) was a Russian political economist, philosopher, historian and editor. He started his career as a Marxist, later became a liberal and after the Bolshevik Revolution, joined the White movement. From 1920, he lived in exile in Paris, where he was...

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77. Monika Martin

1962-. (aged 64)

singer

Monika Martin is an Austrian singer of pop and folk music. Between 1999 and 2021, several of her singles have charted on the Ö3 Austria Top 40, the Swiss Hitparade, and the Deutsche Albumcharts. She was the recipient of the Goldene Stimmgabel prize in September 2006.

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78. Otto Loewi

1873-1961 (aged 88)

pharmacologist university teacher physiologist pharmacist neuroscientist

Otto Loewi was a German-born pharmacologist and psychobiologist who discovered the role of acetylcholine as an endogenous neurotransmitter. For this discovery, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1936, which he shared with Sir Henry Dale, who was a lifelong friend that helped to inspire the neurotransmitter experiment. Loewi met Dale in 1902 when spending some...

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79. Irmgard Griss

1946-. (aged 80)

jurist judge politician

Irmgard Griss, also known as Irmgard Griss-Reiterer, is an Austrian politician, lawyer and judge who served as President of the Supreme Court of Justice from 2007 to 2011. She registered as an independent candidate at the 2016 presidential election and came in third position.

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80. Walther Nernst

1864-1941 (aged 77)

university teacher chemist physicist

Walther Hermann Nernst ForMemRS was a German physical chemist known for his work in thermodynamics, physical chemistry, electrochemistry, and solid-state physics. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He is also known for developing the Nernst equation in 1887.

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81. Peter Rosegger

1843-1918 (aged 75)

poet writer

Peter Rosegger was an Austrian writer and poet from Krieglach in the province of Styria. He was a son of a mountain farmer and grew up in the woodlands and mountains of Alpl. Rosegger (or Rossegger) went on to become a most prolific poet and author as well as an insightful teacher and visionary.

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82. Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek

1969-. (aged 57)

politician

Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek is an Austrian politician of the Austrian Green Party, and its federal spokeswoman from 2008 until 2017. She was the plaintiff in the landmark case Eva Glawishnig-Piesczek v. Facebook Ireland, in which she sued Facebook for defamation to compel the social media company to globally censor the "defamatory and all equivalent" posts.

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83. Archbishop Ieronimos II of Athens

1938-. (aged 88)

historian Eastern Orthodox bishop

Ieronymos II is the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece and as such the primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. He was elected on 7 February 2008.

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84. Raphael M. Bonelli

1968-. (aged 58)

YouTuber psychotherapist university teacher psychiatrist psychologist

Raphael M. Bonelli is an Austrian neuroscientist and psychiatrist.

85. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

1836-1895 (aged 59)

historian journalist university teacher writer

Leopold Ritter von Sacher-Masoch was an Austrian nobleman, writer and journalist, who gained renown for his romantic stories of Galician life. The term masochism is derived from his name, invented by his contemporary, the Austrian psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing. Masoch did not approve of this use of his name.

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86. Karel Schwarzenberg

1937-2023 (aged 86)

entrepreneur diplomat foreign minister politician

Karel Schwarzenberg was a Czech politician, diplomat and statesman who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic from 2007 to 2009 and then again between 2010 and 2013. Schwarzenberg was leader and co-founder of the TOP 09 party and its candidate for president of the Czech Republic in the 2013 election. He served as a member...

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87. Karl Böhm

1894-1981 (aged 87)

music director conductor composer

Karl August Leopold Böhm was an Austrian conductor. He was best known for his performances of the music of Mozart, Wagner, and Richard Strauss.

88. Werner Kogler

1961-. (aged 65)

politician

Werner Kogler is an Austrian politician of the Green Party who served as Vice-Chancellor of Austria from 2020 to 2024 and as minister for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport in the governments of chancellors Sebastian Kurz, Alexander Schallenberg, and Karl Nehammer from 2020 to 2025.

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89. Otto Gross

1877-1920 (aged 43)

writer psychiatrist physician psychoanalyst

Otto Hans Adolf Gross was an Austrian psychoanalyst. A maverick early disciple of Sigmund Freud, he later became an anarchist and joined the utopian Ascona community.

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90. Peter Handke

1942-. (aged 84)

playwright film director writer translator prose writer

Peter Handke is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience." Handke is considered to be one of the most influential and original German-language writers in the second half of the...

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91. Ivo Andrić

1892-1975 (aged 83)

poet writer novelist essayist short story writer

Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.

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92. Luis Trenker

1892-1990 (aged 98)

film director writer film editor architect film producer

Luis Trenker was an Italian, South Tyrolean film producer, director, writer, actor, architect, alpinist, and bobsledder.

93. Karl von Terzaghi

1883-1963 (aged 80)

university teacher geologist inventor

Karl von Terzaghi was an Austrian mechanical engineer, geotechnical engineer, and geologist known as the "father of soil mechanics and geotechnical engineering".

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94. Lisa Kaltenegger

1977-. (aged 49)

astrophysicist astronomer physicist university teacher

Lisa Kaltenegger is an Austrian astronomer specialising in the modeling and characterization of exoplanets and the search for life. On 1 July 2014, she was appointed Associate Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University. Previously, she held a joint position at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg where she was the Emmy Noether Research Group Leader for the "Super-Earths...

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95. Clemens Arvay

1980-2023 (aged 43)

YouTuber writer non-fiction writer biologist vlogger

Clemens Georg Arvay was an Austrian author of nonfiction books with an emphasis on health ecology. In particular, his controversial conclusions about the relationship between the benefit and risk of the COVID-19 vaccine attracted media attention.

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96. Marie Kreutzer

1977-. (aged 49)

film director screenwriter

Marie Kreutzer is an Austrian film director and screenwriter.

97. Georg Friedrich Haas

1953-. (aged 73)

composer classical pianist university teacher academic musician

Georg Friedrich Haas is an Austrian composer. In a 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000, pieces by Haas received the most votes (49), and his composition in vain (2000) topped the list.

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98. Martin Kušej

1961-. (aged 65)

director theatrical director

Martin Kušej is an Austrian theatre and opera director, and is director of the Burgtheater Vienna. According to German news magazine Focus, Kušej belongs to the ten most important theatre directors who have emerged in the German-speaking world since the millennium. He is considered one of the most important directors working today, acclaimed for his dark and incisive productions.

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99. Valentin Inzko

1949-. (aged 77)

translator diplomat linguist politician

Valentin Inzko is an Austrian diplomat who served as the High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2009 to 2021. He also served as the European Union Special Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2009 to 2011.

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100. Petina Gappah

1971-. (aged 55)

novelist jurist journalist commercial lawyer short story writer

Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper. In 2017 she had a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship in Berlin.

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