List of personalities of the city of Graz
This list shows the articles of personalities related to the city of Graz . After the honorary citizens , citizens and honorary ring bearers , the sons and daughters of the city of Graz and finally other personalities with a connection to the city of Graz follow .
Honorary citizen (excerpt)
- Ignaz Maria Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz (* February 24, 1774; † December 17, 1861) was Governor of Styria.
- Rudolf Hans Bartsch (born February 11, 1873 - † February 7, 1952) was an Austrian officer and writer (1932).
- Heinz Fischer (born October 9, 1938) was Federal President of the Republic of Austria.
- Ferdinand Stanislaus Pawlikowski (born April 28, 1877 in Vienna, † July 31, 1956 in Graz) was Prince-Bishop of Seckau (today: Diocese of Graz-Seckau) and most recently titular Archbishop of Velebusdus. He was granted honorary citizenship on June 23, 1937, revoked on May 12, 1938 and solemnly re-awarded on November 26, 1953.
Citizen (excerpt)
- Peter Freyberger (born November 8, 1922, † June 21, 2009) was a medical doctor and university professor.
- Karl Frühwirth (* 1924; † April 16, 2009) was Vice President of the Regional Court for Criminal Matters Graz i. R.
- Ferdinand Friebe (* 1894; † 1980) athlete and entrepreneur
- Volker Hild († March 25, 2009), Brigadier
- Rudolf Kellermayr (born January 25, 1921 in Graz; † September 27, 2014 there), long-time director of the Academic Gymnasium Graz , cultural critic and chairman of the editorial board of the Kleine Zeitung
- Sigrid Reinitzer (* 1941 in Graz), long-time director of the Graz University Library
- Anne Marie Wicher (* 1934 in Graz), politician
Honorary Ring Bearer (extract)
Graz has awarded 115 rings of honor since around 1960 and as of June 2020, including 7 to women. Only Schwarzenegger is known to have ever returned a ring.
- Karlheinz Böhm (born March 16, 1928 in Darmstadt ; † May 29, 2014 in Grödig ) was an Austrian actor and founder of the organization Menschen für Menschen (MfM), which helps people in need in Ethiopia
- Emil Breisach (born March 21, 1923 in Stockerau ; † January 9, 2015 in Graz) is a writer and cultural worker
- Alfred Brendel
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt (born December 6, 1929 in Berlin as Nicolaus Graf de la Fontaine and d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt; † March 5, 2016) was an Austrian conductor , cellist , music writer and specialist in historical performance practice
- Franz Kaufmann (born May 13, 1917 in Graz; † January 1, 2010) was President of the Styrian Chamber of Commerce
- Helmut O. List (born December 20, 1941 in Graz) consul, professor
- Norbert Matzka (born March 5, 1929 in Vienna ) is a retired city councilor. D.
- Max Mayr (born August 19, 1928 in Lohnsburg (Upper Austria), † June 2012 in Graz) monument protection activist, professor and honorary president of the ISG (International City Forum Graz)
- Maria Pachleitner (born September 10, 1909 in Polsterau; † January 24, 2008 in Graz) was president of Lebenshilfe
- Fritz Popelka (February 12, 1890 - February 27, 1973), archivist, historian and university professor
- Willibald Riedler (born September 1, 1932 in Vienna ; † January 24, 2018) was a university professor and head of the Institute for Telecommunications and Wave Propagation at TU Graz
- Grete Schurz (born April 29, 1934 in Graz ) was the city of Graz's first women's representative . She initiated a lot of things that will be taken for granted in women's politics in Graz today and received the ring of honor on October 21, 2010
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947 in Thal , Styria , Austria ) was the 38th Governor of California ( United States ) from 2003 to 2011 . Before his political career, he was an internationally known film actor . He returned the ring of honor to the city of Graz on December 19, 2005 after he had been criticized for an execution. Many years later - in 2017 he received the Styrian Ring of Honor .
- Johann Weber (born April 26, 1927 in Graz, Styria ; † May 23, 2020) was the former Roman Catholic Bishop of the Austrian diocese of Graz-Seckau
- Christa Neuper , Rector of the Karl-Franzens-University Graz (2019)
- Hans Sünkel , former rector of the Graz University of Technology (2019)
sons and daughters of the town
The following people were born in Graz. For the mention here, it is irrelevant whether the persons later had their sphere of activity in Graz or not.
A.
- Wolfram Abt (1969–2008), jazz musician
- Josef Afritsch (1901–1964), Federal Minister
- Viktor Afritsch (1906–1967), castle actor
- Werner Amon (* 1969), politician
- Bernard Andreae (* 1930), classical archaeologist
- Armin Assinger (* 1964), ski racer and television presenter
- Ernst Gottlieb von Attems (1694–1757), Bishop of Laibach
- Leopold Auenbrugger (1722–1809), important physician
B.
- Hermann Baltl (1918–2004), legal historian
- Claudia Bandion-Ortner (* 1966), judge and former Minister of Justice
- Martin Bartenstein (* 1953), entrepreneur, minister
- Ludwig Alexander von Battenberg (1854–1921), Admiral in the British Royal Navy
- Wolfgang Bauer (1941–2005), playwright, writer from the Forum Stadtpark
- Siegfried Baumegger (* 1972), chess player and trainer
- Richard Bayer (1907–1989), medic
- Alois von Beckh-Widmanstätten (1754–1849), printer, scientist, discoverer of the Widmanstätten structure in meteorites
- Hermann Beer (1905–1972), civil engineer
- Markus Beer (* 1988), soccer player
- Daniel Beichler (* 1988), soccer player
- Christian Beidl (* 1961), mechanical engineer
- Franz Xaver von Bendel (1713–1800), Jesuit poet
- Helmut Berger (* 1949), actor, director and screenwriter
- Johann Berger (1845–1933), chess player and theorist
- Wolfram Berger (* 1945), actor
- Stephan Bergmann (* 1980), director
- Klemens Bittmann (* 1977), violinist and mandola player
- Gottfried Blahovsky (* 1931), actor
- Wilhelm Blaschke (1885–1962), mathematician and author
- Anton Bleichsteiner (1879–1963), painter
- Helmut Bohatsch (* 1956), actor and musician
- Karl Böhm (1894–1981), conductor
- Leopold Böhm (1865–1933), lawyer and concert singer
- Ernst Bolbrinker (1898–1962), mining engineer and knight's cross holder in the German Africa Corps
- Herbert Brandl (* 1959), painter
- Eugen Bregant (1937–2003), Austrian entomologist and botanist
- Norbertine Bresslern-Roth (1891–1978), painter
- Anton Ernst von Breuner (1724–1789), prelate
- Johann Franz Brockmann (1745–1812), actor, first German-speaking Hamlet
- Bernd Brunnhofer (* 1946), German game designer
- Adalbert Buchberger (1888–1962), engineer, member of the National Council
- Liselotte Buchenauer (1922–2003), writer and alpinist
- Franz Buchrieser (* 1937), actor
- Jenny Bürde-Ney (1824–1886), singer
- Georg Bydlinski (* 1956), writer
- Mini Bydlinski (* 1962), cabaret artist and actor
C.
- Aquiline Julius Caesar (1720–1792), historian and Augustinian canon
- Peter Cerwenka (1942–2020), transport scientist
- Michael Chalupka (* 1960), pastor
- Irene von Chavanne (1863–1938), singer
D.
- Andrea Da Mosto (1868–1960), Director of the Venice State Archives
- Wolfgang Denzel (1908–1990), racing athlete, designer and entrepreneur
- Hans Dichand (1921-2010), newspaper publisher
- Adam Dietrichstein (1527–1590), politician
- Christian Dintar (* 1974), football referee
- Hans Dolf (1897–1967), actor and radio play speaker
E.
- Anton Ebner (1876–1963), politician
- Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg (1568–1634), Obersthofmeister Ferdinand II.
- Josef W. Egger (* 1949), clinical psychologist, physician and university professor
- Michael Ehmann (* 1975), dental technician and politician
- Fritz Eichler (1887–1971), archaeologist
- Helmut Eisendle (1939–2003), psychologist and writer
- Johannes Ertl (* 1982), soccer player
- Georg Essl (* 1972), musician
- Ulf Christian Ewert (* 1966), German historian
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- Gunter Falk (1942–1983), sociologist and writer
- Curt Faudon (1949–2019), director, screenwriter and film producer
- Hellmut Federhofer (1911–2014), musicologist
- Ferdinand II. (1578–1637), 1619–1637 Holy Roman Emperor
- Ferdinand III. (HRR) , Holy Roman Emperor
- Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656–1723), baroque architect
- Heinz Fischer (* 1938), former lawyer and politician (SPÖ), was Federal President of Austria from 2004 to 2016
- Bernd Fischerauer (1943–2017), director, actor, screenwriter and novelist
- Jörg Flecker (* 1959), social scientist
- Monika Fludernik (* 1957), English and literary scholar
- Franz Ferdinand von Österreich-Este (1863–1914), Austro-Hungarian Archduke and heir to the throne
- Magdalena Frey (* 1963), photographer and video artist
- Günther Friesinger (* 1973), philosopher, freelance media maker, artist and curator
- Erasmus Fröhlich (1700–1758), Jesuit, historian, librarian and numismatist
- Manfred Fruhmann (* 1956), soccer player
- Gilbert Fuchs (1871–1952), figure skater and forest scientist
- Friedrich Funder (1872–1959), editor of the Viennese daily newspaper "Reichspost"
G
- Andreas Gabalier (* 1984), musician
- Josef Ritter von Gadolla (1897–1945), officer and rescuer of Gotha in World War II
- Gerald Ganglbauer (* 1958), publisher
- Petra Ganglbauer (* 1958), author and radio artist
- Karin Gastinger (* 1964), politician
- Marie Geistinger (1836–1903), actress and singer
- Lisa Zoe Geretschläger (* 1990), film editor
- Alfred Gerstl (1923–2016), politician and sports official
- Alfred Gerth (1921–2017), soccer player and employee and health insurance official
- Alexander Girardi (1850-1918), actor
- Peter Glaser (* 1957), writer and journalist
- Thomas Glavinic (* 1972), writer
- Hans Glawischnig (* 1970), jazz musician
- Michael Glawogger (1959–2014), film director
- Edi Glieder (* 1969), soccer player
- Alexander Götz (1928–2018), politician
- Valentin Götzinger (* 2000), cyclist
- Gordon M. Gollob (1912–1987), German fighter pilot and general of fighter pilots
- Roland Goriupp (* 1971), football player
- Hermann Grabner (1886–1969), composer
- Christine Grän (* 1952), writer
- Fritz Grasenick (1916–2003), chemist
- Eduard Grégr (also Gröger , 1827–1907), Czech doctor, politician and publicist
- Franz Grein (1858–1925), master stonemason and entrepreneur
- Philipp Markus Grein (* 1988), artist and entrepreneur
- Alexander Grill (1938–2009), stage and film actor
- Barbara Gross (* 1953), politician and president of Volkshilfe Austria
- Hans Gross (1847–1915), criminologist
- Gerd Gruber (* 1982), ice hockey player
- Michael Gspurning (* 1981), soccer player
- Robert Gucher (* 1991), football player
- Andreas Guenther (* 1973), German actor
- Maria Gutmann (1889–1963), American-Austrian theater actress, dramaturge and artistic director
H
- Georg Friedrich Haas (* 1953), composer
- Gernot Haas (* 1978), actor, cabaret artist, presenter and dialect artist
- Mario Haas (* 1974), soccer player
- Hans Hafner (* 1938), Chamber Office Director and politician, member of the Austrian National Council
- Karl Hafner (1875–1945), archivist and historian
- Oliver Haidt (* 1977), pop singer
- Roswitha Hamadani (* 1944), writer
- Joachim Gunter Hammer (* 1950), poet
- Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall (1774–1856), diplomat, translator and Austrian pioneer of oriental studies
- Martha Handlos (1953–2017), musicologist and music journalist
- Alexander Harkam (* 1981), Austrian Bundesliga and FIFA referee
- Elisabeth Harnik (* 1970), pianist, singer, composer and music organizer
- Franz Harnoncourt (* 1937), Chairman of the Board, Honorary Consul
- Beate Hartinger-Klein (* 1959), manager and politician, Federal Minister of the Republic of Austria
- Fritz Hartmann (1871–1937), psychiatrist, professor in Graz
- Fritz Hartmann (1900–1946), surgeon, Sauerbruch student in Berlin
- Gotthold Hasenhüttl (* 1933), theologian
- Franz Hasiba (* 1932), politician, mayor
- Georg von Hauberrisser (1841–1922), architect
- Siegmund von Hausegger (1872–1948), composer and conductor
- Baldur Heckel (1941-2010), technician and chairman of the Styrian Singers Association
- Stefan Heckel (* 1969), jazz musician
- August Heinrich (1859–1926), doctor and fossil collector
- Dominik Hemmer (* 1992), music producer, composer and keyboard player
- Alois Hergouth (1925–2002), writer, poet and translator
- Robert Herzl (1940–2014), director and theater director
- Ferdinand Herzog (1761–1834), abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Lambrecht
- Heinrich von Herzogenberg (1843–1900), composer
- Richard Heuberger (1850–1914), composer
- Arnold Heymann (1870–1950), architect
- Rudolf "Rudi" Hiden (1909–1973), soccer player, goalie of the Austrian wonder team
- Pia Hierzegger (* 1972), actress
- Jonny Hill (* 1940), musician, lyricist, producer and entertainer
- Hans Hödl (1937–2019), mountaineer, hiking expert and photographer
- Mirzl Hofer (1877–1955), singer and yodeler
- Klaus Hoffer (* 1942), writer
- Mara Hoffmann (1891–1929), painting student and model
- Bernhard Hofmann-Wellenhof (* 1951), geodesist and university professor
- Gottfried Hofmann-Wellenhof (* 1950), teacher, author and columnist
- Otto Hofmann-Wellenhof (1909–1988), politician and writer
- Joseph von Högen (1767 – after 1820), poet and administrative lawyer
- Alexander Höller (1930–2019), actor
- Josef Hopferwieser (1938–2015), opera singer
- Julius Hopp (1819–1885), composer, librettist and translator
- Gerhard Hörting (* 1972), Roman Catholic clergyman, former rector. i. of the Pontifical Institute Collegio Teutonico di Santa Maria dell'Anima
- Lena Hoschek (* 1981), fashion designer
- Erwin Huber (1929–2006), sculptor
- Alois Hudal (1885–1963), Roman Catholic. Bishop and escape helper for various Nazi criminals
- Anselm Hüttenbrenner (1794–1868), composer, friends with Franz Schubert
- Heinrich Hüttenbrenner (1799–1830), lawyer, brother of Anselm Hüttenbrenner
I.
- Franz Ilwof (1831–1916), pedagogue, legal scholar and local researcher
- Mario Innauer (* 1990), ski jumper
J
- Franz Christoph Janneck (1703–1761), painter
- Margrit Jansen (* 1947), German politician
- Jakob Jantscher (* 1989), soccer player
- Rudolf Josel (* 1939), trombonist
- Adolf Jost (1874–1908), psychologist
- Helmut Jungwirth (* 1969), molecular biologist and university professor
- Kurt Jungwirth (* 1929), politician and chess and cultural functionary
- Sabine Jungwirth (* 1969), building planner and politician
K
- Reinhard Kager (* 1954), philosopher and journalist
- Claudia Kahr (* 1955), lawyer and judge at the Constitutional Court
- Florian Kainz (* 1992), soccer player
- Beatrix Karl (* 1967), politician
- Alfred Kastil (1874–1950), philosopher and university professor
- Minna Kautsky (1837-1912). Author, actress and social democrat. Mother of Karl Kautsky
- Alfred Keller (1875–1945), architect, painter and graphic artist
- Constantin Keller (religious name Thaddäus Keller ; 1778–1864), religious, teacher and pomologist
- Rudolf Kellermayr (1921–2014), culture and theater critic and teacher, head of the local academic high school
- Erich Kern , actually Erich Knud Kernmayr (1906–1991), National Socialist functionary and right-wing extremist publicist
- Hans Gustl Kernmayr (1900–1977), Austrian writer and screenwriter
- Andreas Kiendl (* 1975), actor
- Mario Kienzl (* 1983), soccer player
- Hiltrud Kier (* 1937), art historian, former Cologne city curator (monument conservator) and general director of the museums of the city of Cologne
- Doris Kirchner (1930–2015), actress
- Herbert Klein (1900–1972), historian and state archives director
- Oscar Klein (1930-2006), jazz musician
- Friedrich Kleinhapl (* 1965), cellist
- Erich Kleinschuster (1930–2018), modern jazz trombonist and university lecturer
- Christian Klem (* 1991), soccer player
- Georg Klingenberg (1942–2016), legal scholar
- Alfons M. Kloss (* 1953), diplomat
- Werner Klaus Koch (* 1955), educator, photographer and book author
- Gernot Kocher (* 1942), legal historian and university professor
- Gertrude Kolar (1926–2014), gymnast, world champion on the swing rings
- Helmut Koller (* 1959), diplomat, ambassador, consul general
- Peter Koller (* 1947), legal philosopher and legal sociologist
- Wolfgang Kolneder (1943–2010), theater director
- Ewald König (* 1968), politician and entrepreneur
- Barbara Konrad (* 1969), violinist
- Franz Konrad (* 1951), racing car driver
- Helga Konrad (* 1948), politician, former Federal Minister
- Michaela Konrad (* 1972), illustrator and artist
- Otto Konrad (* 1964), football player
- Lambert Konschegg (1912–1977), officer in the German Air Force, later Chairman of the Board of Austrian Airlines (AUA) and IATA President
- Simona Koren (* 1993), soccer player
- Christoph Kornschober (* 1979), film and theater actor
- Ernst Kortschak (1879–1957), Cistercian abbot
- Walter Koschatzky (1921–2003), art historian
- Robert Christian Kowald (1966–2006), actor
- Josef Krainer junior (1930–2016), politician (ÖVP) and governor of Styria
- Lore Krainer (1930–2020), cabaret artist and chanson singer
- Diether Kramer (1942–2016), prehistoric and medieval archaeologist
- Markus Krautberger (* 1976), soccer player
- Marion Kreiner (* 1981), snowboarder
- Georg Kreisel (1923–2015), British-American mathematician and logician
- Brigitte Kren (* 1954), actress
- Conrad Kreuzer (1810–1861), draftsman and landscape painter
- Vinzenz Kreuzer (1809–1888), draftsman and landscape painter
- Helmut L. Kronjäger (1953–2014), soccer player, coach and official
- Ludwig Kubanek (1877–1929), German sculptor
- Franz Küberl (* 1953), President of Caritas Austria
- Johann Christoph von Kuenburg (1697–1756), auxiliary bishop in Passau
L.
- Elisabeth Lanz (* 1971), actress
- Engelbert Lap (1886–1970), painter and graphic artist
- Hans Lechner (1913–1994), agricultural scientist, lawyer and politician (ÖVP)
- Sophie Leifhelm (1890–1945), communist writer and victim of the Nazi regime
- Christoph Leitgeb (* 1985), football player
- Mario Leitgeb (* 1988), football player
- Egon Christian Leitner (* 1961), philosopher and writer
- Karl Gottfried von Leitner (1800–1890), writer
- Peter Leitner (1944–1996), farmer and politician
- Werner Leitner (* 1969), triathlete
- Wolfgang Leitner (* 1953), manager and entrepreneur
- Rudolf Lenz (1920–1987), actor in homeland films
- Gustav von Leonhardt (1838–1891), Secretary General of the National Bank
- Leopold V (Austria-Tyrol) (1586–1632), Bishop of Passau and Strasbourg, Regent of Tyrol
- Zoran Lerchbacher (* 1972), darts player
- Hulda von Levetzow (1863–1947), German author
- Heinz Lichem von Löwenbourg (1941–2007) military historian, writer and journalist
- Gerhard Karl Lieb (* 1960), geographer and university professor
- Andreas Liebmann (* 1967), diplomat
- Gerhard Liebmann (* 1970), actor
- Michael Liendl (* 1985), soccer player
- Andreas Lienhart (* 1986), soccer player
- Heinz Lienhart (* 1979), soccer player and coach
- Mano H. Lindner (1953–2001), painter and sculptor
- Alexander Linhardt (* 1976), actor
- Alfons Maria Lipp (* 1930), theater actor and director
- Carl Lipp (1892–1969), politician
- Sandra Lipp (* 1988), actress
- Hans List (1896–1996), entrepreneur
- Helmut List (* 1941), entrepreneur
- Josef Lukas (1875–1929), lawyer and university lecturer
M.
- Christine A. Maier (* 1969), camerawoman, winner of the Austrian Film Prize
- Ferdinand Maierhofer (1881–1960), actor
- Matthias Maierhofer (* 1979), organist and church musician
- Walter Malli (1940–2012), artist and jazz musician
- Placidus Mally (1670–1745), abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Rein
- Matthias Mander (* 1933), writer
- Oliver Marach (* 1980), tennis player
- Helmi Mareich (1924–2009), actress
- Helmut Marko (* 1943), racing car driver
- Walter Markov (1909–1993), German historian and resistance fighter
- Trude Marlen (1912–2005), actress
- Monika Martin (* 1962), singer of popular music
- Joseph Marx (1882–1964), composer of Romantic Impressionism
- Bernhard-Michael Mayer (* 1959), pharmacologist and university professor
- Carl Mayer (1894–1944), screenwriter
- Walther Mayer (1887–1948), mathematician
- Edith Mayer-Hammer (1926–2011), painter
- Ilona Mayer-Zach (* 1963), writer
- Armin Medosch (1962–2017), journalist and media artist
- Alfred Mell (1880–1962), historian and museum director
- Marisa Mell (1939–1992), actress
- Anton Menner (* 1994), volleyball player
- Franz Merli (* 1958), lawyer and university professor
- Georg Ignaz von Metzburg (1735–1798), mathematician
- Gottfried von Metzburg (1738–1797), teacher and librarian
- Roderich Mojsisovics von Mojsvár (1877–1953), conductor, composer, music and stage writer
- Franz Morak (* 1946), State Secretary for Art and Media in Austria
- Inge Morath (1923–2002), photographer
- Helmut Moritz (* 1933), geodesist
- Lisa-Maria Moser (* 1991), tennis player
- Klaus Mosettig (* 1975), artist
- Doris Mühringer (1920–2009), poet and writer
- Wilhelm Muster (1916–1994), writer and literary translator
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- Alois Maria Nagler (1907–1993), Austrian-American theater scholar
- Hans Nawiasky (1880–1961), lawyer and constitutional lawyer
- Günter Neuhold (* 1947), conductor
- Christa Neuper (* 1958), neuropsychologist
- Olga Neuwirth (* 1968), composer
- Gerald Nigl (* 1966), writer and painter
O
- Harald Ossberger (* 1948), pianist and music teacher
- Thomas Otter (* 1971), business economist
P
- Ernst Paar (1906–1986), painter and graphic artist
- Gernot Pachernigg (* 1981), singer
- Faust Pachler (1819–1891), writer
- Gerda Paumgarten (1907–2000), ski racer and slalom world champion
- Jürgen Pauritsch (* 1977), racing cyclist
- Dietmar Pegam (* 1968), soccer player and coach
- Heinz Petters (1932–2018), theater, film and television actor
- Othmar Pferschy (1898–1984), photographer
- Berta Pfister-Lex (1920–2016), artist and restorer
- Hermann Pfrogner (1911–1988), musician and writer
- Adi Pinter (1948–2016), soccer coach, mental coach and politician
- Hans Pössenbacher (1895–1979), German actor
- Martina Poel (* 1974), actress
- Emanuel Pogatetz (* 1983), professional football player
- Franz Pöhacker (* 1927), sculptor
- Wolfgang Pollanz (* 1954), writer, publicist and musician
- Ernst Posch (* 1955), painter
- Harald Posch (* 1963), actor
- Gerhard Present (* 1957), composer, conductor, music theorist
- Katharina Prato (1818–1897), cookbook author
- John Preininger (1947–2002), philologist, drummer, writer
- Hans Pretterebner (* 1944), journalist
- Sebastian Prödl (* 1987), soccer player
- Joseph Freiherr Hammer von Purgstall (1774–1856), diplomat and translator of oriental literature
R.
- Gerhard Raab (* 1956), graphic artist, painter and sculptor
- Thomas Raab (* 1968), writer, translator and cognitive researcher
- Peter Ratzenbeck (* 1955), guitarist and composer
- Karl Rauch (1880–1953), legal scholar
- Wolf Rauch (* 1952), information scientist
- Herbert Rauter (* 1982), soccer player
- Thomas Reimer (* 1955), jazz musician
- Antonia Reininghaus (1954–2006), actress
- Sigrid Reinitzer (* 1941), librarian; from 1989 to 2006 director of the Graz University Library
- Friedrich Reinitzhuber (1910–2001), civil engineer
- Helfried Reinnagel (1934–2007), German athlete
- Nina Reiter (* 1991), jazz musician
- Wilfried A. Resch (* 1960), writer
- Monica Reyes (* 1981), singer and actress
- Hertha Richter-Appelt (* 1949), psychologist and sex researcher
- Alois Riedler (1850–1936), mechanical engineer and designer
- Anton Rintelen (1876–1946), lawyer and politician
- Max Rintelen (1880–1965), legal scholar
- Maximilian Ritter von Rodakowski (1825–1900), officer
- Franz Rogler (1921–1994), artist
- Hans Rosbaud (1895–1962), conductor
- Paul Rosbaud (1896–1963), physicist, spy
- Gerhard Roth (* 1942), author
S.
- Marcel Sabitzer (* 1994), football player
- Artur Wolfgang von Sacher-Masoch (1875–1953), officer and writer
- Klaus Salmutter (* 1984), soccer player
- Fred Sauer (1886–1952), actor, director and screenwriter
- Emil Scaria (1840–1886), Austrian opera singer
- Claudia Scarpatetti (* 1970), actress
- Heinz Schaden (* 1954), local politician and mayor of the city of Salzburg
- Josef Schantl (1842–1902), musician, horn player
- Maria Schaumayer (1931–2013), economist and politician
- Thorsten Schick (* 1990), soccer player
- Schiffkowitz (* 1946), musician
- Bernd Schilcher (1940–2015), politician and university professor
- Robert Schindler (1845–1909), lawyer
- Jörg Schlick (1951–2005), concept artist, author, painter, curator and musician
- Hermann Ritter von Schmeidel (1894–1953), conductor, composer and music teacher
- Viktoria Schnaderbeck (* 1991), soccer player
- Karl Schneider-Manns Au (1897–1977), politician and deputy mayor of the city of Salzburg
- Werner Schneyder (1937–2019), cabaret artist
- Gerhard Schobinger (1725–1794), abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Rein
- Helmut Schoeck (1922–1993), sociologist
- Gerhard Schönbacher (* 1954), racing cyclist
- Markus Schopp (* 1974), soccer player
- Wolfgang Schröder (* 1941), forest scientist
- Erika Schubert (1920–2019), opera singer (alto)
- Ernst von Schuch (1846–1914), conductor
- Alexander Schukoff (* 1956), film director, film producer and video artist
- Grete Schurz (* 1934), women's rights activist and Austria's first women's representative
- Werner Schwab (1958–1994), writer
- Claudia Schwartz (* 1963), Swiss journalist and author
- Lukas Schweighofer (* 1992), handball player
- Gregor Seberg (* 1967), actor
- Ernst Seelig (1895–1955), lawyer, criminologist
- Helmut Senekowitsch (1933–2007), soccer player and coach
- Clemens J. Setz (* 1982), writer and translator
- Alexander Sevschek , aka Xao Seffcheque (* 1956), film author and musician
- Alfred Anthony von Siegenfeld (1854–1929), archivist and heraldist
- Otto Siegl (1896–1978), composer
- Heidrun Silhavy (* 1956), politician
- Alexander Silveri (1910–1986), sculptor
- Peter Simonischek (* 1946), actor
- Marie Soldat-Röger (1863–1955), violin virtuoso
- Lutz Sparowitz (1940–2019), civil engineer
- Thomas Spitzer (* 1953), lyricist, composer, singer, guitarist and graphic artist
- Reinhard Spitzy (1912–2010), diplomat and employee at the Reich Security Main Office
- René Staar (* 1951), composer and violinist
- Hellmuth Stachel (* 1942), mathematician
- Joseph Stammel (1695–1765), sculptor
- Franz Karl Stanzel (* 1923), English and literary scholar
- Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638–1701), defender of Vienna during the second Turkish siege in 1683
- Jutta Stefan-Bastl (* 1946), diplomat
- Gert Steinbäcker (* 1952), musician
- Birgit Stöger (* 1975), actress
- Robert Stolz (1880–1975), composer and conductor
- Karl von Stremayr (1823–1904), lawyer and politician, Prime Minister
- Gerhard Streminger (* 1952), philosopher and author
- Walter Strzygowski (1908–1970), economic geographer
- Hugo Suette (1903–1949), Nazi politician (district leader) and SA leader
- Gernot Suppan (* 1985), soccer player
- Joachim Suppan (1794–1864), abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Lambrecht
- Kajetan Sweth (1785–1864), freedom fighter and civil servant
- Aglaia Szyszkowitz (* 1968), actress
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- Josef Taucher (* 1967), psychologist and politician
- Folke Tegetthoff (* 1954), writer
- Christian Teissl (* 1979), writer
- Gerald Teschl (* 1970), mathematician
- Susanne Teschl (* 1971), mathematician
- Edgar Tezak (* 1949), visual artist
- Helmut Tezak (* 1948), photographer and author
- Wilhelm Thöny (1888–1949), painter
- Maximilian Toepler (1870–1960), physicist
- Hertha Töpper (1924–2020), opera singer
- Hermann Torggler (1878–1939), portrait painter
- Matthias Trattnig (* 1979), ice hockey player
- Maria Thaddäus von Trautmannsdorff (1761–1819), Bishop of Königgrätz, Archbishop of Olomouc
- Maximilian von und zu Trauttmansdorff (1584–1650), politician
- Heinz Trenczak (* 1944), director
- Franz Trenk (1899–1960), painter
- Ernst Triebel (1932–2017), organist and conductor
- Peter Günther Tropper (* 1956), church historian, archivist of the Gurk diocese
- Maximilian Trummer (* 1995), beach volleyball player
- Franz Tscherne (* 1964), actor and director
- Harald Tscherne (* 1933), doctor; first professor for trauma surgery in Germany (Hannover Medical School)
- Werner Tscherne (1927–2017), teacher, publicist and historian
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- Theodor Unger (1840–1896), archivist , numismatist and dialectologist
- Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1886–1921), German-Baltic nobleman and Khan of Mongolia
- Wolfgang Unterzaucher (* 1934), actor
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- Jörg Vogeltanz (* 1968), artist
- Bettina Vollath (born 1962), first President of the Styrian state parliament
- Peter Vujica (1937–2013), music critic, dramaturge, artistic director, composer and writer
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- Eduard Wagnes (1863–1936), composer, K&K Kapellmeister
- Günter Waldorf (1924–2012), painter
- Roman Wallner (* 1982), soccer player
- Thomas Wannenmacher (* 1970), confectioner, commercial artist and "fact checker"
- Otto Wanz (1943–2017), catcher and actor
- Franz Wegart (1918–2009), politician
- Julian Weigend (* 1971), actor
- Fabian Weinhandl (* 1987), ice hockey player
- Wolfgang Weirer (* 1963), Roman Catholic theologian and teacher
- Susanne Wenger (1915–2009), painter and sculptor, Yoruba priestess
- Elfriede Werthan (1939–2014), competitive athlete, journalist and writer
- Gunter Wesener (* 1932), legal scholar
- Christian Wessely (* 1965), Roman Catholic theologian
- Dora Wibiral (1876–1955), craftswoman and Bauhaus teacher
- Anne Marie Wicher (1934–2014), athlete and politician
- Alois von Widmannstätten, discoverer of the Widmanstätten structure : see Alois von Beckh-Widmanstätten (1754–1849)
- Adolf Wiesler (1878–1958), landscape painter and graphic artist
- Walter Wilburg (1905–1991), legal scholar
- Arthur Winkler-Hermaden (1890–1963), geologist
- Monika Wogrolly (* 1967), philologist, philosopher and writer
- Patrick Wolf (* 1981), soccer player
- Otto S. Wolfbeis (* 1947), chemist and university professor
- Raphael Wressnig (* 1979), organist and composer
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- Franz von Zeiller (1751–1828), lawyer
- Otto von Zwiedineck-Südhorst , economist
- Alfred Zoff (1852–1927), landscape painter
- Jakob Zwigott (1643 / 44–1709), abbot of the Cistercian monastery in Rein
Other personalities related to Graz
Well-known personalities are listed here who have spent part of their life in Graz or who died in Graz.
- Bernhard Walther (* 1516 in Leipzig, † 1584 in Graz), inner Austrian government chancellor, court chancellor in Graz.
- Johannes Kepler (* 1571 in Weil der Stadt , † 1630 in Regensburg ), mathematician, astronomer and optician, taught and researched in Graz from 1594 to 1600.
- Johann Baptist von Winklern (* 1768 in Murau, † 1841 in Pöls), clergyman, theologian and historian, actuary and curate at the Ursuline monastery
- Archduke Johann (* 1782 in Florence , † 1859 in Graz) worked in Graz and Styria from 1811 until his death.
- Karl von Schönhals (* 1788 in Braunfels near Wetzlar; † 1857 in Graz), Feldzeugmeister, lived in Graz from 1852 until his death, where he is buried in the St. Peter cemetery.
- Sebastian Willibald Schießler (* 1790 in Prague, † 1867 in Graz), Austrian writer
- Jakob Lorber (* 1800 in Kanischa / Kaniža, † 1864 in Graz) was a musician and Christian mystic.
- Johann Nestroy (* 1801 in Vienna , † 1862 in Graz), actor and poet, from 1826 to 1833 as an actor in Graz, he returned to Graz several times in the last two years of his life.
- Alexander Graf von Auersperg (* 1806 in Laibach , † 1876 in Graz), poet and politician, lived, studied and died in Graz, member of the Styrian parliament.
- Carl von Frankenstein (* 1810 in Prague , † 1848 in Graz), electroplater, industrialist, journalist, publisher
- Josef Körösi (* 1811 in Szeged , † 1868 in Graz), founder of today's Andritz AG .
- Ferdinand Heinrich Thieriot (* 1838 in Hamburg, † 1919 in Hamburg ), 1870–1885 music director of the Styrian Musikverein in Graz.
- Richard von Krafft-Ebing (* 1840 in Mannheim , † 1902 in Graz), university professor, German-Austrian psychiatrist and forensic doctor.
- Arnold Luschin-Ebengreuth (* 1841 in Lemberg , † 1932 in Graz), legal historian and numismatist
- Peter Rosegger (* 1843 in Alpl, † 1918 in Krieglach ), poet, spent a large part of his life in Graz.
- Ludwig Boltzmann (* 1844 in Vienna, † 1906 in Duino near Trieste ), physicist, taught at the Technical University from 1869.
- Nikola Tesla (* 1856 in Smiljan, † 1943 in New York ), physicist, trained from 1876 to 1878 at the Technical University of Graz
- Emil Ertl (* 1860 in Vienna, † 1935 there), poet and writer, director of the library of the Graz University of Technology (now Graz University of Technology ).
- Johann Puch (* 1862 in Sakušak near Pettau , † 1914 in Graz), entrepreneur, came to Graz when he was around 30 and built his bicycles, motorcycles and cars there.
- Walther Nernst (* 1864 in Briesen , † 1941 in Zibelle ), physical chemist , studied and researched in Graz; the Nernstgasse was named in his honor .
- August Musger (* 1868 in Eisenerz (Styria), † 1929 in Graz) was an Austrian priest and physicist. He is considered a pioneer of film art and the inventor of slow motion.
- David Herzog (* 1869 in Tyrnau ; † 1946 in Oxford ) was a historian and regional rabbi for Styria and Carinthia from 1909 to 1938
- Anton Afritsch , (* 1873 in Klagenfurt, † 1924 in Graz); City councilor, founder of the Austrian Children's Friends . Afritschgasse and Anton-Afritsch-Kindergarten bear his name.
- Otto Loewi (* 1873 in Frankfurt am Main , † 1961 in New York ), pharmacologist, Nobel Prize winner, taught at the Karl-Franzens University
- Eugen Bregant (* 1875 in Trieste , † 1936 in Graz), Austrian general
- Camillo Bregant (* 1879 in Trieste, † 1956 near Arnfels District Leibnitz Südsteiermark ), Austrian general and equestrian, lived in Graz from 1920 to 1956 and was cavalry inspector of the Austrian army and barracks commander of the cavalry barracks in Graz.
- Joseph Schumpeter (* 1883 in Triesch , Moravia; † 1950 in Taconic , Connecticut ), economist, was professor at the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz from 1911 to 1921.
- Viktor Geramb (* 1884 in Deutschlandsberg , † 1958 in Graz), Styrian folklorist
- Rudolf Wagner (musician, 1884) (* 1884 in Bruck an der Mur , † 1959 in Graz), music teacher and 1st violinist of the Urania Quartet 1919 to 1938.
- Leopold Stocker (* 1886 in the Waldviertel , † 1950 in Graz), right-wing Austrian publisher
- Erwin Schrödinger (* 1887 in Vienna, † 1961 in Vienna), Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize winner, taught at the Karl-Franzens University
- Dora Boerner-Patzelt (* 1891 in Prague as Dorothea Sophia Patzelt, † 1974 in Graz), Bohemian-Austrian (Sudeten German) doctor, histologist and embryologist
- Katalin Bregant (* 1893 in Szoma near Kaposvár , Kingdom of Hungary , † 1991 in Graz), b. Edle von Fautz , Vice President of the Styrian Red Cross and honorary member of the Austrian Red Cross .
- Josef Ritter von Gadolla (* 1897 in Graz, † 1945 in Weimar ), combat commander of Gotha
- Friedrich Schmiedl (* 1902 in Schwertberg , † 1994 in Graz), rocket pioneer, studied at the Technical University, developed stratospheric balloons and in 1931 ignited the world's first mail rocket .
- Karl Rinner (* 1912 in Gratkorn , Styria, † 1991 in Graz), Austrian universal geodist and university professor at Graz University of Technology
- Ernst Bregant (* 1920 in Somogyszil, Hungary; † March 27, 2016), Austrian naval officer in the German Reich, lawyer and tennis athlete
- Tibor Varga (* 1921 in Győr , † 2003 in Grimisuat, Switzerland), violinist, conductor and educator of world renown, most recently taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
- Sepp Tezak (* 1923 in Kapfenberg; † 2013), railway historian and railway painter
- Karlheinz Böhm (* 1928 in Darmstadt ; † 2014 in Grödig ), Austrian actor, son of Karl Böhm, came to Graz with his parents in 1946, where he also graduated
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt (* 1929 in Berlin , † March 5, 2016); , Raised cellist, musicologist and conductor in Graz, was there every year as the most important artists of the Styriarte present
- Alfred Kolleritsch (* 1931 in Brunnsee , Southern Styria), author and magazine editor ( manuscripts ), lives in Graz
- Thomas Kenner (born September 29, 1932 in Vienna ; † December 22, 2018 in Graz), doctor, professor and rector of the University of Graz from 1989 to 1991
- Günther Domenig (born July 6, 1934 in Klagenfurt ; † June 15, 2012 in Graz), architect, studied and professor at the Technical University
- Richard Kriesche (* 1940 in Vienna), visual artist, media artist
- Jochen Rindt (* 1942 in Mainz , † 1970 in Monza ), Formula 1 world champion, grew up with his grandparents in Graz.
- Peter Handke (* 1942 Altenmarkt, Carinthia ), poet, writer, Nobel laureate, studied law in Graz from 1961–1966
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (* 1947 in Thal ), bodybuilder, actor and politician.
- Jelena Krstic (* 1981 Kovin , Serbia ) studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts
- Thomas Vanek (* 1984), ice hockey player, lived and played temporarily in Graz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kronen Zeitung, September 25, 2008
- ^ Historical Yearbook of the City of Graz, Volume 18/19; Graz 1988.
- ↑ Obituary from the City of Graz in the Kleine Zeitung, June 28, 2009, p. 54
- ^ Obituary notice in the Kleine Zeitung, April 22, 2009, p. 55
- ^ Obituary notice in the Kleine Zeitung, April 2, 2009
- ↑ City portal of the provincial capital Graz Graz honors: Dr. Grete Schurz - City portal of the state capital Graz. Retrieved April 23, 2020 .
- ↑ ORF Steiermark: Schwarzenegger sends Ehrenring back orf.at, December 19, 2005, accessed January 10, 2020.
- ↑ a b Honor where honor is due: Christine Neuper and Hans Sünkel received the ring of honor from the city of Graz. July 4, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019 .