Top 40 most important and famous people from Austria - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Archduke killed in Sarajevo in 1914	Franz Ferdinand	91%
One of the greatest composers of all time. The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	88%
Actor, bodybuilder and politician. Famous for his role in The Terminator film series	Arnold Schwarzenegger	85%
Neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud	82%
The last queen of France before the French Revolution	Marie Antoinette	80%
Painter of The Kiss	Gustav Klimt	74%
Emperor of Austria from 1848 to 1916	Francis Joseph/Franz Joseph	70%
Composer of The Blue Danube, named The Waltz King	Johann Strauss	68%
Driver, 3 times Formula One champion	Niki Lauda	61%
Composer of Classical Era, named Father of the Symphony and Father of the String Quartet	Franz Joseph Haydn	53%
Physicist who developed fundamental results in quantum theory, famous for the experiment with a cat, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933	Erwin Schrödinger	52%
Holy Roman Emperor, who considered the regulation of religious issues as a royal prerogative and introduced strict Counter-Reformation measures from 1598	Ferdinand II	52%
Footballer, who played in Bayern Munich and Real Madrid	David Alaba	50%
Empress of Austria killed in 1898	Elisabeth/Sisi	50%
Queen ruler of Habsburg dominions, who promulgated institutional, financial, medical and educational reforms. She also advocated for the state church	Maria Theresa	47%
Composer of the late Classical Era and early Romantic Era	Franz Schubert	45%
The last Habsburg monarch, beatified by Catholic Church	Charles I	44%
Holy Roman Emperor of Pragmatic Sanction of 1713	Charles VI	44%
Skydiver, known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon from the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 as part of the Red Bull Stratos project	Felix Baumgartner	41%
Director of Metropolis	Fritz Lang	41%
Holy Roman Emperor, a proponent of enlightened absolutism, one of the three great Enlightenment monarchs	Joseph II	36%
Statesman who was at the center of the European balance of power known as the Concert of Europe for three decades	Klemens von Metternich	35%
Painter, his works are known for their intensity and sexuality. He made many nude self-portraits	Egon Schiele	30%
Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 to 1519, named Heart of steel	Maximilian I	26%
Composer of late XIX century, one of the greatest conductors of his generation	Gustav Mahler	23%
Writer, author of Letter from an Unknown Woman, Amok and Confusion of Feelings	Stefan Zweig	23%
Philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language	Ludwig Wittgenstein	21%
Writer, author of Offending the Audience and Kaspar, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019	Peter Handke	20%
Founder of modern ethology(the study of animal behavior), winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1973	Konrad Lorenz	18%
Holy Roman Emperor known for conflicts with the Ottoman Empire in the Great Turkish War and rivalry with Louis XIV	Leopold I	18%
Writer, author of The Man Without Qualities	Robert Musil	18%
Theoretical physicist and one of the pioneers of quantum physics, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1945	Wolfgang Pauli	18%
One of the most influential composers of the XX century	Arnold Schoenberg	15%
Writer, author of Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus	Rainer Maria Rilke	15%
The greatest Austrian footballer of all time. He played in 1930s	Matthias Sindelar	14%
Architect, figure of modernism and critic of the Art Nouveau movement	Adolf Loos	9%
Director of The Man with the Golden Arm and Anatomy of a Murder	Otto Preminger	8%
Writer who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilization in general and Austrian culture in particular	Thomas Bernhard	8%
Director of The Search, The Men, From Here to Eternity and Oklahoma!. Four times winner of Academy Award	Fred Zinnemann	6%
Doctor, winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2000 for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons	Eric Kandel	5%