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List of Austrian Americans
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This is a list of famous Austrian Americans.
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- Fred Astaire - dancer/actor[1]
- Kirk Baltz, actor
- Bibi Besch - actress[2]
- Ricardo Cortez - silent film actor[3]
- Robert von Dassanowsky - academic, writer and film producer[4]
- Victor Francis Hess - physicist[5]
- Hans Kelsen - jurist[6]
- Greta Kempton - artist[7]
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold - composer[8]
- Hedy Lamarr - actress[9]
- Elissa Landi - actress[10]
- Richard Neutra - architect[11]
- Wolfgang Pauli - physicist[12]
- Wolfgang Puck - celebrity chef, restaurateur[13]
- Wilhelm Reich - psychiatrist[14]
- Fritzi Scheff - actress
- Arnold Schoenberg - composer[15]
- Alfred Schütz - philosopher/sociologist[16]
- Arnold Schwarzenegger - actor and 38th Governor of California[17]
- Lilia Skala - actress[18]
- Walter Slezak - actor[19]
- Victor Frederick Weisskopf (1908 - 2002) physicist. During World War II, he worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons; medal received in 1979[20]
- Billy Wilder - director[21]
- ^ [1] "Fritz Austerlitz, the Austrian American who went to Hollywood and emerged as Fred Astaire."
- ^ [2] "Bibi Besch was an Austrian actress."
- ^ [3] "Though his professional name was suggestive of a Latin Lover type, actor Ricardo Cortez was actually an Austrian Jew, born Jacob Krantz. He arrived in Hollywood in 1922, at a time when the Rudolph Valentino craze was at its height."
- ^ [4] regarding an Austrian decoration: "I have focused on Austrian studies most of my academic life. As an Austrian-American, it makes me especially proud."
- '''[[#_ref-4|^]]''' [http://physics.nobel.brainparad.com/victor_francis_hess.html] "Austrian-born physicist who was a joint recipient, with Carl D. Anderson of the United States, of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936 for his discovery of cosmic rays--high-energy radiation originating in outer space."
- '''[[#_ref-5|^]]''' [http://wwwa.britannica.com/eb/article-9045034] "Austrian-American legal philosopher, teacher, jurist, and writer on international law..."
- '''[[#_ref-6|^]]''' [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_13_15/ai_54359965] "sat for Austrian native Greta Kempton five times in 1947..."
- '''[[#_ref-7|^]]''' [http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=0714831557] "A study of the life and work of Austrian composer Korngold..."
- '''[[#_ref-8|^]]''' [http://britneyspears.ac/physics/intro/hedy.htm] "Austrian born film star, Hedy Lamarr, of the 1930 and 40s was also a gifted electrical engineer." [http://www.hedylamarr.at/story4e.html] "Hedy Lamarr had been an American citizen since 1953."
- '''[[#_ref-9|^]]''' [http://elissa.org/landi.shtml] "Elissa Landi Austrian/Italian leading lady."
- '''[[#_ref-10|^]]''' [http://www.nbm.org/Exhibits/current/Neutra.html] "Austrian-American modernist architect Richard Neutra."
- '''[[#_ref-11|^]]''' [http://fusionanomaly.net/wolfgangpauli.html] "was developed in 1925 by Austrian-American theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli..."
- '''[[#_ref-12|^]]''' [http://www.wolfgangpuck.com/company/bio.php?id=11] "The Austrian-born Puck began..."; WolfgangPuck.com (2005); retrieved 2006-08-31
- '''[[#_ref-13|^]]''' [http://www.orgonelab.org/wrhistory.htm] "Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian-Ukrainian of Jewish background."
- '''[[#_ref-14|^]]''' [http://fusionanomaly.net/arnoldschoenberg.html] "Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951, Austrian composer. He became a U.S. citizen in 1941."
- '''[[#_ref-15|^]]''' [http://rss.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/16/1/45]
- '''[[#_ref-16|^]]''' [http://www.schwarzenegger.it/mro/schwarzenegger.html] "Arnold Schwarzenegger, "The Austrian Oak", was a bodybuilding prodigy who won the..." [http://www.thespiannet.com/actors/S/schwarzenegger_arnold/index.shtml] "Arnold was the embodiment of the American (a naturalized citizen since 1983) dream..."
- '''[[#_ref-17|^]]''' [http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800046364/bio] "Galvanizing, stern-featured Viennese character actress with extensive Broadway experience..."
- '''[[#_ref-18|^]]''' [http://www.members.tripod.com/erika_slezak/ESFC/losttouch.htm] "That's Erika Slezak, daughter of the famous Austrian-American actor Walter Slezak..."
- '''[[#_ref-19|^]]''' [http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/biomems/vweisskopf.html] "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family..." [http://education.guardian.co.uk/obituary/story/0,12212,750171,00.html] "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution..."
- '''[[#_ref-20|^]]''' [http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/apr2002/wild-a03.shtml] "Wilder, Austrian-born, but in the US since 1934, directed his last film in 1981."
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