Vienna, Austria
University of Vienna Alumni
International Students
31
% of international students in the university
28000
Total International Students in the university
A laid-back mix of trailblazers—from Nobel laureates and thinkers to political leaders and cultural icons:
Alumni Name |
Notable Achievement / Famous For |
Degree |
Graduating Year |
---|---|---|---|
Elias Canetti |
Nobel Prize in Literature |
N/A |
N/A |
Sigmund Freud |
Founder of psychoanalysis |
N/A |
N/A |
Viktor Frankl |
Psychiatrist, founder of logotherapy |
N/A |
N/A |
Kurt Gödel |
Pioneering logician and mathematician |
PhD |
N/A |
Karl Popper |
Influential philosopher of science |
N/A |
N/A |
Joseph Schumpeter |
Economist, “creative destruction” theory |
N/A |
N/A |
Elfriede Jelinek |
Nobel Prize in Literature |
N/A |
N/A |
Friedrich von Hayek |
Nobel Prize in Economics |
PhD |
N/A |
Lise Meitner |
Nuclear physicist, co-discovered nuclear fission |
PhD |
1906 |
Huldrych Zwingli |
Reformer during the Protestant Reformation |
N/A |
N/A |
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk |
Founding President of Czechoslovakia |
N/A |
N/A |
Alcide De Gasperi |
Italian statesman, post-war prime minister |
N/A |
N/A |
Mihai Eminescu |
Romania’s national poet, noted literary figure |
N/A |
N/A |
Ignaz Semmelweis |
Pioneer of antiseptic procedures (handwashing) |
Medical studies |
N/A |
Johann Radon |
Mathematician known for the Radon transform |
PhD |
1910 |
Hans Tuppy |
Biochemist who helped sequence insulin; later rector of the university |
PhD |
1948 |
Johannes Hahn |
European Commissioner (EU); former Austrian Minister for Science |
N/A |
N/A |
Bruno Bettelheim |
Psychologist and writer |
N/A |
N/A |
Marie Jahoda |
Prominent social psychologist and sociologist |
PhD |
N/A |
Barbara Blaha |
Writer, political activist, and founder of the Momentum Institute |
BA (German) |
2009 |
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