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Teresa Zielewicz (25 February 1950 – 20 July 2011) was an Austrian handball player who played for the Austrian national team. She represented Austria at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. She was ...
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Stefanie Horovitz (1887–1942) (Stefania Horovitz or Stephanie Horowitz) was a Polish-Jewish chemist known for experimental work proving the existence of isotopes. Between approximately 1914-1918, she worked ...
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Andrzej Małysiak (born June 30, 1957) is a former Polish ice hockey player. He played for the Poland men's national ice hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. During the 1982 World Ch ...
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Ira Malaniuk (Ukrainian: Ірина Маланюк; Iryna Malanyuk; 29 January 1919 – 25 February 2009) was an Austrian operatic contralto of Ukrainian descent. She sang a wide range of roles, from Mozart to cont ...
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Franciszek Trześniewski (died 1939) was an early 20th-century Polish gourmand and cook. Born in Kraków, at that time belonging to Western-Galicia (Austro-Hungarian-Monarchy), he is notable for the res ...
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Meshullam Zalman Schachter-Shalomi (28 August 1924 – 3 July 2014), commonly called "Reb Zalman" (full Hebrew name: Meshullam Zalman Hiyya ben Chaya Gittel veShlomo HaCohen), was one of the founders of ...
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Witold Silewicz (born 18 May 1921 in Rajsko, Poland - died 26 January 2007 in Vienna) – Polish-Austrian composer and Double bass player, probably best known for his instrumental arrangement of the Happy ...
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Adam Jankowski (born 1948 in Gdańsk, Poland) is an Austrian painter and professor at the Offenbach University of Art & Design. His studio is located in St. Pauli, Hamburg, Germany.
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Kazimierz Łaski (December 15, 1921 – October 20, 2015) was a Polish-Austrian economist. During the antisemitic purge of 1968 Łaski had to leave Poland and moved to Austria, where he worked for the rest ...
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Sigmund Fraenkel or Sigmund Fränkel (22 May 1868, in Krakau – 7 June 1939, in Geneva) was a Polish-born chemist who lived and worked in Austria, and is notable for being the head of the Ludwig-Spiegle ...
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Karl (Carl) Moriz (Moritz) Diesing (16 June 1800, in Krakow – 10 January 1867, in Vienna) was an Austrian naturalist and zoologist, specializing in the study of helminthology.
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Andrzej Dobrowolski (September 9, 1921 – August 8, 1990) was a Polish composer and teacher. He studied at the Warsaw Conservatoire during the war and afterwards in the State High School of Music in Kraków ...
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Jan Bolesław Czedekowski (22 February 1885 – 8 July 1969) was a celebrated Polish artist, who spent the vast majority of his life living abroad. Maintaining studios in Paris and Vienna, Czedekowski would ...
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Abraham Bankier (May 5, 1895 – 1956) was a Polish businessman and Holocaust survivor who assisted Oskar Schindler in his rescue activities and worked as his factory manager.