Felix Unger is a heart specialist who served as the president of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts for three decades. He is the president of Alma Mater Europaea. In 1986 he performed the first artificial heart transplantation in Europe.
Ernst Hinterseer is a retired alpine skier from Austria. He participated in the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, placing sixth in the giant slalom. At the 1960 Winter Olympics he won a gold medal in the slalom, and bronze in the giant slalom. He was only a substitute for the slalom, and was trailing in fifth place after the first leg.
Federico Urruela Prado, Guatemalan diplomat and lawyer.
Hilde Zach was the mayor of Innsbruck, Austria. She was elected in 2002 by the city council, becoming the city's first woman mayor. She resigned due to poor health in February 2010. Zach came from a business background, having run a business that had previously been run by her parents.
The Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria is a state decoration of the Republic of Austria. It is divided into 15 classes and is the highest award in the Austrian national honours system.
Norbert Darabos is an Austrian politician. Currently, he serves as the president of the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR). From 2007 to 2013, he served as Minister of National Defence under the chancellors Gusenbauer and Faymann. From 2015 to 2016, he was secretary general of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ). He is married and has two children.
The Decoration for Services to the Liberation of Austria was created by federal law on 27 January 1976. It is a special distinction for men and women who actively resisted the Nazi regime contributing to Austria’s liberation from Nazi rule. The President of Austria confers this honour when sent a proposal by the Federal Chancellor based on a report from the Committee on the Austrian Liberation Decoration of Honour.
Anna Hackl is a farmer in Schwertberg.
This is a list of orders, decorations, and medals of Austria-Hungary.
Hans Peter Stihl is a German industrialist who was head of Stihl from 1973 to 2002. He remained a board member until 2012. In 2006, he became Consul-General of Singapore. He is a member of the Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand.
Elisabeth Bleyleben-Koren is an Austrian bank manager. In 2008 she was awarded the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria.
Egmont Foregger was an Austrian jurist, official and politician.
Felix Czeike was an Austrian historian and popular educator. He was an author and partly also editor of numerous publications on the history of Vienna and was the director of the Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv. His main work is the six-volume Historische Lexikon Wien.
Walter Deutsch is an Austrian musicologist specialising in folk music research.
Franz Harnoncourt, or Harnoncourt-Unverzagt is an Austrian jurist, CEO of the Kastner & Öhler department store in Graz, and president and member of the advisory board of the Grazer Wechselseitige Versicherung.
Rudolf Bibl was an Austrian conductor and pianist.
Franz Samohyl was an Austrian violinist, concertmaster of the Vienna State Opera and academic teacher.
Bijan Khadem-Missagh is an Austrian violinist, composer and conductor of Iranian descent. He is the founder and was the artistic director of the International Chamber Music Festival until 2016. Allegro Vivo.
Heinrich Gattermeyer was an Austrian composer and music educator.
Friedrich Weissensteiner was an Austrian historian and writer.
