Ferdinand Porsche
He (1875 – 1951) was an automotive engineer and founder of the Porsche car company. He is best known for creating the first gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle (Lohner-Porsche), the Volkswagen Beetle, the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, several other important developments and Porsche automobiles. In addition, Porsche designed the 1923 Benz Tropfenwagen, which was the first racing car with a mid-engine, rear-wheel drive layout. A physicist who helped discover nuclear fission, Lise Meitner fled Austria after the Nazi annexation in 1938 and found refuge in Sweden. Despite being overlooked for the Nobel Prize, her pioneering work laid the foundation for nuclear energy and atomic research.
A celebrated writer and intellectual, Stefan Zweig left Austria in the 1930s as fascism spread across Europe. He lived in Britain, the United States, and Brazil, where he continued to write about exile, identity, and the loss of European humanism. His works remain widely read today. Born in Thal, Styria, Arnold Schwarzenegger moved to the United States in his early 20s to pursue bodybuilding — and went on to conquer Hollywood and American politics. As a seven-time Mr. Olympia, action movie superstar, and former Governor of California, Schwarzenegger remains Austria’s most internationally recognized living figure
