** In the former doge-state Venice, and while it was a republic resisting annexation by either the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia or the Austrian empire, a former Chief Executive ( president, 23 March 18485 July 1848 ), Daniele Manin ( b. 1804-d. 1857 ), was styled Dictator 11 – 13 August 1848 before joining the 13 August 1848-7 March 1849 Triumvirate.

** 109. meitnerium, Mt, named after Lise Meitner, an Austrian physicist who was one of the earliest scientists to become involved in the study of nuclear fission ( 1982 ).

** Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer

** Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel, Austrian wife of Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel ( b. 1879 )

** Thomas Vanek, Austrian Hockey player

** Andreas Kofler, Austrian ski jumper

** Oskar Werner, Austrian actor ( b. 1922 )

** Carl Czerny, Austrian composer ( d. 1857 )

** Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor ( d. 1989 )

** Alfred Proksch, Austrian Olympic athlete ( d. 2011 )

** Richard Gerstl, Austrian artist ( b. 1883 )

** Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer ( b. 1924 )

** Alfred Brendel, Austrian pianist

** Ernst Hinterberger, Austrian writer

** Maria Schell, Austrian actress ( d. 2005 )

** Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist ( d. 2003 )

** Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician

** Willi Resetarits, Austrian musician and cabaret artist

** Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor ( d. 1993 )

** Alois Brunner, Austrian captain

** Hans Erich Apostel, Austrian composer ( died 1972 )

** Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate

** Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian Nazi leader ( b. 1892 )

** Senta Berger, Austrian actress

** Andreas Khol, Austrian politician

** English studies, the study of English language and literature, often as a school subject

** Shahnameh ( Persian literature ; details Persian legend and history from prehistoric times to the fall of the Sassanid Empire )

** Taghribat Bani Hilal ( Arabic ); see also Arabic epic literature

** Antar ( Arabic ); see also Arabic epic literature

** Sirat al-Zahir Baibars ( Arabic ); see also Arabic epic literature

** Old High German literature ( 750-1050 )

** Middle High German literature ( 1050 – 1300 )

** Late medieval German literature / Renaissance ( 1300 – 1500 )

** Eighteenth-and 19th-century German literature

** 20th century German literature

** Contemporary German literature ( 1989 -)

** Monster literature

** Responsa literature

** Musar literature and other works of Jewish ethics

** Western fiction, the Western genre as featured in literature

** Isaac Heinemann, German-born Israeli scholar and professor of classical literature ( b. 1876 )

** Isaac Heinemann, German-born Israeli scholar and professor of classical literature ( d. 1957 )

** Jeremias Drexel, Jesuit writer of devotional literature

** Victorian literature

** De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men " — in the field of literature ), to which belongs: De Illustribus Grammaticis (" Lives Of The Grammarians "), De Claris Rhetoribus (" Lives Of The Rhetoricians "), and Lives Of The Poets.

** Composition ( language ), in literature, oratory, and rhetoric, producing a work of spoken tradition or written literature

** November-Peter Opie, expert in children's literature ( died 1982 )

** English, with concentrations in: film studies, folklife-southern culture, literature, professional writing