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Austria
5 profiles with fame based in Austria
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Music & Performing Arts
Anna Netrebko
Krasnodar-born soprano who conquered Vienna.
🇷🇺 Krasnodar→
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Writers & Intellectuals
Joseph Roth
Born in Brody on the Russian Empire border, wrote the great requiem for the Habsburg world
🇷🇺 Brody (Ukr border)→
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Politics & Public Figures
Simon Wiesenthal
Born in Buchach, Ukraine — Holocaust survivor who hunted Nazis for 50 years and brought Eichmann's colleagues to justice
🇷🇺 Buchach (Ukr)→
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Business Moguls
Yelena Baturina
Russia's only self-made female billionaire — built a construction empire, married Moscow's mayor, now based in Vienna
🇷🇺 Moscow (Russia)→
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Sports
Kirill Alekseenko
Former World Candidates participant who switched to Austria to continue elite international chess
🇷🇺 Russia→