



The Most Famous
Inventors from Austria
Top 5 Austrian Inventors
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Austrians Inventors of all time. This list of famous Austrians Inventors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1

Robert Adler
1913 - 2007
HPI 65.9536 langsAmerican physicist and inventor (1913–2007)
- #2

Georg Luger
1849 - 1923
HPI 63.7324 langsAustrian firearm designer
- #3

Gaston Glock
1929 - 2023
HPI 63.2431 langsAustrian engineer and CEO of firearms manufacturer Glock
- #4

Viktor Schauberger
1885 - 1958
HPI 62.5216 langsAustrian philosopher and inventor (1885–1958)
- #5

Štefan Banič
1870 - 1941
HPI 57.2618 langs1870-1941, Slovak inventor.
Overlapping Lives
Which Inventors were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 5 most globally memorable Inventors since 1700.
