# List of Mauthausen-Gusen inmates

This is an incomplete list of notable inmates who were held at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.

## Inmates

* Aart Alblas, Dutch navy officer, resistance member and Engelandvaarder (Mauthausen)
* György Bálint (originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP.
* Otakar Batlička, journalist and member of the Czech resistance, radio amateur and illegal radio operator
* Antonio García Barón, Spanish anarchist who fought with the Durruti Column (Mauthausen)
* Francisco Boix, Spanish republican and photographer (he smuggled out 2,000 photos of the camp taken by the SS)
* Marcelino Bilbao Bilbao, Spanish anarchist.
* Lucien Bunel - Père Jacques de Jesus, French Carmelite friar (Louis Malle dedicated to him his movie "Au revoir, les enfants") (Gusen)
* Jan Buzek, Polish politician from Czechoslovakia
* José Cabrero Arnal, Spanish-French cartoonist
* Marcel Callo, French activist of JOC beatified by Pope John Paul II (Gusen)
* Aldo Carpi, Italian artist and university professor; author of memoirs covering his stay in Mauthausen and Gusen I (Gusen)
* Jean Cayrol, French writer and poet (Gusen)
* Józef Cebula, Catholic priest and martyr, beatified by Pope John Paul II
* Cornelis Compter, Dutch Olympic weightlifter
* René Cogny, French soldier
* Józef Cyrankiewicz, Polish Prime Minister (1947–1952 and 1956–1970)
* Józef Czempiel, Polish Catholic priest and martyr, beatified
* Antoni Czortek, Polish boxer
* Franz Dahlem, East German politician
* Stanisław Dobosiewicz, Polish writer (Gusen)
* Svetolik Dragačevac, Serbian retiree arrested for typing a threatening letter personally addressed to Adolf Hitler
* Władysław Dworaczek, Polish educator
* Anthony Faramus, British actor
* Adolf Fierla, Polish poet and writer
* Leopold Figl, Austrian Chancellor (1945–1953) and Foreign Minister (1953–1959)
* Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter
* Éva Földes, Hungarian author
* Roman Frister, Polish journalist
* János Garay, Hungarian fencer
* Oszkár Gerde, Hungarian fencer
* Bernard Gotfryd, Polish photographer
* Johann Gruber, Austrian Catholic priest and resistance fighter (nicknamed: "Papa Gruber" or "The Saint of Gusen") (Gusen)
* Stanisław Grzesiuk, Polish poet and singer, author of Pięć lat kacetu ("Five Years of KZ") (Gusen)
* Israel Gutman, Polish historian
* Győző Haberfeld, Hungarian gymnast
* Karel Hašler, Czech actor, songwriter and singer
* Oldřich Pechal, Czech soldier and resistance operative
* Roger Heim, French member of Académie française (Gusen)
* Pierre Jeanpierre, French soldier and resistance member
* Jan Jesenský Jr., Czechoslovakian scientist
* János Kádár, later Prime Minister of Hungary, escaped being transferred to Mauthausen
* Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek writer
* Dmitry Karbyshev, Russian general
* Jerzy Kaźmirkiewicz, Polish scientist
* Wilhelm Kling, German communist
* Bruno Leuschner, East German politician
* Artur London, Czechoslovakian communist
* Hugo Lunardon (de), Austrian policeman who investigated activities of the DNSAP prior to the Anschluss
* Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski, a Colonel of the Polish Army, posthumously promoted to the rank of General
* Captain Isidore Newman, special Operations Executive, see https://nigelperrin.com/isidorenewman.htm
* Gilbert Norman, SOE agent
* Antonín Novotný, President of Czechoslovakia (1957–1968)
* Gottfried Ochshorn, member of the French Resistance
* Bernard Offen
* Jan Stanisław Olbrycht, Polish lawyer and university professor
* David Olère, Polish artist
* Jean Origer, Luxembourgian cleric and director of the Luxemburger Wort
* Wiktor Ormicki, Polish geographer and university professor (Gusen)
* Giuseppe Pagano, Italian architect
* Vincenzo Pappalettera, Italian young antifascist in 1967 published Tu passerai per il camino ("You are going to pass through the chimney"), an account of Mauthausen's tortures
* František Pecháček, Czech gymnast
* Peter van Pels, known as Peter van Daan in the diary of Anne Frank, one of seven other Jews to hide with her in Amsterdam.
* Otto Peltzer, German middle distance runner
* Karol Piegza, Polish writer, teacher and folklorist
* Avgust Pirjevec, Slovenian literary historian (Gusen)
* Ivan Potrč, Slovenian writer and playwright
* Kazimierz Prószyński, Polish inventor and pioneer of film making
* Gustaw Przeczek, Polish writer and teacher
* Heinrich Rau, East German politician
* Lionel Romney, an African American sailor in the US Merchant Marine
* Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-born American soldier
* Bernat Rosner, Hungarian lawyer
* William Salcer, Czech inventor
* Henryk Sławik, a Polish diplomat who saved over 5,000 Jews during the war (Gusen)
* Karol Śliwka, a Polish politician from Czechoslovakia
* Ota Šik (Otto Schick), Czechoslovakian communist economist and politician
* Mike Staner, Polish author
* Stanisław Staszewski, Polish architect and poet
* Brian Stonehouse, British painter and SOE member
* Itzchak Tarkay, Austrian-born Israeli painter
* Grzegorz Timofiejew, Polish poet
* Štěpán Trochta, Czech priest
* Nikolai Vlasov, Soviet pilot, prisoner of war, and underground resistance organizer
* Prežihov Voranc, Slovenian writer and Communist activist
* Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazi war criminals and author of several books, including two on the camp
* Artur Woźniak, Polish footballer