page_title: Wels
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: Wels / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: Digital reproduction of Alois Auer, printer, inventor, and botanical illustrator.
context_page_description: Wels is a city in Upper Austria, on the Traun River near Linz. It is the county seat of Wels-Land, and with a population of approximately 60,000, the eighth largest city in Austria.
context_section_description: Alois Auer (1813–1869), printer
  Karin Hannak (born 1940), artist
  Thomas Steiner (born 1956), film director
  Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857–1940), physician, Nobel Prize 1927
  Franz Welser-Möst (born 1960), conductor
  Hugo Gerard Ströhl (1851–1919), heraldist
  Carl Rabl (1853–1917), physician and anatomist
  Grete Hinterhofer (1899–1985), classical pianist and composer was born in Wels
  Thomas Christian David (1925–2006), composer and performer
  Werner Kreindl (1927–1992), television actor
  Manfred Buchroithner (born 1950), cartographer and geologist
  Paul Rübig (born 1953), politician (ÖVP), member of the European Parliament
  Christoph Ransmayr (born 1954), writer
  Rudolf Anschober (born 1960), Austrian politician
  Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss (born 1961), communication scientist and arts and media educator
  Götz Spielmann (born 1961), film director and screenwriter
  Sabine Derflinger (born 1963), director, writer, producer and dramaturgical consultant
  Norbert Trawöger (born 1971), flautist and artistic director
  Christian Mayrleb (born 1972), soccer player, national player and top scorer in the top division in Austria
  Johannes Wipplinger (born 1978), athlete and bobsledder
  Helge Payer (born 1979), soccer goalkeeper
  Emin Sulimani (born 1986), football player
  Robert Žulj (born 1992), football player
  Kevin Wimmer (born 1992), soccer player
  Felix Großschartner (born 1993), cyclist
  Karl Ridderbusch (born 1932), operatic bass
caption: Alois Auer
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