page_title: Bad Ischl
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Bad Ischl / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: English copper engraving: above, Ischl, below Sunday Cloathes, buying fruit — Les Habits des Dimanches, Achat de fruits
context_page_description: Bad Ischl is a spa town in Austria. It lies in the southern part of Upper Austria, at the Traun River in the centre of the Salzkammergut region. The town consists of the Katastralgemeinden Ahorn, Bad Ischl, Haiden, Jainzen, Kaltenbach, Lauffen, Lindau, Pfandl, Perneck, Reiterndorf and Rettenbach. It is connected to the village of Strobl by the river Ischl, which drains from the Wolfgangsee, and to the Traunsee, into which the stream empties. It is home to the Kaiservilla, summer residence of Austro-Hungarian monarchs Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth. In 2024, Bad Ischl will be the European Capital of Culture – the third city in Austria after Graz and Linz.
context_section_description: Helmut Berger, actor was born in Bad Ischl on 29 May 1944.
  Leopold Engleitner, conscientious objector, born in Aigen, Strobl am Wolfgangsee on 23 July 1905 grew up in Bad Ischl.
  Jörg Haider, politician (26 January 1950 – 11 October 2008) attended school in Bad Ischl.
  Leopold Hasner von Artha, politician, born in Prague on 15 March 1818, died in Bad Ischl on 5 June 1891.
  Wolfram von Richthofen, German Field Marshal, born in Germany on 10 October 1895, died, whilst being held in captivity at Bad Ischl on 12 July 1945.
  Franz Lehár, operetta composer, born in Komárno (now Slovakia) on 30 April 1870 died in Bad Ischl on 28 October 1948.
  Roger Lewis (b. 1960), British author, lives in Bad Ischl.
  Jacques de Menasce, composer, born in Bad Ischl on 19 August 1905
  Leo Perutz, author, born in Prague on 2 November 1882, died in Bad Ischl on 25 August 1957.
  Josef Plieseis Communist Widerstand fighter, born in Bad Ischl on 20 December 1913, died here on 21 October 1966.
  Oscar Straus, composer, born in Vienna on 6 March 1870, died in Bad Ischl on 11 January 1954.
  Viktor Schauberger (30 June 1885 – 25 September 1958) was an Austrian forester/forest warden, naturalist, philosopher, inventor and Biomimicry experimenter.
  Rudi Gfaller, Austrian composer and his wife, the operetta singer Therese Wiet lived in Bad Ischl for many years and are buried in the Bad Ischl Cemetery
caption: English copper engraving Ischl, Sunday Cloathes, buying fruit, dated 1822
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