Otto, Crown Prince of Austria or Otto von Habsburg (born 20 November, 1912 as "Archduke Franz Joseph Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius of Austria") is the current head of the Habsburg family and the eldest son of Karl of Austria, the last Emperor of Austria and last King of Hungary, and his wife, Zita of Bourbon-Parma.

Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (12 February, 1768 - 2 March, 1835) was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until 6 August, 1806, when he dissolved the Empire after the disastrous defeat of the Third Coalition by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz. In 1804 he founded the Austrian Empire and became, as Francis I ("Franz I."), the first Emperor of Austria, ruling from 1804 to 1835, …

Franz Joseph I of the Habsburg Dynasty was Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary, King of Bohemia from 1848 until 1916 and a German prince (Deutscher Fürst). His 68-year reign is the third-longest in the recorded history of Europe (after that of Louis XIV of France and Johannes II, Prince of Liechtenstein).

Andreas Hofer was a Tyrolean innkeeper and patriot. He was the leader of a rebellion against Napoleon's forces. Andreas Hofer was born 1767 in St. Leonhard in Passeier, South Tyrol (now part of Italy). His father was an innkeeper of "Sandwirt" inn and Andreas followed in his footsteps when he inherited the establishment. He also traded wine and horses in northern Italy and learned the language. He married Anna Ladurner.

Maria Louisa (Spanish: "Maria Luisa", German: "Maria Ludovika") (24 November 1745-15 May 1792) was Empress consort to Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II. Maria Louisa was born in Portici, in Campania, the site of the summer palace of her parents, King Charles VII and Queen Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily. She was the fifth daughter, and second surviving child, of her parents. Her father became King of Spain as Charles III in 1759, …

Marie Valerie, Archduchess of Austria (April 22, 1868 - September 6, 1924) was the fourth and last child of Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria-Hungary and Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria ("Sissi"). Her given name was Marie Valerie Mathilde. Princess Marie Valerie was born at Ofen (Buda) in Hungary. The Empress Elisabeth was especially attached to Marie Valerie, …

Maria Ludovika of Austria-Este, also known as Maria Ludovika of Modena, (Monza, 14 December 1787 – 7 April 1816 in Vienna) was daughter of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este (1754-1806) and his wife, Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d'Este (1750-1829). She was a member of the House of Austria-Este a branche of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. On 6 January 1808 she married with Francis I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia. They had no children.

Caroline Augusta of Bavaria was daughter of Maximilian I Joseph, King of Bavaria (1756-1825) and his wife, Marie Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt (1765-1796). She was a member of the House of Wittelsbach. On 8 June 1808, at Munich, she married Prince William of Württemberg (1781-1864). They divorced in 1814. On October 29, 1816 she married with Francis I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia. They had no children.

Count Lajos Batthyány de Németújvár was from a long line of counts and a descendant of The Capet Kings of France. He was born in Pressburg (now Bratislava, Slovakia), Kingdom of Hungary and died (was executed by firing squad) in Pest, Hungary. Lajos was born in 1807 to a family of wealthy landowners whose noble blood dated back to 1398.

Ferdinand I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia (April 19, 1793 - June 29, 1875) succeeded his father (Franz II Holy Roman Emperor/Franz I of Austria) as emperor and king (as Ferdinand V) in 1835. He chose to abdicate, after a series of revolts in 1848. He was also King of Lombardy-Venetia. Born Ferdinand Karl Leopold Joseph Franz Marchlin, he was feeble-minded and epileptic, …

Eli Parish was an English harpist and composer. He changed his name first in Albert Alvars and later in Elias Parish Alvars The baptismal record found at St James’s Church, West Teignmouth, reports: "Eli, son of Joseph and Mary Ann Parish". His father, an organist, voice teacher and music handler in Teignmouth, gave him his first musical instruction. Eli gave his first concert in Totnes in 1818.

The Blessed Charles I (17 August 1887 - 1 April 1922) ("Hungarian": IV. Károly ("Károly Ferenc József")) was (among other titles) the last Emperor of Austria, the last King of Hungary and Bohemia, and the last monarch of the Habsburg dynasty. He reigned as Charles I as Emperor of Austria and Charles IV as King of Hungary from 1916 until 1918, when Austria was proclaimed a republic and he renounced this new form of government, …

Ilona Eibenschütz was a Hungarian pianist from Budapest. She received her first instruction in music from her cousin Albert Eibenschütz; At the age of five, Franz Liszt is said to have played at a concert with her. She later studied with Carl Marek, and from 1878 to 1885 at the Leipzig Conservatorium under Hans Schmitt, and with Clara Schumann from 1885 to 1890. At her début in Vienna her remarkable playing created a sensation.

Isidor Kaufman (March 22, 1853-1921) was an Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes. Having devoted his career to genre painting, he traveled throughout Eastern Europe in search of scenes of Jewish, often Hasidic life. Born to Hungarian Jewish parents in Arad, Kingdom of Hungary (presently in Romania), Kaufman was originally destined for a commercial career, and could fulfill his wish to become a painter only later in life.

Badea Cârţan (roughly: "Brother Cârţan" - the common nickname of Gheorghe Cârţan; 24 January 1849, Cârţişoara, present-day Sibiu County - 7 August 1911) was a self-taught ethnic Romanian shepherd who fought for the independence of the Romanians of Transylvania (then under Hungarian rule inside Austria-Hungary), distributing Romanian-language books that he secretly brought from Romania to their villages.