The man who kicked Mozart out the door. In June 1781, Count Arco, chief steward of Archbishop Colloredo's household in Vienna, literally kicked Mozart when Mozart sought to resign. The rupture ended Mozart's employment in Salzburg permanently. A minor figure who achieved lasting fame through a single act at a critical moment.

The real Captain von Trapp. Austro-Hungarian naval commander who lived in Salzburg at Villa Trapp in Aigen. His family's flight from Austria after the 1938 Anschluss is the story behind The Sound of Music. The family eventually settled in Stowe, Vermont.

One of the last living survivors of the Nazi concentration camps and longest-serving president of the Jewish community in Salzburg. Survived Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Dachau, and Buchenwald. A pedestrian bridge over the Salzach, the Marko Feingold Steg, was renamed in his honour after his death. He died in Salzburg aged 106.

One of the most radical leaders of the German Peasants' War (1525-1526). Gaismair led the Tyrolean and Salzburg peasant forces and besieged Hohensalzburg Fortress, where Archbishop Matthäus Lang was sheltering. The fortress held. Gaismair was assassinated in Padua in 1532, almost certainly on Habsburg orders.