physicist; Albert Eschenmoser, chemist; Albrecht Schöne, philologist; Günther Wilke, chemist 1994: Josef Mikl, painter; Erwin Chargaff, chemist 1995: Horst Stein, conductor 1996: Siegfried Josef Bauer, meteorologist and geophysicist 1997: Bruno Gironcoli, artist; Kurt Schwertsik, composer; Hans Hass, biologist; Robert Walter, jurist; Albrecht Dihle, classical philologist; Cassos Karageorghis, archaeologist; Klemens von Klemperer, historian 1998: Hans-Jörg Wiedl reptile expert Helmut Denk, pathologist 1999: Carl Pruscha, architect; Elisabeth Lichtenberger, geographer; Karl Acham, sociologist; Walter Kohn, physicist 2000: Paul Kirchhof, constitutional and tax lawyer; Hans Müllejans, provost; Herwig Wolfram, historian; Gerardo Broggini, lawyer 2001: Anton Zeilinger, experimental physicist 2002: Arik Brauer, painter, poet and singer; Peter Wolf, Austrian-born producer and composer; Eugen Biser, religious philosopher; Horst Dreier, legal philosopher; Elliott H. Lieb, physicist and mathematician; Bogdan Bogdanović, architect 2003: Hermann Fillitz, art historian; Wolfgang M. Schmidt, mathematician 2004: Klaus Wolff, dermatologist 2005: Václav Havel, writer, dissident and former president of the Czech Republic; Christian Attersee, painter; Eric Kandel, neuroscientist; Peter Palese, virologist 2006: Bruno Ganz, actor; Stephen Toulmin, philosopher; Christian Meier, historian; Pierre Soulages, painter; Michael Mitterauer, historian 2007: Otto Tausig, actor 2008: Marina Abramović, performance artist 2009: Mati Sirkel, translator 2010: Paul Holdengräber, curator 2012: Christoph Waltz, actor, director. 2013: Gerhard Rühm, author, composer, artist 2014: Abbas Kiarostami, film director, screenwriter, photographer Cross (and Cross 1st Class) 1960: Karl Schiske, composer 1961: Günther Baszel, artist; Ernst Lothar, author and director 1965: Kurt Roger, Composer / Professor Georg Szell Conductor Nathan Milstein Violin 1967: Maria Augusta von Trapp, matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers 1968: Alphons Barb, author 1970: Enver Čolaković, writer and poet 1971: Gustav Zelibor, pianist and conductor 1974: Erika Mitterer, writer; Marcel Rubin, composer; Arthur Hilton, chemist, 1975 Karl Menger, mathematician 1976: Wolfgang Mayer König, writer 1977: Wolfgang Rehm, musicologist 1978: Kurt Neumüller, pianist and pedagogue 1980: Alfred Uhl, composer 1981: Thomas Christian David, conductor, composer, flutist 1982: Margareta Sjöstedt 1983: Walter Bitterlich, forest scientist, Wolf Häfele, physicist 1984: Frank Sinatra, singer and actor, Fritz Muliar, actor and director, Ludwig Schwarzer, painter 1987: Alois Hergouth, writer and poet; Helen Adolf, literature scholar and linguist 1989: Norbert Pawlicki, pianist and composer 1994: Christian M. Nebehay, art dealer and author 1996: Ronald S. Calinger, American historian of Mathematics; Fausto Cercignani, Italian scholar, essayist and poet; Quirino Principe, Italian philosopher of music and dramatist 1997: Herbert Willi, composer; Lucian O. Meysels, author; Ernest Manheim, American sociologist of Hungarian origin 1998: Senta Berger, actress, Kiki