| Name | Born | Died | Main café | Notes |
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| Adler, Alfred | 1852 | | Central | political socialist, champion of underclass |
| Altenberg, Peter | 1859 | 1919 | Central/Imperial | lived there: Richard Englander |
| Bahr, Herman | 1863 | 1934 | Griensteidl | |
| Berg, Alban | | | Museum | Musicians' table |
| Brahams, Johann | | | Sperl | |
| Broch, Hermann | 1886 | 1951 | | |
| Bronstein, Lev | | | Central | |
| Freidell, Egon | 1878 | 1938 | Central | |
| Freud, Sigmund | 1856 | 1939 | Landtmann/Imperial | |
| Herzl, Theodor | 1860 | 1904 | | |
| Hofmannsthal, Hugo von | 1874 | 1929 | Griensteidl/Imperial | |
| Hollitzer, Carl | | | Museum | Popular caricaturist. Made his home there |
| Klimt, Gustav | 1862 | 1918 | Central | had a Stammtisch |
| Kokoschka Oscar | 1886 | 1980 | Central/Museum | painted portraits there. |
| Krauss, Karl | 1874 | 1936 | Griensteidl/Imperial | the demolished literature |
| Kuh, Anton | 1890 | 1941 | Central | |
| Lehar, Franz | 1870 | 1948 | Sperl | Café Museum before fame |
| Lenin, Vladimir | 1879 | 1940 | Central | (only visits) |
| Loos, Adolf | 1870 | 1933 | Central | |
| Mahler, Gustav | 1860 | 1911 | Imperial | |
| Meyrink, Gustav | 1868 | 1932 | Central | |
| Musil, Robert | | | Central/Museum | |
| Polgar, Alfred | 1873 | 1955 | Central | |
| Salten, Felix | 1869 | 1945 | | |
| Schiele, Egon | 1890 | 1918 | Central | Jugendstil movement |
| Schnitzler, Arthur | 1862 | 1931 | Central | |
| Schoenberg, Arnold | 1874 | 1951 | | |
| Sitte, Camillo | 1843 | | | Important architect, opposed to modernism |
| Trotsky, Leon | 1879 | 1940 | Central/Imperial | See Bronstein. Played chess in both (1907-14) |
| Wagner, Otto | 1841 | 1918 | | |
| Wengraf, Edmund | 1860 | 1933 | | |
| Zweig, Stefan | | | Griensteidl | |