People

• Karl Wittgenstein
  Karl Wittgenstein
  Karl Wittgenstein was a steel tycoon. A friend of Andrew Carnegie, with whom he was often compared, at the end of 19th century he controlled an effective monopoly on steel and iron resources within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and had by the 1890s acquired one of the largest fortunes in the world...
  
  , Austrian tycoon, father of:
  • Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He was professor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947...
    
    , philosopher
  • Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein
    Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein
    Margarethe "Gretl" Stonborough-Wittgenstein , of the prominent and wealthy Viennese Wittgenstein family, was a sister of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the pianist Paul Wittgenstein...
    
    
  • Paul Wittgenstein
    Paul Wittgenstein
    Paul Wittgenstein was an Austrian-born concert pianist, who became known for his ability to play with just his left hand, after he lost his right arm during the First World War. He devised novel techniques, including pedal and hand-movement combinations, that allowed him to play chords previously...
    
    , pianist
• Heinrich von Wittgenstein, German entrepreneur and politician
• Members of the German noble family Sayn-Wittgenstein
  Sayn-Wittgenstein
  Sayn-Wittgenstein was a county of mediæval Germany, located in the Sauerland of eastern North Rhine-Westphalia. Sayn-Wittgenstein was created when Count Salentin of Sayn-Homburg married the heiress Countess Adelaide of Wittgenstein in 1345...
  
  
  • Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
    Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
    Heinrich Alexander Ludwig Peter Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was a German of aristocratic descent and a Luftwaffe night fighter flying ace during World War II. A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat...
    
    , World War II German flying ace
  • Prince Peter Wittgenstein
    Peter Wittgenstein
    Ludwig Adolph Peter, Prince Wittgenstein was a Russian Field Marshal distinguished for his services in the Napoleonic wars.-Life:...
    
    , Russian Field Marshal
  • Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
    Ludwig zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg
    Prince Ludwig Adolf Friedrich of Sayn-Wittgenstein was a Russian aristocrat of German descent...
    
    , Russian aristocrat
  • Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein
    Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein
    Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein was a German politician. He was a member of the Christian Democratic Union....
    
    , German politician
  • Casimir Graf zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, German politician
  • Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
    Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
    Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was a Polish noblewoman who pursued a 40-year liaison/relationship with Franz Liszt. She was also an amateur journalist and essayist and it is conjectured that she did much of the actual writing of several of Liszt's publications, especially his Life of Chopin...
    
     (1819–1887), Russian nobility, Franz Liszt's mistress and patron

Places

• Wittgenstein, a former principality (fürstentum) and district (kreis) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, now incorporated into Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein
  Siegen-Wittgenstein
  Siegen-Wittgenstein is a Kreis in the southeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Olpe, Hochsauerlandkreis, Waldeck-Frankenberg, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Lahn-Dill, Westerwaldkreis, Altenkirchen.-History:...
  
  
• Wittgenstein Castle, near Bad Laasphe
• Castle Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, in Bad Berleburg
• Haus Wittgenstein, a building in Vienna
  Vienna
  Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
  
  , Austria

Entertainment

• Wittgenstein (film)
  Wittgenstein (film)
  Wittgenstein is a 1993 film by the English director Derek Jarman. It is loosely based on the life story as well as the philosophical thinking of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. The adult Wittgenstein is played by the Welsh actor Karl Johnson....
  
  , 1993 biopic of Ludwig Wittgenstein
  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He was professor in philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1939 until 1947...