Robert von Dassanowsky FRHistS, FRSA was an Austrian-American academic, writer, film and cultural historian, and producer. He was usually known as Robert Dassanowsky.

Alexander Lernet-Holenia was an Austrian poet, novelist, dramaturgist and writer of screenplays and historical studies who produced a heterogeneous literary opus that included poetry, psychological novels describing the intrusion of otherworldly or unreal experiences into reality, and recreational films. He was born and died in Vienna.