List of Mauthausen-Gusen inmates

This is an incomplete list of notable inmates who were held at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.

Inmates

 * Aart Alblas, Dutch navy officer, resistance member and Engelandvaarder (Mauthausen)
 * György Bálint (originally surname Braun; 1919–2020), Hungarian horticulturist, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, journalist, author, and politician who served as an MP.
 * Otakar Batlička, journalist and member of the Czech resistance, radio amateur and illegal radio operator
 * Antonio García Barón, Spanish anarchist who fought with the Durruti Column (Mauthausen)
 * Francisco Boix, Spanish republican and photographer (he smuggled out 2,000 photos of the camp taken by the SS)
 * Marcelino Bilbao Bilbao, Spanish anarchist.
 * Lucien Bunel - Père Jacques de Jesus, French Carmelite friar (Louis Malle dedicated to him his movie "Au revoir, les enfants") (Gusen)
 * Jan Buzek, Polish politician from Czechoslovakia
 * José Cabrero Arnal, Spanish-French cartoonist
 * Marcel Callo, French activist of JOC beatified by Pope John Paul II (Gusen)
 * Aldo Carpi, Italian artist and university professor; author of memoirs covering his stay in Mauthausen and Gusen I (Gusen)
 * Jean Cayrol, French writer and poet (Gusen)
 * Józef Cebula, Catholic priest and martyr, beatified by Pope John Paul II
 * Cornelis Compter, Dutch Olympic weightlifter
 * René Cogny, French soldier
 * Józef Cyrankiewicz, Polish Prime Minister (1947–1952 and 1956–1970)
 * Józef Czempiel, Polish Catholic priest and martyr, beatified
 * Antoni Czortek, Polish boxer
 * Stanisław Dobosiewicz, Polish writer (Gusen)
 * Svetolik Dragačevac, Serbian retiree arrested for typing a threatening letter personally addressed to Adolf Hitler
 * Władysław Dworaczek, Polish educator
 * Anthony Faramus, British actor
 * Adolf Fierla, Polish poet and writer
 * Leopold Figl, Austrian Chancellor (1945–1953) and Foreign Minister (1953–1959)
 * Stefan Filipkiewicz, Polish painter
 * Éva Földes, Hungarian author
 * Roman Frister, Polish journalist
 * János Garay, Hungarian fencer
 * Oszkár Gerde, Hungarian fencer
 * Bernard Gotfryd, Polish photographer
 * Johann Gruber, Austrian Catholic priest and resistance fighter (nicknamed: "Papa Gruber" or "The Saint of Gusen") (Gusen)
 * Stanisław Grzesiuk, Polish poet and singer, author of Pięć lat kacetu ("Five Years of KZ") (Gusen)
 * Israel Gutman, Polish historian
 * Győző Haberfeld, Hungarian gymnast
 * Karel Hašler, Czech actor, songwriter and singer
 * Oldřich Pechal, Czech soldier and resistance operative
 * Roger Heim, French member of Académie française (Gusen)
 * Pierre Jeanpierre, French soldier and resistance member
 * Jan Jesenský Jr., Czechoslovakian scientist
 * János Kádár, later Prime Minister of Hungary, escaped being transferred to Mauthausen
 * Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek writer
 * Dmitry Karbyshev, Russian general
 * Jerzy Kaźmirkiewicz, Polish scientist
 * Wilhelm Kling, German communist
 * Artur London, Czechoslovakian communist
 * Hugo Lunardon (de), Austrian policeman who investigated activities of the DNSAP prior to the Anschluss
 * Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski, a Colonel of the Polish Army, posthumously promoted to the rank of General
 * Captain Isidore Newman, special Operations Executive, see https://nigelperrin.com/isidorenewman.htm
 * Gilbert Norman, SOE agent
 * Antonín Novotný, President of Czechoslovakia (1957–1968)
 * Gottfried Ochshorn, member of the French Resistance
 * Bernard Offen
 * Jan Stanisław Olbrycht, Polish lawyer and university professor
 * David Olère, Polish artist
 * Jean Origer, Luxembourgian cleric and director of the Luxemburger Wort
 * Wiktor Ormicki, Polish geographer and university professor (Gusen)
 * Giuseppe Pagano, Italian architect
 * Vincenzo Pappalettera, Italian young antifascist in 1967 published Tu passerai per il camino ("You are going to pass through the chimney"), an account of Mauthausen's tortures
 * František Pecháček, Czech gymnast
 * Peter van Pels, known as Peter van Daan in the diary of Anne Frank, one of seven other Jews to hide with her in Amsterdam.
 * Otto Peltzer, German middle distance runner
 * Karol Piegza, Polish writer, teacher and folklorist
 * Avgust Pirjevec, Slovenian literary historian (Gusen)
 * Ivan Potrč, Slovenian writer and playwright
 * Kazimierz Prószyński, Polish inventor and pioneer of film making
 * Gustaw Przeczek, Polish writer and teacher
 * Heinrich Rau, East German politician
 * Lionel Romney, an African American sailor in the US Merchant Marine
 * Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-born American soldier
 * Bernat Rosner, Hungarian lawyer
 * William Salcer, Czech inventor
 * Henryk Sławik, a Polish diplomat who saved over 5,000 Jews during the war (Gusen)
 * Karol Śliwka, a Polish politician from Czechoslovakia
 * Ota Šik (Otto Schick), Czechoslovakian communist economist and politician
 * Mike Staner, Polish author
 * Stanisław Staszewski, Polish architect and poet
 * Brian Stonehouse, British painter and SOE member
 * Itzchak Tarkay, Austrian-born Israeli painter
 * Grzegorz Timofiejew, Polish poet
 * Štěpán Trochta, Czech priest
 * Nikolai Vlasov, Soviet pilot, prisoner of war, and underground resistance organizer
 * Prežihov Voranc, Slovenian writer and Communist activist
 * Simon Wiesenthal, hunter of Nazi war criminals and author of several books, including two on the camp
 * Artur Woźniak, Polish footballer