Photo: 12. Internationale Sportnacht Davos from Davos, Schweiz / CC BY-SA 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Felix Baumgartner occupies a special place in my memory because the 2012 stratosphere jump was one of the few live broadcasts that made me genuinely hold my breath. What I admire is not the daredevilry itself but the discipline behind it: years of preparation compressed into minutes of freefall. A skydiver, soldier, racer, and boxer, he treated fear as raw material rather than an obstacle. His passing in 2025 closed the story, but the image of a lone figure stepping off into the black edge of space remains, to me, one of the defining pictures of human ambition this century. Few people earn the word fearless; he came close.
Overview
Felix Baumgartner (German: [ˈfeːlɪks ˈbaʊ̯mˌɡaʁtnɐ]; 20 April 1969 – 17 July 2025) was an Austrian skydiver, extreme sportsman, and BASE jumper. He was widely known for jumping to Earth from a helium balloon in the stratosphere on 14 October 2012 and landing in New Mexico, United States, as part of the Red Bull Stratos project.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Felix Baumgartner
- Name (Japanese)
- フェリックス・バウムガルトナー
- Reading
- ふぇりっくす・ばうむがるとなー
- Born
- April 20, 1969 (age 57)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Rooster
- Origin
- Salzburg, Austria
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- skydiver / military personnel / racing automobile driver / boxer / stunt performer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2013 Laureus World Sports Award for Action Sportsperson of the Year
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttps://felixbaumgartner.com/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/therealfelixbaumgartner/
- Xhttps://x.com/felix24hours
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%82%A6%E3%83%A0%E3%82%AC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.