Students came from today’s Austria, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, Croatia, and also Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and the United States.

Achille Ratti, later Pope Pius XI, and Ludwig von Pastor went to Feldkirch to conduct joint research with Jesuit professors of the Stella.

[4] After the outbreak of World War I, the Stella lost much of its international flair[2] and educated mainly students from German-speaking countries, including much of the Catholic aristocracy.

[citation needed] According to Feldkirch authorities, in the late 19th century, English students introduced soccer to the Stella and thus to Austria.

... As far as I am concerned, I was soon able to overtake in a race a good foot runner, to take obstacles jumping, to hop on one stalk - the other one swinging - across the whole width of the yard.

[10] Stella Matutina had a series of well known professors and educators;[7] including Joseph Hermann Mohr (Jesuit priest, hymn writer, and hymnologist); Franz Xavier Wernz (Provincial General of the Jesuit Order); Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (Swiss theologian); Cardinal Franz Ehrle (Professor and Rector of Innsbruck University); Hugo Rahner (Jesuit priest and historian); Erich Przywara (author); Otto Faller (papal advisor, scholar and superior); Johann Georg Hagen (Jesuit priest and astronomer); Niklaus Brantschen (Zen master, author, and founder of the Lassalle-Institute); Michael Czinkota (Professor of International Business Economics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.);[11] Thomas Baumer (Swiss interculturalist and personality assessor); and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Scottish physician and writer).

[12] Other notables include Jesuit priests Alfred Delp, Alois Grimm, Augustin Rösch, and Oswald von Nell-Breuning.

[7] Other Stella Matutina students include Blessed Clemens August Cardinal von Galen; Kurt Schuschnigg (the last Chancellor of Austria before Hitler's take-over in 1938); and Heiner Geißler (German politician and federal minister).