Wolfgang Nairz (born 27 November 1944 in Kitzbühel) is an Austrian mountain climber, who did many tours in the Himalayas as an expedition leader.
After being trained as a mountain and skiing guide in 1967, Nairz surveyed glaciers for ten years, and then became a teacher in the training program for mountain guides.
In 1972 he led his first expedition to the Himalayas, to the South face of Manaslu.
During this same expedition, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler climbed to the top without supplementary oxygen, and Franz Oppurg made the first solo ascent.
Winter expeditions in 1982 to Cho Oyu and to Dhaulagiri failed, but Messner and Hans Kammerlander were successful on Makalu in 1986.