Rudolf Hausleithner was an Austrian painter.

Rudolf Hausleithner was born in Mannswörth, the son of the Mannswörth teacher Josef Hausleithner (1804-1886) and the Viennese school teacher's daughter Susanne Raidl (1810-1886). Hausleithner studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Karl Mayer (1810-1876), Johann Nepomuk Geiger (1805-1880) and Carl Wurzinger (1817-1883) and attended the Academy of Fine Arts Munich under Wilhelm von Kaulbach.

Rudolf Hausleithner, who had lived in Leopoldstadt since 1858 , lived with his parents at Weintraubengasse 13 (“the so-called “Weintraubenschul”” ) until the mid-1860s, at Untere Donaustraße 25 from 1870, and from the mid-1870s in at Robertgasse 1 (the Roberthof designed by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll near the Franzensbrücke right next to the Danube Canal ) and from May 1894 at Komödiengasse 3, which remained the center of his life until his death. He died during the First World War, on March 10, 1918, one day before his 78th birthday, at Komödiengasse 3 and was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery(Group 54, Row 45, Number 82) buried.