List of EU people
This list is specific to the EU. For a list of people from Europe who had significant impact outside their home country, see List of important EuropeansThis is a list of well-known people from the European Union. It should only include people who did not die before their country's entry into the EU or one of its predecessors. This includes:
- French, West Germans, Italians, Dutch, Belgians, Luxemburgians after 1950
- Irish, Britons, Danes after 1973
- Greeks after 1981
- Spaniards and Portuguese after 1986
- East Germans after 1990
- Finns, Swedes and Austrians after 1995
- Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, Slovakians, Slovenians, Maltese and Cypriots after 2004
- Romanians and Bulgarians after 2007
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2 Architects 3 Artists 4 Composers 5 Computer Pioneers 6 Filmmakers 7 Musicians 8 Philosophers 9 Politicians 10 Royalty 11 Sportspersons 12 Writers 13 Other notables |
Actors
- Anna-Leena Härkönen (born 1965)
- Hildegard Knef, (1925-2002), actress, singer, writer
- Sophia Loren, (born 1934), Italian actress
- Gérard Depardieu, French actor
- Sophie Marceau, French actress
- Greta Garbo
Architects
- Alvar Aalto, (1898-1976)
- Walter Gropius, (1883-1969)
Artists
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
- Hugo Pratt, (1927-1995), : Corto Maltese, cartoonist
Composers
- Kodály (1882 - 1967)
Computer Pioneers
- Jarkko Oikarinen - creator of IRC
- Linus Torvalds - creator of Linux
Filmmakers
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Renny Harlin
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Mika Kaurismäki
- Wolfgang Petersen, (born 1941), German film director
- Michelangelo Antonioni, (born 1912), Italian film director
- Istvan Szabo
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Luis Buñuel
- Federico Fellini
- Sergei Eisenstein
Musicians
- Andy McCoy
- Ville Valo
- Michael Schenker, (born 1955), guitar player of UFO and solo career
- Luciano Pavarotti, (born 1935), Italian tenor
Philosophers
- Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975), political theorist
Politicians
- Gerhard Schröder, (born 1944), federal chancellor of Germany (SPD)
- Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy (born 1936)
- Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Royalty
Sportspersons
- Kimi Räikkonen - racing driver
- Marcus Grönholm - rally driver
- Mika Häkkinen - racing driver
- Juha Kankkunen - rally driver
- Lasse Virén - runner
- Michael Schumacher, (born 1969), racing driver
- Dino Zoff, (1942-), Italian soccer player
Writers
- Minna Canth -- first notable woman author
- Tove Jansson -- children's author of Moomin fame
- Frans Emil Sillanpää -- Nobelist
- Mika Waltari
- Günter Grass, (born 1927), author
- Emilio Lussu, (1890-1975), Italian novelist
Other notables
- Karl Fazer -- confectionery manufacturer
- Fredrik Idestam -- industrialist, founder of Nokia
