List of Europeans
This list is for important Europeans. For a more specific list covering people from the European Union, see List of EU peopleThis is a list of people from Europe who had a significant impact outside of their home country ordered by their primary field of endeavour.
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2 Art 3 Computing 4 Exploration 5 Leadership 6 Literature 7 Music 8 Philosophy 9 Royalty 10 Science 11 Soldiers 12 Sport 13 Theology 14 Other notables 15 See also |
Architecture
- Alvar Aalto, (1898 - 1976)
- Walter Gropius, (1883-1969)
Art
- Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
- Hugo Pratt, (1927-1995), : Corto Maltese, cartoonist
Computing
- Jarkko Oikarinen - creator of IRC
- Linus Torvalds - creator of Linux
Exploration
- Cristoforo Colombo - explorer, trader
- Yuri Gagarin - first human in space
- Marco Polo (1254-1324) - explorer, merchant
Leadership
- Otto von Bismarck - Prussian/German chancellor
- Julius Caesar - Roman soldier and dictator
- Winston Churchill - British Prime Minister (1940-1945 and 1951-1955)
- Charles de Gaulle - French general and President
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) - British Prime Minister
- Francisco Franco (1892-1975) - Spanish dictator
- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), dictator
- Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773-1858) - diplomat, statesman
- Napoleon I - French emperor and an author of the basic European law: Civil code
Literature
- Minna Canth -- first notable woman author
- Elias Lönnrot -- Compiled the Kalevala
- Frans Emil Sillanpää -- Nobelist
- William Shakespeare - English playwright
- Zacharias Topelius -- journalist, historian
- Mika Waltari
- Günter Grass, (born 1927), author
- Emilio Lussu, (1890-1975), Italian novelist
Music
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - composer
- John Lennon (1940-1980) - Musician and Beatle
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - composer
- Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
- Kodály (1882 - 1967)
Philosophy
- Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975), political theorist
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (1770-1831), philosopher
- Niccolo Machiavelli - author of The Prince
- Karl Marx - author of the Communist Manifesto
- Nietzsche - German philosopher
- Kant (1724-1804)- early modern philosopher
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) - philosopher
- Voltaire - Enlightenment writer
Royalty
- Queen Elizabeth I - Queen of England
- Queen Elizabeth II - Queen of the United Kingdom
- Ivan the Terrible - first Tsar of Russia
- Queen Victoria I - Queen of the United Kingdom
- Kaiser Wilhelm II - Kaiser of the German Empire
Science
- Albert Einstein, German born physicist with Swiss, and later American, citizenship
- Galileo Galilei, (1564-1642), Italian astronomy pioneer
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), physicist, mathematician and philosopher
- Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, (1845-1923), physicist
- Artturi Ilmari Virtanen –- chemist, Nobelist
Soldiers
- Carl Gustaf Mannerheim -- marshall of Finland (1867 - 1951)
Sport
- Mika Häkkinen - racing driver
- Roger Bannister - runner
- Lasse Virén - runner
- Michael Schumacher, (born 1969), racing driver
- Dino Zoff, (1942-), Italian soccer player
Theology
- Mikael Agricola
- Martin Luther, (1483-1546), of the Protestant Reformation
Other notables
- Anne Frank, (1929-1945), diarist and victim of the Holocaust
- Arndt Pekurinen, pacifist
