List of EU people

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 Europeans".

This 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, Slovaks, Slovenians, Maltese and Cypriots after 2004
*Romanians and Bulgarians after 2007

Actors

*Monica Bellucci, (born 1964)
*Klaus Maria Brandauer, (born 1944)
*Gérard Depardieu, (born 1948), French actor
*Anna-Leena Härkönen, (born 1965)
*Hildegard Knef, (1925-2002), actress, singer, writer
*Sophia Loren, (born 1934), Italian actress
*Marcello Mastroianni, (1924-1996)
*Sophie Marceau, (born 1966), French actress
*Franka Potente, (born 1974), heroine of "Run Lola Run"

Architects

*Walter Gropius, (1883-1969)

Artists

*Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
*Hugo Pratt, (1927-1995), : "Corto Maltese", cartoonist

Composers

Computer Pioneers

*Jarkko Oikarinen - creator of IRC
*Linus Torvalds - creator of Linux

Filmmakers

*Jean-Jacques Annaud
*Michelangelo Antonioni, (born 1912), Italian film director
*Luis Buñuel
*Rainer Werner Fassbinder
*Federico Fellini
*Renny Harlin
*Jean-Pierre Jeunet
*Aki Kaurismäki
*Mika Kaurismäki
*Tyron Montgomery, Oscar-winning film director
*Wolfgang Petersen, (born 1941), German film director
*Istvan Szabo
*Tom Tykwer

Musicians

*Andy McCoy
*Paul McCartney, (born 1942), member of The Beatles
*John Lennon, member of The Beatles
*Dieter Bohlen, (born 1954), German record producer
*Ville Valo
*Michael Schenker, (born 1955), guitar player of UFO and solo career
*Luciano Pavarotti, (born 1935), Italian tenor
*Freddie Mercury (b.1946 d.1991), member Of Queen
*Brian May (b.1947), member Of Queen
*Roger Meddows-Taylor(b.1949), member Of Queen
*John Deacon (b.1951), member Of Queen

Philosophers

*Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975), political theorist
*Karl Popper

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
*Jacques Chirac
*Margaret Thatcher

Royalty

*Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
*Juan Carlos of Spain
*Lady Louise Windsor

Sportspersons

*Kimi Räikkönen - racing driver
*Marcus Grönholm - rally driver
*Mika Häkkinen - racing driver
*Juha Kankkunen - rally driver
*Lasse Virén - runner
*Michael Schumacher, (born 1969), racing driver
*Annika Sörenstam, golf player
*Dino Zoff, (born 1942), Italian soccer player

Writers

*Günter Grass, (born 1927), German author
*Tove Jansson -- children's author of Moomin fame
*Imre Kertész, (born 1929), Hungarian novelist
*Emilio Lussu, (1890-1975), Italian novelist
*Ilkka Remes, (born 1963), Finnish author

Other notables

*Karl Fazer -- confectionery manufacturer
*Fredrik Idestam -- industrialist, founder of Nokia

"See also: List of people by nationality"


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