List of EU people

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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

Contents 1 Actors 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Architects

• Walter Gropius, (1883-1969)

[edit] Artists

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

[edit] Composers

[edit] Computer Pioneers

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

[edit] 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
• Wolfgang Petersen, (born 1941), German film director
• Istvan Szabo
• Tom Tykwer

[edit] 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

[edit] Philosophers

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Royalty

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Other notables

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

See also: List of people by nationality