List of EU people
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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, Luxembourgians 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
Actors
- Monica Bellucci
- Klaus Maria Brandauer
- Gérard Depardieu—French actor
- Anna-Leena Härkönen
- Hildegard Knef—actress, singer, writer
- Sophia Loren—Italian actress
- Marcello Mastroianni
- Sophie Marceau—French actress
- Franka Potente—heroine of Run Lola Run
Architects
Artists
- Salvador Dalí
- Hugo Pratt -- Corto Maltese, cartoonist
Composers
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Computer pioneers
- Jarkko Oikarinen—creator of Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
- Linus Torvalds—creator of Linux
Filmmakers
- Jean-Jacques Annaud
- Michelangelo Antonioni—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—German film director
- Istvan Szabo
- Tom Tykwer
Musicians
- Andy McCoy
- Paul McCartney—member of The Beatles
- John Lennon—member of The Beatles
- Dieter Bohlen—German record producer
- Ville Valo
- Michael Schenker—guitar player of UFO and solo career
- Luciano Pavarotti—Italian tenor
- Freddie Mercury—member of Queen
- Brian May—member of Queen
- Roger Meddows-Taylor—member of Queen
- John Deacon—member of Queen
Philosophers
- Hannah Arendt—political theorist
- Karl Popper
Politicians
- Gerhard Schröder—federal chancellor of Germany (SPD)
- Silvio Berlusconi—prime minister of Italy
- Tony Blair—prime minister of the United Kingdom
- Jacques Chirac
- Margaret Thatcher
- Angela Merkel—1st female chancellor of Germany
- Gordon Brown—prime minister of the United Kingdom
- Nicolas Sarkozy -- president of France
- António Guterres -- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Royalty
Sportspersons
- Kimi Räikkönen—racing driver
- Mika Häkkinen—racing driver
- Michael Schumacher—racing driver
- Marcus Grönholm—rally driver
- Juha Kankkunen—rally driver
- Lasse Virén—runner
- Annika Sörenstam—golf player
- Dino Zoff -- Italian soccer player
- Jacques Rogge—president of the International Olympic Committee
- Fausto Coppi—cyclist
- Louison Bobet—cyclist
- Roger Walkowiak—cyclist
- Jacques Anquetil—cyclist
- Charly Gaul—cyclist
- Gastone Nencini—cyclist
- Felice Gimondi—cyclist
- Lucien Aimar—cyclist
- Roger Pingeon—cyclist
- Jan Janssen—cyclist
- Eddy Merckx—cyclist
- Bernard Thévenet—cyclist
- Lucien Van Impe—cyclist
- Bernard Hinault—cyclist
- Joop Zoetemelk—cyclist
- Laurent Fignon—cyclist
- Stephen Roche—cyclist
- Pedro Delgado—cyclist
- Miguel Indurain—cyclist
- Bjarne Riis—cyclist
- Jan Ullrich—cyclist
- Marco Pantani—cyclist
- Óscar Pereiro—cyclist
- Alberto Contador—cyclist
- Carlos Sastre—cyclist
- Fiorenzo Magni—cyclist
- Ercole Baldini—cyclist
- Arnaldo Pambianco—cyclist
- Franco Balmamion—cyclist
- Vittorio Adorni—cyclist
- Gianni Motta—cyclist
- Fausto Bertoglio—cyclist
- Michel Pollentier—cyclist
- Johan de Muynck—cyclist
- Giuseppe Saronni—cyclist
- Giovanni Battaglin—cyclist
- Francesco Moser—cyclist
- Roberto Visentini—cyclist
- Gianni Bugno—cyclist
- Franco Chioccioli—cyclist
- Ivan Gotti—cyclist
- Stefano Garzelli—cyclist
- Gilberto Simoni—cyclist
- Paolo Savoldelli—cyclist
- Damiano Cunego—cyclist
- Ivan Basso—cyclist
- Danilo Di Luca—cyclist
- Jean Dotto—cyclist
- Angelo Conterno—cyclist
- Jean Stablinski—cyclist
- Franz De Mulder—cyclist
- Rudi Altig—cyclist
- Raymond Poulidor—cyclist
- Rolf Wolfshohl—cyclist
- Ferdinand Bracke—cyclist
- Freddy Maertens—cyclist
- Eric Caritoux—cyclist
- Álvaro Pino—cyclist
- Seán Kelly—cyclist
- Marco Giovannetti—cyclist
- Melchor Mauri—cyclist
- Laurent Jalabert—cyclist
- Abraham Olano—cyclist
- Roberto Heras—cyclist
- Ángel Casero—cyclist
- Aitor González—cyclist
- Alejandro Valverde—cyclist
- Boris Becker—tennis player
- Michael Stich—tennis player
- Richard Krajicek—tennis player
- Rafael Nadal—tennis player
- Nicola Pietrangeli—tennis player
- Adriano Panatta—tennis player
- Yannick Noah—tennis player
- Sergi Bruguera—tennis player
- Thomas Muster—tennis player
- Carlos Moyá—tennis player
- Albert Costa—tennis player
- Juan Carlos Ferrero—tennis player
- Thomas Johansson—tennis player
Writers
- Günter Grass—German author
- Tove Jansson—children's author of Moomin fame
- Imre Kertész—Hungarian novelist
- Emilio Lussu—Italian novelist
- Ilkka Remes—Finnish author
Other notables
- Karl Fazer—confectionery manufacturer
- Fredrik Idestam—industrialist, founder of Nokia
- Ingvar Kamprad—founder of IKEA
- Benedict XVI—Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
- Jean-Claude Trichet—president of the European Central Bank
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn—managing director of the International Monetary Fund
- Bernard Arnault—founder of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy
- Mark Thompson—Director-General of the BBC
- Klaus Schwab—founder of the World Economic Forum
