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

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
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