List of EU people

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

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

• Walter Gropius

Artists

• Salvador Dalí
• Hugo Pratt -- Corto Maltese, cartoonist

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

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

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 Moyà -- 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

See also

List of people by nationality