- 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 2007Actors
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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
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Walter Gropius , (1883-1969)Artists
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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
*Hugo Pratt , (1927-1995), : "Corto Maltese ", cartoonistComposers
Computer Pioneers
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Jarkko Oikarinen - creator of IRC
*Linus Torvalds - creator ofLinux Filmmakers
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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
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Andy McCoy
*Paul McCartney , (born 1942), member ofThe Beatles
*John Lennon , member ofThe 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 QueenPhilosophers
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Hannah Arendt , (1906-1975), political theorist
*Karl Popper Politicians
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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
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Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
*Juan Carlos of Spain
*Lady Louise Windsor Sportspersons
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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 playerWriters
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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 authorOther notables
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Karl Fazer -- confectionery manufacturer
*Fredrik Idestam -- industrialist, founder ofNokia "See also:
List of people by nationality "
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