Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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, Slovakians, Slovenians, Maltese and Cypriots after 2004 Romanians and Bulgarians after 2007 For State specific lists, see List of people by EU state. Table of 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 Actors Anna-Leena Härkönen (born 1965) Hildegard Knef, (1925-2002), actress, singer, writer Sophia Loren, (born 1934), Italian actress Gérard Depardieu, French actor Sophie Marceau, French actress Greta Garbo Architects Alvar Aalto, (1898-1976) Walter Gropius, (1883-1969) Artists Salvador Dali (1904-1989) Hugo Pratt, (1927-1995), : Corto Maltese, cartoonist Composers Kodály (1882 - 1967) Computer Pioneers Jarkko Oikarinen - creator of IRC Linus Torvalds - creator of Linux Filmmakers Rainer Werner Fassbinder Renny Harlin Aki Kaurismäki Mika Kaurismäki Wolfgang Petersen, (born 1941), German film director Michelangelo Antonioni, (born 1912), Italian film director Istvan Szabo Marcello Mastroianni Luis Buñuel Federico Fellini Sergei Eisenstein Musicians Andy McCoy Ville Valo Michael Schenker, (born 1955), guitar player of UFO and solo career Luciano Pavarotti, (born 1935), Italian tenor Philosophers Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975), political theorist 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 Royalty Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom Sportspersons Kimi Räikkonen - racing driver Marcus Grönholm - rally driver Mika Häkkinen - racing driver Juha Kankkunen - rally driver Lasse Virén - runner Michael Schumacher, (born 1969), racing driver Dino Zoff, (1942-), Italian soccer player Writers Minna Canth -- first notable woman author Tove Jansson -- children's author of Moomin fame Frans Emil Sillanpää -- Nobelist Mika Waltari Günter Grass, (born 1927), author Emilio Lussu, (1890-1975), Italian novelist Other notables Karl Fazer -- confectionery manufacturer Fredrik Idestam -- industrialist, founder of Nokia See also: List of important Europeans, List of people by nationality, List of people by EU state This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.