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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, 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]].

== 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)

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*[[Hugo Pratt]], (1927-1995), : ''[[Corto Maltese]]'', cartoonist

== Composers ==
*[[Jean Sibelius]] (1865 - 1957) 
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*[[Kodály]] (1882 - 1967)

== Computer Pioneers ==
*[[Jarkko Oikarinen]] - creator of [[Internet relay chat|IRC]]
*[[Linus Torvalds]] - creator of [[Linux]]⏎
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== 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]]
*[[Marciello Mastroianni]]
*[[Louis Bunñuel]]
*[[Federico Fellini]]
*[[Sergei Eisenstein]]

== Musicians ==
*[[Andy McCoy]]
*[[Ville Valo]]
*[[Michael Schenker]], (born 1955), guitar player of [[UFO (band)|UFO]] and solo career
*[[Luciano Pavarotti]], (born 1935), Italian tenor

== Philosophers ==
*[[Hannah Arendt]], (1906-1975), political theorist

== Politicians ==
*[[Carl Gustaf Mannerheim]] commander-in-chief, president 1944-1946
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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

== 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-), [[Italy|Italian]] soccer player

== Writers ==
*[[Minna Canth]] -- first notable woman author
*[[Tove Jansson]] -- children's author of Moomin fame
*[[Elias Lonnrot|Elias Lönnrot]] -- Compiled the [[Kalevala]]
*[[Frans Emil Sillanpää]] -- Nobelist
*[[Zacharius Topelius|Zacharias Topelius]] -- journalist, historianFrans 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]]''