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''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]].

== 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 ==
*[[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 [[Internet relay chat|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]]
*[[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
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*[[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]]
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*[[Lady Louise Windsor]]

== 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
*[[Annika Sörenstam]], golf player
*[[Dino Zoff]], (born 1942-), [[Italy|Italian]] soccer player

== Writers ==
*[[Minna Canth]] -- first notable woman author
*[[Günter Grass]], (born 1927), German author
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*[[Tove Jansson]] -- children's author of Moomin fame
*[[Frans Emil Sillanpää]] -- Nobelist
*[[Mika Waltari]] 
*[[Günter GrassImre Kertész]], (born 19279), German authorHungarian novelist
*[[Emilio Lussu]], (1890-1975), Italian novelist
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*[[Frans Emil Sillanpää]] -- Nobelist
*[[Mika Waltari]] 


== 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]]''