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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 Dalií]] (1904-1989)
*[[Hugo Pratt]], (1927-1995), : ''[[Corto Maltese]]'', cartoonist
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== Composers ==
*[[Kodály]] (1882-1967)

== Computer Pioneers ==
*[[Jarkko Oikarinen]] - creator of [[Internet relay chat|IRC]]
*[[Linus Torvalds]] - creator of [[Linux]]

(contracted; show full)*[[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]]''