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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]]''
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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
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For State specific lists, see [[List of people by EU state]].
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== 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]]''
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== Architects ==


*[[Alvar Aalto]], (1898-1976)


*[[Walter Gropius]], (1883-1969)
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== Artists ==


*[[Salvador Dalí]] (1904-1989)


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

== Composers ==


*[[Zoltán Kodály]] (1882-1967)
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== Computer Pioneers ==


*[[Jarkko Oikarinen]] - creator of [[Internet relay chat|IRC]]


*[[Linus Torvalds]] - creator of [[Linux]]
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== 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]]
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== 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
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== Philosophers ==


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


*[[Karl Popper]]
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== 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]]
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== Royalty ==


*[[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom]]


*[[Juan Carlos of Spain]]


*[[Lady Louise Windsor]]
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== 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
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== Writers ==


*[[Minna Canth]] -- first notable woman author


*[[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


*[[Frans Emil Sillanpää]] -- Nobelist


*[[Mika Waltari]] 
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== Other notables ==


*[[Karl Fazer]] -- confectionery manufacturer


*[[Fredrik Idestam]] -- industrialist, founder of [[Nokia]]
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''See also: [[List of important Europeans]], [[List of people by nationality]], [[List of people by EU state]]''