List of Europeans

This is a list of people from Europe who had a significant impact outside of their home country ordered by their primary field of endeavour.

Table of contents

1 Architecture 2 Art 3 Computing 4 Exploration 5 Leadership 6 Literature 7 Music 8 Philosophy 9 Royalty 10 Science 11 Soldiers 12 Sport 13 Theology 14 Other notables 15 See also

Architecture

• Alvar Aalto, (1898 - 1976)
• Walter Gropius, (1883-1969)

• Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
• Hugo Pratt, (1927-1995), : Corto Maltese, cartoonist

• Jarkko Oikarinen - creator of IRC
• Linus Torvalds - creator of Linux

• Cristoforo Colombo - explorer, trader
• Yuri Gagarin - first human in space
• Marco Polo (1254-1324) - explorer, merchant

• Otto von Bismarck - Prussian/German chancellor
• Julius Caesar - Roman soldier and dictator
• Winston Churchill - British Prime Minister (1940-1945 and 1951-1955)
• Charles de Gaulle - French general and President
• Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) - British Prime Minister
• Francisco Franco (1892-1975) - Spanish dictator
• Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), dictator
• Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (1773-1858) - diplomat, statesman
• Napoleon I - French emperor and an author of the basic European law: Civil code

• Minna Canth -- first notable woman author
• Elias Lönnrot -- Compiled the Kalevala
• Frans Emil Sillanpää -- Nobelist
• William Shakespeare - English playwright
• Zacharias Topelius -- journalist, historian
• Mika Waltari
• Günter Grass, (born 1927), author
• Emilio Lussu, (1890-1975), Italian novelist

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - composer
• John Lennon (1940-1980) - Musician and Beatle
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - composer
• Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
• Kodály (1882 - 1967)

• Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975), political theorist
• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (1770-1831), philosopher
• Niccolo Machiavelli - author of The Prince
• Karl Marx - author of the Communist Manifesto
• Nietzsche - German philosopher
• Kant (1724-1804)- early modern philosopher
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) - philosopher
• Voltaire - Enlightenment writer

• Queen Elizabeth I - Queen of England
• Queen Elizabeth II - Queen of the United Kingdom
• Ivan the Terrible - first Tsar of Russia
• Queen Victoria I - Queen of the United Kingdom
• Kaiser Wilhelm II - Kaiser of the German Empire

• Albert Einstein, German born physicist with Swiss, and later American, citizenship
• Galileo Galilei, (1564-1642), Italian astronomy pioneer
• Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), physicist, mathematician and philosopher
• Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, (1845-1923), physicist
• Artturi Ilmari Virtanen –- chemist, Nobelist

• Carl Gustaf Mannerheim -- marshall of Finland (1867 - 1951)

• Mika Häkkinen - racing driver
• Roger Bannister - runner
• Lasse Virén - runner
• Michael Schumacher, (born 1969), racing driver
• Dino Zoff, (1942-), Italian soccer player

• Mikael Agricola
• Martin Luther, (1483-1546), of the Protestant Reformation

• Anne Frank, (1929-1945), diarist and victim of the Holocaust
• Arndt Pekurinen, pacifist

• List of people by nationality
• List of people by EU state