Wikipedia: List of Europeans

List of Europeans
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

This list is for important Europeans. For a more specific list covering people from the European Union, see List of EU people

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.

Architecture

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

Art

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

Computing

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

Exploration

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

Leadership

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

Literature

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

Music

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)

Philosophy

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

Royalty

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

Science

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

Soldiers

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

Sport

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

Theology

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

Other notables

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