list of europeans

This list is for well known 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)
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, (1598-1680)
Antoni Gaud, (1852-1926)
Walter Gropius, (1883-1969)
Jules Hardouin Mansart, (1646–1708)
Le Corbusier, (1887-1965)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, (1868-1928)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, (1886-1969)
Andrea Palladio, (1508-1580)
Christopher Wren

Art

Salvador Dal (1904-1989), surrealist
Vincent van Gogh - Dutch painter
Michaelangelo - Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, and poet
Claude Monet - French impressionist painter
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), cubism/modernism
Hugo Pratt, (1927-1995), : Corto Maltese, cartoonist
Rafael - Renaissance painter and architect
Rembrandt van Rijn - Dutch painter
Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance painter (Mona Lisa)

Computing

Charles Babbage (1791-1871) - father of computing#
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) - mother of computing
Alan Turing (1912-1954) - father of modern computing
John von Neumann (1903-1957) - father of modern computing
Tim Berners-Lee - creator of the World Wide Web
Linus Torvalds (born 1969) - creator of Linux

Exploration

Cristoforo Colombo - explorer, trader
Yuri Gagarin - first human in space
Ferdinand Magellan - led expedition to circumnavigate the Earth
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)
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) - British Prime Minister
Francisco Franco (1892-1975) - Spanish dictator
Charles de Gaulle - French general and President
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

Jane Austen - English novelist (Pride and Prejudice)
Hildegard of Bingen - female Christian author
Lord Byron
Minna Canth -- one of the first notable woman authors
Miguel Cervantes - Spanish novelist (Don Quixote)
Geoffrey Chaucer - English author (The Canterbury Tales)
Anton Chekov - Russian author
Joseph Conrad - novelist (Heart of Darkness)
Dante - Italian poet (The Divine Comedy)
Fyodor Dostoevsky - Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment)
Gnter Grass, (born 1927), author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) - German author
Henrik Ibsen - Norwegian playwright
James Joyce, (1882-1941), author of Ulysses
Franz Kafka, (1883-1924), author of The Trial
Emilio Lussu, (1890-1975), Italian novelist
Elias Lnnrot -- Compiled the Kalevala
Christopher Marlowe - playwright
George Orwell - author of Nineteen Eighty-Four
Frans Emil Sillanp -- Nobelist
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) - English playwright
Leo Tolstoy - Russian novelist (War and Peace)
Zacharias Topelius -- journalist, historian
Mika Waltari

Music

Johann Sebastian Bach - Baroque composer
The Beatles - rock and roll band
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - composer
Hector Berlioz - Romantic composer
Johannes Brahms - German composer
Eric Clapton - guitarist
W.S. Gilbert - opera librettist with Arthur Sullivan
George Frideric Handel - composer of Messiah
Joseph Haydn - Austrian classical composer
Zoltn Kodly (1882 - 1967)
Led Zeppelin - rock and roll band
John Lennon (1940-1980) - Musician and Beatle
Franz Liszt - Hungarian composer
Paul McCartney - Musician and Beatle
Felix Mendelssohn - Romantic composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - composer
Gioacchino Rossini - opera composer
Franz Schubert - Austrian composer
The Sex Pistols - rock and roll band
Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
Johann Strauss Jr. - waltz composer
Arthur Sullivan - opera composer with W.S. Gilbert
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Russian Romantic composer
Bjrn Ulvaeus - ABBA member and composer
Giuseppe Verdi - opera composer
Richard Wagner - German opera composer
The Who - rock and roll band

Philosophy

Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975), political theorist
Aristotle, ancient Greek philosopher
Francis Bacon - English philosoher
Rene Descartes - French philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (1770-1831), philosopher
Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
Kant (1724-1804) - early modern philosopher
John Locke - English philosopher
Niccolo Machiavelli - author of The Prince
Karl Marx - author of the Communist Manifesto
John Stuart Mill - English philosopher
Nietzsche - German philosopher
Plato, ancient Greek philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) - philosopher
Bertrand Russel - English philosopher
Adam Smith (1723-1790) - author of The Wealth of Nations
Socrates, ancient Greek philosopher
Voltaire - Enlightenment writer

Royalty

Augustus - first Roman emperor
Alexander the Great - king of Macedon, later conquered Persia, Egypt
Paul Burrell
Lady May Cambridge
Charlemagne - conquered large parts of Europe
King William I - King of England
King William II - King of England
King Henry I - King of England
King Stephen - King of England
King Henry II - King of England
King Richard I - King of England
King John - King of England
King Henry III - King of England
King Edward I - King of England
King Edward II - King of England
Queen Elizabeth I - Queen of England
Queen Elizabeth II - Queen of the United Kingdom
Ivan the Terrible - first Tsar of Russia
Queen Victoria - 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
Stephen Hawking
Johannes Kepler, astronomer
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), physicist, mathematician and philosopher
Wilhelm Conrad Rntgen, (1845-1923), physicist
Artturi Ilmari Virtanen –- chemist, Nobelist
Leonardo da Vinci

Soldiers

C.G.E. Mannerheim -- marshal of Finland (1867 - 1951)

Sport

Mika Hkkinen - F1 driver
Roger Bannister - runner
Lasse Virn - runner
Michael Schumacher, (born 1969), racing driver
Dino Zoff, (1942-), Italian soccer player

Theology

Mikael Agricola
Thomas Aquinas, philosopher and theologian
Martin Luther, (1483-1546), of the Protestant Reformation

Other notables

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

List Of Europeans