- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(born April 20, 1939) is a Norwegian politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health. She is a former Prime Minister of Norway, and has served as the Director General of the World Health Organization. She now serves as an Environmental Envoy of the United Nations.
- Karl Carstens
Karl Carstens (December 14, 1914 - May 30, 1992) was a German politician. He served as the fifth Federal President of West Germany
- Jean-Claude Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker (born December 9, 1954) is a Luxembourgian politician, the leader of the Christian Social People's Party. He is the incumbent Prime Minister of Luxembourg, having succeeded Jacques Santer on January 20, 1995. He is also currently Luxembourg's Minister for Finances, a position that he has held since 14 July 1989. He has served two six-month terms as President of the European Council in 1997 and 2005, …
- Alcide de Gasperi
Alcide De Gasperi (3 April 1881 - 19 August 1954) was an Italian statesman and politician. He is considered to be one of the Founding Fathers of the European communities, along with the Frenchman Robert Schuman and the German Konrad Adenauer.
- Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also a soldier in the British Army. He has been studied to a unique extent as part of modern British and world history.
- Helmut Kohl
Helmut Josef Michael Kohl is a German conservative politician and statesman. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1982 to 1998 (West Germany between 1982 and 1990) and the chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973-1998. His 16-year tenure was the longest of any German chancellor since Otto von Bismarck. During his time in office the German Reunification took place and the Maastricht Treaty, which created the European Union, was signed.
- Pat Cox
Pat Cox is a former Irish politician and television current affairs presenter. He was President of the European Parliament from 2002 to 2004 and served as a member of the parliament from 1989-2004. He is now a consultant for European Integration Solutions Born in Dublin but raised in Limerick, Cox first came to prominence as a journalist, then a presenter, with RTÉ's "Today Tonight", …
- Henry A. Kissinger
Newly declassified State Department documents obtained by the National Security Archive under the Freedom of Information Act show that in October 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and high ranking U.S. officials gave their full support to the Argentine military junta and urged them to hurry up and finish the "dirty war" before the U.S. Congress cut military aid.
- Beatrix Of The Netherlands
Beatrix (born January 31, 1938 as "Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, Prinses der Nederlanden, Prinses van Oranje-Nassau, Prinses van Lippe-Biesterfeld") has been the queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands since April 30, 1980.
- Václav Havel
Václav Havel, GCB, CC, (born October 5, 1936 in Prague) is a Czech writer and dramatist. He was the ninth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989-1992) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003).
- George Marshall
General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, Jr. GCB (December 31 1880 - October 16 1959) was an American military leader, Secretary of State, and the third Secretary of Defense. Once noted as the "organizer of victory" by Winston Churchill for his leadership of the Allied victory in World War II, Marshall supervised the U.S. Army during the war and was the chief military advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Walter Scheel
Walter Scheel (born July 8, 1919) is a German politician (FDP).
- Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. He was the third-youngest president, older only than Theodore Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and as he was born in the period after World War II, is known as the first Baby Boomer president.
- Simone Veil
Simone Veil, DBE (born 13 July 1927) is a French lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Constitutional Council of France.
- Valéry Giscard D'Estaing
Valéry Marie René Giscard d'Estaing is a French centre-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981. His tenure as President was marked by a rupture with his predecessor on social issues—such as divorce, contraception, and abortion—and attempts to modernize the country and the office of the presidency, …
- Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (born 9 December 1920 in Livorno) is an Italian politician and banker who has been both Prime Minister of Italy and President of the Italian Republic. He resigned as President before the swearing-in ceremony of his successor Giorgio Napolitano. He is currently a senator for life in the Italian Senate. Was considered the most popular President of the Italian Republic ever alongside Alessandro Pertini
- Paul-Henri Spaak
Paul-Henri Charles Spaak was a Belgian Socialist politician and statesman. Born in Schaerbeek, Paul-Henri was the grandson of the Liberal politician Paul Janson and nephew of another Liberal politician, Paul-Émile Janson, who was briefly Prime Minister of Belgium from 1937 to 1938. His mother, Marie Janson, was the country's first female Senator.
- François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand served as President of France and co-prince of Andorra from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party (PS). First elected during the May 1981 presidential election, he became the first socialist president of the Fifth Republic and the first left-wing head of government since 1957. He was re-elected in 1988 and held office until 1995, before dying of prostate cancer the following year.
- Robert Schuman
Robert Schuman (June 29 1886 - September 4 1963) was a noted Luxembourg-born German-French politician, a Christian Democrat (M.R.P.) who is regarded as one of the founders of the European Union.
- Jacques Delors
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born July 20 1925 in Paris) is a French economist and politician, the only person to have served two terms as President of the European Commission (between 1985 and 1995). In the 1940s-1960s, Delors held a series of posts in French banking and state planning. Member of the French Confederation of Christian Workers, he participated in its secularization and the foundation of the French Democratic Confederation of Labour.In 1969, …
- Emilio Colombo
Emilio Colombo (born April 11 1920) is an Italian diplomat and politician. In addition to achieving high positions in Italian politics, he was also active in European politics.
- Bronisław Geremek
Professor Bronisław Geremek (IPA: ,(born Berele Lewartow March 6, 1932 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish social historian and politician. He is of Jewish origin, the son of a rabbi. Geremek was a member of the communist Polish United Workers' Party from 1950 until 1968, but later became an advisor to Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa.
- György Konrád
György (George) Konrád is a Hungarian novelist and essayist, known as an advocate of individual freedom. He was a dissident under the communist regime.
- Joseph Luns
Joseph Antoine Marie Hubert Luns was a Dutch politician. He was the 5th Secretary General of the NATO. Joseph Luns was foreign minister of the Netherlands in the 1950s and 1960s. He refused to surrender western New Guinea to the Indonesian authorities until forced to do so by the Kennedy administration of the United States. He was one of the co-founders and signatories of the EU's Treaty of Rome.
- Roman Herzog
Roman Herzog (born April 5, 1934) is a German politician (CDU) and was the President of Germany from 1994 to 1999
- Franz Vranitzky
Franz Vranitzky (born October 4 1937) is a former Austrian politician of the SPÖ party (social democrats). He was Chancellor of Austria from 1986 until 1997.
- Walter Hallstein
Walter Hallstein (17 November 1901 - 29 March 1982) was a German politician and professor. He was one of the key figures of European integration after World War II, becoming the first president of the Commission of the European Economic Community. His name is associated with the "Hallstein Doctrine", by which the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) attempted to block the recognition of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), …
- Antonio Segni
Antonio Segni was an Italian politician who was President of the Italian Republic from 1962 to 1964. Born in Sassari, Sardinia, he was twice Prime Minister of Italy (1955-1957, 1959-1960). Subsequently he was elected President of the Italian Republic on May 6, 1962 (854 to 443 votes) and retired from office on December 6, 1964 after serious paralysis. He was also a professor of law at University of Sassari.
- Leo Tindemans
Leo C. Tindemans, born in Zwijndrecht on 16 April 1922, was prime minister (CVP) of six Belgian governments, from 25 April 1974 to 20 October 1978.
- Jean Monnet
Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet (November 9, 1888 - March 16, 1979) is regarded by many as the architect of European Unity. Never elected to public office, Monnet worked behind the scenes of American and European governments as a well-connected "pragmatic internationalist".
- Joseph Bech
Joseph Bech was a Luxembourgian politician. He was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for eleven years, from 16 July 1926 until 5 November 1937. He returned to the position after the Second World War, becoming the seventeenth Prime Minister, serving for another four years, from 29 December 1953 until 29 March 1958. Bech studied Law at Freiburg and Paris, before qualifying as a lawyer in 1914.
- Edward Heath
Sir Edward Richard George Heath, KG, MBE (9 July 1916 - 17 July 2005) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath's accession represented a change in the leadership of the Conservative party, from aristocratic figures such as Harold Macmillan to the self-consciously meritocratic Ted Heath, and later, Margaret Thatcher.
- Felipe González
Felipe González Márquez is a Spanish socialist politician. He was the General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997. He was also the longest-serving Prime Minister of the Spanish government, in four successive mandates from 1982 to 1996.
- Frère Roger
Frère Roger (Provence, Switzerland, May 12, 1915 - Taizé, August 16, 2005), baptised Roger Louis Schütz-Marsauche, also known as Brother Roger, was the founder and prior of the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community.
- Jens Otto Krag
Jens Otto Krag (September 15 1914 - June 22 1978) was a Danish politician. He was Prime Minister 1962-1968 as leader of the Cabinet of Jens Otto Krag I and II, and again 1971-1972 as leader of the Cabinet of Jens Otto Krag III. Krag was born in Randers, Denmark. He joined the Danish Social Democratic Party youth organization in 1930 and rose through the ranks of the party.
- Constantine Karamanlis
Konstantinos Karamanlis (8 March 1907 - 23 April 1998) was a Prime Minister, President of Greece and a towering figure of Greek politics whose political career spanned much of the latter half of the 20th century.
- Gyula Horn
Gyula Horn (born in July 5 1932, Budapest) is a Hungarian politician and former Prime Minister of Hungary (1994-1998), leading a socialist-liberal coalition. He is remembered because he played a major role in 1989 in opening the "Iron Curtain" for East Germans, contributing to the later unification of Germany, and for the Bokros package, the biggest fiscal austerity programme in post-communist Hungary, launched under his premiership, in 1995.
- Juan Carlos I of Spain
Juan Carlos I de Borbón y Borbón (b. January 5, 1938, in Rome) is the reigning King of Spain. On 22 November 1975, two days after the death of Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos was designated King according to the law of succession promulgated by Franco. He successfully oversaw the transition of Spain to a democratic constitutional monarchy. Recent polls show that he is widely accepted by Spaniards. Juan Carlos's titles include that of King of Jerusalem, …
- Roy Jenkins
Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM PC (11 November 1920 - 5 January 2003) was a British politician. Once prominent as a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) and government minister in the 1960s and 1970s, he went on to be President of the European Commission (1977-81) and one of the four principal founders of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981. He was also a distinguished writer, especially of biographies.
- Salvador de Madariaga
Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo was a Spanish diplomat, writer, historian and pacifist. He was the father of Nieves Mathews and professor/historian Dr. Isabel de Madariaga. He was the grandfather of Javier Solana and Luis Solana, children of his daughter Nieves. He graduated in engineering in Paris, France before gaining a Masters of Arts at Oxford University in the United Kingdom.