- Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (Genoa?, 1451 - May 20, 1506, Valladolid, Spain) was a navigator and colonialist who is one of several historical figures credited as the first European to discover the Americas. Though likely not the first to reach the Americas from Europe, it was Columbus' voyages that lead to general European awareness of the hemisphere and the successful establishment of European cultures in the New World. It is generally believed that he was born in Genoa, …
- Viviane Reding
Viviane Reding European Union Commissioner for Information Society and Media
- Simon Fraser
Simon Fraser (1776-18 August 1862) was a fur trader and an explorer who charted much of what is now the Canadian province of British Columbia. Fraser was employed by the Montreal-based North West Company and by 1805 had been put in charge of all the company's operations west of the Rocky Mountains. He was responsible for building that area's first trading posts, and in 1808 he explored what is now known as the Fraser River, which bears his name.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (baptized Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. His output of over 600 compositions includes works widely acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. Mozart is among the most enduringly popular of European composers and many of his works are part of the standard concert repertoire.
- Olli Rehn
Olli Ilmari Rehn (born 31 March 1962) is a Finnish politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Enlargement.
- James Monroe
James Monroe (April 28, 1758 - July 4, 1831) was the fifth President of the United States (1817-1825), and the fourth Virginian to hold the office. Monroe, a close ally of Thomas Jefferson, was a diplomat who supported the French Revolution. He played a leading role in the War of 1812 as secretary of war and secretary of state under James Madison. Elected in 1816, his administration was marked by the acquisition of Florida (1819); the Missouri Compromise (1820), …
- Meglena Kuneva
Meglena Shtilianova Kuneva (born 22 June 1957) is a Bulgarian and EU politician. Born in Sofia, Kuneva graduated in Law from Sofia University in 1981. In 1984 she became a Doctor of Law. She worked as a journalist for the Law Programme of the Bulgarian National Radio while being an Assistant Professor at Sofia University. In 1990 she took a job as Senior Legal Advisor at the Council of Ministers and held it until 2001.
- Washington Irving
Washington Irving was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip van Winkle" (both of which appear in his book "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon"), he was also a prolific essayist, biographer and historian. Irving and James Fenimore Cooper were the first American writers to earn acclaim in Europe, and Irving is said to have encouraged authors such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, …
- Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., National Hero of Jamaica (August 17, 1887 - June 10, 1940), was a publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, Black nationalist, orator, black separatist, and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). Garvey was born in St. Ann's Bay, Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica to Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Sr., a mason, and Sarah Jane Richards, a domestic worker and farmer.
- Giuliano Amato
Giuliano Amato (born May 13, 1938) is an Italian politician. He was Prime Minister of Italy twice, first from 1992 to 1993 and then from 2000 to 2001. He was more recently Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the new European Constitution and headed the Amato Group. He is commonly nicknamed "dottor Sottile", (which means both "Dr. Thin" and "Dr. Subtle", a joke about both his physical thinness and his political insightfulness).
- Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). He also is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials.
- Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart (born January 15, 1949) is a Scottish athlete. Stewart won the bronze medal in the Men's 5000 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics (a race won by Lasse Viren with Mohammed Gammoudi second and Steve Prefontaine fourth) and later placed seventh in 1976 Summer Olympics, also in the 5,000 metres. Stewart has also won the following titles: the European 5,000 metres (1969), Commonwealth 5,000 metres (1970), European Indoor (1969 and 1975) and World Cross Country (1975).
- Daley Thompson
Francis Morgan Thompson, CBE (born July 30, 1958 in Worcester Park), known commonly as Daley Thompson, is a former decathlete from England. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event four times. Thompson is of Nigerian and Scottish heritage. Thompson's best score in the decathlon was 8847 points, set in the 1984 Olympic competition – a world record that stood until 1992, …
- Josep Borrell
Josep Borrell Fontelles (born April 24, 1947) is a European politician. He was President of the European Parliament from July 20, 2004 until January 16, 2007. Elected for the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), federated with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he sits with the Party of European Socialists group, and is the leader of the Spanish delegation. As of January 2007 he is chair of the Committee on Development, In the presidential vote, …
- David Leadbetter
David Leadbetter (born 27 June 1952) is a leading golf instructor, originally from Worthing in England. He began his career on the European and Southern African tours, but had little success as a player. Having an interest in the techniques, mechanics and psychology of the sport he soon moved into instruction and came to wide notice in the 1980s when he rebuilt the swing of Nick Faldo, who then went on to win six major championships.
- Paul Celan
Paul Celan was the most frequently used pseudonym of Paul Antschel, one of the major poets of the post-World War II era. Celan is widely considered one of the finest European lyric poets of his time and one of the most profound, innovative and original poets of the 20th century.
- Michael Wilson
Michael Wilson was an American multiple-Academy Award winning screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism.
- Brian Barwick
Brian Barwick is the current Chief Executive of The Football Association. He has held the post since January 2005. Previously, he spent 18 years at the BBC, and was ITV's Controller of Sport for seven years. Born in Liverpool, Barwick gained a degree in Economics at Manchester University.
- Eros Ramazzotti
Eros Luciano Walter Ramazzotti (born on October 28, 1963), is the most successful Italian singer and songwriter of all time. Ramazzotti is well known not only in every non English-speaking European country but also in most of Spanish-speaking world as he releases every album both in Italian and Spanish.
- Stuart Rose
STUART Rose , chief executive at Marks & Spencer, has nearly doubled his year-end bonus to £2.6 million after returning the once struggling retailer to health.
- William Davidson
William Davidson (1740 - 17 June 1790), was a Scottish-Canadian lumber merchant, shipbuilder and politician. He was the first permanent European settler on the Miramichi River in the Canadian Province of New Brunswick.
- Steve Cram
Steve Cram MBE (born October 14 1960) is an English former athlete who vied with fellow English athletes Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett during their domination of middle distance running in the 1980s. He was the first man to run under 3 minutes and 30 seconds for the 1500 metres. Nicknamed "The Jarrow Arrow", he set world records in the 1500 metres, 2000 metres, and the mile, within 19 days in the summer of 1985.
- Charlie Wi
Charlie Wi is (born 3 January 1972) is a South Korean golfer. Wi was born in Seoul. He attended the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and had a successful amateur career. Wi turned professional in 1995. He has played all over the world, competing on the European, Asian and Japanese tours. He played on the PGA Tour in 2005 after successfully navigating through all three stages of 2004 National Qualifying Tournament, …
- Kevin Stadler
Kevin Stadler (born February 5, 1980) is an American golfer. Stadler was born in Reno, Nevada. He is the son of former Masters champion and 13-time winner on the PGA Tour Craig Stadler. He moved with his family to Denver, Colorado, where he attended Kent Denver School for high school, where he excelled on the school's golf team. He attended the University of Southern California and turned professional in 2002. In 2004 Stadler won twice on the second tier U.S. based tour, …
- Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini (born May 16, 1974) is a Grammy Award and Latin Grammy Award-winning Italian pop singer, popular in some European and Latin American countries, famed for her soulful voice, her romantic adult contemporary ballads and love songs. She has recorded songs in Italian, Spanish, English, French and Portuguese.
- Maryam Rajavi
Maryam Rajavi (born Maryam Azodanlu in 1953 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian political and feminist activist.
- Monica Frassoni
Monica Frassoni is an Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the North West of Italy. She is a member of the Italian Green Party, part of the European Greens. Frassoni is co-chair, together with Daniel Cohn-Bendit, of the European Greens–European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament. Before first being elected as an MEP of the Francophone Green party Ecolo from Belgium in 1999, …
- Candy Dulfer
Candy Dulfer (born 19 September, 1969, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is a Dutch smooth jazz alto saxophonist.
- Rebecca Loos
Rebecca Loos (born on June 19, 1977 in Madrid, Spain) is a glamour model who was personal assistant to English football (soccer) player David Beckham. She is primarily known to the public because she allegedly conducted an affair with the married Beckham.
- Herman van Veen
Hermannus Jantinus "Herman" van Veen (born 14 March, 1945) is a Dutch stage performer, actor, musician and singer/songwriter and author. He is the creator of the Dutch cartoon Alfred J. Kwak, for which he also wrote and performed the theme music. Van Veen was born in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He started performing with Erik van der Wurff in his twenties while studying at the Conservatoire. He rose to fame in the 1970s with stage shows that combined witty cabaret, satire, …
- Warren Smith
Warren Smith (b. February 7 1932, Humphreys County, Mississippi - d. January 31 1980) was a pioneer rockabilly singer and guitar player. Smith was born to Ioda and Willie Warren Smith, who divorced when he was young. He was raised by his maternal grandparents in Louise, Mississippi where they had a small farm and dry goods store. Smith took up the guitar to while away his evenings while in the United States Air Force stationed in San Antonio, Tx.
- Carolina Klüft
Carolina Evelyn Klüft (born February 2, 1983) is a Swedish athlete competing in heptathlon, long jump and pentathlon. She is the current Olympic, World (twice) and European (twice) heptathlon champion and is regarded as one of the best female athletes in the world. Since 16/09/2002, Klüft has been continuously ranked as the world's leading heptathlete, by the IAAF. This is currently the longest of any athlete.
- Andrew Buckle
Andrew Buckle (24 September 1982) is an Australian golfer. Buckle was born in Brisbane, Queensland. He has a promising amateur career, including two wins in the Boy's 15-17 division at the World Junior Golf Championships and one Australian Amateur Championship. He won the 2002 Queensland Open on his professional debut. As a professional he has plied his trade all over the world, including time on the PGA Tour of Australasia and appearances in Europe and Japan.
- Ritt Bjerregaard
Jytte Ritt Bjerregaard (b. 19 May 1941) is a Danish politician. She is a member of the Danish Social Democrats, and is Lord Mayor of Copenhagen since January 1 2006. She is Copenhagen's first female Lord Mayor.
- Jacques Marquette
Father Jacques Marquette (June 10, 1637-May 18, 1675) and Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River. Father Marquette was born in Laon, France, and joined the Society of Jesus at age seventeen. After working and teaching in France for several years, he was dispatched to Quebec in 1666 to preach to the Native Americans, where he showed great proficiency in the local languages, especially Huron.
- Bernard Dunne
Bernard "Ben" Dunne (born February 6, 1980 in Dublin, Ireland) is a professional boxer. He currently fights at Super Bantamweight and is the current EBU Super Bantamweight champion
- Amos
Amos is an Iranian-born German pop singer. Being the self-proclaimed "Imperator of Pop", Amos' single "I Can't Stop My Feet" was a hit in Germany. He is currently on the music label Sounds of Subterrania. As with many European artists seeking international exposure, Amos sings in English.
- Nadine Jansen
Nadine Jansen (born December 3, 1980 in Leipzig, East Germany) is a German erotic model, known for her large natural breasts. Specialising in nude modeling, she has stated on her website that she has no intention of becoming involved in the adult film industry or in performing hardcore pornography. She does however often participate in softsex lesbian scenes.
- Thaworn Wiratchant
Thaworn Wiratchant (born December 28, 1966) is a Thai golfer. He has won eight events on the Asian Tour. In March 2005, he won the Enjoy Jakarta Standard Chartered Indonesia Open, which is co-sanctioned by the Asian Tour and the European Tour, becoming the second Thai after Thongchai Jaidee to win a European Tour event. He topped the Asian Tour money list in 2005, becoming the first man to win more than half a million U.S. dollars on that tour in a season.
- Alex Arthur
Alex Arthur (born June 26, 1978 in Edinburgh) is a professional boxer from Edinburgh, Scotland. Arthur is nicknamed "Amazing" Alex Arthur". He is currently the British, Commonwealth and European (EBU) Super Featherweight champion. He is trained by Wayne McCullough.