100 Greatest Europeans Of All Time starts

Name

Birthyear

Country

Category

Comment

Stephen Hawking

1942 CE

GB

II

PHY

Astronomy

MAT

Stephen Hawking

1942 CE

United Kingdom

Astronomy

Stephen Hawking

1942 CE

United Kingdom

Astronomy

Yuri Gagarin

1934 CE

RU

IV

SPA

Space exploration

First human spaceflight

Yuri Gagarin

1934 CE

Russian Federation

Space exploration

Yuri Gagarin

1934 CE

Russian Federation

Space exploration

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Kathleen Ruston

1929 CE

BE

I

ART

Arts

First acress to win an Oscar BAFTA and Golden Globe for single performance

Audrey Hepburn

1929 CE

Belgium

Arts

Audrey Hepburn

1929 CE

Belgium

Arts

Paul Bocuse

1926 CE

FR

VI

CRA

Craft

The Pope of Gastronomy

Paul Bocuse

1926 CE

France

Craft

Paul Bocuse

1926 CE

France

Craft

Niels Bohr

1922 CE

DK

II

PHY

Philosophy

Niels Bohr

1922 CE

Denmark

Philosophy

Niels Bohr

1922 CE

Denmark

Philosophy

Margherita Hack

1922 CE

IT

II

AST

Astronomy

Margherita Hack

1922 CE

Italy

Astronomy

Margherita Hack

1922 CE

Italy

Astronomy

Godtfred Kirk Christiansen

1920 CE

DK

VI

ENT

Inventions

Godtfred Kirk Christiansen

1920 CE

Denmark

Inventions

Godtfred Kirk Christiansen

1920 CE

Denmark

Inventions

Alan Turing

1912 CE

GB

IV

ICT

Information & Communication Technology

Mathematician and computer scientist a key figure in the development of computer science

Alan Turing

1912 CE

United Kingdom

Information & Communication Technology

Alan Turing

1912 CE

United Kingdom

Information & Communication Technology

Mother Teresa

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu

1910 CE

MK

V

HUM

Humanism

Mother Teresa

1910 CE

North Macedonia

Humanism

Mother Teresa

1910 CE

North Macedonia

Humanism

Simone de Beauvoir

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir

1908 CE

FR

VI

HUM

Humanism

Significant influence on feminist existentialism and feminist theory

Simone de Beauvoir

1908 CE

Denmark

Humanism

Simone de Beauvoir

1908 CE

Denmark

Humanism

Nikolaas Tinbergen

1907 CE

NL

II

BIO

Biology

Co-discoverer of organisation and elicitation of individual and social behaviour in animals

Nikolaas Tinbergen

1907 CE

Netherlands

Biology

Nikolaas Tinbergen

1907 CE

Netherlands

Biology

Hannah Arendt

1906 CE

DE

I

PHS

Philosophy

Hannah Arendt

1906 CE

Germany

Philosophy

Hannah Arendt

1906 CE

Germany

Philosophy

Jean Paul Sartre

1905 CE

FR

I

PHS

Philosophy

Jean Paul Sartre

1905 CE

France

Philosophy

Jean Paul Sartre

1905 CE

France

Philosophy

Enrico Fermi

1901 CE

IT

II

PHY

Physics

Architect of the Nuclear age

Enrico Fermi

1901 CE

Italy

Physics

Enrico Fermi

1901 CE

Italy

Physics

Leo Szilard

Leo Spitz

1898 CE

HU

II

PHY

Inventions

Conceived the nuclear chain reaction

Leo Szilard

1898 CE

Hungary

Inventions

Leo Szilard

1898 CE

Hungary

Inventions

Georges Lemaitre

Georges Henri Joseph Edouard Lemaitre

1894 CE

BE

II

AST

Astronomy

Big Bang Theory

Georges Lemaitre

1894 CE

Belgium

Astronomy

Georges Lemaitre

1894 CE

Belgium

Astronomy

Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin

1889 CE

GB

I

ART

Arts

Icon of the film industry

Charlie Chaplin

1889 CE

United Kingdom

Arts

Charlie Chaplin

1889 CE

United Kingdom

Arts

Le Corbusier

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret

1887 CE

CH

IV

ARC

Architecture

Le Corbusier

1887 CE

Switzerland

Architecture

Le Corbusier

1887 CE

Switzerland

Architecture

Erwin Schrödinger

Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrodinger

1887 CE

AT

II

PHY

Education

Physicist co-founder of quantum mechanics and Nobel laureate

Erwin Schrödinger

1887 CE

Austria

Education

Erwin Schrödinger

1887 CE

Austria

Education

Robert Schuman

Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman

1886 CE

LU

III

LAW

LAW

Political thinker and stateman instrumental for postwar European and trans-Atlantic institutions

Robert Schuman

1886 CE

Luxembourg

LAW

Robert Schuman

1886 CE

Luxembourg

LAW

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