Important persons in your country.

[Alain De Vos]

Here Belgium.
And by coincidence 3 priests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Damien

Against social injustice,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Daens

Solving Einsteins-equations , expansion of universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître

Which are yours in your country ?

 

[Beastie]

You forgot Antoine-Joseph (Adolphe) Sax. Music would be poorer without the saxophone.

Maybe Jean-Claude Van Damme deserves an honorable mention too.

 

[bgavin]

Riley Gaines comes to mind.

 

[AlfredoLlaquet]

Alex Palou

The Official Site of IndyCar News, Drivers, Schedule & Shop | IndyCar.com

www.indycar.com

ROSALÍA : LUX

www.rosalia.com

Ferran Adrià - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Lamine Yamal - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Marc Márquez - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Felipe VI - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Carlos Alcaraz - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[SirDice]

Currently living, or can they be dead? Because there's a really, really long list of important Dutch scientists and explorers.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (microscope) for example.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (Erasmus of Rotterdam)
Abel Tasman
Peter Stuyvesant

Johannes de Graaff (Important for the history of the USA, see the first salute)

Or a bit more modern
Lou Ottens Inventor of the cassette tape, also helped with the development of the compact disc.

 

[Alain De Vos]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens

 

[SirDice]

Yeah, I can probably list a hundred important Dutch figures.

 

[blackbird9]

Just a few off the top of my head.

George Boole - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Charles Babbage - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Ada Lovelace - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Alan Turing - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Tommy Flowers - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Maurice Wilkes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Clive Sinclair - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Sophie Wilson - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Steve Furber - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[mer]

"In" or "from"?
If "in" (living or dead), Nikola Tesla, Werner Von Braunn and the rest of the Manhattan Project.
And if living? My wife. Maybe not important on a Global scale but pretty darn important to em

 

[Alain De Vos]

Wife , tried , did my best , never found. Never will. But hey , can be important on the larger scale of things.
About Manhatten,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer
Very nice movie.

 

[AlfredoLlaquet]

If I were to list important historical figures from Spain and the earlier Iberian Peninsula... Well, I'll list my favorite one:

Seneca the Younger - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Previously I listed some living world-renowned Spaniards from the top of my ignorance.

 

[Alain De Vos]

Living with "NERO", not the easiest of persons.

 

[MG]

Mark Rutte. NATO frontman. I wish I was French now. Macron is a boss.
(Damn myself. I said UN frontman)

 

[SirDice]

Mark Rutte. UN frontman.

NATO, not UN.

 

[MG]

NATO, not UN.

Yeah, I had a double scotch.

 

[eternal_noob]

I am the most important person in my country. Without me, I wouldn't even be able to post anything here.

 

[Alain De Vos]

This is philosophical one, I must retain.

 

[fahrenheit]

Okay, from the top of my head:

Vasco da Gama (Naval route to India)
Fernando Magalhães (Ferdinand Magellan, first circunavigation of world, shared with Juan Sebastián Elcano)
Dom Afonso Henriques (First King of Portugal)
Salgueiro Maia (Carnation revolution figure)
António Guterres (Current UN General Secretary)
José Saramago (Literature Nobel Prize)

 

[Alain De Vos]

Long way
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/Descobrimentos_e_explorações_portuguesesV2.png

 

[elephant]

Yeah, I can probably list a hundred important Dutch figures.

Is DutchDaemon on the list?

 

[Alain De Vos]

Crivens not ? But then these dutchman they drink "botermelk" the morning.

 

[SirDice]

I had a double scotch.

Cheers. That said, Eelco van Kleffens was the UN president in 1954. Thought we had more, but there's only ever been one. Accidentally learned some Dutch history today

Crivens not ?

Crivens isn't Dutch.

But then these dutchman they drink "botermelk" the morning.

I resolutely dislike karnemelk, it is revolting.

Anyway, another important Dutch figure, certainly shaped how the Netherlands looks today, Cornelis Lely.

 

[elephant]

I resolutely dislike karnemelk, it is revolting.

It's good for some things like buttermilk biscuits or buttermilk pancakes. The Belgians probably make buttermilk waffles.

Here's a very interesting historical figure - for Mexico and Texas.

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, often known as Santa Anna.

 

[Crivens]

... still adding to and sorting the list. An awful lot of people, but I'm not sure who really belongs (like Friedrich 2, who was Prussian, thus not German. Or was he? Introduced the potatoe to the masses by banning it) Carl von Linde (Refrigerator, keeping medicines available all around the world) surely counts, Gauss, Bismark, ... does Varus count? Of course Bertha Benz, Siemens & Halske, Konrad Zuse, Euler, ...

 

[bda65]

Marcel Marceau
Marie Curie
...