List of Famous people born in Luxembourg
Sébastien Thill
Sébastien Thill is a Luxembourgish footballer who plays for Moldovan club Sheriff Tiraspol on loan from Progrès Niederkorn and the Luxembourg national football team. His main idol as a youth was Alloy Wright who was a Argentinian coach who taught him the basics of football in his home town. He is the older brother of fellow Luxembourg internationals Olivier Thill and Vincent Thill.
Désirée Nosbusch
Désirée Nosbusch a.k.a. Désirée Becker is a Luxembourgish television presenter and actress. She was born in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg to a Luxembourgish father and Italian mother. In the 1980s she lived in Manhattan, and from the 1990s to 2008 in Los Angeles, California.
Vicky Krieps
Vicky Krieps is a Luxembourgish actress. She has starred in a number of American, Luxembourgish, French, and German productions. She appeared in films such as Hanna (2011), Two Lives (2012), A Most Wanted Man (2014), The Chambermaid Lynn (2014), and Colonia (2015). Krieps had her breakthrough starring role as Alma in the Academy Award-winning romantic drama film Phantom Thread (2017).
Jean-Claude Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker is a Luxembourg politician, who served as President of the European Commission from 2014 to 2019 and as the 23rd Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013. He was also the Minister for Finances from 1989 to 2009.
Gilles Muller
Gilles Müller is a retired tennis player from Luxembourg. He is a two-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist and the most successful male tennis player in the history of his country. Müller won two titles on the ATP World Tour and achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of world No. 21 on 31 July 2017. He was known for his powerful left-handed serve and excellent net skills. Following his retirement, Müller was appointed as Luxembourg's Davis Cup team captain.
Sunnyi Melles
Sunnyi Melles is a Hungarian / Swiss actress active in Germany and Austria. She is the daughter of Austrian orchestral conductor Carl Melles and Judith von Rohonczy. Since 1993 she has been married to Prince Peter zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn.
Xavier Bettel
Xavier Bettel is a Luxembourg politician who has been Prime Minister of Luxembourg since 2013. He has previously served as Mayor of Luxembourg City, and was also a Member of the Chamber of Deputies.
Jean I, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Jean was the Grand Duke of Luxembourg from 1964 until his abdication in 2000. He was the first Grand Duke of Luxembourg of French agnatic descent.
Vincent Thill
Vincent Thill is a Luxembourgish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Nacional and the Luxembourg national team. He is the younger brother of fellow Luxembourg internationals Sébastien Thill and Olivier Thill.
Andy Schleck
Andy Raymond Schleck is a Luxembourgish former professional road bicycle racer. He won the 2010 Tour de France, being awarded it retroactively in February 2012 after Alberto Contador's hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He has also been the runner-up at the Tour twice; in 2009 and 2011. He is the younger brother of Fränk Schleck, also a professional rider between 2003 and 2016. Their father Johny Schleck rode the Tour de France and Vuelta a España between 1965 and 1974.
Olivier Thill
Olivier Thill is a Luxembourgish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Vorskla Poltava.
Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Prince Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg, is the heir apparent to the crown of Luxembourg since his father's accession in 2000.
Deborah De Robertis
Deborah De Robertis is a performance artist and photographer from Luxembourg. She studied at fr:École de recherche graphique and is currently living in Brussels.
Léa Linster
Léa Linster is a Luxembourg chef, and a gold medal winner of the 1989 Bocuse d'Or, the first and to date only woman to accomplish this.
Jeff Strasser
Jeff Strasser is a retired Luxembourg footballer and manager of CS Fola Esch.
Robert Schuman
Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Robert Schuman was a Luxembourg-born French statesman. Schuman was a Christian Democrat political thinker and activist. Twice Prime Minister of France, a reformist Minister of Finance and a Foreign Minister, he was instrumental in building postwar European and trans-Atlantic institutions and was one of the founders of the European Union, the Council of Europe and NATO. The 1964–1965 academic year at the College of Europe was named in his honour.
René Deltgen
Renatus Heinrich Deltgen born 30 April 1909 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; died 29 January 1979 in Cologne, West Germany) was a Luxembourgian stage and film actor, who spent most of his career in Germany.
Dany Mota
Dany Mota Carvalho is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Monza.
Marie-Adélaïde I, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Marie-Adélaïde, reigned as Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1912 until her abdication in 1919. She was the first Grand Duchess regnant of Luxembourg, its first female monarch since Duchess Maria Theresa and the first Luxembourgish monarch to be born within the territory since Count John the Blind (1296–1346).
Hugo Gernsback
Hugo Gernsback was a Luxembourgish–American inventor, writer, editor, and magazine publisher, best known for publications including the first science fiction magazine. His contributions to the genre as publisher—although not as a writer—were so significant that, along with the novelists H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, he is sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction". In his honour, annual awards presented at the World Science Fiction Convention are named the "Hugos".