Léa Linster
Léa Linster was awarded with the Bocuse d’Or gold medal in 1989. She’s the only woman who ever won the competition. Source: Delano
People
Etienne Schneider
Luxembourg’s deputy prime minister Etienne Schneider is on Politico’s list of 28 people who will shape Europe in 2018. Schneider is featured for his efforts to “turn tiny Luxembourg into an outer space powerhouse. As the grand duchy’s deputy prime minister and economy minister, he has worked to establish the country as a leader in …
Georges Christen
Luxembourg strongman Georges Christen holds 23 Guinness Book World Records in feats of strength, such as bending nails, towing trains, planes and ships with his teeth or tearing up phonebooks. Source: http://www.georges-christen.com
Andy Schleck
According to Wikipedia, “Andy Raymond Schleck (born 10 June 1985) 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.[3] He has also been the runner-up at the Tour twice; in 2009 …
Jean-Claude Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker was the Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 1995 to 2013. Since 2014, he has been the President of the European Commission. According to Wikipedia, “By the time he left office, he was the longest-serving head of any national government in the EU, and one of the longest-serving democratically elected leaders in the world, …
Producer of the first car battery
Henri Owen Tudor of the luxembourgish village of Rosport on the Sûre improved and produced the first car battery. According to the Luxemburger Wort, Tudor spent his childhood in Prussia, then followed his father to Belgium where he went to high school. He wanted to study law, but finally enrolled at the “École Polytechnique” in …
Goethe
German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) stayed in Luxembourg’s fortress on two occasion in 1792. Source: luxembourg.public.lu
Hugo Gernsback
Born in Luxembourg, Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967) invented, among others, the dry cell or the first wireless radio. As the author and editor of many scientific journals and novels, he is nowadays considered as “the father of science fiction”. Source: luxembourg.public.lu
Grand Duke Henri
The full name and title of the Grand Duke is Henri Albert Gabriel Félix Marie Guillaume, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Duke of Nassau, Prince of Bourbon-Parma, Count Palatine of Sayn, Königstein, Katzenelnbogen and Diez, Burrave of Hammerstein, Lord of Mahlberg, Wiesbaden, Idstein, Merenberg, Limburg and Eppstein, and Knight of Namur. Source: luxembourg.public.lu
Robert Schuman
Robert Schuman, who is regarded as one of the founders of the European Union, was born in Clausen, Luxembourg in 1886. Source: robert-schuman.eu