If there are not too many neighbouring countries for you, you can add the neighbouring countries of your neighbouring countries, or just the countries that are the nearest!

40 comments

  1. I will pick the very first person that comes to mind. I’m from **Germany** —

    **Denmark**: Lars von Trier (director)

    **Poland**: Roman Polański (director – *sorry, thought of Lars before!*)

    **Czechia**: … *I’ll come back to this one.*

    **Austria**: Sebastian Kurz (ex-chancellor – *hm, I can’t think of as many as I would’ve thought I could*)

    **Switzerland**: Sophie Hunger (musician)

    **France**: Julie Delpy (actor)

    **Luxembourg**: Vicky Krieps (actor)

    **Belgium**: Jean-Claude Van Damme (actor)

    **Netherlands**: Arjen Robben (football player)

    **Czechia**: *… sorry Czechs, I could name one or two dead Czechs, though!*

  3. I am Dutch so.

    Germany –Scholz

    Belgium — Stromae

    France — Macron

    We also share a border with France on an island in the Caribbean

  4. Belgium: Charles Michel (politician)

    France: Emmanuel Macron (politician)

    Germany: Cem Özdemir (politician)

    Does it show that I’m somewhat interested in politics?

    Disregarding politicians

    Belgium: Max Verstappen (F1 driver)

    France: Gérard Depardieu (actor)

    Germany: Günther Jauch (TV host)

  5. Hmmm, we’re an island nation.

    Ireland: Bob Geldof

    France: ~~Liza Monet~~ oh ok fine, Macron

    Belgium: Jean Claude Van Damme

    Netherlands: Max Verstappen

    Germany: Herbert Grönemeyer

    Denmark: Anders Fogh Rasmussen

    Norway: Jo Nesbø

    Iceland: Björk

    Faroe Islands: whoever the lead singer of Tyr is

    IoM: the Beegees (whichever one is still alive)

    The Channel Islands: the Barclay Brothers (again, the one that’s still alive and making life miserable for everyone on Sark)

  6. Let’s give it a try from France (and I hope I don’t forget any countries):

    Belgium: Stromae (singer)

    Luxemburg: … No idea

    Germany: Angela Merkel (politician)

    Switzerland: Roger Federer (tennis player)

    Italy: Carla Bruni (former model, singer, but I guess she’s mainly known in France because she got married to Nicolas Sarkozy, our former president)

    Monaco: Albert de Monaco (the current prince)

    Spain: Rafael Nadal (also a tennis player)

    Andorra: No clue

    Brazil: Cristina Cordula (though I think she’s only famous in France, former model and now doing some TV shows)

    Surinam: I don’t know at all either

  7. First person who comes to mind:

    Germany: Angela Merkel (politician)

    Belgium: Kevin de Bruyne (football player)

    France: Emmanuel Macron (politician)

  8. First that pops into my head as I work through them: Stromae, Vicky Krieps, Daniel Brühl, Roger Federer, Matteo Renzi, Charles Leclerc, Pedro Sanchez, ??? (Andorra), Jair Bolsonaro, ???? (Suriname).

    Edit: Right, forgot about Saint Martin / Sint Marteen : others have named Max Verstappen, so I’ll say Paul Verhoeven.

  9. We don’t have too many neighbouring countries. If you count France (we share a border in the Caribbean, we have just 3.

    From Germany we have Angela Merkel. I don’t think I need to elaborate further.

    From France we have Emmanuel Macron. I don’t think I need to explain who he is either.

    From Belgium we have Eddy Merckx, probably the best cyclist in history.

  10. Kylian Mbappé.

    Granit Xhaka.

    David Alaba

    Jan Oblak.

    Yes,I like football 😉

    Are there any famous footballers from San Marino?

    Can I have Pope Francis to represent the Vatican?

  11. I’m interested in politics, so I could name current and former heads of government and state of all our neighbours.

    For most countries (apart from Luxembourg) probably also 2 or 3 others but actually not that many, now that I think about it.

  12. – France: Macron/ ZAZ/ Zidane/ Griezmann

    – Portugal: CR7/ Salvador Sobral

    – UK: Ed Sheeran

    – Morocco/ Andorra:…….

  13. Russia: Santtu Karhu (I don’t know if he counts as famous but he’s a musician from Eastern Karelia who’s toured Finland several times)

    Sweden: Pandora (the first person I could think of after the royal family and some tv presenters I couldn’t name)

    Norway: Linn Ullman, an author who was the first name that came to my mind

    Estonia: the composer Arvo Pärt who appears to still be alive

  14. I could try.

    Czech Republic – Andrej Babiš

    Poland – no idea

    Ukraine – Zelensky (I didn’t know anybody before the war though)

    Hungary – Orbán

    Austria – no idea

    So I guess I mainly just know some political figures.

  15. Poland: Joanna Kulig

    Czechia: /

    Austria: Christoph Waltz

    Switzerland: DJ Bobo

    France: Carla Bruni

    Belgium: Jeane Claude van Damme

    Luxembourg: Xavier Bettel

    Netherlands: Doutzen Kroes

    Denmark: Mads Mikkelsen

  16. From Sweden.

    Hmm…

    Finland – Mika Häkkinen, first name that popped in my head. Drove F1 over 20 years ago.

    Norway – Fredrik Skavlan, half cheating, but he’s Norwegian and alive.

    Denmark – Mads Mikkelsen, one of the best Bond villains ever.

  17. Netherlands: NikkieTutorials, Geraldine Kemper

    Germany: Thomas Gottschalk, I hear he’s pretty funny.

    Luxembourg: IDK, Juncker I guess? I cheated and went through the list of famous Luxo’s on Wikipedia and besides Juncker and Duke Henri, I recognize no names.

    France: Pffff, take your pick. IDK, Gerard Depardieu, why not.

  18. From France

    Belgium: Stromae (singer, songwriter)

    Luxembourg: don’t know

    Germany: Angela Merkel (politician)

    Switzerland: don’t know

    Italy: Donatella Versace (fashion designer)

    Monaco: Prince Albert of Monaco II

    Andorra: don’t know

    Spain: King Felipe VI

    Brazil: Jair Bolsonaro (president)

    Suriname: don’t know

    Kingdom of the Netherlands: Iris van Herpen (fashion designer)

    UK: Queen Elizabeth II

  19. Netherlands: Guus Meeuwis

    France: Kylian Mbappé 😠

    Germany: Angela Merkel

    Luxembourg: Jean-Claude Juncker

  20. tbf i can’t even name many famous people from my own country.

    (non-politicians)

    Germany – the blonde musically twins – Lena and dk

    Poland – the people from 365 days on Netflix

    Slovakia – Gogo and his ex girlfriend LucyPug – youtubers from when I was young

    Austria – idk

  21. I’ll do Denmark+Germany:

    **Norway**: Erling Haaland (football player)

    **Sweden**: ~~Liv Ullmann (actress)~~ Mikael Åkerfeldt (musician)

    **Poland**: Jarosław Kaczyński (the devil probably)

    **Czechia**: Andrej Babiš (media mogul, 2nd richest person in the country and former PM)

    **Austria**: Matthias Strolz (former politician, founder of NEOS)

    **Switzerland**: Jean-luc Godard (film director)

    **France**: Thomas Piketty (economist)

    **Luxembourg**: Jean Claude Juncker (former comission president)

    **Belgium**: Dardenne Bros (film directors)

    **Netherlands**: Paul Verhoeven (film director)

  22. Sweden: Stellan Skarsgård (actor, was in Pirates for example)

    Finland: Sanna Marin (prime minister)

    Russia: Vladimir Mashkov (actor, he was in mission impossible. I’m not sure if I got the last name right though)

  23. Easy when all around you are cultural powerhouses and Austria.

    France: Charlotte Gainsbourg

    Italy: Reinhold Messner

    Austria: Christoph Waltz

    Liechtenstein: Prince Hans-Adam.

    Germany: Daniel Brühl.

    Can I do the neighbours’ neighbours?

    Vatican city: Francis

    San Marino: The Capitano Reggente who happens to be gay.

    Monaco: Prince Albert

    Andorra: No idea.

    Spain: King Felipe

    Belgium: Stromae

    Luxemburg: J.-C. Juncker

    Netherlands: Max Verstappen, is he Dutch?

    Denmark: Mads Mikkelsen

    Poland: Adam Malysz

    Czech Republic: Vaclav Klaus

    Shit, Austria borders too many countries!

    Slovakia: ~~The Bratislava Boys~~ The Bratisla Boys are French! I don’t know any famous person from Slovakia.

    Hungary: Orban Viktor

    Croatia: That football guy with questionable friends.

    Slovenia: Slavoj Žižek.

  24. From Denmark:

    Sweden: Dolph Lundgren (actor)

    Norway: Jens Stoltenberg (General Secretary of NATO)

    Germany: Angela Merkel (politician)

    Iceland: Björk (musician)

    Poland: Miroslav Klose (football player)

    Canada: Bryan Adams (musician)

  25. Denmark: Christian Eriksen

    Poland: Robert Lewandowski

    Czechia: Adam Hlozek

    Austria: David Alaba

    Switzerland: Xherdan Shaqiri

    France: Kylian Mbappé

    Luxembourg: Laurent Jans

    Belgium: Kevin de Bruyne

    Netherlands: Virgil van Dijk

  26. Well, I did grow up in the only neighboring country that my country of origin has, so this is cheating.

    But off the top of my head I am thinking about people such as Ibai, El Rubius, Belén Esteban, Aitana, Morad, Alberto Chicote, Jordi Cruz (bueno), Jordi Cruz (malo), etc.

    I did grow up near the border with Andorra (and we went there shopping and refueling at least twice a month at one point) but I genuinely cannot recall a single Andorran celebrity, vast majority of famous people living in Andorra are Spanish YouTubers avoiding taxes.

    When it comes to France, it’s mostly musicians/actors and the odd sports person. Gérard Depardieu, Carla Bruni, Clara Luciani, Indila, Pierre Gasly, Esteban Ocon…

    Not sure whether a mainland UK celebrity would count for Gibraltar, but I really don’t know anyone from Gibraltar. As for Morocco, I only know Pokimane.

  27. – Poland – Ewa Farna is technically Polish
    – Slovakia – Meky Žbirka
    – Austria – Christoph Waltz
    – Germany – Leon Draisaitl

    (I’m trying to stay away from politicians)

    Edit: I forgot that Meky Žbirka has died, so how about Pavol Habera instead?

  29. I’ll play in hard mode by naming no sportsman :

    – Belgium : Charles Michel

    – Luxembourg : Jean-Claude Juncker

    – Germany : Angela Merkel

    – Switzerland : Marina Rollman, a humourist

    – Italy : Mateo Dragghi

    – Monaco : Prince Albert

    – Spain : Carlos “Ocelote” Rodriguez

    – Andorra : Well… hum…

    – Brazil : Lula

    – Suriname : Hem… I mean… yeah, no…

  30. I will try to name form every country and will use as little footabllers as posible

    Albania: Leka II (grandson of last albanian King)

    Andorra: Ildelfons Lima (footballer)

    Armenia: Henrikh Mkhitaryan (footballer)

    Austria: Josef Fritzl (criminal)

    Azerbeijan: Mahir Emreli (footballer)

    Belarus: Aryna Sabalenka (tennis player)

    Belgium: Danzel (singer)

    Bosnia: Semir Stilic (he is one of my favourites footballers despite not being very famous)

    Bulgaria: Simeon II (last Tsar and former prime minister)

    Croatia: Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (former president)

    Cyprus: Dossa Junior (former footballer)

    Czechia: Little Caprice (porn star)

    Denmark: Mads Mikkelsen (actor)

    Estonia: Ilmar Raag (film director)

    Finland: Jahne Ahonen (ski jumper)

    France: Thierry Omeyer (flrmer handball player)

    Georgia: Vako Qazaishvili (footballer)

    Germany: Till Lindemann (singer)

    Greece: Constantine II (last King and olympic champion in sailling)

    Hungary: Victor Orban (prime minister)

    Iceland: Bjork (singer)

    Ireland: Connor McGreagor (martial artist)

    Italy: Monica Belucci (actress)

    Kazakhstan: Sabina Altynbekova (volleyball player)

    Latvia: Artjoms Rudnevs (former footballer)

    Liechtenstein: Hans-Adam II (Prince)

    Lithuania: Robert Burneika (body builder)

    Luxembourg: Henry (Grand Duke)

    Malta: No Idea :/

    Moldova: Maia Sandu (president)

    Monaco: Charles Leclerc (racing driver)

    Montenegro: Mirko Vucinić (former footballer)

    Netherlands: Max Verstappen (racing driver)

    Macedonia: Goran Pandev (footballer)

    Norway: Anders Breivik (terrorist)

    Portugal: Cristiano Ronaldo Jr. (Son of Cristiano Ronaldo)

    Romania: Simona Halep (tennis player)

    Russia: Irina Shayk (model and former girlfirend of Cristiano Ronaldo) and Dmitry Glukhovsky (author)

    San Marino: Massimo Borini (former footballer)

    Serbia: Radovan Karadzić (politician, former president, psychiatrist, poet, war criminal)

    Slovakia: Zuzanna Caputova (president)

    Slovenia: Luka Doncić (basketball player)

    Spain: Felipe VI (King)

    Sweden: PewDiePie (YouTuber)

    Switzerland: Stan Wawrinka (tennis player)

    Turkey: Recep Erdogan (president)

    Ukraine: Volodymir Zelensky (president and actor)

    UK: J.K. Rowling (author)

    Vatican: Francis (pope)

  31. I’m from the **Czech Republic.**

    Germany: Angela Merkel or Cristoph Waltz

    Austria: Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sebastian Kurz

    Slovakia: Zuzana Čaputová

    Poland: I have no clue. Would say Marie Curie, but she’s dead.

  32. I’m going to exclude politicians, royalty and athletes to make it challenging.

    **Estonia:** Let’s see now… the only one I can think of is Anu Saagim, who I’m not even sure about what she’s famous for, but she has figured in our tabloids

    **Norway:** Jo Nesbø (author)

    **Russia:** Garry Kasparov (chess players are not athletes, mmkay)

    **Sweden:** Leif GW Persson (criminologist)

  33. Trying not to name politicians or footballers, somehow that feels like cheating.

    Belgium: Gert Verhulst, Stromae, Urbanus are the first that come to mind.

    Germany: somehow this is way harder than expected! I actually watch Tatort but I don’t know any of the actors’ names. When I lived in Germany, I also watched Die Heute Show but I forgot the presentors name. Dieter Bohlen counts, but I should be able to think of someone more currently relevant, shouldn’t I? I also know the duo Joko und Klaas but not their last names.

  34. I wonder what this means now for us now? Technically we’ve only ever shared a landborder with Germany, but recently the Danish Realm (our monarchy) grew and we now share a landborder somewhat unusually with Canada. After settling the long lasting dispute over Hans Island. Does that mean I should also mention Canada now? Technically I also consider Sweden and Norway neighbours, even though we don’t share a border obviously. And what about Jutland? It’s not Sjælland you know..

    Germany: Angela Merkel, Oluf Schultz
    Norway: Erling Haaland
    Sweden: King Gustaf 16.
    Canada: Justin Trudeau

  35. Neigbors:

    I immediately think of their politicians but I’ll try to name some other famous people for variety as well.

    **Norway:** *Jens Stoltenberg* (NATO general secretary, former PM), *Jonas Gahr Störe* (current PM), *Angelina Jordan* (young singer that won Norway’s Idol, now lives in LA), *Kurt Nilsen* (also won Norway’s Idol once), *Harald* (their king), *Fredrik Skavlan* (hosted a Norwegian-Swedish talkshow), *Magnus Carlsen* (#1 chess player in world).

    **Denmark**: *Mette Frederiksen* (PM), *Mads Mikkelsen* (actor).

    **Finland**: *Sanna Marin* (PM), *Sauli Niinistö* (president), *Linus Torvalds* (made Linux).

    Now expanding to neighbors neighbors:

    **Russia**: *Vladimir Putin* (dictator), *Sergey Karjakin* (pro-Putin chess player), *Ian Nepomnishi* (last name is not spelled like that but is roughly pronounced like that, chess player), *Gary Kasparov* (former world chess champion, anti-Putin), *Ludmila Engquist* (Russia-born olympic athelete that later became a Swedish citizen and competed for Sweden but got caught multiple times with doping), *Peter Svidler* (chess commentator & player, anti-the-war)

    **Germany**: Olof Scholz (PM), Angela Merkel (former PM)

    **Canada** (recent neighbor of Denmark): Justin Trudeau (PM).

  36. Yeah, easily. Let’s just do footballers (could do alpine skiers as well):

    Czechia: Pavel Nedved

    Slovakia: Vladimir Weiss

    Hungary: Dominik Szoboszlai

    Slovenia: Kevin Kampl

    Italy: Francesco Totti

    Switzerland: Murat Yakin

    Liechtenstein: Marcel Büchel

    Germany: Toni Kroos

  37. Going to pick first one that comes to mind, as a French person:

    **Britain** The Queen (easy one)

    **Belgium** Angèle (pop singer)

    **Luxembourg** Jean-Claude Juncker (Former EU Commission president)

    **Germany** Kim Petras (pop singer)

    **Switzerland** Stan Wawrinka (tennisman)

    **Italy** Laura Pausini (singer)

    **Monaco** Charles Leclerc (F1 pilot)

    **Spain** Rosalia (singer)

    **Andorra** *does someone actually live there oops*

    **Netherlands** Eefje de Visser (singer)

    **Brazil** Anitta (singer)

    **Suriname** Jeangu Macrooy (singer)

  38. Norway – Petter Northug (former cross country skier)

    Denmark – Kevin Magnussen (F1 driver)

    Finland – Ivo Niskanen (cross country skier)

    And since that isnt that many i’ll throw in fellow Nordic country Iceland – Hafthor Björnsson (strongman competitor and actor)

  39. Czech Republic: Pavel Kříž (actor)

    Austria: Sebastian Kurz (politician)

    Hungary: Viktor Orbán (politician)

    Ukraine: Jamala (singer)

    Poland: Agnieszka Holland (movie director)

    I know at least one politician of every of those countries and singers (thanks to the Eurovision Song Contest), also many Czech famous people, because lot of them are part of our culture too.

  40. That’s a funny game, can I play ?
    I’m from France, here are my answers :
    **Switzerland** : Amaury Guichon (half-french), Stephan Eicher
    **Germany** : Bill Kaulitz (sorry), Till Lindemann (better ?)
    **Italy** : Monica Bellucci
    **Monaco** : Prince Albert
    **Belgium** : Amélie Nothomb
    **Andorre** : sorry, no idea…
    **Spain** : Javier Bardem
    **U.K** : a lot of people… Let’s just go with the legendary Robert Plant, Rowan Atkinson and Hugh Laurie
    **Luxembourg** : no idea…

    To make up for Andorre and Luxembourg
    **Netherlands** : Anneke van Giersbergen (my favourite female singer), Floor Jansen
    **Norway** : Aurora
    **Ireland** : Cillian Murphy

Leave a Reply
You May Also Like