List of Swiss people

This is a list of famous Swiss and notable people from or resident in Switzerland and cantons forming present-day Switzerland.

Table of contents

1 Architecture
2 Art
3 Aviation
4 Linguistics
5 Mathematics
6 Military
7 Music
8 Politics
9 Religion
10 Science
11 Sports
12 Writers
13 Others
14 People named Swiss

Architecture

Francesco Borromini (1599-1667), architect in Italy
Mario Botta (born 1943), architect
Le Corbusier (1887-1965), (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret)
Jacques Herzog (born 1950), architect
William Lescaze (1896-1969)
Pierre de Meuron (born 1950), architect

Art

Jacques-Laurent Agasse (1767-1849), painter

Cuno Peter Amiet (1868-1961)

Albert Anker (1831-1910)
Jean Arp (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
Arnold B�cklin (1827-1901), painter
Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), painter of the American West
Frank Buchser (1828-1890), painter
Alexandre Calame (1810-1864), painter
Jean Crotti (1878-1958), painter
Hans Erni (born 1909)
Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), (Johann Heinrich F�ssli), painter
Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), sculptor, painter
H. R. Giger (born 1940), illustrator
Anton Graff (1736-1813), painter
Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918), painter
Max Huber (1919-1992), graphic designer
Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), painter
Paul Klee (1879-1940), painter
Rudolf Koller (1828-1905), painter
Niklaus Manuel (1484-1530), painter
Roger Pfund (born 1943), painter, graphic designer
James Pradier (1790-1852), sculptor
Iris von Roten-Meyer (1917-1990), lawyer and artist
Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002), sculptor
Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943), painter, sculptor
Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), kinetic artist
Rodolphe Toepffer (1799-1846)
F�lix Vallotton (1865-1925), painter

Aviation

Oskar Bider (1891-1919)
Henri Dufaux (1879-1980)
Armand Dufaux (1883-1941)
Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937), pilot, director Ad Astra, Swissair
Bertrand Piccard (born 1958), psychiatrist and balloonist
Eduard Spelterini (1852-1931), balloonist

Linguistics

Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), linguist

Mathematics

Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782), mathematician and physicist
Jakob Bernoulli (1654-1705), Swiss mathematician
Johann Bernoulli (1667-1748), Swiss mathematician
Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), mathematician and geometer

Military

Pierre Victor Besenval_de_Bronstatt (1721-1791)
Guillaume-Henri Dufour (1787-1875), General, geographer
Joachim Forrer (1782-1833)
Henri Guisan (1874-1960), General during WWII
Hans Herzog (1819-1894), General 1870-1871
Franz Ludwig Pfyffer von Wyher (1716-1802)
Pius Segm�ller (born 1944), commander Swiss Guard
Theophil Sprecher von Bernegg (1850-1927)
Ulrich Wille (1848-1925), General during WWI

Music

Ernest Ansermet (1883-1969)
Lys Assia (1926-present), singer
Edwin Fischer (1886-1960), pianist and conductor
Thomas Gabriel Fischer (born 19??), known as Celtic Frost's Tom Warrior
Peter-Lukas Graf (born 1929), conductor
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), composer
Frank Martin (1890-1974), composer
Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957), composer
Alberich Zwyssig (1808-1854), priest, composer of the Swiss Psalm

Politics

�lie Ducommun (1833-1906), 1902 Nobel Peace Prize
Henri Dunant (1828-1910), 1901 Nobel Peace Prize
Nicholas von der Flue (1417-1487), diplomat, hermit, Catholic saint
Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), US Secretary of the Treasury, diplomat
Albert Gobat (1843-1914), 1902 Nobel Peace Prize
J�rg Jenatsch (1596-1639), pastor, Protestant politician
Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), revolutionary
Napoleon III (1808-1873) (naturalized in 1832)
Jacques Necker (1732-1804), statesman and finance minister of Louis XVI
Charles Pictet_de_Rochemont (1755-1824), statesman, diplomat
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Religion

Jakob Abbadie (1654-1727), Protestant preacher
Jacob Amman (17th century)
Karl Barth (1886-1968)
Theodore Beza (1519-1605), reformer in Geneva
Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575), reformer in Zurich
John Calvin (1509-1564), reformer in Geneva
William Farel (1489-1565), reformer in Geneva
Theodosius Florentini (1808-1865)
Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1801-1874)
Oswald Myconius (1488-1552)
Philip Schaff (1819-1893)
Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1797-1847), theologian and critic
Johann Jakob Wettstein (1693-1754), theologian
Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531), reformer in Zurich

Science

Firmin Abauzit, (1679-1767), scientist
Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, (1835-1910), American man of science
Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), work on ice ages, glaciers
Jacob Amsler (1823-1912), mathematician and inventor of measuring instruments
Werner Arber (born 1929), 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Johann Georg Baiter (1801-1877), philologist
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840-1914) archaeologist
Jean-Fran�ois Bergier (born 1931), historian
Eugene Bleuler (1857-1940), psychiatrist
Felix Bloch (born 1905), 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics
Charles Bonnet (1720-1793), botanist
Daniel Bovet (born 1907), 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Joost B�rgi (28 Feb 1552-31 Jan 1632), mathematician and watchmaker
Jean-Andr� Deluc (1727 - 1817), geologist
Albert Einstein, (1879-1955), scientist
Richard R. Ernst (born 1933), 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Edmond H. Fischer (born 1920), 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Auguste Forel (1848-1931), psychiatrist, neurologist
Fran�ois-Alphonse Forel (1841-1912), pioneer in the study of lakes
Conrad Gessner (1516-1565)
Jules Gonin (1870-1935), ophthalmologist
Charles-Edouard Guillaume (1861-1938), 1920 Nobel Prize in Physics
Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777)
Anna Heer (1863-1918), physician
Walter Hess (1881-1973), 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Carl Hilty (1833-1909), jurist
Albert Hofmann (born 1906)
Eugen Huber (1849-1923), jurist
Fran�ois Huber (1750-1831), naturalist
Paul Karrer (1889-1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917), 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Michel Mayor (born 1942), astronomer
Johannes von M�ller (1752-1809), historian
K. Alex M�ller (born 1927), 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics
Paul M�ller (1899-1965), 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Johann Caspar von Orelli (1787-1849)
Paracelsus (1493-1541), (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), alchemist
Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics
Jean Piaget (1896-1980), psychologist
Auguste Piccard (1884-1962)
Jacques Piccard
Jean Piccard (1884-1963)
Vladimir Prelog (1906-1998), 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Didier Queloz (born 1966), astronomer
Tadeus Reichstein (1897-1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Heinrich Rohrer (born 1933), 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics
Leopold Ruzicka (1887-1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Horace-B�n�dict de Saussure (1740-1799), botanist
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, (1672-1733), Swiss savant
Jack Steinberger (born 1921), 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics
Alfred Werner (1866-1919), 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Niklaus Wirth (born 1934), computer scientist
Kurt W�thrich (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Daniel Albert Wyttenbach (1746-1820)
Alexandre Yersin (1894-1943), physician, isolates the Yersinia pestis
Rolf M. Zinkernagel (born 1944), 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Fritz Zwicky (1898-1974), astronomer
Theodor Zwinger (1533-1588), scholar

Sports

Paul Accola (born 1967), skiing champion

Simon Ammann (born 1981), gold medallist in Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Denise Biellmann (born 1962), World champion figure skater
Sepp Blatter (born 1935), FIFA president
Roger Federer (born 1981), tennis champion
Michela Figini (born 1966), Alpine skiing champion
Arnold Gerschwiler (born ~1914), skater
Hans Gerschwiler (born ~1921), World champion figure skater
Jack Gerschwiler (1898-2000), coach
Erika Hess (born 1962), Alpine skiing champion
Martina Hingis (born 1980), professional tennis player
Patrick H�rlimann (born 1963), Olympic curling champion
Franz Krienb�hl (1929-2002), speed skater
Peter L�scher (born 1956), Alpine skiing champion
Lise-Marie Morerod (born 1956), Alpine skiing champion
Marie-Th�r�se Nadig (born 1954)
Bernhard Russi (born 1948), Alpine skiing champion
Vreni Schneider (born 1964), Alpine skiing champion
Maria Walliser (born 1963), Alpine skiing champion
Pirmin Zurbriggen (born 1963), Alpine skiing champion

Writers

Peter Bichsel (born 1935)

Ida Bindschedler (1854-1919), childbook author

Hans Boesch (born 1926)

Charles Victor de Bonstetten (1745-1832)
Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), (Fr�d�ric Louis Sauser), author
Jacques Chessex (born 1934)
Anne Cuneo (born 1936)
Erich von D�niken (born 1935), Ancient Astronauts writer
Friedrich D�rrenmatt (1921-1990), author and playwright
Werner J. Egli (born 1943)
Felix Epper (born 1967)
Heinrich Federer (1866-1928)
Martin Frank (born 1950)
Max Frisch (1911-1991), author and architect
Friedrich Glauser (1896-1938)
Jeremias Gotthelf (1797-1854), (Albert Bitzius), author
Roger Graf (born 1958)
Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature
Meinrad Inglin (1893-1971)
Zo� Jenny (born 1974)
Gottfried Keller (1819-1890), Swiss author
Ella Maillart (1903-1997)
Niklaus Meienberg (1940-1993)
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898)
Adolf Muschg (born 1934)
Yves Naud
Suzanne Necker (1739-1794), n�e Suzanne Curchod
Eug�ne Rambert (1830-1886)
Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878-1947)
Urs Richle (born 1965)
Margrit Schriber (born 1939)
Fritjof Schuon
Carl Spitteler (1845-1924), 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature
Johanna Spyri (1827-1901), author of Heidi
Anne Louise Germaine de Sta�l (1766-1817), known as Madame de Sta�l
Otto F. Walter (1928-1994)
Urs Widmer (born 1938)
Johann David Wyss (1743-1818), author of The Swiss Family Robinson
Yvette Z'Graggen (born 1920)
Emil Zopfi (born 1943)
Fritz Zorn (1944-1976), (Fritz Angst), author of Mars
Roland Zoss (born 1951)
Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke (1771-1848)

Others

Sadruddhin Aga Khan (1933-2003), UN High Commissioner for Refugees, longtime Swiss resident
Othmar Ammann (1879-1965), civil engineer, bridge engineer to the New York Port Authority
Ursula Andress (born 1936), actress
S. Corinna Bille (1912-1979), author, poet
Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867-1939), physician and Muesli inventor
Johann Georg Bodmer (1786-1864), inventor
Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698-1783)
Abraham Louis Breguet (1747-1823), watchmaker
Yul Brynner (1915?-1985), actor
Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), art historian
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1814), traveller and orientalist
Elias Canetti (1905-1994), 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature, Swiss resident
Louis Chevrolet (1878-1941), automobile engineer
�tienne Clavi�re (1735-1793)
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
Alfred Escher (1819-1882)
Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth (1767-1823)
Louis Favre (1826-1879), engineer
Heinrich Federer (1866-1928), priest, author
Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg (1771-1844)
Beat Fischer von Reichenbach (1641-1698), held postal monopoly in Berne
Salomon Gessner (1730-1788)
Marie Grossholtz (1761-1850), known as Madame Tussaud
Jeanne Hersch (1910-2000), philosopher
Franz Hohler (born 1943)
Daniel Jean-Richard (1665-1741), watchmaker
Carl Gustav (C.G.) Jung (1875-1961), psychiatrist, writer, philosopher
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), pastor and physiognomist
Max Miedinger (1910-1980), typeface designer, inventor of Helvetica
Claude Nicollier (born 1944), pilot, astronaut
Susanna Orelli (1845-1939)
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827), pedagogue
Mlle Rachel (�lisabeth Rachel F�lix) (1821-1858), actress
Niklaus Riggenbach (1817-1899), engineer
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), philosopher, author
Josias Simmler (1530-1576), theologian, historian
Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), mystic, philosopher and educator
Philippe Suchard (1797-1884), chocolatier
John Sutter (1803-1880), California settler
Caterina Valente (born 1931), singer, actress

People named Swiss

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), from Alsace, not Switzerland

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