Switzerland
People of this nationality
Renzo Holzer
b. 1952
ice hockey player
Barbara Polla
b. 1951
politician
Lia Wälti
b. 1993
association football player
Hans Eduard von Berlepsch-Valendas
1849 – 1921
architect
Luigi M. Venanzi
1927 – 2000
chemist
Vanessa Schaefer
b. 2005
ice hockey player
Ramon Untersander
b. 1991
ice hockey player
Markus Keller
b. 1982
snowboarder
Edgar Buchwalder
1916 – 2009
sport cyclist
Marius Borgeaud
1861 – 1924
painter
Andrée Rochat-Aeschlimann
1900 – 1990
musician
Denis Duchosal
b. 1971
association football player
Alain Reimann
b. 1967
sprinter
Thomas Wapp
b. 1972
badminton player
Patrick Sutter
b. 1970
ice hockey player
Urs Brechbühl
b. 1946
biathlete
David Strauss
1808 – 1874
philosopher
Arthur Honegger
1924 – 2017
politician
Joseph Kuntschen
1849 – 1928
politician
Ulrich Falk
b. 1950
judoka
Christoph Kreienbühl
b. 1955
swimmer
Irena Backus
1950 – 2019
historian
Georgie Lamon
1934 – 2016
businessperson
Johannes Jacob Wecker
1528 – 1586
chemist
Diane Gayer
architect
Martin Hürlimann
1897 – 1984
photographer
Fabio Scherer
b. 1999
racing automobile driver
Rolf Biland
b. 1951
motorcycle racer
Johann Grob
1643 – 1697
writer
Barbara Meier
b. 1962
curler
Manfred Bühler
b. 1979
politician
Reto Berra
b. 1987
ice hockey player
Alain Auderset
b. 1968
comics artist
Gertrud Leutenegger
1948 – 2025
poet
Petra Fontanive
b. 1988
hurdler
Victor Fayod
1860 – 1900
botanist
Karl Kappeler
1816 – 1888
politician
Josef Flammer
b. 1948
ophthalmologist
Jean Pictet
1914 – 2002
jurist
Jules Düblin
1895 – 1992
association football player
Eric Bonjour
b. 1973
politician
Eugène Penard
1855 – 1954
biologist
Marcel Arnold
b. 1962
sprinter
Jacob Bernoulli
1655 – 1705
mathematician
Franziska Stark
b. 1999
sport shooter
Rudolf Keller
1925 – 2014
ice hockey player
Harry Warburton
1925 – 2005
bobsledder
Francis Travis
1921 – 2017
conductor
Karl Reichlin
1841 – 1924
politician
René Fasel
b. 1950
ice hockey player
Rebeka Masarova
b. 1999
tennis player
Karl Ludwig von Erlach
1746 – 1798
politician
Frank Charles Peyraud
1858 – 1948
painter
Eugenio Santoro
1920 – 2006
sculptor
Lorenz Possa
1934 – 2013
cross-country skier
Kaspar Schiesser
1916 – 2007
professional athlete
Joseph Bernhard von (von Ehrenfeld) Billieux
1750 – 1824
canon
Paul Hänni
1927 – 2020
amateur wrestler
Edwin Fischer
1886 – 1960
pianist
Thierry Bolle
1953 – 2020
sport cyclist
Doris Schweizer
b. 1989
sport cyclist
Claudia R. Binder
b. 1966
biochemist
Judith Steiger
b. 1956
artistic gymnast
Adrian Gantenbein
b. 2001
association football player
Fabian Burckhardt
curler
Balthasar Burkhard
1944 – 2010
photographer
Claudio Castagnoli
b. 1980
professional wrestler
Rhodri Smith
b. 2006
association football player
Johannes Oporinus
1507 – 1568
linguist
Maya Pedersen-Bieri
b. 1972
skeleton racer
Hans Jakob Oeri
1782 – 1868
painter
Wilhelm Glaser
1887 – 1946
association football player
Pascal Schürpf
b. 1989
association football player
Alexandre Strambini
b. 1975
tennis player
Jacques Sablet
1749 – 1803
painter
Friedrich Ludwig Keller
1799 – 1860
politician
Fred Lüthi
b. 1930
professional athlete
Henri Dreyfus
1882 – 1944
chemist
Charlotte Tschanz
b. 1933
archer
Erika Müller
b. 1950
curler
Fiona Swarovski
b. 1965
entrepreneur
Dimitri Isler
b. 1993
freestyle skier
Brunschvig Georges
1908 – 1973
lawyer
Max Sutter
association football player
Heinrich Willi
1900 – 1971
pediatrician
Valentin Blattner
b. 1958
winegrower
Nora-Eugenie Gomringer
b. 1980
poet
Paul Braendli
1930 – 2026
jurist
Regina Bendix
b. 1958
anthropologist
Yomi Denzel Olaniyi
b. 1996
entrepreneur
Bruno Aeberhard
b. 1976
bobsledder
Enzo Corvi
b. 1992
ice hockey player
Elia Alessandrini
1997 – 2022
association football player
Valerio Lazzeri
b. 1963
Catholic priest
Annerösli Zryd
b. 1949
alpine skier
Wilhelm Matthias Naeff
1802 – 1881
politician
Edmund Bruggmann
1943 – 2014
alpine skier
Stefan Rusconi
b. 1979
pianist
Sandro Lauper
b. 1996
association football player
André Hediger
1941 – 2024
politician