Switzerland
People of this nationality
Yves Yersin
1942 – 2018
film director
Gisèle Ory
b. 1956
politician
Jessica Uebelhart
b. 1990
sport cyclist
Joseph Isenschmid
b. 1845
Bruno Monguzzi
b. 1941
designer
Barnabé Delarze
b. 1994
rower
Christian Fischbacher
1913 – 2006
skeleton racer
Ruedi Lustenberger
b. 1950
politician
Walter Müller
1938 – 2018
association football player
Fabio Pusterla
b. 1957
poet
Irene Aebi
1939 – 2026
cellist
Roman Frigg
b. 1972
philosopher
Fritz Lanz
association football player
Cephas Malele
b. 1994
association football player
Kurt Pfammatter
1941 – 2022
ice hockey player
Norka Rouskaya
1899 – 2000
dancer
Philip Schaff
1819 – 1893
church historian
Arnold Amstutz
rower
Beatrice Lundmark
b. 1980
athletics competitor
Cheveyo Tsawa
b. 2006
association football player
Alex Fontana
b. 1992
racing automobile driver
Danielle Villars
b. 1993
swimmer
Frowin Conrad
1833 – 1923
religious
Raphael Kehrli
b. 1977
association football player
Jony Fragnoli
b. 1989
association football player
Marianne Eigenheer
1945 – 2018
painter
Pierre Naftule
1960 – 2022
writer
Francesco Chiesa
b. 1931
association football player
Robert Wyss
1901 – 1956
swimmer
Jennifer Hohl
b. 1986
sport cyclist
Antoine Polier
1741 – 1795
explorer
Erwin Lienhard
1957 – 2019
sport cyclist
Johannes Rietmann
1679 – 1765
military personnel
Kurt Klaus
b. 1934
clockmaker
Massimo Agostinelli
b. 1987
contemporary artist
Orhan Mustafi
b. 1990
association football player
Manfred Hürlimann
b. 1958
painter
Heinz Wirz
b. 1939
field hockey player
Abraham Louis Girardet
1772 – 1821
visual artist
Dominik Schlumpf
b. 1991
ice hockey player
Joseph Heintz the Elder
1564 – 1609
painter
Matthias Zumstein
b. 1973
handball player
Adolf Guyer-Zeller
1839 – 1899
industrialist
Mërgim Bajraktari
b. 1993
association football player
Marianne Uhlmann
b. 1980
curler
Hans Wehrli-Frei
1927 – 2011
athletics competitor
Rosemarie Koczy
1939 – 2007
painter
Philippe Roux
b. 1952
alpine skier
Klaus Merz
b. 1945
poet
Gérald Piaget
basketball player
Lorik Emini
b. 1999
association football player
Marianne Gossweiler
b. 1943
jockey
Raphaël Monachon
b. 1973
athletics competitor
Ruth Signorell
b. 1969
physical chemist
Mathias Röthenmund
b. 1974
canoeist
Paul Gredinger
1927 – 2013
entrepreneur
Christoph Doswald
b. 1961
writer
Ivan Bitzi
b. 1975
athletics competitor
Christoph Schaub
b. 1958
film director
Vincent Rüfli
b. 1988
association football player
Ludwig Lavater
1527 – 1586
theologian
Edouard Girardet
1819 – 1880
artist
Richard Forster
1940 – 2025
photographer
Duilio Arigoni
1928 – 2020
chemist
Dieter Rüefli
b. 1943
association football player
Ernst Weber
1902 – 1991
association football player
Martin Schmidt
b. 1967
association football coach
Fritz Pfenninger
1934 – 2001
track cyclist
Martina Schild
b. 1981
alpine skier
Eugénie Droz
1893 – 1976
publisher
Urs Felber
1942 – 2010
engineer
Erna Steuri
1917 – 2001
alpine skier
Josef Kupper
1932 – 2017
chess player
Luc Hoffmann
1923 – 2016
ornithologist
Ivan Audino
b. 1991
association football player
Albert Jud
b. 1912
professional athlete
Auguste Jean Cuénod
1868 – 1954
ophthalmologist
Yadolah Dodge
b. 1944
statistician
Johann Baptist Stuntz
1753 – 1836
lithographer
Antoine Noé Polier de Bottens
1713 – 1783
theologian
Sebastian Stalder
b. 1998
biathlete
Béla Síki
1923 – 2020
pianist
Constant Fornerod
1819 – 1899
politician
Franziska Greber
b. 1954
psychotherapist
Ada Marra
b. 1973
politician
Ludwig Emanuel Schaerer
1785 – 1853
botanist
Roberto Fregno
b. 1959
association football player
David Moser
b. 1989
association football player
Marius Theiler
b. 1938
sprinter
Niklaus Aeschbacher
1917 – 1995
conductor
Tim Hug
b. 1987
ski jumper
Johann Rudolf Füssli
1709 – 1793
art historian
Klaus Peter Cadsky
1937 – 2011
caricaturist
Rolf Brem
1926 – 2014
sculptor
Bruno Masciadri
1914 – 2001
canoeist
Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg
1771 – 1844
pedagogue
Jean Nicolas Sébastien Allamand
1713 – 1787
botanist
Sabina Vela-Dragoni
1822 – 1892
art director
Philippe Jaccottet
1925 – 2021
poet
Max Schär
b. 1953
handball player