Switzerland
People of this nationality
Steve Bovay
b. 1984
sport cyclist
Pierre Paris
1947 – 2010
athlete
Marc Weber
b. 1973
ice hockey player
Christian Gross
b. 1954
association football player
Robert Recordon
b. 1905
sport cyclist
Christophe Bays
b. 1991
ice hockey player
Miriam Tinguely
b. 1950
painter
Heinz Stettler
1952 – 2006
bobsledder
Sandro del Prete
b. 1937
painter
Emmanuel Siffert
b. 1967
conductor
Ferdinand Samuel Laur
1791 – 1854
conductor
Franz Hegi
1774 – 1850
painter
Bernhard Caesar Einstein
1930 – 2008
physicist
Franz Meier
b. 1956
athletics competitor
Charles Schlumberger
1893 – 1984
equestrian
Alfred Lanz
1847 – 1907
sculptor
Rudolf Schwarz
b. 1881
association football player
René Mangold
b. 1963
athletics competitor
Christian Moser
1861 – 1935
mathematician
Markus Frei
b. 1952
association football coach
Nessim Gaon
1922 – 2022
financier
Georges Moeckli
1889 – 1974
politician
Barbara Diethelm
b. 1962
painter
Rémy Scheurer
1934 – 2026
politician
Pierre de Zurich
1881 – 1947
writer
Marianne Streiff-Feller
b. 1957
politician
Conradin Cramer
b. 1979
politician
Sebastian Klinger
b. 1993
cinematographer
Alfred Schweizer
b. 1941
composer
Edmée Abetel
1922 – 2002
alpine skier
Jolanda Annen
b. 1992
triathlete
Matthias Gohl
b. 1956
composer
Arnold Martignoni
1901 – 1984
ice hockey player
Jost Franz Huwyler-Boller
1874 – 1930
architect
Hans Beyeler
1894 – 1968
association football player
Christian Kerez
b. 1962
architect
Andreas Steindl
b. 1989
mountain guide
Andreas Pfaltz
b. 1948
chemist
Peter Mieg
1906 – 1990
journalist
Frédéric Pajak
b. 1955
writer
Alice Fischer
1932 – 2017
figure skater
Beat Zehnder
b. 1966
engineer
Christoph Studer
canoeist
Vreni Leiser
b. 1945
sprinter
Ramon Vega
b. 1971
association football player
Daniel Lang
b. 1971
fencer
Ferdinand Gonseth
1890 – 1975
mathematician
Heidi Robbiani
b. 1950
show jumper
Thierry Lang
b. 1956
jazz pianist
Marius Bear
b. 1993
singer
Louis François de Pourtalès
1823 – 1880
naturalist
Davide Mariani
b. 1991
association football player
Robert Freitag
1916 – 2010
film director
Michael Pieper
b. 1946
business executive
Alexander Clavel
1805 – 1873
entrepreneur
Adrian von Bubenberg
1424 – 1479
politician
Martin Vosseler
1948 – 2019
internist
Louis Blondel
1885 – 1967
archaeologist
Luc Bondy
1948 – 2015
film director
Maria Stader
1911 – 1999
opera singer
Gabriela Signori
b. 1960
medievalist
Gerold Späth
b. 1939
writer
Archduchess Margarethe, Princess of Monteleone
1925 – 1979
aristocrat
Viktor Giacobbo
b. 1952
television presenter
Heinz Lienhard
1937 – 2020
engineer
François-Xavier Poizat
b. 1989
pianist
Franz Starkl
rower
Peter Läng
b. 1986
association football player
John Dupraz
b. 1945
politician
Ambrosius Holbein
1494 – 1519
painter
Ciril Grossklaus
b. 1991
judoka
Delia Durrer
b. 2002
alpine skier
Susanne Schmid
b. 1965
tennis player
Stéphane Udry
b. 1961
astronomer
Nils Pédat
b. 2001
association football player
Alfred Werner
1866 – 1919
chemist
Rudolf Brunner
1827 – 1894
politician
Grazioso Rusca
1757 – 1829
sculptor
Simon Stadler
b. 1988
politician
Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
b. 1959
molecular biologist
Johann Rudolf Wetter
1705 – 1767
businessperson
Bernard Kälin
1887 – 1962
Catholic priest
Anton Bühler
1922 – 2013
event rider
Gaby Casanova
b. 1950
curler
Sehar Fejzulahi
b. 1985
association football player
Alphonse Matejka
1902 – 1999
Idist
Sandrine Vaucher
b. 1971
freestyle skier
Daniel Streich
b. 2000
politician
Sarah Lahbati
b. 1993
actor
Emilie Aubry
b. 1989
sport cyclist
Larissa Keat
b. 1989
performance artist
Ilaria Renggli
b. 2000
para badminton player
Ernst Grauer
1913 – 2006
association football player
Peter de Cruz
b. 1990
curler
Johan Manzambi
b. 2005
association football player
Rolf Diethelm
b. 1940
ice hockey player
Benjamin Gföhler
b. 1994
athletics competitor
Paul Kölliker
1932 – 2021
rower
Walter Hurschler
b. 1959
Nordic combined skier
Caroline Mezger
1787 – 1843
lithographer