Switzerland
People of this nationality
Ernst von Grünigen
1950 – 1992
ski jumper
Djibril Sow
b. 1997
association football player
Maria Pappa
b. 1971
politician
Peter Probst
canoeist
Stefania Carmine
b. 1966
sport cyclist
Pasquale D'Ambrosio
b. 1971
association football player
Jacques Piccard
1922 – 2008
inventor
Max Streib
1912 – 1989
handball player
Rolf Erb
1951 – 2017
entrepreneur
Johann Adam Pupikofer
1797 – 1882
regional historian
Ursula Holliger
1937 – 2014
harpist
Brigitte Zürcher
orienteer
Alessandro Iandoli
b. 1984
association football player
Adrian Frutiger
1928 – 2015
type designer
Hans Lüthi
b. 1939
sport cyclist
Manuela Brütsch
b. 1984
handball player
Marco Piatti
b. 1958
artistic gymnast
Anto Grgic
b. 1996
association football player
Clementine De Giuli
b. 1993
archer
Franco Marvulli
b. 1978
sport cyclist
Paul Ditisheim
1868 – 1945
watchmaker
Norbert Thom
1946 – 2019
economist
Benjamin Samuel Bolomey
1739 – 1819
painter
Max Birnstiel
1933 – 2014
molecular biologist
Goeli
writer
Émile Argand
1879 – 1940
geologist
Thierry Bollin
b. 2000
swimmer
Azem Maksutaj
b. 1975
kickboxer
Denise Kramer-Scholer
1910 – 1993
fencer
Josef Escher
1885 – 1954
politician
Noël Fontanet
1898 – 1982
draftsperson
Simon Sohm
b. 2001
association football player
Emil Riedener
association football player
Jakob Sonnenberg
1556 – 1629
wine trader
Fredy Arber
b. 1928
sport cyclist
Ernst Leumann
1859 – 1931
Indologist
Emil Beurmann
1862 – 1951
writer
Adrien Lachenal
1849 – 1918
politician
Désirée Ehrler
b. 1991
sport cyclist
Hanspeter Vetter
b. 1944
association football player
Hans Walter
1889 – 1967
rower
Linda Fahrni
b. 1993
sailor
Teo Gheorghiu
b. 1992
pianist
Erika Billeter
1927 – 2011
art historian
Sylvie Perrinjaquet
b. 1955
politician
Paul Wild
1925 – 2014
astronomer
Robert Hermann
1869 – 1912
composer
Nina Corti
b. 1953
dancer
Catherine Leutenegger
b. 1983
photographer
Louis Jäggi
1948 – 2007
cross-country skier
Nicolas Gobet
b. 1938
rower
Max Pestalozzi
1857 – 1925
chess player
Géraldine Savary
b. 1968
politician
Jörg De Bernardi
b. 1973
politician
Jan Huber
b. 2005
sport cyclist
Otto Vonlaufen
b. 1928
rower
Carl Wilhelm von Zehender
1819 – 1916
ophthalmologist
Jean-Édouard Berthoud
1846 – 1916
architect
Christian Kälin
b. 1971
lawyer
Marc Giger
b. 2004
association football player
Gret Loewensberg
b. 1943
architect
Remo Freuler
b. 1992
association football player
Cyrill Gasser
b. 1992
association football player
Joseph Simon Volmar
1796 – 1865
painter
Charles Kleiber
1942 – 2025
architect
Florian Vogel
b. 1982
sport cyclist
Kurt Gassmann
1891 – 1964
jurist
Louis Gobet
1908 – 1995
association football player
Lorenz Schindelholz
b. 1966
bobsledder
Joan Gamper
1877 – 1930
association football player
Mira Gincburg
1884 – 1949
psychiatrist
Bernard Reichel
1901 – 1992
composer
Lucien Koch
b. 1996
snowboarder
Erik Qualman
b. 1972
writer
Peter Burger
b. 1965
modern pentathlete
Reto von Arx
b. 1976
ice hockey player
Fritz Göttisheim
1837 – 1896
politician
Bruno Locher
association football player
Werner Decker
1939 – 2017
association football player
Fernand Gobet
b. 1962
psychologist
Gilbert Rist
1938 – 2023
university teacher
Alexandre Perrier
1862 – 1936
painter
Elvira Barbey
1892 – 1971
figure skater
Marie-Isaline Tourte-Cherbuliez
1793 – 1863
writer
Marco Mangold
b. 1987
association football player
Luc Recordon
b. 1955
politician
Sarah Ludi
b. 1971
dancer
Sylvia Michel
1935 – 2025
Ernest Bieler
1863 – 1948
illustrator
Jean Mollen
bobsledder
Alain Berger
b. 1970
sport cyclist
Hans Wilhelm Auer
1847 – 1906
architect
Sébastien Lipawsky
b. 1977
association football player
Genoveva Eichenmann
b. 1957
marathon runner
Peter Arens
1928 – 2015
stage actor
Alphonse Maeder
1882 – 1971
psychiatrist
Albert Giger
1946 – 2021
cross-country skier
Laurence Fehlmann Rielle
b. 1955
politician
Fritz Bützberger
1862 – 1922
mathematician
Walter Thurnherr
b. 1963
civil servant