Switzerland
People of this nationality
Johann Makowsky
b. 1948
mathematician
Émile Gilliéron
1885 – 1939
archaeologist
Marian Eleganti
b. 1955
Catholic priest
Marc Benz
b. 1982
engineer
Gian Luca Barandun
1994 – 2018
alpine skier
Markus Kägi
b. 1960
luger
Stefano Maderno
1576 – 1636
sculptor
Ursula Schwaller
b. 1976
rower
Hermann Askan Demme
1802 – 1867
physician
Hans Baumann
1905 – 1992
modern pentathlete
Max Eiselin
1932 – 2026
mountaineer
Heini Thoma
1900 – 1982
rower
René Sommer
1951 – 2009
inventor
Jean Glarner
b. 1940
field hockey player
Jakob Schenk
1921 – 1951
sport cyclist
Marco Odermatt
b. 1997
alpine skier
Bruno Leibundgut
b. 1960
astronomer
Maria Becker
1920 – 2012
television actor
Marc Gisin
b. 1988
alpine skier
Stefan Janos
b. 1943
physicist
Rolf Zurbrügg
b. 1971
mountain guide
Nicolai Lorenzoni
b. 1992
association football player
Josef Zemp
1834 – 1908
politician
Kurt E. Kimmel
b. 1941
banker
Amos Bairoch
1957 – 2025
bioinformatician
Rolf Gisler
b. 1953
sprinter
Franjo von Allmen
b. 2001
alpine skier
Bertrand Cardis
b. 1956
business executive
Francesca Pianzola
b. 1897
athletics competitor
Josef Müller-Brockmann
1914 – 1996
graphic designer
Ulrich Giezendanner
b. 1953
politician
Werner Oechslin
b. 1944
art historian
Dušan Mlađan
b. 1986
basketball player
Carlo Pedrazzini
1909 – 1934
racing driver
Roland Schwegler
b. 1982
association football player
Fritz Steuri
1908 – 1953
alpine skier
Steve Lee
1963 – 2010
musician
Hans Fahrni
1874 – 1939
chess player
Naoki Rossi
b. 2007
figure skater
Dan Fritsche
b. 1985
ice hockey player
Hermann Schönbächler
b. 1966
Willy Angst
b. 1913
amateur wrestler
Hanna Miluska
b. 1984
swimmer
Berat Djimsiti
b. 1993
association football player
Harun Alpsoy
b. 1997
association football player
Hans-Jürg Fehr
b. 1948
politician
Michael Kauter
b. 1979
fencer
Luka Maros
b. 1994
handball player
Magnus Breitenmoser
b. 1998
association football player
Anna Sutter
1868 – 1910
opera singer
Kaspar Megander
1495 – 1545
theologian
Aldo C. Schellenberg
b. 1958
economist
Simon Gloor
b. 1997
curler
Jacob Schmidheiny
1838 – 1905
entrepreneur
Mateja Kraljevic
b. 1993
tennis player
Alexander Bannwart
1880 – 1959
businessperson
Juergen Brugger
Mabel Cawthra
1871 – 1943
painter
Thomas Hoch
curler
Johan Djourou
b. 1987
association football player
Martin Höhener
b. 1980
ice hockey player
Celine van Till
b. 1991
equestrian
Theo Heimann
1911 – 1979
sport cyclist
Samuel Oettli
1846 – 1911
theologian
Alwin Albert Hafner
1930 – 2016
Catholic priest
Werner Gallusser
b. 1923
composer
Jean-Philippe Maitre
1949 – 2006
politician
Ulrich K. Lämmli
b. 1940
biochemist
Meinrad Berchtold
1943 – 2019
artistic gymnast
Dominique Herr
b. 1965
association football player
Igor Tadić
b. 1986
association football player
Hans Roth
1934 – 1999
architect
Josef Wilhelm Rinck von Baldenstein
1704 – 1762
Catholic priest
Georges Meyer
b. 1914
sprinter
Ernst Krebs
1914 – 1997
amateur wrestler
Lucas Maniema
b. 2006
basketball player
Carlo Sutermeister
1847 – 1918
engineer
Philipp Etter
1891 – 1977
politician
Bojan Milosavljević
b. 1998
association football player
Sibel Arslan
b. 1980
jurist
Kyril Louis-Dreyfus
b. 1997
businessperson
Adrienne von Speyr
1902 – 1967
physician
André Ramseyer
1914 – 2007
sculptor
Thomas Ott
b. 1966
penciller
Rudolf Anton von Buol-Schauenstein
1705 – 1765
ambassador
Nico Hischier
b. 1999
ice hockey player
David-Louis Constant de Rebecque
1722 – 1785
military officer
François-Henri Lavanchy-Clarke
1848 – 1922
entrepreneur
Hermann Eichholzer
b. 1903
weightlifter
Hans Bourquin
1914 – 1997
coxswain
Bruno Meyer
b. 1938
Ricardo Cabanas
b. 1979
association football player
Anelis Kaiser
neuroscientist
Walter Kälin
b. 1951
lawyer
Patrick Geering
b. 1990
ice hockey player
Roger Schneider
1983 – 2020
speed skater
Rudolf Steiner
b. 1951
athletics competitor
Nina Christen
b. 1994
sport shooter
Samuel Bendahan
b. 1980
politician
Erich Nigg
b. 1952
biochemist