Switzerland
People of this nationality
Eugen Gomringer
1925 – 2025
poet
Jakob Lukas Schabelitz
1827 – 1899
publisher
Amalie Halter-Zollinger
1892 – 1985
writer
Stefano Guidotti
b. 1999
association football player
Hans von Hallwyl
1835 – 1909
politician
Hans Locher
1920 – 2009
businessperson
Heidy Forster
1931 – 2023
actor
George Müller
b. 1951
Georges Meylan
b. 1950
astrophysicist
Oliver Widmer
b. 1965
opera singer
Walter Zürrer
1879 – 1955
association football player
Hans-Jörg Hirschbühl
b. 1937
athlete
Claude Iff
b. 1946
association football player
Andy Hug
1964 – 2000
karateka
Charles Piot
1901 – 1990
field hockey player
Peter Uggowitzer
b. 1950
university teacher
Maximilian Gerbl
b. 1995
handball player
Erich Hänzi
b. 1965
association football player
Yang Mingyang
b. 1995
association football player
Philippe Favre
1961 – 2013
engineer
Peter Hänggi
b. 1950
physicist
Cleo von Adelsheim
b. 1987
film actor
Stefanie Gossweiler
b. 1988
model
Michel Fauconnet
1909 – 1988
fencer
Marc Raymond
b. 1968
sculptor
Adrien Perez
b. 1988
swimmer
Hermann Jung
1830 – 1901
functionary
Christian Schocher
b. 1946
screenwriter
Kaspar von Silenen
1467 – 1517
military personnel
Franck Surdez
b. 2002
association football player
Felix Manz
1498 – 1527
hymnwriter
Alfredo Mosca
b. 1971
association football player
Karl Alpiger
b. 1961
alpine skier
Werner Kaegi
1901 – 1979
writer
Daniel Gygax
b. 1981
association football player
Slavo Polugić
b. 1983
kickboxer
Emma Fitting
1900 – 1986
fencer
René Ferté
1903 – 1958
actor
Marie-José Béguelin
b. 1949
linguist
Paul Géroudet
1917 – 2006
ornithologist
Jacques Pousaz
1947 – 2022
ice hockey player
Hermann Geiger
1914 – 1966
aircraft pilot
Philipp Schaerer
b. 1972
architect
Martina Fritschy
b. 1983
orienteer
Steve Zacchia
b. 1982
racing driver
Tina Aeberli
b. 1989
athlete
Gottlieb Weber
1910 – 1996
sport cyclist
Claudia Friedl
b. 1960
politician
Silvio Denz
b. 1956
winegrower
Johann Ulrich Schiess
1813 – 1883
archivist
Joachim Levy
b. 1976
screenwriter
Jeanine Bapst
b. 1968
ski mountaineer
Friedrich Heinrich Häberlin
1834 – 1897
politician
Carl August Liner
1871 – 1946
inventor
Rudolf Scheurer
1925 – 2015
association football referee
Jean-Louis Gampert
1884 – 1942
painter
Werner Miller
1892 – 1959
painter
Trix Heberlein
b. 1942
politician
Peter Kobel
b. 1969
association football player
Virginie Faivre
b. 1982
freestyle skier
Hans Uhlmann
b. 1933
politician
Cornelia Bachofner
b. 1901
canoeist
Harry Schaffer
b. 1963
architect
Heinrich Wölfflin
1864 – 1945
art historian
Francine Simonin
1936 – 2020
painter
Georgine Gerhard
1886 – 1971
teacher
Maria Le Hardouin
1914 – 1967
writer
Lucas Légeret
b. 2001
racing driver
Adrian Bajrami
b. 2002
association football player
Walther Meier
1910 – 1991
field hockey player
Emil Hasler
1882 – 1932
association football player
Gregor Foitek
b. 1965
racing automobile driver
Wilhelm Götz
association football player
Léon Nicole
1887 – 1965
politician
Hans Heinemann
1940 – 2024
sport cyclist
Pierre-André Flückiger
1919 – 1994
sport shooter
Peer Borsky
b. 1990
fencer
Emil Theodor Kocher
1841 – 1917
surgeon
Tom Winkelhausen
curler
Xavier Koller
b. 1944
film director
Bruno Messerli
1931 – 2019
geographer
René Scheibenstock
1891 – 1966
association football player
Edgar Salis
b. 1970
ice hockey player
Max Grässli
1902 – 1985
diplomat
Charles Werner Kopp
1902 – 2000
swimmer
Ernst Gotsch
b. 1948
agronomist
Marcel Salathé
b. 1975
epidemiologist
Henri Grob
1904 – 1974
chess player
Rolf Fäs
1916 – 1983
handball player
Evert van Muyden
1853 – 1922
painter
Carlo Gourlaouen
1899 – 1946
cross-country skier
Markus Zberg
b. 1974
sport cyclist
Henri Jacquet
1888 – 1971
fencer
Markus Getsch Dreifuss
1812 – 1877
opinion journalist
Camille Rast
b. 1999
alpine skier
Lenny Rubin
b. 1996
handball player
Albert Späni
1927 – 2007
sport shooter
Hans R. Camenzind
1934 – 2012
engineer
Hanspeter Lüthi
b. 1944
rower
Daniel Christian Fueter
1720 – 1785
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