Switzerland
People of this nationality
Fritz Puempin
1901 – 1972
anthropologist
Nathalie Yamb
b. 1969
political activist
Kacey Mottet-Klein
b. 1998
actor
Alfred Bachmann
b. 1945
rower
Gaston Tschirren
1906 – 1983
association football player
Stefan Glarner
b. 1987
association football player
Paul Meyer
b. 1922
rower
Anita Schwaller
b. 1975
snowboarder
Rudolf Wolf
1816 – 1893
astronomer
Conrad Justinger
1400 – 1438
historian
Susanne Lüscher
orienteer
Hansjörg Lips
b. 1963
curler
Adolf Wölfli
1864 – 1930
composer
Denis Simani
b. 1998
association football player
Michael Kempter
b. 1995
association football player
Adrian von Ziegler
b. 1989
composer
Peter Steinmann
b. 1962
modern pentathlete
Heinz Meier
b. 1948
bobsledder
Doyen Bridel
1757 – 1845
writer
Jean Grieder
1874 – 1941
association football player
Jonathan Gagnoud
b. 1988
association football player
Ferdinand Vetter
1847 – 1924
Germanist
Irene Pijoan
1953 – 2004
painter
Martin Müller
b. 1957
association football player
Steve Zampieri
b. 1977
sport cyclist
Carl Arnold Gonzenbach
1806 – 1885
painter
Gertrud Leupi
1825 – 1904
nun
Walter Mundschin
b. 1947
association football player
Alfred Stäger
1924 – 2006
alpine skier
Carlo Giuseppe Plura
1663 – 1737
sculptor
Oriana Scheuss
b. 1972
sport shooter
Reto Hug
b. 1975
triathlete
Urs Fischer
b. 1973
sculptor
Nicole Brändli
b. 1979
sport cyclist
Didier Moret
b. 1975
ski mountaineer
Rudolf Olgiati
1910 – 1995
architect
Herbert Kolly
b. 1969
freestyle skier
Ulrich von Sax
1150 – 1220
religious
Daniel Ramseier
b. 1963
dressage rider
Silvia Fürst
b. 1961
sport cyclist
Ernest Peterly
1892 – 1957
association football player
Guido Schuster
b. 2000
engineer
Denis Miéville
1946 – 2018
mathematician
Beno Eckmann
1917 – 2008
mathematician
Hans Bock
1550 – 1624
painter
Lorenzo Vela
1812 – 1897
sculptor
Guy Weill
1914 – 2006
art collector
William Pichard
1903 – 1957
bobsledder
Pauline Agassiz Shaw
1841 – 1917
social reformer
Georges Salz
1878 – 1949
publisher
Patrick Müller
b. 1996
sport cyclist
Arnold Gartmann
1904 – 1980
bobsledder
Brahian Peña
b. 1994
athletics competitor
Ernst Lüthi
b. 1954
ice hockey player
Gian Giacomo Albertolli
1761 – 1805
architect
Edwin Bollier
b. 1938
Jean Paré
1913 – 1986
basketball player
Jakob Christoph Miville
1786 – 1836
painter
Léna Bühler
b. 1997
racing driver
Daniel Böltz
b. 1962
marathon runner
Jules Piccard
1840 – 1933
chemist
David Rytz
1801 – 1868
mathematician
Julian Bühler
b. 1985
association football player
Simon Gempeler
b. 1986
curler
Walter Lienhard
1890 – 1973
sport shooter
Johann Rudolf Huber
1668 – 1748
painter
Niklaus Wirth
1934 – 2024
computer scientist
Sascha Lehmann
b. 1998
rock climber
Jean-Christophe Heyland
1791 – 1866
printmaker
Rudolf Gyger
1920 – 1996
association football player
Friedrich Glauser
1896 – 1938
writer
Hortense Anda-Bührle
1926 – 2014
business executive
Johannes Itten
1888 – 1967
painter
Charles Didier
1805 – 1864
writer
Susi Eppenberger
1931 – 2023
politician
Margrit Mondavi
1926 – 2016
activist
Paul Probst
1869 – 1945
sport shooter
Joana Mäder
b. 1991
volleyball player
Amedée Piguet
wrestler
David Eduard Steiner
1811 – 1860
painter
Ana-Maria Crnogorčević
b. 1990
association football player
Sandro Simonet
b. 1995
alpine skier
Taddeo Duno
1523 – 1613
non-fiction writer
Ferdinand Hurter
1844 – 1898
chemist
Annelies Štrba
b. 1947
photographer
Min Li Marti
b. 1974
journalist
Nino Ziswiler
b. 1999
association football player
Gaspard Bauhin
1560 – 1624
botanist
Andrea Zimmermann
b. 1976
athletics competitor
Louis de Roll
b. 1750
military personnel
Mélanie Meillard
b. 1998
alpine skier
Max Alphons Pfyffer von Altishofen
1834 – 1890
architect
Heidrun Huwyler
b. 1942
painter
Jean-Jacques Tillmann
1935 – 2015
sports journalist
Arnold Gerschwiler
1914 – 2003
figure skating coach
David Aebischer
b. 1978
ice hockey player
Ettore Maestranzi
1914 – 1966
sport cyclist
Rainer Küschall
b. 1947
table tennis player
Claude Haldi
1942 – 2017
engineer
Stefano Knuchel
b. 1966
film director