Switzerland
People of this nationality
Karen Twehues
b. 1983
basketball player
Peter Leepin
1920 – 1995
chess player
Heinrich Altherr
1878 – 1947
painter
Maximilien de Meuron
1785 – 1868
painter
Otto Schläpfer
1931 – 2015
ice hockey player
Karl Jauslin
1842 – 1904
painter
Gabrielle Alioth
b. 1955
writer
Felix Haug
1952 – 2004
drummer
Kurt Bryner
1916 – 1984
sailor
Mattias Neuenschwander
b. 1953
curler
Rolf Maurer
1938 – 2019
sport cyclist
Christa Rigozzi
b. 1983
television presenter
Anka Schmid
b. 1961
screenwriter
Alfredo Morabia
b. 1952
epidemiologist
Hans Hausamann
1897 – 1974
photographer
Fabian Kauter
b. 1985
fencer
Hans Beat Wieland
1867 – 1945
painter
Maja Sacher
1896 – 1989
art collector
Helen Jacquet-Gordon
1918 – 2013
Egyptologist
Jürg Biner
b. 1964
freestyle skier
Paul Baumgartner
1903 – 1976
pianist
Gabrielle Oberhänsli-Widmer
b. 1957
Judaic scholar
Michael Lammer
b. 1982
tennis player
Matthias Bamert
b. 1942
composer
Carl Rüedi
1848 – 1901
physician
Franz Riklin
1878 – 1938
psychiatrist
Fritz Blanke
1900 – 1967
church historian
Charles Hauert
1908 – 1995
fencer
Kurt Maurer
b. 1926
association football player
Achille Casanova
1941 – 2016
journalist
Bruno Rahmen
b. 1948
association football player
Fernando Paggi
1914 – 1973
conductor
Christian Stohr
b. 1977
freestyle skier
Claude Goretta
1929 – 2019
film director
Daniel Jeandupeux
b. 1949
association football player
Julio Tejeda
b. 1971
association football player
Oskar Jenny
1939 – 2020
ice hockey player
Dario Ulrich
b. 1998
association football player
Albert Benteli
1867 – 1944
publisher
Segolène Girard
b. 1995
volleyball player
Anna Giacometti
b. 1961
politician
Alfred A. Marcus
b. 1950
business theorist
Pietro Di Nardo
b. 1990
association football player
Bettina Kühn
b. 1982
sport cyclist
Fritz Steuri
1903 – 1955
alpine skier
Denise Wyss
b. 1965
priest
Cédric Rossier
b. 1957
sport cyclist
Evelyn Orley
b. 1966
golfer
Martin Feigenwinter
b. 1970
speed skater
Nadia Pfister
b. 1995
squash player
Richard Dürr
1938 – 2014
association football player
Richard Bucher
1955 – 2012
ice hockey player
Christian Brunner
b. 1953
sport cyclist
Willy Eichenberger
b. 1928
sprinter
Charles-Amédée Kohler
1790 – 1874
chocolatier
Mauro Schmid
b. 1999
sport cyclist
Fabian Fuchs
b. 1961
sport cyclist
Matto Kämpf
b. 1970
writer
Sabina Hafner
b. 1984
bobsledder
Esmée Böbner
b. 1999
beach volleyball player
Marianne Chapuisat
b. 1969
Uwe Krüger
b. 1964
physicist
Isabel Baumann
b. 1978
bobsledder
Pascale Schnider
b. 1984
sport cyclist
Céline Spierer
Petar Majstorović
b. 1975
kickboxer
Hans Vollenweider
1908 – 1940
murderer
Angelo Monotti
1835 – 1915
photographer
Stefan Catsicas
b. 1958
neurobiologist
Daniela Landert
b. 1979
university teacher
Hans Goldmann
1899 – 1991
physician
Priya Ragu
b. 1985
singer-songwriter
Alain Bieri
b. 1979
association football referee
Stefan Kälin
b. 1942
alpine skier
Maria Theresia Scherer
1825 – 1888
nun
Jürg Studer
curler
Hans Hinterreiter
1902 – 1989
painter
Jakob Schönenberger
1931 – 2018
politician
Walter Lüchinger
1926 – 2021
rower
Rudolf Gossweiler
b. 1882
association football player
Hulda Zumsteg
1890 – 1980
restaurateur
Paul Knuchel
competitive diver
Katharina von Zimmermann
1756 – 1781
Victoria Shakespears
b. 1901
drag queen
Willy Schärer
1903 – 1982
athletics competitor
Eduard Steinemann
1906 – 1937
artistic gymnast
Vincino Beretta
1920 – 1972
journalist
Fritz Steuri
1879 – 1950
alpine skier
Simone Stroscio
b. 2003
association football player
Pierre-Joseph Ravel
1832 – 1908
engineer
Edgar André
b. 1999
association football player
Jean-Claude Wicky
1946 – 2016
photographer
Heini Hediger
1908 – 1992
zoologist
Dieter Kienast
1945 – 1998
landscape architect
Robin Roshardt
b. 1988
tennis player
Rudolf Schnyder
1929 – 2000
sport shooter
Ludwig Schläfli
1814 – 1895
mathematician
Evelina Raselli
b. 1992
ice hockey player
Lucien Trepper
b. 1953
archer
Hans Curjel
1896 – 1974
art historian