Switzerland
People of this nationality
Alfred Heer
1961 – 2025
politician
Eric Walsky
b. 1984
ice hockey player
Ludwig Vogel
1788 – 1879
painter
Sandra Dombrowski
b. 1966
ice hockey player
Rudolf Wirz
1918 – 1988
handball player
Hans Pulver
1902 – 1977
association football player
Lukas Fankhauser
curler
Vincenzo Baviera
b. 1945
sculptor
Maja Hoffmann
b. 1956
patron of the arts
Oliver Schnyder
b. 1973
pianist
Henri Chammartin
1918 – 2011
dressage rider
Vico Torriani
1920 – 1998
television presenter
Eduard Irniger
association football player
Justus Dahinden
1925 – 2020
architect
Jean-Pierre Maradan
b. 1954
association football player
Paul Finsler
1894 – 1970
mathematician
Elisabeth Feller
1910 – 1973
entrepreneur
Simone Niggli-Luder
b. 1978
orienteer
Kurt von Arx
b. 1937
field hockey player
Stefan Traub
b. 1969
curler
Nathalie Henseler
b. 1975
businessperson
Ursula Mauch
b. 1935
politician
Ida Schöpfer
1929 – 2014
alpine skier
Tobias Stephan
b. 1984
ice hockey player
Fritz Feuz
1931 – 2022
artistic gymnast
Bastien Toma
b. 1999
association football player
Chantal Galladé
b. 1972
politician
Emil Beeler
b. 1937
sport cyclist
Ueli Gegenschatz
1971 – 2009
skydiver
Thomas Macher
1947 – 2025
rower
Louis de La Palud
1400 – 1451
Catholic monk
Rafik Ben Salah
1948 – 2024
writer
Hugo Goeggel
b. 1936
rower
Hansheinz Schneeberger
1926 – 2019
violinist
Adolfo Müller-Ury
1862 – 1947
painter
Davide Taini
b. 1976
association football player
Daniel Rubin
b. 1985
ice hockey player
Emil Steinberger
b. 1933
humorist
Philippe de La Harpe
1830 – 1882
physician
Sophie G. Martin
b. 1977
biologist
Renato Ulrich
b. 1983
freestyle skier
Erwin Kurz
1846 – 1901
politician
Max Palatini
association football player
Christine Maier
b. 1965
television presenter
Walter Frey
b. 1943
politician
Georg von Opel
b. 1966
businessperson
Vincenzo Angelo Orelli
1751 – 1813
painter
Arno Rossini
b. 1957
association football player
Madeleine Zimmermann
b. 1901
canoeist
Audrey Gogniat
b. 2002
athlete
Alex Bugnon
b. 1958
jazz musician
Markus Widmer
curler
Pierre Musy
1910 – 1990
bobsledder
Roberto Frigerio
1938 – 2023
association football player
Walter Diggelmann
1915 – 1999
sport cyclist
Charles Jacot-Guillarmod
1868 – 1925
topographer
Emanuel Büchel
1705 – 1775
painter
Petr Gertsen
1871 – 1947
physician
Markus Zürcher
1946 – 2013
lithographer
Olaf Breuning
b. 1970
artist
Fabio Crotta
b. 1979
show jumper
Helmut Förnbacher
b. 1936
screenwriter
Mathias Gnädinger
1941 – 2015
voice actor
Henri Alexis Tardent
1853 – 1929
botanist
Marie-Gaïané Mikaelian
b. 1984
tennis player
Danny Fury
drummer
Grégoire Maret
b. 1975
jazz musician
Ursula Amstein
b. 1943
luger
Fritz Hegner
1919 – 1983
modern pentathlete
Julien Bill
b. 1983
motocross rider
Saidy Janko
b. 1995
association football player
Marc Schneeberger
b. 1981
athletics competitor
René Huguenin
b. 1944
ice hockey player
Orlando D. Schärer
biologist
Arthur Stoll
1887 – 1971
biochemist
Emilie Gex-Fabry
b. 1986
ski mountaineer
Ferdinand-Isaac de Rovéréa
1763 – 1829
military personnel
Marguerite Gobat
1870 – 1937
women's rights activist
Arlette Zola
b. 1949
singer
Amédéé Biner
b. 1953
curler
Fritz Fischer
1898 – 1947
physicist
Susanna Roth
1950 – 1997
literary scholar
Jennifer Eicher
b. 1962
equestrian
Xenia Tchoumitcheva
b. 1987
model
Christoph Marthaler
b. 1951
theatre director
Mathilde Gremaud
b. 2000
freestyle skier
Leonie Hügli
b. 2005
javelin thrower
Ludwig Stickelberger
1850 – 1936
mathematician
Emma Ott
1907 – 2011
nurse
Alfred Frölicher
1927 – 2010
mathematician
Nicola Siegrist
b. 1996
politician
Giovanni Battista Innocenzo Colombo
1717 – 1801
architect
Jean-François Paroz
b. 1960
diplomat
Flavio Rota
b. 1966
artistic gymnast
Patrick Gauchat
b. 1968
military personnel
Duri Camichel
1982 – 2015
ice hockey player
David Jovanovic
b. 2001
association football player
Jacques Rousseau
1683 – 1753
watchmaker
Stephan Pfister
b. 1956
curler
Yasmin Giger
b. 1999
heptathlete