Switzerland
People of this nationality
Hans-Ulrich Brunner
1943 – 2006
painter
Gürkan Sermeter
b. 1974
association football player
Jacques Sauthier
1905 – 1985
boxer
Hans-Peter Friedländer
1920 – 1999
association football player
Belinda Bencic
b. 1997
tennis player
Simon Michel
b. 1977
politician
Hans Schwarzentruber
1929 – 1982
artistic gymnast
Arnold Hirtz
1910 – 1993
ice hockey player
Verena Keller
b. 1945
actor
Walther Amrhyn
1570 – 1635
politician
Joseph Caspar
1799 – 1880
painter
Richmond Rak
b. 1985
association football player
Louis von Sonnenberg
1921 – 2004
sport shooter
Franz Wicki
b. 1939
politician
Hans Streuli
1892 – 1970
politician
Peter Jaks
1966 – 2011
ice hockey player
Péter Pázmándy
1938 – 2012
association football player
Édouard Garo
1935 – 2025
composer
Else Züblin-Spiller
1881 – 1948
journalist
Hans Rehmann
1900 – 1939
stage actor
Willi Moser
1894 – 1963
athletics competitor
Guillaume Pousaz
b. 1980
businessperson
Wilhelm Vischer
1895 – 1988
pastor
Josef Wolfgang Von Deschwanden
1819 – 1866
mathematician
Marco Casanova
b. 1976
alpine skier
Kamal Benslama
experimental physicist
Richard Fehr
1939 – 2013
religious person
Alexander Äschbach
b. 1974
sport cyclist
Josef Stalder
1919 – 1991
artistic gymnast
Roger Eberhard
b. 1984
photographer
Fridolin Sicher
1490 – 1546
composer
Remo Rossi
1909 – 1982
sculptor
Ernst Leonhardt
1885 – 1945
politician
Naomi Mégroz
b. 1998
association football player
Lisa Mamié
b. 1998
swimmer
Christopher Zanella
b. 1989
racing driver
Paul Speidel
b. 1938
association football player
Ljuba Manz-Lurje
b. 1940
hotel manager
Ruth Kellerhals
b. 1957
mathematician
Wildy Petoud
b. 1957
novelist
Toni Seiler
b. 1958
racing driver
Lorent Tolaj
b. 2001
association football player
André Ducret
1945 – 2025
composer
Philippe Reinhardt
b. 1981
stage actor
Urs Güntensperger
b. 1967
association football player
Urs A. Meyer
b. 1938
pharmacologist
Allmir Ademi
b. 1984
association football player
Fritz Käsermann
wrestler
Hellmuth Kolbe
1926 – 2002
Hansruedi von Gunten
1928 – 2021
chemist
Lydia Welti-Escher
1858 – 1891
patron of the arts
Manuela Müller
b. 1980
freestyle skier
Hans Sandreuter
1850 – 1901
painter
Gottlieb Fröhlich
b. 1948
coxswain
André Melly
1802 – 1851
naturalist
Valentin Amrhein
b. 1971
biologist
Philipp Albert Stapfer
1766 – 1840
philosopher
Luzia von Wyl
b. 1985
composer
Farhad Hafezi
b. 1967
surgeon
Kurt Rechsteiner
1931 – 2017
sport cyclist
Marc Brügger
curler
Roeland Wiesnekker
b. 1967
stage actor
Wilhelm Jakob Rink von Baldenstein
1624 – 1705
Catholic priest
Alois Kälin
b. 1939
Nordic combined skier
Vanessa Bernauer
b. 1988
association football player
Marcel Rohner
b. 1964
bobsledder
David Marazzi
b. 1984
association football player
Robert Tobler
1901 – 1962
politician
Annemarie Düringer
1925 – 2014
stage actor
Jacques Cornu
1953 – 2026
motorcycle racer
Ayis Capéronis
b. 1950
swimmer
Aurelio Bacciarini
1873 – 1935
theologian
Max Kämpf
1912 – 1982
painter
Jacqueline Maurer-Mayor
1947 – 2026
politician
Pierre Délèze
b. 1958
athletics competitor
Pierre Chappuis
1930 – 2020
writer
Markus Feldmann
1897 – 1958
politician
Patrick Meier
b. 1976
figure skater
Stefano Franscini
1796 – 1857
politician
Joseph Thomas Fassbind
1755 – 1824
pastor
Markus Tanner
b. 1954
association football player
Manfred Bleuler
1903 – 1994
psychiatrist
Don Li
b. 1971
clarinetist
Cédric Tsimba
b. 1984
association football player
Nicole Schaeren-Wiemers
b. 1962
researcher
Chiara Gmür
b. 1993
alpine skier
Caroline Steffen
b. 1978
triathlete
Bettina Heim
b. 1989
figure skater
Cuno Amiet
1868 – 1961
painter
Andreas Ritsch
b. 1961
ice hockey player
Georg von Schorsch
1475 – 1540
diplomat
Mario Comensoli
1922 – 1993
painter
Willy Reichenbach
boxer
Florian Zogg
1900 – 1993
cross-country skier
Urs Amann
1951 – 2019
painter
János Tamás
1936 – 1995
composer
Sarah Atcho
b. 1995
athletics competitor
Nadja Skaljic
lawyer
Samuel-Auguste Tissot
1728 – 1797
physician
Rolf Beeler
b. 1954
artisan