Switzerland
People of this nationality
Nicolas Hojac
b. 1992
Milan Basrak
b. 1994
association football player
Johann Robert Schürch
1895 – 1941
painter
Sonia Kacem
b. 1985
visual artist
Guido Nobel
1922 – 2002
trade unionist
Tatjana Hänni
b. 1966
association football player
Louis-Emil Eyer
1865 – 1916
pedagogue
Florian Jenni
b. 1980
chess player
Georges Tiercy
1886 – 1955
astronomer
François Turrettini
Marcel Vonlanthen
b. 1933
association football player
Adolfo Kind
1848 – 1907
alpine skier
Daniel Brélaz
1950 – 2025
mathematician
Livio Wenger
b. 1993
speed skater
Karim Gazzetta
1995 – 2022
association football player
Ugo Jametti
b. 1959
handball player
Adolphe Mercier
1878 – 1956
equestrian
Federico Schott
b. 1910
association football player
Roland Dalhäuser
b. 1958
athletics competitor
Joachim Vadian
1484 – 1551
theologian
Louis Secretan
1758 – 1839
botanist
Katharina von Arx
1928 – 2013
writer
Marcello Viotti
1954 – 2005
conductor
Vasilije Janjicic
b. 1998
association football player
Roger Beuchat
b. 1972
sport cyclist
Christophe Keckeis
1945 – 2020
soldier
Carlo Bossoli
1815 – 1884
painter
Giovanni Giacometti
1868 – 1933
painter
Bartolomeo Sovero
1576 – 1629
mathematician
Felix Walker
b. 1935
politician
Noemi Rüegg
b. 2001
sport cyclist
Peter Roh
1811 – 1872
academic
Karl Zurflüh
1913 – 1962
boxer
Michael H.-J. Lips
b. 1967
curler
Seraina Mischol
b. 1981
cross-country skier
Lauren Wildbolz
b. 1981
cook
André Bucher
b. 1976
middle-distance runner
Otto Fuhrmann
1871 – 1945
zoologist
Fritz Mast
1912 – 1976
athlete
Bastien Geiger
b. 1985
association football player
Urs Fischbacher
b. 1959
economist
Darcia Leimgruber
b. 1989
ice hockey player
Marc Faber
b. 1946
economist
Nadine Masshardt
b. 1984
politician
Ruth Erat
b. 1951
writer
Ariella Kaeslin
b. 1987
artistic gymnast
David Zimmerli
1792 – 1875
military personnel
Adèle Thorens Goumaz
b. 1971
politician
Rudolf Braun
1930 – 2012
social historian
Urs Meister
b. 1958
artistic gymnast
Rolf Jelinek
b. 1936
professional athlete
Jürg Geiler
curler
Patrick Bloechliger
b. 1983
bobsledder
August Siegrist
1865 – 1947
ophthalmologist
Manfred Joller
b. 1968
association football player
Emil Vogt
association football player
Emile-Samuel Bory
1825 – 1894
lawyer
Jakob Arduser
b. 1939
alpine skier
Chariklia Baxevanos
b. 1936
voice actor
Johann Jakob Wick
1522 – 1588
theologian
Esther Grether
1936 – 2025
art collector
Willy Schäfer
1913 – 1980
handball player
Sandro Galli
b. 1987
association football player
Carole Brook
b. 1965
swimmer
Hugo von Tschudi
1851 – 1911
art historian
Giovanni Battista Pioda
1808 – 1882
politician
Barla Deplazes
b. 1995
association football player
Daniel Humm
b. 1976
chef
Ferdinand Masset
1920 – 2014
politician
Alain Huck
b. 1957
draftsperson
Michel Duc
b. 1960
association football player
Gregor Rutz
b. 1972
politician
Martin Kohli
b. 1942
sociologist
Federico Crescenti
b. 2004
association football player
Walter Birbaum
association football player
Marianne Irniger
b. 1966
cross-country skier
Léopold Robert
1794 – 1835
painter
Oskar Munzinger
1849 – 1932
politician
Werner Arber
b. 1929
geneticist
Larri Leeger
b. 1986
ice hockey player
Sylvie Courvoisier
b. 1968
composer
Estelle Balet
1994 – 2016
snowboarder
Granit Lekaj
b. 1990
association football player
Fernand Bergmann
b. 1904
basketball player
Robert Eger
1923 – 1999
field hockey player
Josef Walter
1901 – 1973
artistic gymnast
Joana Hählen
b. 1992
alpine skier
François Grin
b. 1959
economist
Christian Georg Brügger
1833 – 1899
botanist
Marie-Louise Dreier
b. 1936
writer
David Da Costa
b. 1986
association football player
Fritz Griesser
1929 – 2013
professional athlete
Daniel Widmer
b. 1953
ice hockey player
Andrea Brändli
b. 1997
ice hockey player
Ulla Engeberg Killias
1945 – 1995
painter
Johann Heinrich Heidegger
1633 – 1698
theologian
Milorad Stajic
b. 2002
association football player
Remo Forrer
b. 2001
singer
Marie Colinet
1560 – 1640
midwife
Peter Merian
1795 – 1883
geologist