List of Swiss people

Famous Swiss and notable people from Switzerland and from cantons forming present day Switzerland include:

Table of contents 1 Architecture 2 Art 3 Linguistics 4 Mathematics 5 Music 6 Politics 7 Religion 8 Science 9 Sports 10 Writers 11 Others 12 People named Swiss

Architecture

• Mario Botta, (born 1943), Swiss architect
• Le Corbusier, (1887-1965), (Charles Jeanneret)
• Jacques Herzog[?], (born 1950), Swiss architect
• William Lescaze[?] (1896-1969)
• Pierre de Meuron[?], (born 1950), Swiss architect

Art

• Jacques-Laurent Agasse[?] (1767-1849), painter
• Cuno Peter Amiet[?] (1868-1961)
• Albert Anker (1831-1910)
• Jean Arp (1886-1966), sculptor, painter, and poet
• Arnold Böcklin[?] (1827-1901), painter
• Karl Bodmer (1809-1893), painter of the American West
• Jean Crotti (1878-1958), painter
• Hans Erni[?] (born 1909)
• Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Füssli) (1741-1825), painter
• Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), sculptor, painter
• H. R. Giger (born 1940), illustrator
• Anton Graff[?] (1736-1813), painter
• Ferdinand Hodler[?] (1853-1918), painter
• Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), painter
• Paul Klee (1879-1940), painter
• Niklaus Manuel[?] (1484-1530), painter
• James Pradier (1790-1852), sculptor
• Jean Tinguely (1925-1991), kinetic artist
• Félix Vallotton[?] (1865-1925), painter

Linguistics

• Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913), linguist

Mathematics

• Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782), mathematician and physicist
• Jakob Bernoulli, (1654-1705), Swiss mathematician
• Johann Bernoulli[?], (1667-1748), Swiss mathematician
• Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), mathematician and geometer

Music

• Ernest Ansermet (1883-1969)
• Lys Assia (1926-present), singer
• Edwin Fischer (1886-1960), pianist and conductor
• Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), composer

Politics

• Élie Ducommun (1833-1906), 1902 Nobel Peace Prize
• Henri Dunant (1828-1910), 1901 Nobel Peace Prize
• Albert Gallatin[?] (1761-1849), US Secretary of the Treasury, diplomat
• Albert Gobat[?] (1843-1914), 1902 Nobel Peace Prize
• Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793), revolutionary
• Jacques Necker (1732-1804), statesman and finance minister of Louis XVI
• see also
  • List of Presidents of Switzerland
  • List of members of the Swiss Federal Council
  • List of Federal Chancellors of Switzerland

Religion

• Jakob Abbadie (1654-1727), Protestant preacher
• Jacob Amman (17th century)
• Karl Barth (1886-1968)
• Theodore Beza (1519-1605), reformer in Geneva
• Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575)
• John Calvin (1509-1564), reformer in Geneva
• William Farel[?] (1489-1565), reformer in Geneva
• Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1801-1874)
• Oswald Myconius (1488-1552)
• Philip Schaff (1819-1893)
• Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531), reformer in Zurich

Science

• Firmin Abauzit, (1679-1767), scientist
• Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, (1835-1910), American man of science
• Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), work on ice ages, glaciers
• Jacob Amsler[?] (1823-1912), mathematician and inventor of measuring instruments
• Werner Arber[?] (born 1929), 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Johann Georg Baiter (1801-1877), philologist
• Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840-1914) archaeologist
• Felix Bloch (born 1905), 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Charles Bonnet (1720-1793), botanist
• Daniel Bovet[?] (born 1907), 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Joost Bürgi[?] (28 Feb 1552-31 Jan 1632), mathematician and watchmaker
• Jean-André Deluc (1727 - 1817), geologist
• Albert Einstein, (1879-1955), refugee and scientist
• Richard R. Ernst (born 1933), 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Edmond H. Fischer[?] (born 1920), 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Conrad Gessner (1516-1565)
• Charles-Edouard Guillaume[?] (1861-1938), 1920 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Walter Hess[?] (1881-1973), 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Albert Hofmann (born 1906)
• Paul Karrer[?] (1889-1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917), 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• K. Alex Müller[?] (born 1927), 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Johannes von Müller (1752-1809), historian
• Paul Müller[?] (1899-1965), 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Johann Caspar von Orelli (1787-1849)
• Paracelsus (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) (1493-1541), alchemist
• Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Auguste Piccard (1884-1962)
• Jacques Piccard[?]
• Jean Piccard (1884-1963)
• Vladimir Prelog[?] (1906-1998), 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Tadeus Reichstein[?] (1897-1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Heinrich Rohrer[?] (born 1933), 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Leopold Ruzicka[?] (1887-1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799), botanist
• Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, (1672-1733), Swiss savant
• Jack Steinberger[?] (born 1921), 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Alfred Werner[?] (1866-1919), 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Niklaus Wirth (born 1934), computer scientist
• Kurt Wüthrich (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Daniel Albert Wyttenbach (1746-1820)
• Rolf M. Zinkernagel[?] (born 1944), 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Fritz Zwicky[?] (1898-1974), astronomer
• Theodor Zwinger (1533-1588), scholar

Sports

• Paul Accola[?] (born 1967), skiing champion
• Simon Ammann[?] (born 1981), gold medallist in Ski jumping at the 2002 Winter Olympics
• Denise Biellmann[?] (born 1962), World champion figure skater
• Sepp Blatter (born 1935), FIFA president
• Michela Figini[?] (born 1966), Alpine skiing champion
• Arnold Gerschwiler[?] (born ~1914), skater
• Hans Gerschwiler[?] (born ~1921), World champion figure skater
• Jack Gerschwiler[?] (1898-2000), coach
• Erika Hess[?] (born 1962), Alpine skiing champion
• Martina Hingis (born 1980), professional tennis player
• Patrick Hürlimann[?] (born 1963), Olympic curling champion
• Franz Krienbühl (1929-2002), speed skater
• Peter Lüscher[?] (born 1956), Alpine skiing champion
• Lise-Marie Morerod[?] (born 1956), Alpine skiing champion
• Marie-Thérèse Nadig[?] (born 1954)
• Bernhard Russi[?] (born 1948), Alpine skiing champion
• Vreni Schneider[?] (born 1964), Alpine skiing champion
• Maria Walliser[?] (born 1963), Alpine skiing champion
• Pirmin Zurbriggen[?] (born 1963), Alpine skiing champion

Writers

• Erich von Däniken (born 1935), Ancient Astronauts writer
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt, (1921-1990), Swiss poet
• Max Frisch[?], (1911-1991), Swiss poet
• Jeremias Gotthelf, (1797-1854), author
• Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Meinrad Inglin[?] (1893-1971)
• Gottfried Keller, (1819-1890), Swiss author
• Ella Maillart (1903-1997)
• Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898)
• Yves Naud[?]
• Suzanne Curchod Necker[?] (1739–1794)
• Blaise Cendrars, (1887-1961), author
• Fritjof Schuon[?]
• Carl Spitteler (1845-1924), 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Johanna Spyri (1827-1901), author of Heidi
• Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), known as Madame de Staël
• Johann David Wyss, (1743-1818), author of The Swiss Family Robinson
• Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke (1771-1848)

Others

• Sadruddhin Aga Khan (1933-2003), UN High Commissioner for Refugees, longtime Swiss resident
• Othmar Ammann (1879-1965), civil engineer, bridge engineer to the New York Port Authority
• Ursula Andress[?] (born 1936), actress
• Pierre Victor Besenval de Bronstatt[?] (1721-1791)
• Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867-1939), physician and Muesli[?] inventor
• Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698-1783)
• Abraham Louis Breguet (1747-1823), watchmaker
• Yul Brynner (1915?-1985), actor
• Jacob Burckhardt[?] (1818-1897), art historian
• Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1814), traveller and orientalist
• Elias Canetti (1905-1994), 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Louis Chevrolet[?] (1878-1941), automobile engineer
• Étienne Clavière (1735-1793)
• Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
• Guillaume-Henri Dufour[?] (1787-1875), General, geographer
• Marie Grossholtz (1761-1850), known as Madame Tussaud
• Henri Guisan[?] (1874-1960), General during WWII
• Hans Herzog[?] (1819-1894), General 1870-1871
• Irène Jacob (born 1966), actress
• Carl Gustav (C.G.) Jung (1875-1961), psychiatrist, writer, philosopher
• Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
• Max Miedinger[?] (1910-1980), typeface designer, inventor of Helvetica
• Claude Nicollier[?] (born 1944), pilot, astronaut
• Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi[?] (1746-1827), pedagogue
• Bertrand Piccard[?] (born 1958), psychiatrist and balloonist
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), philosopher, author
• Josias Simmler (1530-1576), theologian, historian
• Rudolf Steiner, (1861-1925), mystic, philosopher and educator
• Philippe Suchard[?] (1797-1884), chocolatier
• John Sutter (1803-1880), California settler
• Caterina Valente[?] (born 1931), singer, actress
• Ulrich Wille[?] (1848-1925), General during WWI

People named Swiss

• Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), from Alsace, not Switzerland

See also: List of people by nationality, list of people on stamps of Switzerland