Famous Swiss People

This document lists some (world) famous Swiss people. It is certainly not complete - simply because of the fact that not everybody considers the same people famous.

Ursula ANDRESS	René BAUMANN	Johann BERNOULLI	Daniel BERNOULLI
Actress, first "Bond girl" Born March 19, 1936 on the web	Musician and performer Known as "DJ Bobo" Born Januar 5, 1968 on the web	Mathematician Father of Daniel Bernoulli 1667-1748 on the web	Mathematician 1700-1782 Found what became Bernoulli's equation on the web

Ernesto BERTARELLI	Denise BIELLMANN	Mario BOTTA	Henri DUNANT
Team Alinghi - lead by the Ernesto Bertarelli - won the 31st America's Cup and made history by bringing this Cup to Europe for the first time in 152 years. Born September 22, 1965 on the web	World champion figure skater Born December 11, 1962 on the web	Worldwide recognized architect Born April 1, 1943 on the web	Humanist; co-founder of the committee of the red cross in Geneva (now International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC) Awarded with Nobel Peace Prize in 1901 1828-1910 on the web

Alfred ESCHER	Leonhard EULER	Roger FEDERER	Max FRISCH
Politician 1819-1882 on the web	Mathematician The number e = 2.71828183... ("eulerian number", base of the natural logarithm) is named in his honor 1707-1783 on the web	World champion tennis player Born August 8, 1981 in Basel on the web	Author and architect 1911-1991 on the web

H. R. GIGER	"Heidi"	Martina HINGIS	Gottfried KELLER
Artist, illustrator, sculptor and surrealist; designer of the Oscar awarded creatures and sets for the movie Alien Born February 5, 1940 on the web	Fictive person in Johanna Spyri's story "Heidi" on the web	World champion tennis player Born September 30, 1980 in Košice (Slovakia), moved to Switzerland when she was 7 on the web	Author 1819-1890 on the web

	Claude NICOLLIER	Simone NIGGLI-LUDER
	First and only Swiss astronaut Born September 2, 1944 on the web	Orienteering world champion Born January 9, 1978 on the web

Auguste PICCARD	Jacques PICCARD	Bertrand PICCARD	Peter SAUBER
Scientist and explorer, made the first ascents into the stratosphere in 1931 and 1932, reaching heights of 15'781 meters and 16'201 meters Father of Jacques Piccard 1884-1962 on the web	Scientist and explorer, worked with his father Auguste to build what was to become the bathyscaphe Trieste. Holds the World Record for the deepest ever dive, 10'740 meters down to the bottom of the Marianas Trench. Father of Bertrand Piccard Born July 28, 1922 in Brussels (Belgium) on the web	Scientist and explorer, first balloonists to circumnavigate the globe with a non-stop, non-refuelled flight Born March 1, 1958 in Lausanne on the web	Founder, former head and owner of the formula one (F1) racing team Sauber Petronas Born October 13, 1943 on the web

Roger SCHAWINSKI	Johanna SPYRI	"Wilhelm Tell"	Jean TINGUELY
Media pioneer; founder of Radio 24, the first private radio station in Switzerland Born June 11, 1945	Author of "Heidi" 1827-1901 on the web	Fictive person in Friedrich Schiller's play "Willhelm Tell" on the web	Kinetic artist 1925-1991 on the web

Nicholas VON DER FLUE	Renée ZELLWEGER	Huldrych ZWINGLI
Diplomat, hermit and Catholic saint; honored for his wisdom, holiness and achievements to unify Switzerland and preventing a civil war 1417-1487 on the web	Actress, appears for example in "Bridget Jones's Diary", "Chicago" and many other movies Born April 25, 1969 in Texas, USA (her father is Swiss) on the web	Reformer in Zürich 1484-1531 on the web Brief biography in english

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List of Swiss nobel price winners

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