This page shows some (world) famous Swiss people. It is certainly not complete - simply because of the fact that not everybody considers the same people famous.
- Actress, first "Bond girl"
- Born March 19, 1936
- on the web
- Musician and performer
- Known as "DJBobo"
- 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
- 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 152years.
- 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
- Actual name Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris
- Universal artist (architect, designer, painter, writer)
- October 6, 1887 - August 27, 1965
- 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
- 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
- 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 Koice (Slovakia), moved to Switzerland when she was 7
- on the web
- Author
- 1819-1890
- on the web
- First and only Swiss astronaut
- Born September 2, 1944
- on the web
- Orienteering world champion
- Born January 9, 1978
- on the web
- Scientist and explorer, made the first ascents into the stratosphere in 1931 and 1932, reaching heights of 15'781meters and 16'201meters
- 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, 10'740meters 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
- Media pioneer; founder of Radio24, 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
- 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)
- Reformer in Zürich
- 1484-1531
- on the web
- Brief biography in english
