Famous Swiss People and Influential Personalities
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Maximilian Oskar Bircher-Benner
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Swiss physician and a pioneer in nutritional research. Inventor of the muesli cereal: Bircher Müesli.
Henri Dufour
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Swiss army officer, bridge engineer and topographer. He served under Napoleon I and held the office of General to lead the Swiss forces to victory against the Sonderbund.
Albert Einstein
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German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, effecting a revolution in physics.
C. G. Jung
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Swiss psychotherapist and psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious.
Paracelsus
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German-Swiss Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. He is also credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum.
Jean Piaget
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Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher known for his epistemological studies with children. His theory of cognitive development and epistemological view are together called "genetic epistemology".
Ferdinand de Saussure
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Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the century20century. He is widely considered one of the fathers of 20th-century linguistics.
Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
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Genevan aristocrat, physicist and Alpine traveller, often considered the founder of alpinism, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven.
Niklaus Wirth
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Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering
Bernoulli
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Swiss mathematician and physicist and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family.
Christoph Blocher
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Swiss politician, industrialist, and former member of the Swiss Federal Council heading the Federal Department of Justice and Police. He serves as Vice President of the Swiss People's Party.
DJ Bobo
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Peter René Cipiriano Baumann, better known as DJ BoBo, is a Swiss singer, songwriter, dancer and music producer.
Johanna Spyri
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Writer of the Heidi novels. Daughter of a village doctor and married to Johann Bernhard Spyri an ambitious young lawyer in Zürich.
Mani Matter
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Swiss singer-songwriter. He grew up in Bern, and performed his own chansons in contemporary Bernese German at local venues and on the radio; he accompanied himself on the guitar.
Ursula Andress
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Swiss actress and sex symbol of the 1960s. She is known for her role as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, for which she won a Golden Globe.
Franz Hohler
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He lives as an author and cabaret performer in Zurich. He is the author of one-man programs and satirical programs for television and radio.
Liselotte Pulver
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Swiss actress. Pulver was one of the stars of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, where she often was cast as a tomboy. She is well known for her hearty and joyful laughter.
Emil Steinberger
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Swiss comedian, writer, director and actor. He is well known as Emil in Switzerland and Germany for his acts on television in the 1970s and 1980s.
Simon Ammann
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Swiss ski jumper, and double Olympic Champion at both 2002 and 2010 Winter Olympics.
Denise Biellmann
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Swiss professional figure skater. She is the 1981 European and World Champion. She won the Swiss Championships three times
Joseph Blatter
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Swiss football administrator, who serves as the 8th and current President of FIFA.
Roger Federer
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Swiss professional tennis player who as of December 2012 is ranked World No. 2 by the ATP. Many sports analysts, tennis critics and former and current players consider Federer the greatest tennis player of all time.
Martina Hingis
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Swiss former professional tennis player who spent a total of 209 weeks as World No. 1. She won five Grand Slam singles titles.
Bernhard Russi
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former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. Born in Andermatt in the canton of Uri, he is an Olympic, World Cup, and World champion in the downhill event.
Pirmin Zurbriggen
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former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. One of the most successful ski racers ever, he won the overall World Cup title four times, an Olympic gold medal in 1988 in Downhill, and 9 World Championships medals.
Gottlieb Duttweiler
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Swiss businessman and politician, founder of both the Migros chain of grocery stores and the party. Duttweiler was born in Zürich.
Adolf Guyer-Zeller
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Swiss entrepreneur. He was the son of an owner of spinning mill and creator of a textile export trade in Zürich.
Karl Barth
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Swiss Reformed theologian. Barth's influence expanded well beyond the academic realm to mainstream culture
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
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Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach.
Johannes Calvin
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Reformator and principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism.
Claude Nicollier
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Nasa test-pilot and first astronaut from Switzerland. Has flown on four Space Shuttle missions.
Albert Anker
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Swiss painter and illustrator who has been called the "national painter" of Switzerland because of his enduringly popular depictions of 19th-century Swiss village life.
Jean Tinguely
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Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics.
Roger Schawinski
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Swiss journalist and entrepreneur as well as the creator of Swiss consumer watchdog program called Kassensturz.
Peter Sauber
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Retired team principal and owner of various motorsports teams, most visibly the eponymous Sauber Formula One team.
Louis Chevrolet
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Swiss-born American race car driver of French descent, founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company
Nicolas Hayek
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Swiss-Lebanese American entrepreneur, co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of the Swatch Group, with principal headquarters in Biel/Bienne.
Leonhard Euler
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Swiss mathematician and physicist. He made important discoveries in fields as diverse as infinitesimal calculus and graph theory.
Daniel Peter
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Swiss chocolatier of Alsatian origin. He was the first person to make a milk chocolate bar, in 1875
Henri Nestle´
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German confectioner and founder of Nestlé, the world's largest food and beverage company, as well as one of the main creators of condensed milk.
Hans Küng
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Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and author. Since 1995 he has been President of the Foundation for a Global Ethic
Uriella
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Spiritual leader and founder of the neo-revelationist religious movement known as Fiat Lux
H. R. Giger
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Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor, and set designer. He won an Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects for his design work on the film Alien.
Hans Erni
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Swiss painter, designer and sculptor. Born in Lucerne, he is known in particular for illustrating postage stamps, activism, lithographs for the Swiss Red Cross, and participation on the Olympic Committee.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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Swiss author and dramatist. He was a proponent of epic theatre whose plays reflected the recent experiences of World War II.
Hermann Hesse
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German-Swiss poet, novelist, and painter. His best-known works include Steppenwolf, Siddhartha, and The Glass Bead Game, each of which explores an individual's search for authenticity, self-knowledge and spirituality.
Max Frisch
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Swiss playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German-language literature after World War II.
Gottfried Keller
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Swiss writer of German-language literature, was best known for his novel Green Henry
Erich von Däniken
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Swiss author best known for his controversial claims about extraterrestrial influences on early human culture, in books such as Chariots of the Gods?
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
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Swiss poet and historical novelist, a master of realism chiefly remembered for stirring narrative ballads like "Die Füße im Feuer"