List of Swiss people

Archaeology

• Eric Breuer, archaeologist
• Ferdinand Keller, archaeologist
• Heinrich Menu von Minutoli, archaeologist
• Jean-Marc Moret, archaeologist and art historian
• Fritz Puempin, archeologist and painter
• Karl Schefold, classical archaeologist

  Architecture

Actors

• Pasquale Aleardi, actor and musician
• Lukas Ammann, actor
• Ursula Andress, actress
• Peter Arens, actor and stage director
• Joel Basman, actor
• Giuseppe Bausilio, actor, dancer and singer
• Jean-Luc Bideau, comedian
• Anne-Marie Blanc, actress
• Ursula Cantieni , actress
• Ettore Cella, actor and director
• Dimitri, clown
• Annemarie Düringer, film, television and stage actress
• Bruno Ganz, actor
• Kat Graham, actress, singer, model
• Viktor Giacobbo, actor and comedian
• Mathias Gnädinger, actor
• Curt Goetz, actor and film director
• Heinrich Gretler, actor
• Grock, clown
• Gardi Hutter, clown, entertainer and actress
• Rebecca Indermaur, actress
• Irène Jacob, actress
• Roger Jendly, actor
• Carla Juri, actress
• Marthe Keller, actress and opera director
• Christian Kohlund, actor
• Mathis Künzler, film, television and stage actor
• Stefan Kurt, actor
• Ursina Lardi, actress
• Max Loong, actor and producer
• Walo Lüönd, actor
• Andreas Matti, actor
• Ursela Monn, actress and singer
• Vincent Perez, actor and director
• Liselotte Pulver, actress
• Alfred Rasser, actor and comedian
• Maximilian Schell, actor and producer
• Hannes Schmidhauser, actor, screenwriter and film director
• Michel Simon, actor and comedian
• Emil Steinberger, comedian
• Sigfrit Steiner, actor
• Sabine Timoteo, actress
• Roeland Wiesnekker, actor

  Art

• Arthur Aesbacher, poster artist
• Jacques-Laurent Agasse, painter
• Cuno Peter Amiet
• Thomas Ammann, art dealer and collector
• Albert Anker
• Jean Arcelin, painter
• Jean Arp, sculptor, painter and poet
• René Auberjonois, painter
• John Bernhard, photographer
• Klaus Bietenholz, painter
• Arnold Böcklin, painter
• Karl Bodmer, painter of the American West
• Ferdinand Brader, folk art sketch artist of rural farm life in USA
• Mark Staff Brandl, painter, installation artist, and critic
• Sonam Dolma Brauen, Swiss-Tibetan sculptor and painter
• Frank Buchser, painter
• Alexandre Calame, painter
• Jean Crotti, painter
• Adèle d'Affry, artist and sculptor
• Jean Dunand, decorative artist, sculptor
• Carl Durheim, lithographer and photographer
• Hans Erni
• Fischli & Weiss, artist duo
• Adrian Frutiger, typeface designer
• Henry Fuseli , painter
• Johann Caspar Füssli, portrait painter
• Johann Kaspar Füssli, entomologist
• Karl Gerstner, graphic designer and painter
• Salomon Gessner
• Alberto Giacometti, sculptor, painter
• H. R. Giger, illustrator
• Anton Graff, painter
• Eugène Grasset, decorative artist
• Willi Gutmann, sculptor
• Stefan Haenni, painter
• Peter Hartmann, sculptor
• Andreas Heusser, conceptual artist and curator
• Ferdinand Hodler, painter
• Max Huber, graphic designer
• Anna Indermaur, painter and sculptor
• Robert Indermaur, painter and sculptor
• Angelica Kauffman, painter
• Jorg Khun, wildlife artist and illustrator
• Paul Klee, painter
• Rudolf Koller, painter
• Josef Benedikt Kuriger, sculptor
• Rosa Lachenmeier, contemporary artist
• Catherine Leutenegger, visual artist
• Albert "Lindi" Lindegger, illustrator and painter
• Rochus Lussi, artist
• Niklaus Manuel, painter
• Auguste de Niederhausern-Rodo, sculptor
• Sibylle Pasche, sculptor
• Roger Pfund, painter, graphic designer
• James Pradier, sculptor
• Marc Raymond, sculptor
• Joseph Reinhart, painter
• Oskar Reinhart, collector
• Iris von Roten-Meyer, lawyer and artist
• Jacques Sablet, painter
• Niki de Saint Phalle, sculptor, became Swiss in 1971
• Albin Schweri, painter, glass painter
• Peter Schweri, painter, illustrator
• Nadja Sieger, comedian, actress, jazz-vocalist, known as Nadeschkin
• Gerold Späth, Swiss poet and writer
• Théophile Steinlen, painter and printmaker
• Harald Szeemann, curator
• Sophie Taeuber-Arp, painter, sculptor
• Myriam Thyes, new media artist
• Jean Tinguely, kinetic artist
• Rodolphe Toepffer
• Félix Vallotton, painter
• Isabelle Waldberg, sculptor
• Ricco Wassmer, painter
• Marianne von Werefkin, painter

  Aviation

• Oskar Bider, aviation pioneer
• Alfred Comte, pilot, co-director Ad Astra Aero, engineer
• Raphaël Domjan, explorer, founder and pilot of SolarStratos
• Armand Dufaux
• Henri Dufaux
• Ernest Failloubaz, pilot, instructor, Swiss pilot's brevet number 1
• René Grandjean, pilot, engineer
• Else Haugk, first Swiss woman to earn a pilot's licence in May 1914
• Walter Mittelholzer, pilot, director of Ad Astra Aero, Swissair
• Claude Nicollier, pilot, astronaut
• Bertrand Piccard, psychiatrist, balloonist, founder and pilot of Solar Impulse
• Yves Rossy, pilot, "jet-man"
• Eduard Spelterini, balloonist
• Emile Taddéoli, pilot, Swiss pilot's brevet number 2, chief pilot on seaplanes Ad Astra Aero

  Business

• Daniel Aegerter, investor and entrepreneur
• Carl Franz Bally, founder of the Bally Shoe company
• Ernesto Bertarelli, entrepreneur, founder of Team Alinghi
• Daniel Borel, founder of Logitech
• Abraham-Louis Breguet, watchmaker
• François-Louis Cailler, chocolatier
• Arthur Chevrolet, automobile engineer, race car driver, entrepreneur
• Louis Chevrolet, automobile engineer, race car driver, founder of Chevrolet
• Raphael H. Cohen, serial entrepreneur and business angel
• Yomi Denzel, entrepreneur and YouTuber
• Rolf Dobelli, entrepreneur, author and founder of the World Minds foundation
• Gottlieb Duttweiler, entrepreneur, founder of Migros
• Alfred Escher, statesman, businessman and railway constructor
• Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth, architect of the Lint melioration
• Marc Faber, investment analyst and entrepreneur
• Louis Favre, engineer of the Gotthard tunnel
• Elsa Gasser, economist, business executive
• Nessim Gaon, financier, founder of the Noga company
• Adolf Guyer-Zeller, railway entrepreneur
• Nicolas Hayek, entrepreneur, chairman, Swatch Group
• Pierre Hemmer, one of the Internet pioneers in Switzerland
• Baron Jean-Conrad Hottinguer, banker
• Henri Nestlé, founder of Nestlé S.A.
• Daniel Peter, inventor of milk chocolate
• Georges Edouard Piaget, watchmaker
• Beat Fischer von Reichenbach, held postal monopoly in Bern
• Werner Reinhart, industrialist, philanthropist, music and literature patron
• Tibor Rosenbaum, businessman
• Guy Spier, investor, author
• Philippe Suchard, chocolatier
• Ernst Thomke in Biel/Bienne, turnaround manager, e.g. Swatch
• Daniel Vasella, chairman of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG
• Reto Wittwer, hotelier, former hotel president and CEO
• Martin Schlegel, economist, chairman of the Swiss National Bank

  Dancers

• Giuseppe Bausilio, performs on Broadway in the titular role in the Tony Award-winning musical Billy Elliot
• Flore Revalles, principal dancer with Ballets Russes c. 1915–1918
• Manon Bannerman from katseye

  Filmmakers

• Arthur Cohn, film producer, received six Oscars
• Marc Forster, film director, Monster's Ball, Finding Neverland, and the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace
• Jean-Luc Godard, director, screenwriter and critic
• Claude Goretta, director
• Moritz de Hadeln, director, film festival director
• Markus Imhoof, director
• Xavier Koller, director
• Juerg Neuenschwander, director
• Daniel Schmid, director
• Alain Tanner, director
• Ruth Waldburger, producer

  Mathematics

• Paul Bernays, made significant contributions to mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, and the philosophy of mathematics
• Daniel Bernoulli, mathematician and physicist
• Jakob Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
• Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
• Daniel Bleichenbacher, mathematician and cryptographer
• Armand Borel, mathematician
• Leonhard Euler, mathematician and geometer
• Hugo Hadwiger, mathematician
• Edward Kofler, mathematician
• Konrad Osterwalder, mathematician and physicist
• Michel Plancherel, mathematician
• Georges de Rham, mathematician
• Ludwig Schläfli, mathematician
• Jakob Steiner, mathematician and physicist
• Ernst Specker, mathematician
• Eduard Stiefel, mathematician

  Military

• Pierre Victor Besenval de Bronstatt
• Guillaume-Henri Dufour, General, geographer
• Henri Guisan, General during World War II
• Hans Herzog, General 1870–1871
• Antoine-Henri Jomini, General, military writer
• Christophe Keckeis, Chief of the Armed Forces
• Elmar Mäder, commander of the Swiss Guard
• Pius Segmüller, commander of the Swiss Guard
• Theophil Sprecher von Bernegg
• Ulrich Wille, General during World War I

  Music

• Mia Aegerter, pop musician
• Martin Eric Ain, Celtic Frost bassist
• Ernest Ansermet, conductor
• Lys Assia, singer
• Chiara Banchini, violinist, conductor
• Rene Baumann, musician, dancer, known as DJ Bobo
• Bertrand Bitz, singer and songwriter
• Daniel Boemle, DJ and radio personality
• Urs Bühler, tenor, member of Il Divo
• Dominik Burkhalter, bandleader, composer, drummer
• Caroline Charrière, composer, flautist, choir director, educator
• Michel Corboz, conductor
• Claudia D'Addio, pop musician, Eurovision Song Contest 2006 and MusicStars contestant
• Rachel Kolly d'Alba, solo violinist
• Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, musician, educator, developer of Eurhythmics
• Philippe Decourroux, Christian singer and drummer
• Henri Dès, singer and songwriter
• Andy Egert, blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
• Electroboy, electronic music producer
• Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor
• Thomas Gabriel Fischer, Celtic Frost guitarist, singer
• Peter Giger, percussionist and bandleader
• Peter-Lukas Graf, flautist and conductor
• Ernst Haefliger, tenor
• Heinz Holliger, oboist
• Arthur Honegger, composer
• Philippe Huttenlocher, bass
• Rahel Indermaur, opera singer
• Christian Jacob, jazz pianist
• Michael Jarrell, composer
• Daniel Kandlbauer, pop musician and MusicStars contestant
• Kuno Lauener, lead singer of Bernese rock band Züri West
• Carlos Leal, rapper and actor; best known as a member of the hip-hop group Sens Unik
• Pepe Lienhard, band leader and saxophone player
• Frank Martin, composer
• Mani Matter, singer
• Jojo Mayer, drummer
• Dieter Meier, singer of electronica band Yello, which had hits "Oh Yeah" and "The Race"
• Mandy Meyer, guitarist, played in bands Asia, Gotthard and Krokus
• Patrick Moraz, keyboardist with Yes and Moody Blues
• Paolo Pandolfo, violist
• Zlatko Perica, better known as "Slädu", played guitar in bands as Tangerine Dream or Gölä
• Carlos Perón, producer and former singer of electronica band Yello
• Werner Reinhart, industrialist, philanthropist, music and literature patron
• Othmar Schoeck, composer
• Ludwig Senfl, Renaissance composer
• Marc Storace, Maltese-Swiss rock vocalist and songwriter; best known as singer of hard rock band Krokus
• Éric Tappy, tenor
• Martin Tillman, film music composer
• Tina Turner, became Swiss in 2013
• Silvio Varviso, conductor, especially of opera
• Andreas Vollenweider, Grammy award-winning harpist
• Chris von Rohr, musician and producer; best known as bassist of hard rock band Krokus
• August Wenzinger, cellist, violist, pioneer of early music performance
• Luzia von Wyl, composer and pianist
• Roland Zoss, rock poetry musician
• Alberich Zwyssig, priest, composer of the Swiss Psalm
• YRU, rock band formed in 2006
• Nemo, singer-rapper, violinist, pianist, drummer ; Eurovision 2024 winner