2.2.2 Well-known Swiss people (past and present)
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This article is from the Switzerland FAQ, by Marc Schaefer schaefer@alphanet.ch with numerous contributions by others.
2.2.2 Well-known Swiss people (past and present)
NOTE: there is no point in submitting new items for this
section, we don't want it to grow.
Alain Tanner, film-maker
Alberto Giacometti, sculptor
Arthur Fraucci, aka Arthur Artousov, first chief of soviet
counter-intelligence
Auguste Piccard, scientist
C.F. Ramuz, novelist and essayist
Carl Gustav Jung, psychologist (1875-1961)
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier, architect
Domenico Tresini, architect (Peter and Paul cathedral in St. Petersburg)
Dr. Hofmann, LSD discoverer.
Ferdinand de Saussure, linguist
Frederic Sauser, known as Blaise Cendrars, writer
Friedrich Duerrenmatt, novelist and play writer
Henri Dunant, founder of International Red Cross
Horace-Benedicte de Saussure, naturalist
Huldrych Zwingli, priest/reformator
Isabelle de Charriere, writer
Jean Piaget, psychologist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher, born in Geneva
Jean-Luc Godard, film-maker
Johann Pestalozzi
Johann Sutter (owned much of California, initiator and victim of the
Gold Rush)
Karl Brunner, economist
Leonhard Euler, mathematician
Mario Botta, architect
Marthe Keller, actress
Max Frisch, novelist
Michel Simon, actor
Napoleon III, in Canton Thurgau (spoke German, French, Italian and English)
Niklaus Wirth, `father' of many programming languages (Pascal,
Modula, Oberon)
Paracelsus, physician (1400, Basel)
Pirmin Zurbriggen, skier
Tony Rominger, cyclist
Ursula Andress, actress
Vreni Schneider, skier
and more ...
Note that Albert Schweitzer is Alsatian and *not* Swiss, as the
name might wrongly imply (most SchweiTzer are Alsatian).
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