2.2.3 Well-known people who have lived (or live) in Switzerland
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This article is from the Switzerland FAQ, by Marc Schaefer schaefer@alphanet.ch with numerous contributions by others.
2.2.3 Well-known people who have lived (or live) in Switzerland
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Alain Prost
Albert Einstein, became Swiss
Byron
Charlie Chaplin, actor/comedian/movie director, 1889-1977
David Niven
Elias Canetti, Nobel prize for literature.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Georges Simenon
Gustave Courbet
Hermann Hesse, writer, Nobel Laureate for Literature (1946), 1877-1962,
became Swiss in 1923
Igor Stravinsky
Jackie Stewart
James Joyce
John Calvin, priest/reformer, 1509-1564
Mussolini (studied at the Gymnase Cantonal de Neuchatel)
Paderewsky
Peter Ustinov
Rainer Maria Rilke, became Swiss
Richard Burton
Richard Wagner
The Aga Khan
Thomas Mann, Nobel Laureate, in Kuesnacht (ZH), later in Kilchberg.
Tristan Tzara
Vilfredo Pareto, social scientist, 1848-1923
Vladimir Ilitch Oulianov (Lenin)
Voltaire
various dictators
and many, many more ...
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