List of Famous people born in Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

David Brandes is a Swiss-born German songwriter and producer.

Jakob Schaffner was a leading Swiss novelist who became a supporter of Nazism.

Karl Friedrich Meyer was an American scientist of Swiss origin. He was one of the most prodigious scientists in many areas of infectious diseases in man and animals, the ecology of pathogens, epidemiology and public health^[1-6]. Some called him the “Pasteur of the 20th century”.

Alexander Schawinsky, known as Xanti Schawinsky was a Swiss painter, photographer and theatre designer. An alumnus of the Bauhaus, Schawinsky belonged to the circle around Bauhaus founder and architect Walter Gropius.

Ernst Robert Fiechter was a Swiss architect and archaeologist. He is remembered for his research of ancient Greek temple and theatre architecture. He was a cousin to psychologist Carl Gustav Jung.