List of Famous people born in Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

Friedrich "Fritz" Müller was a Swiss doctor, zoologist, and herpetologist.

Johann Rudolph Schellenberg was a Swiss artist, writer and entomologist best known for his illustrations of insects.

Emilie Linder was a Swiss painter and art patron.

Christopher Glaser, a pharmaceutical chemist of the 17th century.

Gaspard Bauhin or Caspar Bauhin, was a Swiss botanist whose Pinax theatri botanici (1623) described thousands of plants and classified them in a manner that draws comparisons to the later binomial nomenclature of Linnaeus. He was a disciple of the famous Italian physician Girolamo Mercuriale and he also worked on human anatomical nomenclature.

Jakob Hermann was a mathematician who worked on problems in classical mechanics. He is the author of Phoronomia, an early treatise on Mechanics in Latin, which has been translated by Ian Bruce in 2015-16. In 1729, he proclaimed that it was as easy to graph a locus on the polar coordinate system as it was to graph it on the Cartesian coordinate system.

George Gebhardt was an American silent film actor. He appeared in 128 films between 1908 and 1922. He was born in Basel, Switzerland and died in Edendale, Los Angeles from tuberculosis.