List of Famous people born in Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

Vera Michalski-Hoffmann is a Swiss billionaire philanthropist, significant shareholder of Roche Holding and publisher. She is the president of several publishing houses in Switzerland, France and Poland, grouped together in a holding company, Libella SA, based in Lausanne. She founded the Jan Michalski Foundation in Montricher.

Johann Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family. He is known for his contributions to infinitesimal calculus and educating Leonhard Euler in the pupil's youth.

Ambros Uchtenhagen is a Swiss psychiatrist. He is the widower of politician Lilian Uchtenhagen, who died in 2016. He serves as a professor at the University of Zürich.

Johann II Bernoulli was the youngest of the three sons of Johann Bernoulli. He studied law and mathematics, and, after travelling in France, was for five years professor of eloquence in the university of his native city. In 1736 he was awarded the prize of the French Academy for his suggestive studies of aether. On the death of his father he succeeded him as professor of mathematics in the University of Basel. He was thrice a successful competitor for the prizes of the Academy of Sciences of Paris. His prize subjects were the capstan, the propagation of light, and the magnet. He enjoyed the friendship of P. L. M. de Maupertuis, who died under his roof while on his way to Berlin. He himself died in 1790. His two sons, Johann and Jakob, are the last noted mathematicians of the Bernoulli family.

Jean François Billeter Chinese name : 毕来德 / 畢來德 Bì Láidé, born 1939 in Basel, Switzerland; is a Swiss sinologist and honorary professor of the University of Geneva, where he created the sinology department in 1987. After directing it for twelve years, he retired in 1999 to spend more time writing.

Jakob II Bernoulli, younger brother of Johann III Bernoulli, was a Swiss physicist.

Arianna Savall i Figueras is a Swiss-born Catalan classical singer, harpist and composer. She sings in Catalan, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese and other languages of the world.

Bertram Schefold is a Swiss economist and an Economics professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main specializing in economic theory with a particular focus on capital theory and the history of economic thought.

Maximilian Ulysses, Reichsgraf von Browne, Baron de Camus and Mountany was an Austrian military officer, one of the highest ranking officers serving the Hapsburg Emperor during the middle of the 18th century. An Irish refugee, he was a scion of the Wild Geese.