List of Famous people born in Canton of Bern, Switzerland
Alexander Schallenberg
Alexander Schallenberg is an Austrian diplomat, jurist and independent politician who has been serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz since 2019.
Ursula Andress
Ursula Andress is a Swiss actress, former model and sex symbol, who has appeared in American, British and Italian films. She is best known for her breakthrough role as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the first James Bond film, Dr. No. She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the Bond parody Casino Royale. Her other films include The Southern Star, Fun in Acapulco, She, The 10th Victim, The Blue Max, Perfect Friday, The Sensuous Nurse, Slave of the Cannibal God, The Fifth Musketeer and Clash of the Titans.
Sabine Timoteo
Sabine Timoteo is a Swiss actress from the Lorraine district of Bern. She has appeared in more than thirty films since 2000.
Liselotte Pulver
Liselotte Pulver, sometimes credited as Lilo Pulver, is a Swiss actress. Pulver was one of the biggest stars of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, where she often was cast as a tomboy. She is well known for her hearty and joyful laughter. Her films outside of German cinema include A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), One, Two, Three (1961) and The Nun (1966).
Francine Jordi
Francine Jordi is a Swiss pop singer.
Yves Rénier
Yves Rénier is a French actor, director, screenwriter and voice actor.
Daniel Bernhardt
Daniel Bernhardt is a Swiss actor, model, and martial artist.
Stephan Eicher
Stephan Eicher is a Swiss singer. He sings in a variety of languages, including French, German, English, Italian, Swiss German, and Romanche, sometimes using different languages in the same song.
Sibylle Canonica
Sibylle Canonica is a Swiss actress. She appeared in more than forty films since 1981. Canonica received her training at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. She played at the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, the Schiller Theater Berlin, the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus and the Munich Kammerspiele. Since 2001 she has been engaged at the Residenz Theatre in Munich.
Cyndie Allemann
Cyndie Allemann is a Swiss racing driver.
Luca Hänni
Luca Hänni is a Swiss singer, songwriter, dancer, model and television personality. He rose to fame in 2012 after winning the ninth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar, the German version of the Idol franchise. He was the first non-German to do so and also the youngest ever winner of the show. Hänni's debut single, "Don't Think About Me", topped the singles charts in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. It was followed by the release of his debut album, My Name Is Luca (2012), which debuted atop the Austrian and Swiss Albums Charts and became a gold-seller in both countries. His second studio album, Living the Dream, released in 2013, became his second consecutive number-one album in Switzerland.
Roman Bürki
Roman Bürki is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund.
Yaël Boon
Yaël Boon is a French–Swiss actress, director, film producer and screenwriter. Boon has appeared in several notable French language films including Welcome to the Sticks (2008) and Supercondriaque (2014). She has also worked on the production side of film; in 2010, she was a writer for Nothing to Declare and in 2016 produced Ma famille t'adore déjà.
Alisha Lehmann
Alisha Lehmann is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a forward for English FA WSL club Everton, on loan from West Ham United, and the Switzerland national football team. She previously played for BSC YB Frauen of the Nationalliga A.
Jens Hofer
Jens Hofer is a Liechtensteiner footballer who plays as a left back for FC Biel-Bienne and the Liechtenstein national team.
Hansjörg Wyss
Hansjörg Wyss is a Swiss billionaire entrepreneur, businessman, and philanthropist. He is the founder and was president, then chairman, of Synthes USA, until its sale in 2012. Wyss lives in Wyoming and has supported philanthropic causes relating to environmental protection, social justice, and science. His contributions led to the establishment of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University in 2009 and he created the Wyss Foundation, which aims to conserve natural environments, including public lands in the Western United States, Africa, South America, and South Australia. As of 2017, Wyss has a net worth of US$5.6 billion, according to Forbes.
Carmen Mory
Carmen Mory was a Swiss-Nazi German spy and kapo in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She was sentenced to death in the Hamburg Ravensbrück trials in 1947.
Beat Feuz
Beat Feuz is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer, specializing in the speed events of downhill and super-G.
Paul Nizon
Paul Nizon is a Swiss art historian and writer.
Thomas Lüthi
Thomas Lüthi is a Swiss professional motorcycle road racer currently competing in the Moto2 Grand Prix World Championship. For 2021, he will ride for Pertamina Mandalika SAG racing team in the Moto2 category.