List of Famous people born in Canton of Geneva, Switzerland

Gilbert Albert

First Name Gilbert
Last Name Albert
Born on September 30, 1930
Died on October 1, 2019 (aged 89)

Gilbert Albert was a Swiss jeweler. He established his jewelry house and opened his own atelier in 1962. Thereafter he designed art jewelry, mostly using 18 karat gold with rough cut stones and unconventional materials, such as fossilized dinosaur bones and hardened lava rocks. The brand has boutiques in Geneva, Zurich, Moscow, Paris, and its flagship store in New York City.

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Sophie of Merenberg

First Name Sophie
Last Name Merenberg
Died on September 14, 1927

Countess Sophie Nikolaievna of Merenberg, Countess de Torby, was the elder daughter of Prince Nikolaus Wilhelm of Nassau and his morganatic wife, Natalia Alexandrovna Pushkina.

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Michel Tabachnik

First Name Michel
Last Name Tabachnik

Michel Tabachnik is a Swiss conductor and composer.

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Lisa Mazzone

First Name Lisa
Last Name Mazzone
Born on January 25, 1988 (age 38)

Lisa Mazzone is a prominent Green Party politician in Switzerland. She was elected to the Swiss parliament on 18 October 2015, becoming Switzerland's youngest member of parliament in the process. Most of her political interventions to date have involved environmental issues.

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Alain Morisod

First Name Alain
Born on June 23, 1949 (age 76)

Alain Morisod is a Swiss musician and television producer, known for forming Sweet People who had a UK number 4 hit in 1980 with "Et Les Oiseaux Chantaient ".

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James Pradier

Jean-Jacques Pradier
First Name James
Last Name Pradier
Born on May 23, 1790
Died on June 4, 1852 (aged 62)

James Pradier was a Genevan-born French sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style.

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Henri de Saussure

First Name Henri
Last Name Saussure
Born on November 27, 1829
Died on February 20, 1905 (aged 75)

Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure was a Swiss mineralogist and entomologist specialising in studies of Hymenoptera and Orthoptera. He also was a prolific taxonomist.

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Fyodor Tyutchev

First Name Fyodor
Born on October 11, 1860
Died on February 9, 1916 (aged 55)
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Jacques Marcus Prevost

First Name Jacques
Last Name Prevost
Died on January 1, 1781

James Marcus or Mark Prevost was a British Army officer. After being commissioned in Europe, he commanded troops of the British Army in North America and the West Indies, including during the French and Indian War, the North American front of the Seven Years' War.

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Georges-Louis Le Sage

First Name Georges-Louis
Born on June 13, 1724
Died on November 9, 1803 (aged 79)

Georges-Louis Le Sage was a Genevan physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases. Furthermore, he was a contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.

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