List of Famous people born in Canton of Geneva, Switzerland
Vico Torriani
Vico Torriani was a Swiss actor and Schlager singer.
Richard Norris Williams
Richard "Dick" Norris Williams II, generally known as R. Norris Williams, was an American tennis player and RMS Titanic survivor.
Lise Girardin
Lise Girardin was a Swiss politician. A member of the Free Democratic Party, she was the first woman to be elected mayor of Geneva and the first woman named to the Council of States.
Michel Simon
Michel Simon was a Swiss actor. He appeared in the notable films La Chienne (1931), Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932), L'Atalante (1934), Port of Shadows (1938), The Head (1959), and The Train (1964). The actor François Simon is his son.
Erik Truffaz
Erik Truffaz is a French jazz trumpeter, infusing elements of hip hop, rock and roll and dance music into his compositions.
Martin Hairer
Sir Martin Hairer is an Austrian-British mathematician working in the field of stochastic analysis, in particular stochastic partial differential equations. He is Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London, having previously held appointments at the University of Warwick and the Courant Institute of New York University. In 2014 he was awarded the Fields Medal, one of the highest honours a mathematician can achieve. In 2020 he won the 2021 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics.
Emilie Benes Brzezinski
Emilie Beneš Brzezinski is a Swiss American sculptor and the widow of Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Louis Favre
Louis Favre was a Swiss engineer who is remembered for building the Gotthard Rail Tunnel between 1872 and his death in the tunnel in 1879.
Philippe Senderos
Philippe Sylvain Senderos is a Swiss retired professional footballer who played as a defender.
Marina Rollman
Marina Rollman is a Swiss comedian.