List of Famous people born in Canton of Solothurn, Switzerland

Daniela Ryf

First Name Daniela
Born on May 29, 1987 (age 37)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

Daniela Ryf is a Swiss triathlete. She is the titles holder of the Ironman World Championship of 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018; and of the Ironman 70.3 World Championship of the 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019.

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Gökhan İnler

First Name Gökhan
Last Name İnler
Born on June 27, 1984 (age 40)
Height 183 cm | 6'0

Gökhan İnler is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Turkish club Adana Demirspor.

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Baran bo Odar

First Name Baran
Last Name Odar
Born on April 18, 1978 (age 46)

Baran bo Odar is a German film and television director and screenwriter. His film Who Am I – No System Is Safe reached the top of the German cinema charts and was nominated for a German Film Award for Best Fiction Feature Film and Best Screenplay. Odar directed and co-wrote the film with his partner Jantje Friese. Odar was born in Switzerland and is of Turkish origin from his mother and of Russian origin from his paternal grandfather, a former doctor who had to flee Russia after the October Revolution. Bo is his nickname.

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Conny Kissling

Cornelia Kissling
First Name Conny
Born on July 18, 1961 (age 63)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

Conny Kissling is a Swiss freestyle skier, world champion and Olympic participant.

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Benjamin Huggel

Benjamin "Beni" Huggel is a Swiss former footballer who played as a midfielder for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League and for Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga.

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Urs Jaeggi

First Name Urs
Born on June 23, 1931
Died on February 13, 2021 (aged 89)

Urs Jaeggi is a Swiss sociologist, painter, and author. From 1964 to 1993, he was a Professor of Sociology and Social Philosophy in Bern, Bochum, New York, and Berlin. He published numerous novels, short stories, essays as well as scientific books. He won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1981. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions since 1985. Presently he lives in Berlin and Mexico City.

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Heinz Frei

First Name Heinz
Last Name Frei
Born on January 28, 1958 (age 66)

Heinz Frei is a Swiss wheelchair athlete. Frei has had a long career of racing, winning the London Marathon wheelchair race three times, and earning five medals at the 2003 European games at the age of 45. He has earned 15 gold medals at the summer and winter Paralympics and is a current world record holder in the half-marathon and marathon wheelchair races. He competed in athletics at every Summer Paralympic Games from 1984 to 2008, and at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics he competed in cycling, using a handcycle. At the Winter Paralympics, he competed in cross-country sit-skiing between 1984 and 2006 and in the biathlon in 1994.

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Marco Wölfli

First Name Marco
Last Name Wölfli
Born on August 22, 1982 (age 42)
Height 186 cm | 6'1

Marco Wölfli is a Swiss former professional football goalkeeper who played for Young Boys in the Swiss Super League.

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Paul Hermann Müller

First Name Paul
Last Name Müller
Born on January 12, 1899
Died on October 12, 1965 (aged 66)

Paul Hermann Müller also known as Pauly Mueller was a Swiss chemist who received the 1948 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.

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Vanessa Bürki

First Name Vanessa
Last Name Bürki
Born on April 1, 1986 (age 38)
Height 168 cm | 5'6

Vanessa Bürki is a Swiss football striker, who plays for BSC YB Frauen.

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