List of Famous people born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

Louis-Joseph Chevrolet was a Swiss race car driver, co-founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911, and a founder in 1916 of the Frontenac Motor Corporation.

Pierre Aubert was a Swiss politician, lawyer and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1978–1987).

Jules Frederic Humbert-Droz was a Swiss Communist and a founding member of the Communist Party of Switzerland. He held high Comintern office through the 1920s and also acted as Comintern emissary to several west European countries, and was involved in the Right Opposition in 1928. Prior to becoming a Communist, Humbert-Droz was a pastor. He became a social democrat in the 1940s and served as general secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland from 1946 to 1965.

Adrienne von Speyr was a Swiss Catholic convert, physician, wife, mystic, and author of some sixty books of spirituality and theology.

Monsignor Pierre Mamie was the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg from 1970 to 1995.

Armand Borel was a Swiss mathematician, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, and was a permanent professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States from 1957 to 1993. He worked in algebraic topology, in the theory of Lie groups, and was one of the creators of the contemporary theory of linear algebraic groups.

Eugénie Droz was a Swiss romance scholar, editor publisher and writer, originally from the Suisse Romande. She created the Librairie Droz, a publisher and seller of academic books, at Paris in 1924, moving the business to Geneva at the end of the war.

Arthur Chevrolet, was a Swiss racecar driver and automobile manufacturer.

Elise, Countess of Edla, was a Swiss-born American actress and singer, and the morganatic second wife of the former King Ferdinand II of Portugal.