List of Famous people born in Switzerland
Rolf Järmann
Rolf Järmann is a retired road bicycle racer from Switzerland, who was a professional rider from 1988 to 1999. He twice won the Amstel Gold Race during his career. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1990. He also won the Tour de Pologne 1997.
Christian Bösiger
Christian Boesiger is a Swiss male badminton player from Olten club. He competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's singles event, and reach the second round.
Roland Salm
Roland Salm is a former Swiss professional cyclist. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1977.
Marcel Strauss
Marcel Strauss is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer, last riding for UCI ProTeam Gerolsteiner. He retired in 2008, when that team folded.
Fabian Jeker
Fabian Jeker is a Swiss former road bicycle racer.
Niki Rüttimann
Niki Rüttimann is a Swiss former road bicycle racer.
Erich Maechler
Erich Mächler is a former professional Swiss cyclist. In the 1987 Tour de France, he wore the yellow jersey for 6 days. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1984.
Thomas Frei
Thomas Frei is a Swiss road bicycle racer. Frei was Swiss Junior champion in road cycling in 2002. Between 2004 and 2006 he cycled for the Bürgis Cycling Team and won the Mountain Championship for U23 cyclists. In the 2007 and 2008 seasons, Frei rode for UCI ProTour team Astana before moving to BMC Racing Team for 2009 on a two-year contract. There he was roommate and domestique for future Tour de France champion Cadel Evans.
Hubert Schwab
Hubert Schwab is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer. In his final year as a professional he rode for UCI Continental team Price–Custom Bikes. He retired from cycling after 2011 in order to return to his studies.
Bernard Fellay
Bernard Fellay, SSPX, is a Swiss bishop and former superior general of the Traditionalist Catholic priestly fraternity Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX). In 1988, Pope John Paul II announced that Fellay and three others were automatically excommunicated for being consecrated as bishops by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, an act that the Holy See described as "unlawful" and "schismatic". Archbishop Lefebvre, and Bishop Antônio de Castro Mayer who co-consecrated these four bishops, were also excommunicated. At that time, he was the youngest bishop of the Roman Catholic Church at 29 years old.