List of Famous people born in Switzerland

Walter Blattmann was a Swiss racing cyclist. He rode in the 1933 Tour de France and finished 9th overall in the 1935 Vuelta a España. He also won the 1933 Züri-Metzgete.

Pirmin Lang is a Swiss former racing cyclist. He rode in the 2014 Vuelta a España.

Colin Stanley Gum was an Australian astronomer who catalogued emission nebulae in the southern sky at the Mount Stromlo Observatory using wide field photography. Gum published his findings in 1955 in a study entitled A study of diffuse southern H-alpha nebulae which presented a catalog, now known as the Gum catalog, of 85 nebulae or nebular complexes. Gum 12, a large area of nebulosity in the direction of the constellations Puppis and Vela, was later named the Gum Nebula in his honour. Gum was part of the team, whose number included Frank John Kerr and Gart Westerhout, that determined the precise position of the neutral hydrogen plane in space.

Paul Irniger was a Swiss serial killer. He was the last person to be sentenced to death and executed in Switzerland after a criminal trial in the canton of Zug and the penultimate non-military execution in Switzerland, preceding Hans Vollenweider.