List of Famous people born in Switzerland
Shani Tarashaj
Shani Tarashaj is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a forward and is currently a free agent. He was a member of the Swiss squad at UEFA Euro 2016.
Corinne Hofmann
Corinne Hofmann is a German born author living in Switzerland, most famous for her multi-million selling memoir Die weisse Massai .
Sophie Hunger
Sophie Hunger is a Swiss singer-songwriter, film composer, multi-instrumentalist and bandleader, currently living in Berlin.
Erika Hess
Erika Hess is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. One of the best female racers of the 1980s, Hess had 31 World Cup wins, four slalom titles, and two overall titles. She also won six World Championship gold medals between 1982 and 1987, and took bronze in the slalom at the 1980 Winter Olympics at age 17. Hess missed another medal in 1985, when she led after the first run of the slalom at the "Stelvio" course at Bormio, but failed to finish the second leg.
Luca Aerni
Luca Aerni is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Châtel-Saint-Denis, he competed for Switzerland at the Winter Olympics in 2014 and 2018.
Carla Del Ponte
Carla Del Ponte is a former Chief Prosecutor of two United Nations international criminal law tribunals. A former Swiss attorney general, she was appointed prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in August 1999, replacing Louise Arbour.
Marina Rollman
Marina Rollman is a Swiss comedian.
Carlo Ponti
Carlo Ponti Jr. is an Italian orchestral conductor working in the United States. He is the son of late film producer Carlo Ponti Sr. and Italian actress Sophia Loren and the older brother of film director Edoardo Ponti.
Jean-Philippe Écoffey
Jean-Philippe Écoffey is a Swiss actor. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1985.
Tanguy Nef
Tanguy Nef is a Swiss alpine skier.