List of Famous people born in Switzerland
Yves Bouvier
Yves Bouvier is a Swiss businessman and art dealer best known for his role in the Bouvier Affair that resulted in criminal charges being brought against him in France and Monaco. He was the president of Natural Le Coultre, an international company specialized in the transportation, storage, scientific analysis, and conservation of works of art, luxurious goods and other collectibles.
Hugo Koblet
Hugo Koblet was a Swiss champion cyclist. He won the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia as well as competing in six-day and pursuit races on the track. He won 70 races as a professional. He died in a car accident amid speculation that he had committed suicide.
Ramona Bachmann
Ramona Bachmann is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a forward for French Division 1 Féminine club Paris Saint-Germain and the Switzerland national team.
Walter Andreas Müller
Walter Andreas Müller is a Swiss stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions.
Johann Schneider-Ammann
Johann Niklaus Schneider-Ammann is a Swiss businessman and politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2010 to 2018. A member of FDP.The Liberals, he was President of the Swiss Confederation in 2016. Schneider-Ammann headed the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research during his tenure as a Federal Councillor.
Ursina Haller
Ursina Haller is a snowboarder from Switzerland. She competed for Switzerland at the 2010 Winter Olympics in halfpipe, finishing ninth; and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the same event, finishing twelfth. Haller captured a silver medal at the 2011 FIS Snowboarding World Championships.
Markus Imhoof
Markus Imhoof is a Swiss film director, screenwriter, theatre and opera director.
Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza
Dom Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza is a claimant to the defunct Portuguese throne, as the head of the House of Braganza. The Miguelist Braganzas, to whom Duarte Pio belongs as great-grandson of King Miguel I, is a cadet branch of the House of Braganza. With the extinction of male-line dynasts descended from Queen Maria II in 1932, King Miguel's descendants became the only male-line Braganzas remaining and the closest male-line heirs to the defunct Portuguese throne.
Harald Naegeli
Harald Naegeli is a Swiss artist best known as the "Sprayer of Zurich" after the graffiti he sprayed in the late 1970s onto walls and buildings in Zürich, Switzerland.
Raphaël Wicky
Raphael Wicky is a Swiss football coach and a former player who is the head coach of Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer. He was a defensive midfielder who could also play in defence and was known for his combative style.