List of Famous people born in Switzerland
Mattia Binotto
Mattia Binotto is a Swiss-born Italian engineer and team principal of Scuderia Ferrari in Formula One. He was appointed to the role on 7 January 2019, replacing Maurizio Arrivabene. His parents are Italian.
Severin Lüthi
Severin Lüthi is a Swiss tennis coach and former player. He has coached the Swiss Davis Cup Team for many years and has also been a long-time coach of Roger Federer.
Michael Kurt
Michael "Mike" Kurt is a Swiss slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1996 to 2016.
Fabienne Meyer
Fabienne Meyer is a Swiss former bobsledder who has been competing since 2005.
Ethan Gutmann
Ethan Gutmann is an American writer, China watcher, author, and former adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies whose work has investigated surveillance and organ harvesting in China.
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher
Magdalena Martullo-Blocher is a Swiss billionaire, businesswoman, Swiss People's Party politician, the CEO of Ems-Chemie, and the daughter and an heiress of former Swiss Federal Councillor Christoph Blocher. In 2015, she was elected to the National Council as a representative of Graubünden, although she lives in the Canton of Zürich.
Judith Auer
Judith Auer was a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime in Germany.
Johann Vogel
Johann Louis François Vogel is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He spent most of his professional with Grasshopper Club Zürich and PSV. In his later career, he played for Milan, Betis, and Blackburn Rovers before returning to Grasshoppers. At international level, he amassed 94 caps scoring twice for the Switzerland national team.
Charles Dutoit
Charles Édouard Dutoit is a Swiss conductor. He is currently the principal guest conductor for the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic and co-director of the MISA Festival in Shanghai. In 2017, he became the 103rd recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal Award. Dutoit held previous positions with the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, the Tokyo NHK Symphony and the Orchestre National de France. As of 2017, conductor emeritus of the Verbier Music Festival Orchestra. He is an honorary member of the Ravel Foundation in France and the Stravinsky Foundation in Switzerland. In December 2017, following allegations of sexual harassment, the Boston and San Francisco Symphonies cancelled his engagements. In a statement, Dutoit denied the charges. No one has ever filed formal complaints.
Karin Giegerich
Karin Giegerich is a German actress. She appeared in more than sixty films since 1992.