List of Famous people born in Switzerland

Mauro Schmid is a Swiss cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Qhubeka NextHash. He competed in the scratch at the 2019 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, where he finished 7th.

Sergei Aschwanden is a Swiss judoka born in Bern.

Leonie Küng is a Swiss tennis player. Küng has a career-high WTA singles ranking of No. 156, achieved on 17 February 2020. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of No. 331, achieved on 19 August 2019. As a qualifier, Küng reached the singles final of the Junior Wimbledon Championships in 2018.

Reto Pirmin Ziegler is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Swiss Super League club FC Lugano.

Andrea Dettling is a Swiss Alpine skier. She was fifth in Super-G at the 2009 Alpine Skiing World Cup. She represented Switzerland at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Dean Kukan is a Swiss professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing with the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League (NHL). He is of Czech descent.

Marco Streller is a Swiss former footballer who played as a striker and is best known for his years with FC Basel and the Switzerland national team. He was the sporting director of FC Basel from June 2017 until June 2019. Since February 2020 he works as a TV expert for the Swiss Pay TV broadcaster Teleclub.

Ruth Dreifuss is a Swiss politician affiliated with the Social Democratic Party. She was a member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1993 to 2002, representing the Canton of Geneva.

Paul Hermann Müller also known as Pauly Mueller was a Swiss chemist who received the 1948 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for his 1939 discovery of insecticidal qualities and use of DDT in the control of vector diseases such as malaria and yellow fever.

Barbara Diethelm is a Swiss painter, drawer and producer of artists' colours.