List of Famous people born in Switzerland
Philippe Dufour
Philippe Dufour is a Swiss-born watchmaker from Le Sentier, Vallée de Joux. He is regarded as the greatest master of modern watchmaking, and his watches are referenced as among the best ever made. He finishes all of his watches himself by hand. In 1992, Dufour was the first watchmaker to put arguably the most complex of complications in a wristwatch, a Sonnerie. His other two models include Duality and Simplicity.
Wladimir Belli
Wladimir Belli is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer. He was a professional between 1992 and 2007.
Valentin Stocker
Valentin Stocker is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a left midfielder for FC Basel. He has played for the Switzerland national team.
Sophie Lamon
Sophie Lamon is a Swiss fencer. She won a silver medal in the women's team épée event at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Jeannine Gmelin
Jeannine Gmelin is a Swiss competitive rower.
Bettina Bernadotte
Magali Messmer
Magali Di Marco Messmer, is one of the most seasoned professional elite triathletes and part of the Swiss National Team since 1995. She took part in two Olympic Games, placing 3rd in Sydney (2000) and 13th in Beijing (2008). She lives in Troistorrents in Valais.
Princess Nora of Liechtenstein
Princess Norberta of Liechtenstein, Dowager Marchioness of Mariño, popularly known as Princess Nora, is a member of Liechtenstein princely family. She is the fourth child and only daughter of Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein and his wife Georgina von Wilczek, and thus younger sister of Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein.
Berat Djimsiti
Berat Ridvan Djimsiti is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Italian club Atalanta and the Albania national team.
Bertram Schefold
Bertram Schefold is a Swiss economist and an Economics professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main specializing in economic theory with a particular focus on capital theory and the history of economic thought.