List of Famous people born in Switzerland
Suneil Anand
Suneil Anand is an Indian film actor and director. He is the son of former actors Dev Anand and Kalpana Kartik. He runs Navketan Films.
Bernard Tschumi
Bernard Tschumi is an architect, writer, and educator, commonly associated with deconstructivism. Son of the well-known Swiss architect Jean Tschumi and a French mother, Tschumi is a dual French-Swiss national who works and lives in New York City and Paris. He studied in Paris and at ETH in Zurich, where he received his degree in architecture in 1969.
Stephan Schmidheiny
Stephan Ernst Schmidheiny is a Swiss entrepreneur, philanthropist and advocate of sustainable development. In 2019, his net worth was estimated by Forbes to be $2.3 billion. He's also well known for being convicted over his role in the Italian asbestos scandal.
Herbert Herrmann
René Julliard
Maya Pedersen-Bieri
Maya Pedersen-Bieri is a Swiss-Norwegian skeleton racer who has competed since 1995. She won the gold medal in the women's skeleton event at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She retired from the sport in 2010 before returning to compete for Norway in 2016, becoming at the oldest woman to start a World Cup race when she returned to the top level of skeleton in 2017. She is listed in the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation athlete registration system as Maya Pedersen.
Marie Leonhardt
Bendeniz
Bendeniz is a Swiss-Turkish pop musician who is well known in Turkey. Her first album Bendeniz in 1993, was a great success thanks to a song called "Ya Sen Ya Hiç". She won the "gold record" award in a competition sponsored by a French TV station in 1995. Her music mixes world pop sound with traditional Turkish sounds.