Basel

Basel (English traditionally: Basle {{IPA|}}, German: Basel {{IPA|}}, French Bâle {{IPA|}}, Italian Basilea {{IPA|}}) is Switzerland's third most populous city (188,000 inhabitants in the canton of Basel-City as of 2004; the 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerland's second-largest urban area as of 2003).

People from Basel

• Karl Barth, theologian
• Black Tiger, rapper
• Lucius Munatius Plancus, city founder
• Jacob Burckhardt, professor in history, theology, philosophy
• Jacob Bernoulli (1654-1705), mathematician
• Johann Bernoulli (1667-1748), mathematician
• Johann Bernoulli (1710-1790), mathematician
• Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) mathematician
• Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), mathematician
• Arthur Cohn, film producer (won 6 Oscars)
• Jakob Emanuel Handmann (1718-1781), painter
• Dani Levy, film maker
• Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher
• Beat Raaflaub, conductor
• -minu, columnist
• Roger Federer, tennis player