List of Swiss people
This is a list of famous Swiss and notable people from or resident in Switzerland and cantons forming present-day Switzerland.
Business
- Carl Franz Bally (1821-1899), founder of the Bally Shoe company
- Abraham Louis Breguet (1747-1823), watchmaker
- Louis Chevrolet (1878-1941), automobile engineer
- Alfred Escher (1819-1882) statesman, businessman and railway constructor
- Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth (1767-1823) architect of the Lint melioration
- Louis Favre (1826-1879), engineer of the Gotthard tunnel
- Nicolas Hayek (1928), entrepreneur, chairman, Swatch Group
- Antoine LeCoultre, entrepreneur and watchmaker
- Georges Edouard Piaget, watchmaker
- Beat Fischer von Reichenbach (1641-1698), held postal monopoly in Berne
- Daniel Jean-Richard (1665-1741), watchmaker
- Philippe Suchard (1797-1884), chocolatier
- William de Vigier (1912-2003), entrepreneur
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