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.

Others

• Sadruddhin Aga Khan (1933-2003), UN High Commissioner for Refugees, longtime Swiss resident
• Othmar Ammann (1879-1965), civil engineer, bridge engineer to the New York Port Authority
• Nick Auf der Maur (1942-1998), Canadian journalist, Swiss parents
• Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867-1939), physician and Muesli inventor
• Johann Georg Bodmer (1786-1864), inventor
• Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698-1783)
• Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897), art historian
• Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1814), traveller and orientalist
• Elias Canetti (1905-1994), 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature, Swiss resident
• Henry Dunant (1828-1910), humanitarian who created the Red Cross
• Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg (1771-1844)
• Marie Grossholtz (1761-1850), known as Madame Tussaud
• Ingvar Kamprad (born 1926), founder of IKEA, Swiss resident since 1976
• Christoph Meili (born 1968), whistleblower
• Max Miedinger (1910-1980), typeface designer, inventor of Helvetica
• Susanna Orelli (1845-1939) humanitarian
• Beat Richner (born 1947), pediatrician, founder of children's hospitals in Cambodia
• Niklaus Riggenbach (1817-1899), engineer
• John Sutter (1803-1880), California settler
• Alain Tanner (born 1929), film director