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.

Religion

• Jakob Abbadie (1654-1727), Protestant preacher
• Gilberto Cardinal Agustoni (born 1922)
• Jacob Amman (17th century)
• Karl Barth (1886-1968)
• Theodore Beza (1519-1605), reformer in Geneva
• Heinrich Bullinger (1504-1575), reformer in Zurich
• John Calvin (1509-1564), reformer in Geneva
• Georges Cardinal Cottier (born 1922), former professor of theology
• Niklaus Manuel Deutsch (1484-1530) painter, dramatician, politician and reformer in Berne
• William Farel (1489-1565), reformer in Geneva
• Theodosius Florentini (1808-1865)
• Gaston Frommel (1862-1906)
• Berchtold Haller (1492-1536), reformer in Berne
• Karl Rudolf Hagenbach (1801-1874)
• Johann Jakob Herzog (1805-1882)
• Hans Küng (born 1928), theologian
• Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801), pastor and physiognomist
• Oswald Myconius (1488-1552)
• Johannes Oecolampadius (1482-1531)
• Frère Roger (1915-2005), founder of Taizé
• Philip Schaff (1819-1893)
• Henri Cardinal Schwery (born 1932), former Bishop of Sion
• Guichard Tavelli, (died 1375), Bishop of Sion
• Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1797-1847), theologian and critic
• Pierre Viret, reformer in Vaud Canton
• Johann Jakob Wettstein (1693-1754), theologian
• John Joachim Zubly, (Hans Joachim Züblin), (1724-1781), pastor, delegate to the Continental Congress
• Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531), reformer in Zurich