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.

Science

A-F

• Firmin Abauzit, (1679-1767), scientist
• Alexander Emanuel Agassiz (1835-1910), American man of science
• Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), work on ice ages, glaciers
• Jacob Amsler (1823-1912), mathematician and inventor of measuring instruments
• Werner Arber (born 1929), 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Johann Georg Baiter (1801-1877), philologist
• Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840-1914) archaeologist
• Jean-François Bergier (born 1931), historian
• Eugene Bleuler (1857-1940), psychiatrist
• Felix Bloch (born 1905), 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Charles Bonnet (1720-1793), botanist
• Daniel Bovet (born 1907), 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Joost Bürgi (1552-1632), mathematician and watchmaker
• Johann Büttikofer (1850-1929), zoologist
• Jean-André Deluc (1727-1817), geologist
• Albert Einstein, (1879-1955), 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Richard R. Ernst (born 1933), 1991 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Edmond H. Fischer (born 1920), 1992 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Auguste Forel (1848-1931), myrmecologist, psychiatrist, neurologist
• François-Alphonse Forel (1841-1912), pioneer in the study of lakes

G-O

• Conrad Gessner (1516-1565)
• Jules Gonin (1870-1935), ophthalmologist
• Charles-Edouard Guillaume (1861-1938), 1920 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777)
• Anna Heer (1863-1918), physician
• Walter Hess (1881-1973), 1949 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Carl Hilty (1833-1909), jurist
• Albert Hofmann (born 1906)
• Eugen Huber (1849-1923), jurist
• François Huber (1750-1831), naturalist
• Paul Karrer (1889-1971), 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Emil Theodor Kocher (1841-1917), 1909 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Michel Mayor (born 1942), astronomer
• Johannes von Müller (1752-1809), historian
• K. Alex Müller (born 1927), 1987 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Paul Müller (1899-1965), 1948 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Johann Caspar von Orelli (1787-1849)

P-Z

• Paracelsus (1493-1541), (Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), alchemist
• Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), 1945 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Jean Piaget (1896-1980), psychologist
• Auguste Piccard (1884-1962)
• Jacques Piccard
• Jean Piccard (1884-1963)
• François-Jules Pictet de la Rive (1809-1872), zoologist and paleontologist
• Raoul Pictet (1846-1929), physicist
• Adolf Portmann (1897-1982), zoologist
• Vladimir Prelog (1906-1998), 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Didier Queloz (born 1966), astronomer
• Tadeus Reichstein (1897-1996), chemist, 1950 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Eugene Renevier (1831-1906), geologist
• Heinrich Rohrer (born 1933), 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Leopold Ruzicka (1887-1976), 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (1740-1799), botanist
• Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, (1672-1733), Swiss savant
• Jack Steinberger (born 1921), 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics
• Alfred Werner (1866-1919), 1913 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Niklaus Wirth (born 1934), computer scientist
• Kurt Wüthrich (born 1938), 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Daniel Albert Wyttenbach (1746-1820)
• Alexandre Yersin (1894-1943), physician, isolates the Yersinia pestis
• Rolf M. Zinkernagel (born 1944), 1996 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Fritz Zwicky (1898-1974), astronomer
• Theodor Zwinger (1533-1588), scholar