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.

Writers

• Peter Bichsel (born 1935)
• S. Corinna Bille (1912-1979), author, poet
• Ida Bindschedler (1854-1919), childbook author
• Hans Boesch (born 1926)
• Charles Victor de Bonstetten (1745-1832)
• Blaise Cendrars, (Frédéric Louis Sauser), (1887-1961), author
• Victor Cherbuliez (1829-1899), member of the Académie française
• Jacques Chessex (born 1934)
• Anne Cuneo (born 1936)
• Erich von Däniken (born 1935), Ancient Astronauts writer
• Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), author and playwright
• Werner J. Egli (born 1943)
• Felix Epper (born 1967)
• Heinrich Federer (1866-1928)
• Martin Frank (born 1950)
• Max Frisch (1911-1991), author and architect
• Salomon Gessner (1730-1788)
• Friedrich Glauser (1896-1938)
• Jeremias Gotthelf, (Albert Bitzius), (1797-1854), author
• Roger Graf (born 1958)
• Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Meinrad Inglin (1893-1971)
• Zoë Jenny (born 1974)
• Gottfried Keller (1819-1890), Swiss author
• Ella Maillart (1903-1997)
• Niklaus Meienberg (1940-1993)
• Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825-1898)
• Adolf Muschg (born 1934)
• Suzanne Necker, née Suzanne Curchod, (1739-1794)
• Juste Olivier (1807-1876)
• Eugène Rambert (1830-1886)
• Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878-1947)
• Grisélidis Réal (1929-2005)
• Urs Richle (born 1965)
• Margrit Schriber (born 1939)
• Frithjof Schuon (1907-1998)
• Josias Simmler (1530-1576), theologian, historian
• Carl Spitteler (1845-1924), 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Johanna Spyri (1827-1901), author of Heidi
• Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, (Madame de Staël), (1766-1817)
• Ugonna Wachuku (born 1971), Nigerian writer living in Geneva
• Otto F. Walter (1928-1994)
• Silja Walter (born 1919) sister of Otto F. Walter, Benedictinian nun and writer
• Urs Widmer (born 1938)
• Johann David Wyss (1743-1818), author of The Swiss Family Robinson
• Yvette Z'Graggen (born 1920)
• Emil Zopfi (born 1943)
• Fritz Zorn, (Fritz Angst), (1944-1976), author of Mars
• Roland Zoss (born 1951)
• Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke (1771-1848)