List of Swiss people

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
Ursula Andress[?] (born 1936), actress
Pierre Victor Besenval de Bronstatt[?] (1721-1791)
Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867-1939), physician and Muesli[?] inventor
Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698-1783)
Abraham Louis Breguet (1747-1823), watchmaker
Yul Brynner (1915?-1985), actor
Jacob Burckhardt[?] (1818-1897), art historian
Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784-1814), traveller and orientalist
Elias Canetti (1905-1994), 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature
Louis Chevrolet[?] (1878-1941), automobile engineer
Étienne Clavière (1735-1793)
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830)
Guillaume-Henri Dufour[?] (1787-1875), General, geographer
Marie Grossholtz (1761-1850), known as Madame Tussaud
Henri Guisan[?] (1874-1960), General during WWII
Hans Herzog[?] (1819-1894), General 1870-1871
Irène Jacob (born 1966), actress
Carl Gustav (C.G.) Jung (1875-1961), psychiatrist, writer, philosopher
Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741-1801)
Max Miedinger[?] (1910-1980), typeface designer, inventor of Helvetica
Claude Nicollier[?] (born 1944), pilot, astronaut
Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi[?] (1746-1827), pedagogue
Bertrand Piccard[?] (born 1958), psychiatrist and balloonist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), philosopher, author
Josias Simmler (1530-1576), theologian, historian
Rudolf Steiner, (1861-1925), mystic, philosopher and educator
Philippe Suchard[?] (1797-1884), chocolatier
John Sutter (1803-1880), California settler
Caterina Valente[?] (born 1931), singer, actress
Ulrich Wille[?] (1848-1925), General during WWI

People named Swiss

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), from Alsace, not Switzerland

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