Notable People Born or Resident in Basel
- Chiara Banchini (born 1946), violinist and conductor.
- Tilo Wolff (born 1972), industrial producer, vocalist and keyboards (Hall of Sermon, Lacrimosa, Snakeskin)
- Ana Ivanovic (born 1987), tennis player.
- Karl Barth (1886–1968), Reformed Protestant theologian.
- Shemsi Beqiri (born 1986), kickboxer.
- Bernoulli family
- Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782), mathematician.
- James Bernoulli (1654–1705), mathematician.
- Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748), mathematician.
- Peter Birkhäuser (1911–1976), painter.
- Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907), psychiatrist, father of modern psychosurgery.
- Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), historian, theologian, philosopher.
- Florian Burkhardt (born 1974), composer, author.
- John Calvin (born 1509), minister.
- Arthur Cohn (born 1927), film producer.
- Jean Daetwyler (1907–1994), alphorn composer.
- Eren Derdiyok (born 1988), footballer.
- Erasmus (c.1466–1536), Biblical scholar, humanist, theologian.
- Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), mathematician.
- Roger Federer (born 1981), tennis player.
- John Foxe (1517–1587), English Protestant and Marian exile.
- Alexander Frei (born 1979), footballer.
- Katy French (1983–2007), model and socialite.
- Urs Graf (1485-possibly 1530), Renaissance print-maker and artist.
- Georg Friedrich Haas (born 1953), Austrian composer.
- Jakob Emanuel Handmann (1718–1781), painter.
- Johann Peter Hebel (1760–1826), poet and author.
- Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), chemist, discoverer of LSD.
- Agostino Imondi (1975), filmmaker
- Niels Kai Jerne (1911–1994), immunologist
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961), psychiatrist.
- Lucius Munatius Plancus (c.87 BC–c.15 BC), Basel's founder.
- Christoph Merian (1800–1858), banker and businessman.
- Joachim Meyer (c.1537?–1571), fencer and author.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher.
- Paracelsus (1493–1541), scientist.
- Ricco (1915–1972), painter.
- Leonhard Thurneysen (1531–1596), alchemist.
- Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998), religious philosopher.
- Adrian Sieber (born 1972), singer.
- Hopkinson Smith (born 1946), American lutenist.
- Andreas Vesalius (1446), pioneering anatomist.
- Gustav Bertha (Gordon Bell) (born 1969), singer-songwriter.
- Hakan Yakin (born 1977), footballer.
- Alice Eckenstein (1890–1984), Swiss child rescuer in occupied Belgium during WW I.
- Andreas Lüscher (born 1961), architect, professor and author
- Caroline Jaden Stussi, actress
- Marcel Lang (1956 - 2009), chazan and tenor
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