Notable Residents
- Ian Anderson - (born 1947), Scottish musician, frontman of Jethro Tull
- Richard Bonynge, AO, CBE - (born 1930), Australian conductor and pianist
- Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin – (1872–1938), Russian ornithologist
- Noël Coward - (1899–1973), English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
- A. J. Cronin – (1896–1981), Scottish novelist
- Laurent Dufaux – (born 1969), Swiss cyclist
- Jean Villard Gilles – (1895–1982), Swiss singer-songwriter
- Barbara Hendricks – (born 1948), American-born opera singer
- Patrick Juvet – (born 1950), Swiss singer-songwriter
- Tony Lewis – (born 1956), American singer-songwriter
- Zelda Fitzgerald - (1900–1948), wife of American author F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim - (1867–1951), Finnish statesman
- Freddie Mercury – (1946–1991), British musician, frontman of Queen
- Vladimir Nabokov – (1899–1977), Russian-American novelist
- Claude Nobs – (born 1939), Swiss founder of Montreux Jazz Festival
- Luc Plamondon – (born 1942), French-Canadian lyricist
- Uri Rosenthal - (born 1945), Dutch politician
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau – (1712–1778), Swiss philosopher and writer
- Emil Steinberger – (born 1933), Swiss comedian, writer, and actor
- Igor Stravinsky – (1882–1971), Russian composer
- Dame Joan Sutherland, OM, AC, DBE - (1926–2010), Australian opera singer
- Pyotr Iliych Tchaikovsky – (1840–1893), Russian composer
- Shania Twain – (born 1965), Canadian singer-songwriter
- Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg - (1884–1966), Lithuanian Rosh Yeshiva of the Hildesheimer Seminary in Berlin and author of the four-volume responsa Sridei Aish
- Ardeshir Zahedi - (born 1928), former Iranian foreign minister and son-in-law of Shah of Iran
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