Zurich - Notable People

Notable People

People who were born or died in Zurich:

  • Grand Duchess Marie Alexandrovna of Russia (1853–1920), Duchess of Edinburgh, died in Zurich
  • Richard Avenarius (1843–1896), Philosopher, died in Zurich
  • Diego Benaglio (born 1983), footballer, born in Zurich
  • Severin Blindenbacher (born 1983), ice hockey player, born in Zurich
  • Felix Bloch (1905–1983), physicist, born in Zurich
  • Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575), reformer and theologian, died in Zurich
  • Elias Canetti (1905–1994), novelist, died in Zurich
  • Alfred Escher (1819–1882), politician, business leader and railways pioneer, born and died in Zurich
  • Wilhelm Filchner (1877–1957), explorer, died in Zurich
  • Max Frisch (1911–1991), novelist, born and died in Zurich
  • Christoph Froschauer (ca. 1490/1–1564), Printer of the Froschauer Bible, died in Zurich
  • Bruno Ganz (1941-), Swiss actor known for playing Adolf Hitler in the German film Downfall.
  • Patrick Geering (born 1990), ice hockey player, born in Zurich
  • Conrad Gessner (1516–1565), naturalist, born and died in Zurich
  • Marcel Grossmann (1878–1936), mathematician, died in Zurich
  • Otto Hunziker (1873–1959), pioneer in the international dairy industry, born in Zurich
  • James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish novelist, died in Zurich (buried at Fluntern cemetery in Zurich)
  • Carl Jung (1875–1961), psychiatrist, lived and died in Zurich
  • Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), poet, born and died in Zurich
  • Amanullah Khan (1929–1960), deposed Afghan reformist King, died in Zurich
  • Otto Klemperer (1885–1973), German conductor, died in Zurich (buried at Israelitischer Friedhof Oberer Friesenberg)
  • Hugo Koblet (1925–1964), cycling champion, born in Zurich
  • Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801), poet and physiognomist, born in Zurich
  • Antonio Ligabue (1899–1965), Italian painter, born in Zurich
  • Hugo Loetscher (1929–2009), writer, born and died in Zurich
  • Dieter Meier (born 1945), conceptual artist and musician with electronica group Yello, born in Zurich
  • Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825–1898), poet, born in Zurich
  • Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958), physicist, died in Zurich
  • Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl (9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) Mathematician
  • Shefqet Vërlaci (1877–1946), 12th Prime Minister of Albanian Kingdom (1939–1943)
  • Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746–1827), educational reformer, born in Zurich
  • James Sadleir (c. 1815–1881), fugitive swindler, murdered in Zurich
  • Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672–1733), scholar, born in Zurich
  • Roland Scholl (1865–1945), chemist, born in Zurich
  • Johanna Spyri (1827–1901), author of Heidi, died in Zurich
  • Raynold Kaufgetz (1797–1869), economist, born and died in Zurich
  • Tobias Stephan (born 1984), ice hockey player, born in Zurich
  • Stefi Talman (born 1958), Swiss shoe designer, born in Zurich
  • Pancho Vladigerov (1899–1978), Bulgarian composer, born in Zurich
  • Ueli Gegenschatz (1971–2009), Swiss BASE jumper, died in Zurich after a failed jump from the Sunrise Tower

Famous residents:

  • Boris Blank, musician with Yello
  • Mileva Maric, Serbian mathematician and the first wife of Albert Einstein
  • Albert Einstein (1896–1900, 1909–1911, 1912–1914)
  • James Joyce (1915–1919)
  • Udo Jürgens
  • Patricia Kaas
  • Vladimir Lenin (1917)
  • Thomas Mann (1933–1942)
  • Manuel Rivera-Ortiz
  • Kurt Tucholsky (1932–1933)
  • Tina Turner
  • Tristan Tzara (1896–1963)
  • Richard Wagner (1849–1861)
  • Jonas Kaufmann

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