List of Swiss People - Politics

Politics

  • Rudolf Brun (1290s–1360), first mayor of Zurich
  • Gaudenz Canova (1887–1962)
  • Étienne Clavière (1735–1793)
  • Joseph Deiss (born 1946), Federal Councilor, President of the United Nations General Assembly
  • Élie Ducommun (1833–1906), 1902 Nobel Peace Prize
  • Henri Dunant (1828–1910), Founder of the Red Cross 1901 Nobel Peace Prize
  • Nicholas of Flüe (1417–1487), diplomat, hermit, Catholic saint
  • Albert Gallatin (1761–1849), US Secretary of the Treasury, diplomat
  • Albert Gobat (1843–1914), 1902 Nobel Peace Prize
  • Jörg Jenatsch (1596–1639), pastor, Protestant politician
  • Elisabeth Kopp (born 1936), first woman elected to the Federal Council
  • Josef Leu (1800–1845), Catholic politician from Lucerne
  • Moritz Leuenberger (born 1946), Federal Councilor, advocate of sustainable transportation
  • Jean-Paul Marat (1743–1793), revolutionary
  • Giuseppe Motta (1871–1940), Federal Councilor (1911–1940) and President of the League of Nations
  • Napoleon III (1808–1873) (naturalized in 1832)
  • Jacques Necker (1732–1804), statesman and finance minister of Louis XVI
  • Charles Pictet de Rochemont (1755–1824), statesman, diplomat
  • Pompejus von Planta-Wildenberg (1569–1621)
  • Rudolf von Planta (died 1640), judge in lower Engadin
  • Rudolf von Planta-Wildenberg (1603–1641)
  • Fritz Platten (1883–1942), Communist
  • Carla del Ponte (born 1946), Swiss attorney general, chief prosecutor of two international criminal law tribunals
  • Nelly Wicky (born 1923), former member of the National Council

See also:

  • List of members of the Swiss Federal Council (since 1848)
  • List of members of the Swiss National Council (current)
  • List of members of the Swiss Council of States (current)
  • List of Presidents of the Swiss Confederation (since 1848)
  • List of Presidents of the Swiss National Council (since 1848)
  • List of Presidents of the Swiss Council of States (since 1848)
  • List of Federal Chancellors of Switzerland (since 1803)
  • List of Presidents of the Swiss Diet (before 1848)
  • List of mayors of Baden, Berne, Fribourg
  • List of mayors of Geneva, Lausanne, Lucerne
  • List of mayors of Lugano, Schaffhausen, St. Gallen
  • List of mayors of Uster, Winterthur, Zofingen, Zurich
  • List of 2005 office-holders in Switzerland
  • List of the first female holders of political offices: Switzerland

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