Switzerland
- Maurice Abravanel, conductor
- Jeff Agoos, US soccer international
- Ernest Bloch, composer
- Felix Bloch, physicist, Nobel Prize (1952)
- Alain de Botton, writer
- Albert Cohen, novelist
- Arthur Cohn, film producer
- Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss president (1999)
- Camille & Henry Dreyfus, inventors of Celanese
- Al Dubin, lyricist
- Jean Dunand-Gotscho, sculptor, painter, lacquerer
- Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize (1921)
- Edmond Fischer, biochemist, Nobel Prize (1992) (Jewish father)
- Robert Frank, photographer
- Meyer Guggenheim, businessman
- Jeanne Hersch, philosopher
- Mathilde Krim, AIDS researcher (convert)
- Dani Levy (1957 -) film maker, theatrical director and actor
- Rolf Liebermann, Swiss music administrator and composer
- Meret Oppenheim, surrealist artist
- Rachel, stage actress (Swiss-born)
- Tadeus Reichstein, chemist, Nobel Prize (1950)
- Edmond Safra, banker
- Jean Starobinski, literary critic
- Sigismond Thalberg, pianist, composer
- Regina Ullmann, poet
- Charles Weissmann, biochemist
- Alain & Gerard Wertheimer, owners of Chanel
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Famous quotes containing the word switzerland:
“In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
—Orson Welles (1915–84)
“In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)