Montreux - Notable Residents

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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