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Walter Benjamin
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
Casimir Funk
Jewish-Polish biochemist
Kurt Wüthrich
Swiss chemist (born 1938)
Georg von Békésy
Hungarian physicist (1899–1972)
Carla Del Ponte
International jurist
Albert Anker
Swiss artist (1831-1910)
Samuel Schmid
member of the Swiss Federal Council
Nikolaj Velimirović
Serbian bishop and saint (1880–1956)
Walter Thurnherr
Swiss diplomat and senior civil servant, Federal Chancellor of the Swiss Confederation (2016-2023)
Anna Tumarkin
Swiss professor (1875-1951)
Viktor Rossi
Swiss politician, Federal Chancellor of Switzerland since 2024
Hugo Schiff
German chemist (1834–1915)
Ludwig Schläfli
Swiss geometer (1814-1895)
Abram Deborin
Russian philosopher (1881–1963)
Alphons Egli
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1924-2016)
Karl Schenk
longest serving member of the Swiss Federal Council (1823-1895)
Edmund Schulthess
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1868-1944)
Johannes Baumann
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1874-1953)
René Fasel
Swiss ice hockey administrator
Wilhelm Worringer
German art historian (1881-1965)
Rudolf Gnägi
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1917–1985)
Jakob Stämpfli
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1820-1879)
Markus Büchel
9th Prime Minister of Liechtenstein (1959-2013)
Simone Niggli-Luder
Swiss orienteer
Hans Hürlimann
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1918–1994)
Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas
Lithuanian politician (1880-1935)
Hans Schaffner
Swiss politician (1908-2004)
Hugo Celmiņš
Latvian politician (1877-1941)
Karl Scheurer
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1872-1929)
Felix Calonder
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1863-1952)
Walther von Wartburg
Swiss philologist and lexicographer (1888–1971)
Pierre Musy
Swiss bobsledder (1910–1990)
Eduard von Steiger
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1881-1962)
Jurgis Šaulys
Lithuanian politician (1879-1948)
Bernhard Studer
Swiss geologist (1794-1887)
Markus Feldmann
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1897-1958)
Eduard Fischer
Swiss mycologist and botanist (1861-1939)
Annemarie Huber-Hotz
Swiss politician (1948-2019)
Ludwig Ruetimeyer
Swiss zoologist (1825-1895)
Thomas Holenstein
Swiss politician (1896–1962)
Edith Pechey
British physician and campaigner for women's rights (1845-1908)
Maikki Friberg
Finnish educator, writer, early women's rights activist, editor
Fritz Klein
American psychiatrist and LGBT activist (1932-2006)
Josef Escher
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1885-1954)
Ben-Zion Dinur
Israeli historian and politician (1884-1973)
Paul Nizon
Swiss art historian and writer (born 1929)
Charles Rappoport
French writer (1865-1941)
Isala Van Diest
Belgian physician
Werner Munzinger
Swiss explorer, administrator and linguist (1832-1875)
Moritz Lazarus
German psychologist and philosopher (1824–1903)
Petko Todorov
Bulgarian writer, poet and playwright (1879–1916)
Sophia Getzowa
Belarusian-Israeli scientist
Karl Jaberg
Swiss linguist (1877-1958)
Lyubov Axelrod
Russian philosopher (1868–1946)
Jean Bourgknecht
member of the Swiss Federal Council (1902-1964)
Adolpho Lutz
Brazilian physician and zoologist (1855-1940)
Ernst Albert Gäumann
Swiss botanist and mycologist (1893-1963)
Valeria Spälty
curler
Franz Keller
Swiss psychologist and christian marxist or socialist christian pacifist and editor (1913-1991)
Alexander Schlichter
Ukrainian Bolshevik politician (1868–1940)