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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Frank | Robert Frank | 1924 | 2019 | Swiss | photographer and documentary filmmaker, who became an American binational | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Frank |
| Owen Gleiberman | Owen Gleiberman | 1959 | n/a | Swiss | film critic who has been chief film critic for Variety magazine since May 2016, a title he shares with Peter Debruge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Gleiberman |
| Harry Gold | Harry Gold | 1910 | 1972 | Swiss | laboratory chemist who is known for having been convicted as a courier for the Soviet Union to pass atomic secrets from Klaus Fuchs, an agent of the Soviet Union, during World War II. Gold served as a government witness and testified in the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted and executed in 1953 for their roles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Gold |
| William Wyler | William Wyler | null | null | Swiss | film director and producer who won the Academy Award for Best Director three times, those being for Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Ben-Hur (1959), all of which also won for Best Picture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wyler |
| Alain de Botton | Alain de Botton | 1969 | n/a | Swiss | philosopher and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_de_Botton |
| Felix Bloch | Felix Bloch | 1905 | 1983 | Swiss | physicist and Nobel physics laureate who worked mainly in the U.S. He and Edward Mills Purcell were awarded the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for "their development of new ways and methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Bloch |
| Ernest Bloch | Ernest Bloch | 1880 | 1959 | Swiss | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Bloch |
| Leon Botstein | Leon Botstein | 1946 | n/a | Swiss | conductor, educator, and scholar serving as the President of Bard College | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Botstein |
| Michele Besso | Michele Angelo Besso | 1873 | 1955 | Swiss | engineer best known for working closely with Albert Einstein | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Besso |
| Daniel Spoerri | Daniel Spoerri | 1930 | n/a | Swiss | artist and writer born in Romania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Spoerri |
| Luc Bondy | Luc Bondy | 1948 | 2015 | Swiss | theatre and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Bondy |
| Hoyte van Hoytema | Hoyte van Hoytema | 1971 | n/a | Swiss | cinematographer who studied at the National Film School in Łódź | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoyte_van_Hoytema |
| Paul Bernays | Paul Isaac Bernays | 1888 | 1977 | Swiss | mathematician who made significant contributions to mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, and the philosophy of mathematics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bernays |
| Martin Rhonheimer | Martin Rhonheimer | 1950 | n/a | Swiss | political philosophy professor and priest of the Catholic personal prelature Opus Dei | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Rhonheimer |
| Marcel Grossmann | Marcel Grossmann | 1878 | 1936 | Swiss | mathematician and a friend and classmate of Albert Einstein | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Grossmann |
| Ruth Dreifuss | Ruth Dreifuss | 1940 | n/a | Swiss | politician affiliated with the Social Democratic Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Dreifuss |
| Guido Goldman | Guido Goldman | 1937 | 2020 | Swiss | academic and philanthropist known for advancing post–World War II US-Germany academic and cultural relations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guido_Goldman |
| Hans Albert Einstein | Hans Albert Einstein | 1904 | 1973 | Swiss | engineer and educator, the second child and first son of Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Albert_Einstein |
| Madeleine Kunin | Madeleine May Kunin | 1933 | n/a | Swiss | diplomat, author and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeleine_Kunin |
| Dani Levy | Dani Levy | 1957 | n/a | Swiss | filmmaker, theatrical director, screenwriter and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dani_Levy |
| Rolf Liebermann | Rolf Liebermann | 1910 | 1999 | Swiss | composer and music administrator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Liebermann |
| Isabelle Eberhardt | Isabelle Wilhelmine Marie Eberhardt | 1877 | 1904 | Swiss | explorer and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Eberhardt |
| Max Picard | Max Picard | 1888 | 1965 | Swiss | writer and philosopher, important as one of the few thinkers writing from a deeply Platonic sensibility in the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Picard |
| Richard Seifert | Richard Seifert | 1910 | 2001 | Swiss | architect, best known for designing the Centre Point tower and Tower 42 (previously the NatWest Tower), once the tallest building in the City of London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Seifert |
| Ludwig Binswanger | Ludwig Binswanger | 1881 | 1966 | Swiss | psychiatrist and pioneer in the field of existential psychology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Binswanger |
| Buddy Elias | Bernhard Paul "Buddy" Elias | 1925 | 2015 | Swiss | actor and president of the Anne Frank Fonds, the foundation dedicated to preserving the memory of his cousin Anne Frank | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Elias |
| Ernst Levy | Ernst Levy | 1895 | 1981 | Swiss | musicologist, composer, pianist and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Levy |
| William B. Helmreich | William Helmreich | 1945 | 2020 | Swiss | professor of sociology at the City College of New York Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_B._Helmreich |
| K. Alex Müller | Karl Alexander Müller | 1927 | n/a | Swiss | physicist and Nobel laureate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Alex_Müller |
| Jean Starobinski | Jean Starobinski | 1920 | 2019 | Swiss | literary critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Starobinski |
| Yves Béhar | Yves Béhar | 1967 | n/a | Swiss | designer, entrepreneur and an educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Béhar |
| Pinkas Braun | Pinkas Braun | 1923 | 2008 | Swiss | film actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkas_Braun |
| Jacob Immanuel Schochet | Jacob Immanuel Schochet | 1935 | 2013 | Swiss | rabbi who wrote on Hasidism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Immanuel_Schochet |
| Paul Guldin | Paul Guldin (original name Habakkuk Guldin; 12 June 1577 | 1577 | n/a | Swiss | Jesuit mathematician and astronomer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Guldin |
| Robert Wyler | Robert Wyler | 1900 | 1971 | Swiss | film producer and associate producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wyler |
| Jeanne Hersch | Jeanne Hersch | 1910 | 2000 | Swiss | philosopher of Polish-Jewish origin, whose works dealt with the concept of freedom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Hersch |
| Joel Basman | Joel Basman | 1990 | n/a | Swiss | actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Basman |
| Lukas Ammann | Lukas Ammann | 1912 | 2017 | Swiss | actor who appeared mainly in German films and television shows | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lukas_Ammann |
| Andi Gutmans | Andi (Andrei) Gutmans | null | null | Swiss | programmer and entrepreneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andi_Gutmans |
| Daniel Jositsch | Daniel Jositsch | 1965 | n/a | Swiss | politician, member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP), representing the canton of Zürich in the Swiss Council of States since 2015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Jositsch |
| Jolande Jacobi | Jolande Jacobi | 1890 | 1973 | Swiss | psychologist, best remembered for her work with Carl Jung, and for her writings on Jungian psychology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolande_Jacobi |
| Robert Emden | Jacob Robert Emden | 1862 | 1940 | Swiss | astrophysicist and meteorologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Emden |
| Ursula Koch | Ursula Koch | 1941 | n/a | Swiss | former politician, and was the first woman president of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_Koch |
| Recha Sternbuch | Recha Sternbuch | 1905 | 1971 | Swiss | woman of Jewish heritage who was a Holocaust era Jewish rescuer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recha_Sternbuch |
| Jean Dunand | Jean Dunand | 1877 | 1942 | Swiss | painter, sculptor, metal craftsman and interior designer during the Art Deco period | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dunand |
| Regina Ullmann | Regina "Rega" Ullmann | 1884 | 1961 | Swiss | poet and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Ullmann |
| Charles Lewinsky | Charles Lewinsky | 1946 | n/a | Swiss | screenwriter and playwright (among others Fascht e Familie), as well as a writer of novels and non-fiction, born and living in Zürich | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lewinsky |
| Miriam Cahn | Miriam Cahn | 1949 | n/a | Swiss | painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Cahn |
| Rachel Rinast | Rachel Miriam Marcia Free Rinast | 1991 | n/a | Swiss | footballer who plays as a defender for 1 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Rinast |
| Pegeen Vail Guggenheim | Pegeen Vail Guggenheim | 1925 | 1967 | Swiss | painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegeen_Vail_Guggenheim |
| Claudia Andujar | Claudia Andujar | 1931 | n/a | Swiss | photographer and activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Andujar |
| Guillaume Katz | Guillaume Katz | 1989 | n/a | Swiss | former professional footballer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Katz |
| Carlo Strenger | Carlo Strenger | 1958 | 2019 | Swiss | psychologist, philosopher, existential psychoanalyst and public intellectual who served as professor of psychology and philosophy at Tel Aviv University (at its Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas and School of Psychological Sciences) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Strenger |
| Xanti Schawinsky | Alexander Schawinsky | 1904 | 1979 | Swiss | painter, photographer and theatre designer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanti_Schawinsky |
| Bernhard Caesar Einstein | Bernhard Caesar Einstein | 1930 | 2008 | Swiss | engineer, the son of Hans Albert Einstein | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Caesar_Einstein |
| Nessim Gaon | Nessim Gaon | 1922 | n/a | Swiss | financier who created the Noga SA. Outside the business world, he has been very prominent in Jewish affairs, acting as president of the World Sephardi Federation since 1971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessim_Gaon |
| Leo Schaya | Leo Schaya | 1916 | 1985 | Swiss | author and scholar whose works focused on the Sufi tradition, the Kabbalah, and the Traditionalist School | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Schaya |
| Arno Gruen | Arno Gruen | 1923 | 2015 | Swiss | psychologist and psychoanalyst | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Gruen |
| Martine Brunschwig Graf | Martine Brunschwig Graf | 1950 | n/a | Swiss | politician and member of the Swiss National Council for the Canton of Geneva; since 2003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martine_Brunschwig_Graf |
| Hans Josephsohn | Hans Josephsohn | 1920 | 2012 | Swiss | sculptor who lived and worked in Zurich | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Josephsohn |
| Fred Hayman | Fred Jules Pollag | 1925 | 2016 | Swiss | fashion retailer and entrepreneur, founder of Giorgio Beverly Hills in 1961 in Beverly Hills, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hayman |
| Suzanne Bloch | Suzanne Bloch | 1907 | 2002 | Swiss | musician and an influential pioneer of Early Music Revival during the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Bloch |
| Margrit Zimmermann | Margrit Zimmermann | 1927 | 2020 | Swiss | pianist, composer, conductor and music educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margrit_Zimmermann |
| Frank Lévy | Frank Lévy | null | null | Swiss | classical pianist and piano teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lévy |
| Marcel Reif | Marcel Reif | 1949 | n/a | Swiss | television sport journalist and commentator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Reif |
| Lisy Fischer | Elisabeth | 1900 | n/a | Swiss | pianist from a talented Jewish family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisy_Fischer |
| Sigi Feigel | Sigi Feigel | 1921 | 2004 | Swiss | attorney, President and Honorary President of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ), and notable for his campaigns against antisemitism and racism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigi_Feigel |
| Paul Guggenheim | Paul Guggenheim | 1899 | 1977 | Swiss | scholar of international law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Guggenheim |
| Josué Jéhouda | Josué Jéhouda | 1892 | 1966 | Swiss | Zionist writer and journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josué_Jéhouda |
| Ernst Ehrlich | Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich | 1921 | 2007 | Swiss | Jewish religious philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Ehrlich |
| Vera Skoronel | Vera Skoronel | 1906 | 1932 | Swiss | dancer and choreographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Skoronel |
| Hans Curjel | Hans Richard Curjel | 1896 | 1974 | Swiss | art historian, conductor and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Curjel |
| Roger Schawinski | Roger Schawinski | 1945 | n/a | Swiss | journalist and entrepreneur as well as the creator of the Swiss consumer watchdog program Kassensturz (English: "cash check") | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Schawinski |
| Georges Brunschvig | Georges Brunschvig | 1908 | 1973 | Swiss | lawyer and president of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities (SIG) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Brunschvig |
| Paul Ditisheim | Paul Ditisheim | 1868 | 1945 | Swiss | watchmaker, inventor and industrialist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Ditisheim |
| Claude Abravanel | Claude Abravanel | 1924 | 2012 | Swiss | pianist and composer of classical music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Abravanel |
| Michael Landmann | Michael Landmann | 1913 | 1984 | Swiss | Jewish philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Landmann |
| Bernhard Diebold | Bernhard Diebold | 1886 | 1945 | Swiss | theatre critic and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Diebold |
| Miel de Botton | Miel de Botton | null | null | Swiss | singer-songwriter, contemporary art collector clinical psychologist, and philanthropist who lives in London | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miel_de_Botton |
| Robert Saitschick | Robert Saitschick or Robert Saitschik | 1868 | 1965 | Swiss | philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Saitschick |
| Jennifer Gilmore | Jennifer Gilmore | null | null | Swiss | novelist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Gilmore |
| Rosa Bloch | Rosa Bloch-Bollag | 1880 | 1922 | Swiss | politician and activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Bloch |
| Abdullah Zilkha | Abdullah K. Zilkha | 1913 | 2000 | Swiss | retired investment banker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_Zilkha |
| Léon Wurmser | Léon Wurmser | 1931 | 2020 | Swiss | psychoanalyst, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at West Virginia University and a training and supervising analyst of the New York Freudian Society | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Wurmser |
| Michel Halpérin | Michel Halpérin | 1948 | 2014 | Swiss | lawyer and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Halpérin |
| Vera Rottenberg Liatowitsch | Vera Rottenberg Liatowitsch, née Vera Rottenberg | 1944 | n/a | Swiss | retired judge | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rottenberg_Liatowitsch |
| Egon Mayer (sociologist) | Egon Mayer | 1944 | 2004 | Swiss | sociologist and professor at Brooklyn College | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egon_Mayer_(sociologist) |
| Betty Halff-Epstein | Betty (also called Berthy | 1905 | 1991 | Swiss | entrepreneur and pioneer of the second wave of the women's movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Halff-Epstein |
| Marcel Lang | Marcel Lang | 1956 | 2009 | Swiss | chazan (cantor) and singer (tenor) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Lang |
| Harry Datyner | Harry Datyner | 1923 | 1992 | Swiss | classical pianist who taught for many years at the Geneva Conservatory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Datyner |