- Max Bill
Swiss artist, architect, designer, typographer, and theorist Max Bill (1908-94) was one of the most important exponents of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in European applied arts and design history. Educated by such prominent teachers as Paul Klee , Wassily Kandisky, and Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus, at the start of his career in the 1930s. - Santiago Calatrava
Santiago Calatrava is one of my favourite contemporary architects. It is not because he is Spanish, it is just because he is special. He is an architect and an engineer, what indeed influences his way of designing bridges, public spaces, and buildings. I got trapped into Calatrava's work after seeing a documentary in Spanish TV station "La2" many many years ago (I was a kid and he was beginning to be popular). - George L.
'George Chuck Farr, chairman of Muirhead Holdings, LLC, a private equity firm in Greenwich, CT, former vice chairman of American Express from 1995-1998 and director and chairman of the share holders committee during his 27-year with McKinsey and Company. Farr had been a longtime resident of Greenwich, CT. The first American to join the Board of Directors of Swiss Reinsurance Company in Zurich, Farr chaired the Nomination Committee. - Peter Wuffli
Dr Peter A. Wuffli (born 26 October 1957 in Zurich) was appointed President of the Group Executive Board of UBS AG in December 2001 and Group Chief Executive Officer in September 2003. Previously, he was Chairman and CEO of UBS Asset Management and, before that, UBS Group Chief Financial Officer. From 1994 to 1998, he was the Chief Financial Officer at SBC and a member of SBC's Group Executive Board in Basel. - Francis Picabia
Francis-Marie Martinez Picabia was a well-known painter and poet born of a French mother and a Spanish-Cuban father who was an attaché at the Cuban legation in Paris, France. Born in Paris, he studied at École des Beaux-Arts and École des Arts Decoratifs. In the beginning of his career, from 1903 to 1908, he was influenced by the impressionist painting of Alfred Sisley. From 1909, he came under the influence of the cubists and the Golden Section (Section d'Or). - Hugo Ball
Hugo Ball was a German author and poet. Hugo Ball was born in Pirmasens, Germany and was raised in a Catholic family. He studied sociology and philosophy at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg (1906–1907). In 1910, he moved to Berlin in order to become an actor and collaborated with Max Reinhardt. He was one of the leading Dada artists. - Robert Frank
Robert Frank, born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 photographic book titled simply "The Americans", was heavily influential in the post-war period, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and skeptical outsider's view of American society. Frank later expanded into film and video and experimented with compositing and manipulating photographs. - Alfred Escher
Alfred Escher was a Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur. Member of the Swiss National Council from 1848 to his death 1882, he presided the council three times (1849/50, 1856/57 and 1862/63). Escher was endorsing an idea of building and running the railway lines in Switzerland based on private companies. Later (since 1853), through his position of the president of railway companies, he became a railway magnate. - Hans Richter
Hans Richter (April 6, 1888 - February 1, 1976) was a painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer. He was born in Berlin and died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland. - Patrick Müller
Patrick Müller is a Swiss professional footballer who currently plays as a defender for Olympique Lyonnais. Müller began his career at FC Meyrin before moving onto Servette. He also played in Switzerland for Grasshoppers in Zürich. His talent was noted by the French club Olympique Lyonnais, who signed him. He has also played for Real Mallorca and FC Basel. - Pipilotti Rist
Elisabeth Charlotte Rist (born in 1962 in Grabs, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland) is a well-known video artist. She lives and now lives and works in Zurich and Los Angeles. - Heinrich Rohrer
Heinrich Rohrer is a Swiss physicist and Nobel laureate. He was born in St. Gallen half an hour after his twin sister. He enjoyed a carefree country childhood until the family moved to Zürich in 1949. He enrolled in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in 1951, where he studied with Wolfgang Pauli. His doctoral dissertation was on his work measuring the length changes of superconductors at the magnetic-field-induced superconducting transition, … - Liz Greene
Liz Greene, is a notable American astrologer. She has written several astrology books based on Jungian psychology and other forms of depth psychology, contributing to an application of astrology called "Psychological astrology". She relocated to England, then to Zürich, Switzerland to continue her work. Greene was the co-founder (with Howard Sasportas) of the Centre for Psychological Astrology in London. - Bruno Bischofberger
Bruno Bischofberger is an art dealer and gallerist from Zurich, Switzerland. In 1963 Bischofberger opened his first gallery in Zurich. In 1965 he help an exhibition of american pop artists including: Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Wesselman and Oldenburg. In 1968 “First right of refusal” contract with Andy Warhol which lasts until the artists death in 1987. - Huldrych Zwingli
Huldrych (or Ulrich) Zwingli or Ulricus Zuinglius (January 1, 1484 - October 11, 1531) was the leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches. Independent of Martin Luther, who was "doctor biblicus", Zwingli arrived at similar conclusions, by studying the Scriptures from the point of view of a humanist scholar. Zwingli was born in Wildhaus, St. Gallen, Switzerland, … - Rolf Pfeifer
Rolf Pfeifer Rolf Pfeifer received his masters degree in physics and mathematics and his Ph.D. in computer science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. He spent three years as a post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie-Mellon University and at Yale University. Since 1987 he has been a professor of computer science at the Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, and director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. - Frank Martin
Frank Martin (September 15, 1890 - November 21, 1974) was a Swiss composer, who lived a large part of his life in the Netherlands. - Earl Jones
Earl Jones (born July 17, 1964) is an American former middle distance runner who won a bronze medal at the Olympic Games In Los Angeles 1984 over 800m. He finished third behind Joaquim Cruz (Brazil) and Sebastian Coe (UK) setting a new personal best of 1:43.83 min. Two years later he further improved his personal best to 1:43.62 min. at a meeting in Zurich. Jones attended Eastern Michigan University. - Rudolf Brun
Rudolf Brun was the leader of the Zürich guilds' revolution of 1336, and the city's first independent mayor. Since 1234, Zürich had been governed by an aristocratic council, composed to one third by members of the nobility and to two thirds by the city's patriciate, mainly consisting of influential merchants. The city's mayor was appointed from among these by the abbess of the influential Fraumünster. Rudolf was the son of Jakob Brun, a member of the city council, … - Matti Salminen
Matti Salminen (Born July 7 1945, in Turku) is a Finnish bass singer. One of the leading basses of our time, Matti Salminen has sung in all of the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival. He has a contract at the Zurich opera and he also frequently performs in his native Finland. Most of all he has been admired in such Wagner roles as Gurnemanz and Titurel ("Parsifal"), King Marke ("Tristan und Isolde"), … - Gerd Binnig
Gerd Binnig (born July 20, 1947) is a German physicist, and a Nobel laureate. He was born in Frankfurt am Main and played in the ruins of the city during his childhood. His family lived partly in Frankfurt and partly in Offenbach, and he attended school in both cities. At the age of 10, he decided to become a physicist, but he soon wondered whether he had made the right choice. He concentrated more on music, playing in a band. - Richard Huelsenbeck
Richard Huelsenbeck was a poet, writer and drummer born in Frankenau, Germany. Huelsenbeck was a medical student on the eve of World War One. He was invalided out of the army and emigrated to Zürich, Switzerland in February 1916, where he fell in with the Cabaret Voltaire. In January 1917, he moved to Berlin, taking with him the ideas and techniques which helped him found the Berlin Dada group. - Marie-Louise von Franz
Marie-Louise von Franz (January 4, 1915 - February 17, 1998), the daughter of an Austrian baron and born in Munich, Germany, was a Swiss Jungian Psychologist and scholar. She worked with Carl Jung whom she met in 1933 and knew until his death in 1961. She founded the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. As a psychotherapist, she is said to have interpreted over 65,000 dreams, primarily practicing in Kusnacht, Switzerland. She wrote over 20 volumes on Analytical psychology, … - Harald Szeemann
Harald Szeemann (born June 11 1933 in Bern; died February 18 2005 in Tegna, Ticino) was a Swiss curator and art historian. - Bruno Ganz
Bruno Ganz (born March 22 1941) is a Swiss actor. He is one of the leading figures in contemporary European theatre and cinema. - Gottfried Semper
Gottfried Semper was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Oper in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list. Semper fled first to Zürich and later to London. Later he returned to Germany after the 1862 amnesty granted to the revolutionaries. Semper wrote extensively about the origins of architecture, … - Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate. Born in Aarberg, Switzerland, Wüthrich was educated in chemistry, physics, and mathematics at the University of Berne before pursuing his Ph.D. under the direction of Silvio Fallab at the University of Basel, awarded in 1964. He continued post-doctoral work with Fallab for a short time before leaving to work at the University of California, Berkeley from 1965 to 1967 with Robert E. Connick. - Marcel Grossmann
Marcel Grossmann (born in Budapest on April 9, 1878 - died in Zurich on September 7, 1936) was a mathematician, a friend, and a classmate of Albert Einstein. He became a Professor of Mathematics at the Federal Polytechnic Institute in Zurich, today the ETH Zurich, specialising in descriptive geometry. Of Jewish ancestry, it was Grossmann who emphasized the importance of a non-Euclidean geometry called elliptic geometry to Einstein, … - Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri (June 12, 1827 - July 7, 1901) was an author of children's stories, and is best known for "Heidi". Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels - Alain de Botton
Alain de Botton, (born 20 December 1969 in Zurich, Switzerland) is a writer and television producer who lives in London and aims to make philosophy relevant to everyday life. - Armin Jordan
Armin Jordan (April 9, 1932 - September 20, 2006), was a Swiss conductor known for his interpretations of French music, Mozart and Wagner. Armin Jordan was born in Lucerne, Switzerland. "Mr. Jordan was a large man, with a slab of a face and a full mouth, often twisted in a sardonic smile, and his powerful physical presence belied the careful near-understatement of his conducting," noted "The New York Times" in his obituary. - Hans Herr
Hans Herr was born in Zürich, Switzerland, a descendant of the Knight, Hugo Herr. He joined the Mennonite religious society. When religious persecution became unendurable, many of his congregation emigrated with him to the Palatinate in Germany, which was governed by a ruler who promised them protection and religious freedom. This was satisfactory until the Palatinate fell into the hands of other rulers, … - James Hillman
James Hillman (1926-) is a psychologist, considered to be one of the most original of the 20th century. Trained at the Jung Institute in Zurich, he developed archetypal psychology (polytheistic myth as psychology). Hillman is a prolific writer and international lecturer as well as a private practitioner. James Hillman was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1926. He served in the US Navy Hospital Corps from 1944-1946, … - Olaf Breuning
Olaf Breuning was born in 1970 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. He is a controversial artist, having made such artwork as a sculpture of a person with a grisly, dismembered leg. He also created a skier who barfed the words "I exist" into the Alpine slopes. Breuning attended Berufsausbildung Fotograf, Weiterbildungsklasse Fotographie, Höhere Schule für Gestaltung. In 2003 he held a residency at Grizedale Arts in the English Lake District. - H.D.
Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States - September 27, 1961, Zürich, Switzerland), prominently known only by her initials H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist. She is best known for her association with the key early 20th century "avant-garde" Imagist group of poets, … - Zino Davidoff
Zino Davidoff was born on March 11, 1906 in Kiev in what is now Ukraine, then a part of Czarist Russia. He was the eldest of four children born to Jewish tobacco merchant, Henri Davidoff. Even in his own autobiographical writings, the facts on Zino's youth are a bit hazy. His parents were either cigar merchants or cigarette manufacturers in Kiev. Fleeing the political turmoil and anti-Semitism prevalent in Russia, they emigrated to Geneva, … - Eugen Bleuler
Paul Eugen Bleuler (* 30 April, 1857 - † 15 July, 1939) was a Swiss psychiatrist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness and the naming of schizophrenia. Bleuler was born in Zollikon, a small town near Zürich in Switzerland. He studied medicine in Zürich, and later studied in Paris, London and Munich after which he returned to Zürich to take a post as an intern at the Burghölzli, a university hospital. - Felix Manz
Felix Manz, was a co-founder of the original Swiss Brethren Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, Switzerland, and the first martyr of the "Radical Reformation". - Peter Coffin
Peter Coffin is an artist based in New York. Coffin received his BA from the University of California in 1995 and his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000. He has shown work internationally in exhibitions including "Greater New York" at P.S. 1 in New York, "Happiness" at Gagosian Gallery in Berlin, "When Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body - an Exhibition about Sound, … - Dieter Meier
Dieter Meier is a Swiss musician and conceptual artist who is probably best known for the electronic music group Yello he formed with music producer Boris Blank. He is a vocalist and lyricist, as well as manager and producer of this music group.
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