47.5606° N, 7.5906° E

BASEL

Most Famous People Born in Basel, Switzerland

Notable people

1,646

Peak decade

1950s

Median birth year

1922

Most distinctive

Art Historian 8.0×

A Rhine city whose distinctive professions are art historians, philologists, theologians, historians, and mathematicians — the trades of a humanist university town that published Erasmus, Holbein, and the first printed Greek New Testament. Euler was born here, so were both Bernoulli brothers, and Jacob Burckhardt more or less invented art history at the university. The 15th- and 16th-century bench is one of the heaviest in Switzerland, and Roger Federer is the most recent addition.