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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.

Through the Centuries

One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Basel during each.

What Basel Is Known For

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Politician is Basel's biggest profession — 10% of all notables (157).

Basel over-indexes on art historian8.0× the global rate.

Basel under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.

  1. Politician157
  2. Actor100
  3. Painter83
  4. Football70
  5. Writer70
  6. Historian69
  7. Author46
  8. Academic42
  1. Art Historian258.0×
  2. Philologist167.4×
  3. Theologian274.5×
  4. Historian694.0×
  5. Mathematician293.5×
  6. Author463.2×
  7. Entrepreneur162.9×
  8. Botanist172.6×
  1. Football700.4×
  2. Singer210.6×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Basel's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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Marthe Keller

Born 1945

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Charlotte Schwab

Born 1952

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Lukas Ammann

1912 - 2017

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0063 ACTOR

Éléonore Hirt

1919 - 2017

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Sandra Speichert

Born 1971

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Christian Kohlund

Born 1950

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Alfred Rasser

1907 - 1977

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Sigfrit Steiner

1906 - 1988

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Gilles Tschudi

Born 1957

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Mathis Künzler

Born 1978

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Elisabeth Müller

1926 - 2006

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0171 ACTOR

George Gebhardt

1879 - 1919

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0185 ACTOR

Noémi Besedes

Born 1980

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Helli Stehle

1907 - 2017

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Martin Schenkel

1968 - 2003

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Nana Gualdi

1932 - 2007

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Peter Brogle

1933 - 2006

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Trudi Roth

1930 - 2016

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Rudolf Bernhard

1901 - 1962

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Verena Peter

Born 1954

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Benoît Lestang

1964 - 2008

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Sabine Berg (Schauspielerin)

Born 1958

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Marc Benjamin

Born 1986

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Alfred Schlageter

1896 - 1981

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Birthe Wingren

Born 1967

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Heidy Forster

Born 1931

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Jürg Löw

Born 1946

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Emanuela von Frankenberg

Born 1961

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László I. Kish

Born 1957

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0558 ACTOR

Regine Lutz

Born 1928

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0559 ACTOR

Paul Bösiger

1929 - 1977

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0568 ACTOR

Franziska Kohlund

1947 - 2014

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0591 ACTOR

Patrick Elias

Born 1966

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Hans Wyprächtiger

1929 - 2006

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0597 ACTOR

Ursula Andermatt

Born 1957

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Naomi Krauss

Born 1967

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Marcello de Nardo

Born 1963

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Pia Hänggi

Born 1957

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Otto Stern (Schauspieler)

1921 - 1996

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Sarah Bühlmann

Born 1980

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0661 ACTOR

João Camargo

Born 1960

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0679 ACTOR

Therese Lohner

Born 1967

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0685 ACTOR

Isabelle Stoffel

Born 1972

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Sven Schelker

Born 1989

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Agnes Dünneisen

Born 1955

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Julie Bräuning

Born 1977

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Peter Danzeisen

Born 1941

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Urs Bihler

Born 1944

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Andreas Wellano

Born 1948

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Walter Morath

1918 - 1995

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0746 ACTOR

Olga Strub

Born 1950

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Andreas Krämer (Schauspieler)

Born 1963

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Sylvia Lydi

Born 1933

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0764 ACTOR

Sascha Pederiva

Born 1982

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0767 ACTOR

Dani von Wattenwyl

Born 1972

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Hans Schenker

Born 1952

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0784 ACTOR

Barbara Melzl

Born 1957

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Gaby Gasser

Born 1944

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Bettina Dieterle

Born 1965

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Mia Martin

Born 1965

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Roland Rasser

Born 1932

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Dorothée Reize

Born 1954

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Romeo Meyer

Born 1978

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Judith Keller (Schauspielerin)

Born 1961

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Sibylle Courvoisier

1943 - 2003

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0993 ACTOR

Anne Haug (Schauspielerin)

Born 1984

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Delia Gyger

Born 1987

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Marianne Hediger

Born 1921

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Ilse Bally

1917 - 2007

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Michael Goldberg (Schauspieler)

Born 1959

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1089 ACTOR

Charlotte Heinimann

Born 1956

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Yvette Kolb

Born 1942

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1163 ACTOR

Magdalena Wiedenhofer

Born 1989

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1179 ACTOR

Suzanne Grossmann

1937 - 2010

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Cornelia Bernoulli

Born 1955

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Petra Sprecher

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Sabrina Amali

Born 1992

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1226 ACTOR

Melanie Schmidli

Born 1982

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1227 ACTOR

Martin Vischer

Born 1981

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1229 ACTOR

Caroline Rasser

Born 1971

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Peter Pollatschek

1944 - 1968

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1258 ACTOR

Suna Gürler

Born 1986

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Patrick Imhof

Born 1971

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Klaus Steiger

1919 - 1989

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1287 ACTOR

Susanne Hueber

Born 1977

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Marcello Montecchi

Born 1962

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Andreas Daniel Müller

Born 1984

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Marco Käppeli

Born 1951

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Hermann Gallinger

1899 - 1962

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Kiki Maeder

Born 1981

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Nadja Scheiwiller

Born 1985

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Rudolf Ruf

1916 - 2008

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Maxine Kazis

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Aom Flury

Born 1972

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Raphaël Tschudi

Born 1987

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Matthias Klausener

Born 1962

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Christian Dolny

1929 - 1986

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Denise Meili

Born 1977

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Fred Büchel

Born 1962

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Albert Brüngger

1850 - 1902

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