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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.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Basel during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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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 historian — 8.0× the global rate.
Basel under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
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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- Field: Botanist Clear ×
Gaspard Bauhin
1560 - 1624
Johann Bauhin
1541 - 1612
Konrad H. Christ
1833 - 1933
Johann Glaser
1629 - 1675
Paul Aellen
1896 - 1973
Carl Gustav Bernoulli
1834 - 1878
Wilhelm Vischer (botanist)
1890 - 1960
Alfred Becherer
1897 - 1977
August Binz
1870 - 1963
Johann Heinrich Cherler
1570 - 1610
Johann Jakob Harder
1656 - 1711
Karl Friedrich Hagenbach
1771 - 1849
Hieronymus Bauhin
1637 - 1667
Alfred Ursprung
1876 - 1952
Teodoro Juan Vicente Stuckert
1852 - 1932
Max Moor (Botaniker)
1911 - 1988
Heinrich Reese (Mediziner)
1879 - 1951