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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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Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche
1868 - 1920
Rudolf Staechelin
1881 - 1946
Édouard Constant Sandoz
1853 - 1928
Fiona Swarovski
Born 1965
Christoph Sutter
Born 1973
Johann Wanner (Unternehmer)
Born 1939
Hans Dedi
1918 - 2016
August Raillard
1821 - 1889
Harald Link
Born 1955
Emil Bürgin
1848 - 1933
Hans Gallizian
1472 - 1524
Fritz Gottlieb Pfister
1891 - 1984
Hans Georg Stehlin (Unternehmer)
1806 - 1871
Emanuel Hoffmann-Müller
1643 - 1702
Werner Edelmann
Born 1941
Heinrich Halbisen
1390 - 1451