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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: Football Clear ×
Granit Xhaka
Born 1992
Hakan Yakin
Born 1977
Eren Derdiyok
Born 1988
Alexander Frei
Born 1979
Murat Yakin
Born 1974
Marco Streller
Born 1981
Taulant Xhaka
Born 1991
Arlind Ajeti
Born 1993
Albian Ajeti
Born 1997
Darko Jevtić
Born 1993
Cedric Itten
Born 1996
Roman Buess
Born 1992
Leopold Kielholz
1911 - 1980
Alessandro Iandoli
Born 1984
Samuele Campo
Born 1995
Dominique Herr
Born 1965
Rudolf Gyger
Born 1920
Patrik Baumann
Born 1986
Adonis Ajeti
Born 1997
Aron Pollitz
1896 - 1977
Werner Leimgruber
Born 1934
Martino Borghese
Born 1987
Marco Aratore
Born 1991
Ernst Hufschmid (footballer)
1913 - 2001
Gottfried Dienst
1919 - 1998
Serkan Şahin
Born 1988
Robert Hosp
Born 1939
Paul Schmiedlin
1897 - 1981
Werner Schley
1935 - 2007
Ernst Thommen
1899 - 1967
Massimo Ceccaroni
Born 1968
Mihael Kovačević
Born 1988
Maxime Lehmann
1906 - 2009
Dilaver Satılmış
Born 1979
Fritz Kehl
Born 1937
Mërgim Bajraktari
Born 1993
Adrien Jaccottet
Born 1983
Gustav Bark
Born 1889
Patrick Rahmen
Born 1969
Ming-yang Yang
Born 1995
Urs Siegenthaler
Born 1947
Friedrich Bollinger
1885 - 1945
Peter Nadig
Born 1965
Oscar Frey
1883 - 1951
Christian Schlauri
Born 1985
Angelo Schirinzi
Born 1972
Damien Ott
Born 1965
Hans Walter Imhoff
1886 - 1971
Stefano Ceccaroni
Born 1961
Andreas Kronenberg
Born 1974
Nico Jung
Born 1982
Jean Ryff
1870 - 1944
Peter Füri
1937 - 2015
Ernst Kaltenbach
1889 - 1965
Remo Buess
Born 1977
Carlo Porlezza
Born 1939
Fioravante Baldi
1913 - 1976
Hanspeter Stocker
Born 1936
Daniel Hug
1884 - 1918
Max Galler
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Oscar Girardi
Born 1970
August Ibach
Died 1988
Diren Akdemir
Born 1985
Josef Kiefer
Born 1942
Max Woog
Born 1888
Ernst Widmer (calciatore)
Born 1887
Kurt Thalmann
1931 - 2018
Hans Liniger
Born 1892
Carlo Hopf
Born 1887
Heinric Heim
Born 1893