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GENEVE

Most Famous People Born in Geneve, Switzerland

Notable people

1,536

Peak decade

1960s

Median birth year

1917

Most distinctive

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A Protestant republic that became, in the 19th century, the world's capital of banking and international diplomacy. Geneva's distinctive professions are bankers, theologians, botanists, pianists, photographers, and physicists — a combination that exists almost nowhere else. Rousseau was born here, Calvin made it the Protestant Rome, Henri Dunant founded the Red Cross here, and Saussure essentially invented modern linguistics at the university.