46.2001° N, 6.1500° E
GENEVE
Most Famous People Born in Geneve, Switzerland
- Notable people
- 1,536
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- Median birth year
- 1917
- Most distinctive
- Bank 6.0×
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.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Geneve during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Geneve Is Known For
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Politician is Geneve's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (138).
Geneve over-indexes on bank — 6.0× the global rate.
Geneve under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Geneve's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Jean-Étienne Liotard
1702 - 1789
Jacques-Laurent Agasse
1767 - 1849
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot
1848 - 1934
Alice Bailly
1872 - 1938
Alfred Edward Chalon
1780 - 1860
Barthélemy Menn
1815 - 1893
Jean Petitot
1607 - 1691
Jean-Pierre Saint-Ours
1752 - 1809
François Diday
1802 - 1877
Émile Chambon
1905 - 1993
Auguste Baud-Bovy
1848 - 1899
Dominique Appia
1926 - 2017
Pierre-Victor Galland
1822 - 1892
Wolfgang-Adam Töpffer
1766 - 1847
Édouard Castres
1838 - 1902
Edouard Vallet
1876 - 1929
Charles Giron
1850 - 1914
Firmin Massot
1766 - 1849
Arthur Aesbacher
Born 1923
Carol Bove
Born 1971
Jean-Gabriel Prêtre
1768 - 1849
Maurice Barraud
1889 - 1954
Richard Ranft
1862 - 1931
Robert Gardelle
1682 - 1766
John James Chalon
1778 - 1854
Jacques-Antoine Arlaud
1668 - 1743
Alexandre Perrier
1862 - 1936
Pierre-Louis de La Rive
1753 - 1817
Alméry Lobel-Riche
1877 - 1950
Jean-Baptiste Arthur Calame
1843 - 1919
Abraham Hermanjat
1862 - 1932
Salomon-Guillaume Counis
1785 - 1859
Abraham Constantin
1785 - 1855
Gustave Eugène Castan
1823 - 1892
Théodore Gardelle
1722 - 1761
Charles Joseph Auriol
1778 - 1834
Auguste Roquemont
1804 - 1852
Henri François Gabriel Viollier
1752 - 1839
Jean-Louis Gampert
1884 - 1942
Jean-Léonard Lugardon
1801 - 1884
Adrienne Pauline Bacle
1796 - 1855
Frédéric Fregevize
1770 - 1849
François-Élie Vincent
1708 - 1790
Claire-Lise Monnier
1894 - 1978
John Graz
1891 - 1980
Amélie Munier-Romilly
1788 - 1875
Marcel de Chollet
1855 - 1924
Pierre Pignolat
1838 - 1913
Béatrice Appia
1899 - 1998
Frédéric Dufaux
1852 - 1943
Albert Chavaz
1907 - 1990
Louise-Émilie Leleux-Giraud
1824 - 1885
Pauline Bouthillier de Beaumont
1846 - 1904
Elisabeth de Stoutz
1854 - 1917
Albert Gos
1852 - 1942
Albert Schmidt (peintre)
1883 - 1970
Marcel Poncet
1894 - 1953
Juliette Charlotte Hébert
1837 - 1924
Gustave Henri de Beaumont
1851 - 1922
Bernard Garo
Born 1964
François-Gédéon Reverdin
1772 - 1828
Auguste de Pinelli
1823 - 1890
Ellis Zbinden
1921 - 2019
Jean-Antoine Linck
1766 - 1843
Pierre Matthey
1927 - 2014
John Torcapel
1881 - 1965
Louis Dunki
1856 - 1915
François Ferrière
1752 - 1839
Jean-François Liegme
1922 - 1977
Stéphane Fretz
Born 1966
Alexander Leo Soldenhoff
1882 - 1951
Jean-Philippe Kalonji
Born 1973
Adolphe Péterelle
1874 - 1947
Marguerite Vallet
1888 - 1918
Tito Honegger
Born 1963
Paul Perrelet
1872 - 1965
Philippe Fretz
Born 1969
David Estoppey
1862 - 1952
Jacques Thouron
1749 - 1789
Pierre-Louis Bouvier
1765 - 1836
Pierre Huaud
1647 - 1700
Jacques Jacobi
1877 - 1957
Eugène Martin (Kunstmaler)
1880 - 1954
Gilbert Piller
Born 1940
Charles DuBois-Melly
1821 - 1905
François Furet (Maler)
1842 - 1919
Marie Bedot-Diodati
1866 - 1958
Simon Durand
1838 - 1896
Gustave Maunoir
1872 - 1943
Joseph Hornung
1792 - 1870
Charles-Louis Guigon
1807 - 1882
Horace de Saussure
1859 - 1926
Gabriel Constant Vaucher
1768 - 1814
Louis Anspach
1795 - 1873
Pierre Marc Antoine Dufaux
1866 - 1936
Christelle Montus
Born 1973
Armand Cacheux
1868 - 1965
Paul Allouard - Carny
1884 - 1961
François Joseph Vernay
1864 - 1950
Johann Friedrich Ardin
1680 - 1720
Marie-Hélène Brandt
Born 1957
Michel Dauvergne
Born 1949
Joseph Schäffler
1937 - 2018
Sophie de Niederhausern
1856 - 1926
Marco Pillinini
Born 1964