Basel - Notable People Born or Resident in Basel

Notable People Born or Resident in Basel

  • Chiara Banchini (born 1946), violinist and conductor.
  • Tilo Wolff (born 1972), industrial producer, vocalist and keyboards (Hall of Sermon, Lacrimosa, Snakeskin)
  • Ana Ivanovic (born 1987), tennis player.
  • Karl Barth (1886–1968), Reformed Protestant theologian.
  • Shemsi Beqiri (born 1986), kickboxer.
  • Bernoulli family
    • Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782), mathematician.
    • James Bernoulli (1654–1705), mathematician.
    • Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748), mathematician.
  • Peter Birkhäuser (1911–1976), painter.
  • Gottlieb Burckhardt (1836–1907), psychiatrist, father of modern psychosurgery.
  • Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), historian, theologian, philosopher.
  • Florian Burkhardt (born 1974), composer, author.
  • John Calvin (born 1509), minister.
  • Arthur Cohn (born 1927), film producer.
  • Jean Daetwyler (1907–1994), alphorn composer.
  • Eren Derdiyok (born 1988), footballer.
  • Erasmus (c.1466–1536), Biblical scholar, humanist, theologian.
  • Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), mathematician.
  • Roger Federer (born 1981), tennis player.
  • John Foxe (1517–1587), English Protestant and Marian exile.
  • Alexander Frei (born 1979), footballer.
  • Katy French (1983–2007), model and socialite.
  • Urs Graf (1485-possibly 1530), Renaissance print-maker and artist.
  • Georg Friedrich Haas (born 1953), Austrian composer.
  • Jakob Emanuel Handmann (1718–1781), painter.
  • Johann Peter Hebel (1760–1826), poet and author.
  • Albert Hofmann (1906–2008), chemist, discoverer of LSD.
  • Agostino Imondi (1975), filmmaker
  • Niels Kai Jerne (1911–1994), immunologist
  • Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961), psychiatrist.
  • Lucius Munatius Plancus (c.87 BC–c.15 BC), Basel's founder.
  • Christoph Merian (1800–1858), banker and businessman.
  • Joachim Meyer (c.1537?–1571), fencer and author.
  • Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900), German philosopher.
  • Paracelsus (1493–1541), scientist.
  • Ricco (1915–1972), painter.
  • Leonhard Thurneysen (1531–1596), alchemist.
  • Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998), religious philosopher.
  • Adrian Sieber (born 1972), singer.
  • Hopkinson Smith (born 1946), American lutenist.
  • Andreas Vesalius (1446), pioneering anatomist.
  • Gustav Bertha (Gordon Bell) (born 1969), singer-songwriter.
  • Hakan Yakin (born 1977), footballer.
  • Alice Eckenstein (1890–1984), Swiss child rescuer in occupied Belgium during WW I.
  • Andreas Lüscher (born 1961), architect, professor and author
  • Caroline Jaden Stussi, actress
  • Marcel Lang (1956 - 2009), chazan and tenor

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