People from Switzerland

14 people remembered here.

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  Charlie Chaplin

  1889 – 1977 · Actor and filmmaker

  A day without laughter is a day wasted.

  140 candles · 15 tributes
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  Jürg Marquard

  1945 – 2026 · Magazine publisher

  Swiss Mister Pop who turned borrowed francs into Cosmopolitan, Eastern titles and prime-time TV.

  71 candles · 6 tributes
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  Liang Shaoji

  † 2026 · Conceptual artist

  A conceptual artist who made living silkworms partners in meditations on nature and time.

  45 candles · 3 tributes
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  Roland Collombin

  1951 – 2026 · Alpine ski racer (downhill)

  La Colombe of Bagnes: Olympic silver, two downhill globes, and a laugh the whole valley still hears.

  10 candles · 1 tributes
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  Pietro Veglio

  1944 – 2026 · economist

  Bellinzona economist who led Swiss World Bank work and FOSIT after decades in Latin American cooperation.

  9 candles · 1 tributes
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  Moritz de Hadeln

  1940 – 2026 · Film festival director

  Mister Filmfestival, who opened Nyon, Locarno, Berlin and Venice to the cinema of the whole world.

  9 candles · 1 tributes
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  Pierre de Chastonay

  1931 – 2026 · Lawyer-notary

  Sierre mayor and National Councillor who carried a Valais political dynasty.

  7 candles · 1 tributes
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  Frank Bridel

  1924 – 2026 · journalist

  Lausanne journalist and writer who edited the Gazette de Lausanne and later chronicled Swiss life into his second century.

  7 candles · 1 tributes
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  Gerold Späth

  1939 – 2026 · Writer

  The Rapperswil storyteller who filled Swiss literature with baroque comedy and melancholy.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Jost Hochuli

  1933 – 2026 · Typographer and book designer

  A typographer of quiet precision who taught the world to look closely at letters.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Jakob Brechbühl

  1952 – 2026 · Footballer

  Köbi, the small Young Boys full back with a big shot who never forgot where he came from.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Erich von Däniken

  1935 – 2026 · Author and ancient astronaut theorist

  He asked millions of people to look at the ancient world and wonder who else might once have been here.

  5 candles · 1 tributes
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  Hans Egloff

  1959 – 2026 · Swiss SVP politician

  Teacher, judge and lawyer who spent three decades fighting for Swiss homeowners and lived to see the imputed rental tax abolished.

  4 candles · 1 tributes
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  Willi Forrer

  1935 – 2026 · Alpine skier

  Swiss downhill racer who won the 1962 Hahnenkamm Streif.

  4 candles · 1 tributes