Famous people who grew up or lived in Switzerland
5 notable people grew up or lived in Switzerland. Each listing explores the home and neighbourhood, and how the place shaped the person they became.
Albert Einstein1903–1905
📍 Einsteinhaus, Kramgasse 49, Bern, Switzerland
I lived at Kramgasse 49 in Bern from 1903 to 1905, on the second floor of a building in the middle of the old city's most beautiful arcade street, and it was in the small apartment there…
Audrey Hepburn1963–1993
📍 Route de Lausanne, 1131 Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland
I spent the last thirty years of my life at La Paisible — The Peaceful One — a farmhouse in the Swiss village of Tolochenaz on the shores of Lake Geneva. I had been one of the most famous…
Carl Jung1909–1961
📍 Seestrasse 228, 8700 Küsnacht, Switzerland
I grew up in parsonages in the Swiss countryside near Basel, near the Rhine Falls and later at Klein-Hüningen, the son of a pastor whose faith I could not share and a mother with an…
Henri Dunant1828–1867
📍 Rue du Puits-Saint-Pierre 4, 1204 Geneva, Switzerland
I was born in Geneva in 1828 into a prosperous Calvinist family, and Geneva — with its tradition of civic responsibility and its position at the crossroads of European culture — shaped…
Roger Federer1981–1999
📍 Münchenstein, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
Roger Federer was born in Basel, Switzerland, in August 1981, and grew up in Münchenstein and neighbouring Riehen, near Basel, close to the borders with France and Germany. His father…