UK (24)

Bowie, David Byron, George Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Geraldine Collins, Phil Coulthard, David Coward, Noel Diana, Lady >>>

David Niven (1910 - 1983) Movie star The British actor lived near Gstaad, a ski resort in the Bernese Alps. David Niven was born in 1910 in Kirremiuir, Scotland. The fine reputation of his father, a military serviceman who died in 1915 i >>>

Germany (19)

Becker, Boris Beisheim, Otto Benjamin, Walter Einstein, Albert Hesse, Hermann Kesten, Hermann Kinski, Nastassja Liebherr, >>>

Boris Becker (1967 - ) Tennisman The German tennis star lives in Schwyz, in central Switzerland. Born in 1967 in Leimen, Boris Becker began playing tennis at a very young age on a court built by his father. At the age of 12, he start >>>

USA (12)

Edelman, Asher Fizgerald, Scott Hauk, Minnie Hemingway, Ernest Hendricks, Barbara Highsmith, Patricia Jackson, Michael Lauder, Léonard A. >>>

Yoko Ono (1933 - ) Music star John Lennon's widow has lived in Switzerland since 1988. Yoko Ono was born in Tokyo in 1933 to a family of well-to-do bankers. She was forced to flee the relentless bombing of the Japanese capital at >>>

Italy (11)

Gambini, Giovanni Guareschi, Giovanni Mussolini, Benito Muti, Ornella Pareto, Vilfredo Pavone, Rita Pratt, Hugo Rossi, Pellegrino >>>

Rita Pavone (1945 - ) Music star This singer and television presenter lives in the Swiss canton of Ticino with its Mediterranean climate. Rita Pavone was born in Turin in 1945 to family impoverished after the war. At a ve >>>

Russia (9)

Bakounine, Mikhaïl Lenin, Nabokov, Vladimir Nijinsky, Vaslav Romanov, Nicolas Stravinsky, Igor Tchaïkowsky, Piotr Trotski, Leon >>>

Piotr Tchaïkowsky (1840 - 1893) Music star The Russian composer began his career in 1863, after having studied law and at the Conservatory under Anton Rubinstein. After a failed marriage with one of his female admirers (for Tchaikovsky had di >>>

Greece (9)

Cohen, Albert Goulandris, Basil Latsis, John Lemos, Costas Livanos, Georges Mercouri, Melina Mouskouri, Nana Niarchos, Stavros >>>

Melina Mercouri (1920 - 1994) Music star The Greek singer lived over seven years in Lausanne. Maria Amalia Mersuris was born in 1920 in Athens to a bourgeois family. Her grandfather was the mayor of Athens and her father was a Parliamentary >>>

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Botnar, Octav Haskil, Clara Roumanie, Michel Tzara, Tristan

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Dion, Céline Twain, Shania Villeneuve, Jacques

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Moya, Carlos Picasso, Paloma Samaranch, Antonio

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Esterházy-Ottrubay, Melinda Kristof, Agota

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Joyce, James

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Adulyadej, Bhumibol

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Reza, Muhammed

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Borgès, Jorge Luis

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Canetti, Elias

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Mobutu, Sese Seko

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Perez de Cuellar, Javier