People on Switzerland's street signs

Johann Sebastian Bach

255 Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his prolific output across a variety of instruments and forms, including the orchestral...

David H. Hubel

107 David Hunter Hubel was an American Canadian neurophysiologist noted for his studies of the structure and function of the visual cortex. He was co-recipient with Torsten Wiesel of the 1981 Nobel Prize...

Caesar von Hofacker

83 Caesar von Hofacker was a German Luftwaffe Lieutenant Colonel and leading member of the 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler.

Edmund Steinacker

64 Edmund Steinacker war ein deutsch-ungarischer Publizist und Politiker.                             

Johannes Gutenberg

15 Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's...

James Watt

10 James Watt was a Scottish inventor, engineer and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought...

Stefano Franscini

9 Stefano Franscini was a Swiss politician and statistician. He was one of the initial members of the Swiss Federal Council elected in 1848 and Switzerland's first native Italian speaking federal...

Henry Dunant

7 Henry Dunant, also known as Henri Dunant, was a Swiss humanitarian, businessman, social activist, and co-founder of the Red Cross. His humanitarian efforts won him the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901.

Friedrich Schiller

7 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered to be one of Germany's most important classical playwrights.

Gustave Revilliod

5 Gustave-Philippe Revilliod, né le 8 avril 1817 à Genève et mort le 21 décembre 1890 au Caire, est un archéologue, collectionneur d'art, éditeur et mécène genevois. Il consacre sa vie aux voyages, aux...

Francesco Borromini

4 Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli, was an Italian architect born in the modern Swiss canton of Ticino who, with his contemporaries Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Pietro da Cortona, was a...

Thomas Edison

4 Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions, which...

Alessandro Volta

4 Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was an Italian chemist and physicist who was a pioneer of electricity and power, and is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and the discoverer...

Lord Byron

4 George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, was a British poet. He was one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest British poets. Among his best-known...

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

4 Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, philosophe, writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects...

Ernest Ansermet

3 Ernest Ansermet war ein Schweizer Dirigent.                                                         

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

3 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political,...

Voltaire

3 François-Marie Arouet, known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity and...

Arnold Böcklin

3 Arnold Böcklin was a Swiss Symbolist painter. His five versions of the Isle of the Dead inspired works by several late Romantic composers.

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

3 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships. His name became synonymous with airships and dominated long-distance flight until the 1930s. He...

Heinrich Federer

3 Heinrich Federer was a Swiss writer and Catholic priest.                                           

Guglielmo Marconi

3 Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess, was an Italian radio-frequency engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system....

Franz Schubert

3 Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. Despite his short life, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre of thousands of works, including more than 600...