Born in Geneva, he worked as a tutor, language teacher, journalist and a translator for the Swiss federal Chancellery ( 1869 – 1873 ).

Born in Geneva, Pradier left for Paris in 1807 to work with his elder brother, an engraver.

Born in Aix-en-Provence, she was the second daughter of Ramon Berenguer V, Count of Provence ( 1198 – 1245 ) and Beatrice of Savoy ( 1205 – 1267 ), the daughter of Thomas I of Savoy and his second wife Margaret of Geneva.

Born in Morges on Lake Geneva, he worked as a professor of medicine at the University of Lausanne.

Born in Geneva in present-day Switzerland, Gallatin immigrated to America in the 1780s, ultimately settling in Pennsylvania.

Born in Boone, Iowa and named, in part, after the popular song Lovely Lake Geneva, Mamie Geneva Doud was the second child born to John Sheldon Doud, a meatpacking executive, and his wife, the former Elivera Mathilde Carlson.

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, on December 13, 1936, Prince Karim was declared healthy despite being born prematurely.

Born in Geneva, du Simitiere's original name was Pierre-Eugène Ducimetière or Pierre-Eugène du Cimetière.

Born in Geneva, he was twenty-one years old when he began to attend the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, and from 1837 to 1839 studied at the Ecole des Mines.

Born in Geneva in 1821, he was descended from a Huguenot family driven to Switzerland by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.

Born at Geneva, Agasse studied in the public art school of that city.

Born in Geneva, New York, to educator, William Kirkland and author, Caroline Mathilda ( Stansbury ) Kirkland, he was a businessman in Chicago, then served in the Union Army during the Civil War, reaching the rank of major.

Born to a Czech father and a Spanish mother and raised in the Canary Islands ( Spain ), Blahnik graduated from the University of Geneva in 1965 and studied art in Paris.

Born in Vienna, Austria, Neumann received degrees from the University of Rennes, the Consular Academy of Austria, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland ( formerly Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales, HEI ) and the University of Michigan.

Born in Geneva, Switzerland, in July 1942, Louis Schweitzer has a degree in law and is a graduate of France's elite Institut d ' études politiques de Paris ( Sciences Po ) and École nationale d ' administration.

Born in Ohio, Chardavoyne lived for six years in Geneva, Switzerland where he attended the International School of Geneva.

Born in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Williams was informally acquainted with many of the people who developed and influenced the original Dungeons & Dragons game, going to school with Gary Gygax's son Ernie and participating in a gaming group that Gary used to playtest some of the AD & D rules.

Born in Geneva, he studied at the Conservatoire there, and later with Klaus Huber in Freiburg.

Born at Geneva, he was elder son of Captain Frederick Franks, R. N., and of Frederica Anne, daughter of Sir John Saunders Sebright.

Born in Geneva, at 25, he was designated honorary professor of ethics and the law of nature at the university of Geneva.

Francis Walker was the son of John Walker of Arnos Grove a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Linnean Society and the Royal Horticultural Society. Born into a wealthy and highly educated family Francis spent the years 1816 ( when he was seven years old ) to 1820 ( when he was eleven ) in Switzerland at Geneva, Lucerne and Vevey where the family party was joined by Madame de Staël, the poet Lord Byron and some Swiss naturalists gathered around Nicolas Théodore de Saussure.

Born in Orbe, today in Switzerland, she was the daughter of Rudolf II of Burgundy and Bertha of Swabia.

Born in La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, Droz studied in Paris and won acclaim with his fine pattern piece known as the Écu de Calonne after the French finance minister.

Born in Basel, he was elected to the Federal Council of Switzerland on December 7, 1983 and handed over office on October 31, 1995.

Born in Norway to a Norwegian mother and a German father, she grew up in Sweden, and has been a resident of Switzerland since 1986.

Born in Locarno, Switzerland to a German father with Belgian roots from Aachen and an Italian mother from the Calabria region, Neuville started his professional career with Servette FC.

Born in Aarberg, Switzerland, Wüthrich was educated in chemistry, physics, and mathematics at the University of Berne before pursuing his Ph. D. under the direction of Silvio Fallab at the University of Basel, awarded in 1964.

Born in Undervillier, Switzerland, he emigrated to the United States in 1884.

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba ; and despite his European birthplace, Carpentier strongly self-identified as Cuban throughout his life.

Born in Lucerne, Switzerland, she was a daughter of Harry Hays Morgan Sr, an American diplomat who was U. S. consul in Buenos Aires and in Brussels, and his half-Chilean, half-Irish-American wife, Laura Delphine Kilpatrick.

Born in Nyon, Vaud, in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, to a French father and a Swiss mother, Cortot studied at the Paris Conservatoire with Émile Descombes ( an associate and possibly a student of Frédéric Chopin ), and with Louis Diémer, taking a premier prix in 1896.

Born in Arbon, Switzerland, he was the brother of Arnold Gerschwiler and the uncle of Hans Gerschwiler.

Born at Villa Claremont in Lausanne, Switzerland, she specialized in painting scenes from British military campaigns and battles, including the Crimean War and the Battle of Waterloo.

Born in Herisau, Switzerland, he studied at Hochschule St. Gallen and graduated in 1971 with a DEA's degree and as Dr. rer.

Born the son of Louis de Ligonier, a member of a Huguenot family of Castres in the south of France that had emigrated to England in 1697, and Louise Ligonier ( née du Poncet ), John Legonier was educated in France and Switzerland.

Born in Basel, Switzerland, he became an extreme anti-Semite in his youth after reading the anti-Semitic philosophers Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain.

Born the same year her father first became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Catherine Clark attended Elmwood School in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa as well as Neuchâtel Junior College in Neuchâtel, Switzerland prior to pursuing studies in Art History at the University of Toronto.

Born at the Grand Hotel National in Lucerne, Switzerland, as Mercedes Morgan, she was a daughter of Henry Hays Morgan Sr ( 1860-1933 ), an American diplomat, who served as U. S. consul general in Buenos Aires, Argentina ; Berlin, Germany ; Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Havana, Cuba ; and Brussels, Belgium.

Born in Belgium in 1908, this minister's son studied literature at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and worked as a teacher and lecturer.

Born in Payerne, Switzerland, he moved to Leiden, Netherlands in 1749 to live with his uncle, Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand ( 1713-1787 ), a professor in philosophy and mathematics at Leiden University, well known naturalist, member of the Royal Society and correspondent of Benjamin Franklin.

Born in San Francisco, California, Houston attended Real Schule in Dresden, Saxony then at the Cantonal College in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Murphy had begun his diplomatic career in 1917 as a member of the American Legation in Bern, Switzerland.