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 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, Switzerland, his father was an artist and in 1805 moved the family to Russia to find work.

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 as the first son of an udon shop owner in Toba, Shima Province ( present-day Mie prefecture ), Mikimoto left school at the age of 13 and sold vegetables to support his family.

Born in Qiao County, Pei Commandery ( present-day Bozhou, Anhui ), he was the second son of the late Han Dynasty warlord Cao Cao.

Born in Nanyang Commandery ( present-day Nanyang, Henan ), Huang Zhong initially served as General of the Household under Liu Biao, Governor of Jing Province.

Born in present-day New York, she survived smallpox and was orphaned as a child, then baptized as a Roman Catholic and settled for the last years of her life at the Jesuit mission village of Kahnawake, south of Montreal in New France.

Born in Aringay, Pangasinan ( an area in present-day Caba or Aringay, La Union ), Silang's mother was Ilocano ; his father was Pangasinense.

Born as Clara Reisenberg in ( present-day ) Vilnius, Lithuania, Rockmore was a child prodigy on the violin and entered the Imperial conservatory of Saint Petersburg at the age of five.

Born in 1350 in the castle of present-day Senieji Trakai, Vytautas was the son of Kęstutis and his second wife Birutė.

Born as Rudolf Maximilian Höll in Selmecbánya, Kingdom of Hungary ( present-day Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia )., but later changed his surname to Hell.

Born in the village of Urami in Bitchū Province ( in present-day Asakuchi, Okayama Prefecture ) as the second son of the Kandori farming family.

Born in Stargard, Pomerania, Prussia ( present-day Stargard Szczeciński, West Pomeranian Voivodeship ), Werner von Blomberg joined the army in 1897 and attended the Prussian Military Academy in 1904.

Born in 1930 in Mnukwa ( in present-day Zambia ) to Yakobe Milingo and Tomaida Lumbiwe, he was educated in St Mary's Presbyterial School in Chipata and attended the Kasina Seminary and Kachebere Seminary.

Born in East Mauch Chunk — present-day Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania — Marzen studied at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Worthington, Ohio and was ordained in the fledgling diocese in the Hawaiian Islands in 1951 alongside his classmate, Msgr.

Born in the village of Haimanale, Prahova County ( the present-day I. L. Caragiale commune, Dâmboviţa County ), Caragiale was educated in Ploieşti.

Born in what is now Moorefield, West Virginia ( which was then in the colony of Virginia ), Zane established the settlement known as Fort Henry in Wheeling, Virginia ( present-day West Virginia ) on the Ohio River.

Born in the former Lu state ( present-day southern Shandong and northern parts of Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu ), Kong Rong showed quick wit from a young age.

Born Grethe Gerda Kornstädt in Stettin ( present-day Szczecin ), Parlo made her first film appearance in Homecoming in 1928 and quickly became a popular actress in Germany.

Born in present-day Suzhou, he claimed to be a descendant of the Song Dynasty prime minister and patriot Wen Tianxiang.

Born in New York City, he was engaged in overseas trade and had acquired a small fleet of ships by the time he moved to Bergen County, New Jersey, in the 1760s, and lived at " Peterfield ", a home in present-day Allendale, New Jersey that has become known as the " John Fell House ".

Born in Arizcun, Navarre, he is noted for leading the 1696 – 97 expeditionary force which resulted in the fall of the last significant independent Maya stronghold, Tayasal, located on an island in Lake Petén Itzá in the northern Petén Basin region of present-day Guatemala.

Born in 1917 to a peasant family in the small village of Krestovaya in northwestern Russia ( present-day Novgorod Oblast ), Pavlov joined the Red Army in 1938.

Born in Lyngdal in present-day Vest-Agder, he was Prime Minister of Norway from 1923 to 1924.

Born in Vic, 60 km north of Barcelona, Spain ( present-day autonomous region of Catalonia ), Alemany entered the Dominican Order in 1830 and made his solemn profession in September 1831, the same year that Alemany's protégé, Patrick Manogue was born in Ireland.

Born in the Transylvanian village of Băseşti ( present-day Maramureş County ), he completed gymnasium in Baia Mare and high school in Oradea, before moving on to study Law at the Oradea Academy.

Born to a peasant family in present-day Mogilev Oblast of Belarus, Kuznetsov served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and continued his service in the Bolsheviks ' Red Army.