Born at Trieste, Austria ( today Italy ), and known as " Prince Napoléon " or by the sobriquet of " Plon-Plon ", he was a close advisor to his first cousin, Napoleon III of France, and in particular was seen as a leading advocate of French intervention in Italy on behalf of Camillo di Cavour and the Italian nationalists.

Born in Lipnik ( Kunzendorf ) near Bielitz, Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire ( today a part of Bielsko-Biała, Poland ), Schnabel was the youngest of three children born to Isidor Schnabel, a textile merchant, and his wife Ernestine ( née Labin ).

Born in Salerno or Sorrento, he is best known today for Il Novellino, a collection of 50 " novelle " or short stories, each prefaced by a letter of dedication to a famous person and with an epilogue containing the " moral " of the story.

Born in Kherson in the Russian Empire ( today in Ukraine ), Sharett emigrated to Ottoman-controlled Palestine in 1906.

Born in 1918 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry, Freeman is best remembered for initiating the Food Stamp Program for under-resourced people which is still in use today.

Born in Mińsk Mazowiecki in the Russian Empire ( today in Poland ), Carmel emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1924 when he was 13 years old.

Born in Mohrungen ( today: Morąg ) in the Kingdom of Prussia, Herder grew up in a poor household, educating himself from his father's Bible and songbook.

Born in Oberplanitz, today part of Zwickau, Fröbe was a member of the Nazi Party before World War II.

Born in what is Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec today, he was the son of Lt .- Colonel Gabriel Marchand ( 1780 – 1852 ) J. P., and Mary MacNider, a woman of the Anglican faith, daughter of the pioneering John MacNider, 2nd Seigneur of Metis, Quebec.

Born in what is today part of the city of Laval, Quebec Canada, Ouimet served as the second Premier of the province of Quebec from February 26, 1873 to September 22, 1874.

Born in Steubenville, Ohio, a son of Peter and Elizabeth McCauley Perrine, and a descendant of Daniel Perrin, " The Huguenot ", he worked at Lick Observatory from 1893 to 1909 and then was director of the Argentine National Observatory ( today, Observatorio Astronómico de Córdoba ) in Argentina from 1909 until 1936.

Born as Estevan Enrique " Steve " Bellán on October 1, 1849 in Havana, Cuba, he was sent, along with his brother, to New York City in 1866 to study at St. John's College, known today as Fordham University, which was common among Cuba's wealthy Catholic families.

Born in the formerly German city of Breslau ( today Wrocław, Poland ), Bubis moved with his family to Dęblin, Poland in 1935.

Born in Poltava in the Russian Empire ( today in Ukraine ), Ben-Zvi was the eldest son of Zvi Shimshelevich, who later took the name Shimshi.

Born on November 26, 1853, at Henryville, Canada East, in the Eastern Townships of what is Quebec today, and baptised as Bartholomew Masterson, he later used the name " William Barclay Masterson ".

Born in India, and currently stationed in Vancouver, Bif Naked spent her years as a teen and young adult in Winnipeg where she developed into the unique artist that she is today.

Born in Creswells Ferry in what is today known as Port Deposit, Maryland, Creswell attended a local academy before moving on to Dickinson College where he graduated in 1848.

Born near Morgantown ( and kin to its founder Zackquill Morgan ), Pierpont grew up in western Virginia, in what is today Marion County, West Virginia ; he was linked with the region's history for the rest of his life.

Born in the London borough of Hendon, Travers was educated at Abbey school in Beckenham and then in Charterhouse, where today there is a theatre named for him.

Born in Dallas in 1929, Winegarten attended Forest Avenue High School ( known today as James Madison High School ), receiving a scholarship to attend Southern Methodist University.

Born in Grunenfeld ( today Gronówko ), Province of Prussia, as the son of a teacher, Schirrmann studied to become a teacher himself.

Born in northeastern Moravian village Hodslavice ( Hotzendorf ), today Moravian-Silesian Region, Czechia.

Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today.

Born in Venice, Longhena studied under the architect Vincenzo Scamozzi and after Scamozzi's death completed his monumental Procuratie Nuove in St. Mark's Square, a complex of imposing residences and offices for officials of the Venetian Republic that gives the square its appearance today.

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

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

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 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 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.