List of Swiss Americans
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This is a list of notable Swiss Americans or (at least) Americans of Swiss ancestry or national origin.
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[edit] List
[edit] Entertainment
- Jewel (1974 - ) singer-songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and author[1]
- Q'Orianka Kilcher (1990 - ) singer and actress [2]
- Victor Mature (1913 - 1999) film actor[3]
- Renée Zellweger (1969 - ) Film actress [4]
- James Caviezel (1968-) Film actor[5]
[edit] Historical figures
- Fernand Auberjonois (1910 - 2004) highly respected journalist, foreign correspondent of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Toledo Blade[6]
- Warren E. Burger (1907 - 1995) Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986[7]
- Edward Walter Eberle (1864 - 1929) admiral in the United States Navy, served as Superintendent of the United States Naval Academy and third Chief of Naval Operations[8]
- Robert Frank (1924 - ) important figure in American photography and film[9]
- Albert Gallatin (1761 - 1849) ethnologist, linguist, politician, founder of New York University, diplomat, and United States Secretary of the Treasury[10]
- Meyer Guggenheim (1828 - 1905) statesman, patriarch of what became known as the Guggenheim family[11]
- Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964) 31st President of the United States[12]
- Adolf Rickenbacker (1886 – 1976) Pioneer of the electric guitar and founder of the Rickenbacker guitar company, whose products would be an important influence on 1960's music through, among others, The Beatles, The Who and The Byrds.
- Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973) automobile race car driver and automotive designer, hero of World War I, government consultant in military matters and a pioneer in air transportation[13]
- John Sutter (1803 - 1880) Californian famous for his association with the California Gold Rush (in that gold was discovered by James W. Marshall in Sutter's Mill) and for establishing Sutter's Fort in an area that would later become the capital of California, Sacramento[14]
- William Wirt (1772 - 1834) author and statesman who is credited with turning the position of United States Attorney General into one of influence[15]
- Henry Wirz (1822 - 1865) the only Confederate soldier executed in the aftermath of the American Civil War for war crimes[16]
- John Joachim Zubly (1724 - 1781) pastor, planter, and statesman during the American Revolution[17]
[edit] Scientists
- Louis Agassiz (1807 - 1873) zoologist, glaciologist, and geologist, the husband of educator Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, and one of the first world-class American scientists[18]
- Othmar Ammann (1879 - 1965) civil engineer[19]
- Felix Bloch (1905 - 1983) physicist[20]
- Florian Cajori (1859 - 1930) mathematician[21]
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) theoretical physicist widely regarded as the most important scientist of the 20th century and one of the greatest physicists of all time[22]
- Edmond H. Fischer (1920 - ) biochemist[23]
- Otto Frederick Hunziker (1873 - 1959) dairy educator and technologist
- Adolf Meyer (1866 - 1950) psychiatrist[24]
- Jean Piccard (1884 - 1963) scientist and high-altitude balloonist
- Louis François de Pourtalès (1824-80) Naturalist
[edit] Sports
- Martin Buser (1958 - ) champion of sled dog racing[25]
- Louis Chevrolet (1878 - 1941) racing driver and the founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company, now the most famous brand of General Motors.[26]
- Rudolph "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone (1913 - 1996) perhaps the best known pool player in the United States[27]
- Bobby Fischer, (1943 - 2008), controversial world chess champion
- Ben Roethlisberger (1982 - ) football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL[28]
[edit] Other
- Robert Lutz (1932 - ) General Motors Vice Chairman of Product Development and Chairman of GM North America, the world's largest automaker[29]
- Christoph Meili (1968 - ) whistleblower[30].
[edit] References
- ^ Swiss Roots: Jewel Kilcher
- ^ [1] "The actress, who's Alaskan/Swiss on her mother's side, was born in Schweigmatt, Germany." http://history.swissroots.org/233.0.html]
- ^ Swiss Roots: Film
- ^ Swiss Roots: Renee Zellweger
- ^ Swiss Roots: Renee Zellweger
- ^ toledoblade.com - Blade's man in Europe brought world to Toledo
- ^ [2] "Ethnicity Swiss/German"
- ^ Mueller Science - Specialities: Switzerland
- ^ [3] "Though Swiss by birth, Frank traveled the world before settling in the United States in 1953."
- ^ [4] "Born to an aristocratic Swiss family, Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) emigrated from Switzerland to America in 1780."
- ^ [5] "Meyer, though a native speaker of German, was Swiss-German."
- ^ Swiss Roots: Herbert Hoover
- ^ Swiss Roots: Eddie Rickenbacker
- ^ [6] "German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California; the discovery of gold on his land in 1848 precipitated the California Gold Rush."
- ^ [7] mentioned as one of several "Swiss Americans"
- ^ Swiss Roots: Henry Wirz
- ^ New Georgia Encyclopedia: John J. Zubly (1724-1781)
- ^ Louis Agassiz - Britannica Student Encyclopaedia
- ^ (German) Structurae [en]: Othmar Herrmann Ammann (1879-1965)
- ^ CERN Scientific Information Service
- ^ NOAA Central Library
- ^ [8] "After his graduation in the spring of 1900, he became a Swiss citizen, worked for two months as a mathematics teacher, and then was employed as examiner at the Swiss patent office in Bern."
- ^ Edmond Fischer
- ^ [9] "Swiss-born U.S. psychiatrist"
- ^ [10] "Martin Buser, a long-time Swiss citizen, is scheduled to be sworn in today as a United States citizen by Judge Ben Esch after crossing the finish line yesterday as winner of the 2002 Iditarod."
- ^ [11]
- ^ [12] "The Wanderones were German-Swiss"
- ^ [13] "Swiss Roots: How much do you know about your Swiss heritage? Ben Roethlisberger: Honestly, I didn't know a whole lot until recently; then I started feeling it out a little more and hearing a little more about it. Now, when people ask me where I'm from, I'm quick to say, "Well, I'm Swiss." I'm sure I have a lot of things in me, but that's one of the things I tell people—that I'm Swiss."
- ^ [14] "The legendary Swiss manager has been tasked with bringing fresh momentum to the sputtering engine of the world's largest automobile group."
- ^ [15] "the name of the 30-year-old former Swiss bank guard is already being entered into the ranks of the righteous gentiles -- those persons who have taken risks to help Jews."
