List of Swiss Americans
The list of America Swiss contains famous Swiss immigrants to the United States and Canada, and their descendants.
A
- Alexander Agassiz (1835-1910), geologist and anatomist
- Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), naturalist
- Othmar Ammann (1879-1965), engineer and bridge builder
- René Auberjonois ( born 1940 ), actor
- Melissa Auf der Maur (born 1972 ), rock musician
B
- Steve Ballmer ( born 1956 ), manager
- Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840-1914), archaeologist
- Theda Bara (1885-1955), actress
- Ken Baumgartner (born 1966 ), ice hockey player
- Felix Bloch (1905-1983), Physicist
- Armand Borel (1923-2003), mathematician
- Henri Bouquet (1719-1765), mercenaries
- Yul Brynner (1920-1985), actor
- James L. Buckley ( b. 1923 ), lawyer and politician
- William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008), author, journalist and commentator
- Martin Buser ( b. 1958 ), sled dog sports
C
- Florian Cajori (1859-1930), historian of mathematics
- Hans R. Camenzind (1934-2012), microchip developers and business owners
- James Caviezel ( born 1968 ), actor
- Louis Chevrolet (1878-1941), racing driver and founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company
E
- Edward W. Eberle (1864-1929), Admiral
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955), Physicist
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), President of the United States of America
- Diebold von Erlach (1541-1665), the first Swiss in America
F
- Bobby Fischer (1943-2008), world chess champion
- Edmond Henri Fischer ( * 1920 ), biochemist
- Robert Frank (* 1924), photographer, director and cinematographer
- Emil Frey (1838-1922), politician
- Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), industrialist
G
- Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), politician, ethnologist, linguist and diplomat
- Rudolph Ganz (1877-1972), composer, pianist and conductor
- Walter Gautschi (* 1927), mathematician
- James William Good (1866-1929), politician
- Meyer Guggenheim (1828-1905), industrialist
- Simon Guggenheim (1867-1941), businessman and politician
- Gary Gygax (1938-2008), a game designer
B
- William Heffelfinger (1867-1954), football player
- Milton S. Hershey (1857-1945), entrepreneur
- Herbert C. Hoover (1874-1964), President of the United States of America
- J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972), founder and director of the FBI
- Jeff Hostetler ( b. 1961 ), football player
I
- Fred Iklé (1924-2011), Under Secretary
- Daniel Imhof ( born 1977 ), football player
J
- René Joyeuse (1920-2012), resistance fighter and doctor
K
- Helen Keller (1880-1968), writer
- Jewel Kilcher ( born 1974 ), singer and actress
- Q'orianka Kilcher (* 1990), actress
- Amy Klobuchar (* 1960), politician
L
- Cyndi Lauper ( born 1953 ), singer, songwriter and actress
- Karina Lombard (born 1969 ), actress
- George Lucas ( 1944), producer, screenwriter and director
- Robert A. Lutz ( born 1932 ), manager
M
- Bridget Marquardt (born 1973 ), model and actress
- Victor Mature (1913-1999), actor
- Christoph Meili ( born 1968 ), whistleblower
- Adolf Meyer (1866-1950), psychiatrist
- Robert B. Meyner (1908-1990), politician
P
- Elvis Perkins (born 1976 ), singer-songwriter
- Michelle Pfeiffer (born 1958 ), actress
- Emanuel L. Philipp (1861-1925), politician
- Jean -Felix Piccard (1884-1963), Chemist
- Léa Pool ( born 1950 ), film director and screenwriter
R
- Edward Vernon Rickenbacker (1890-1973), a fighter pilot in World War I
- Ben Roethlisberger ( b. 1982 ), football player
S
- August Schellenberg (1936-2013), actor
- Liev Schreiber ( born 1967), actor
- Meryl Streep ( born 1949 ), actress
- Chesley B. Sullenberger (* 1951), pilot
- Johann August Sutter (1803-1880), Californian land owner and founder of New Helvetia
T
- Max Theiler (1899-1972), biologist
- Robert Julius Trumpler (1886-1956), Astronomer
W
- Etienne Wenger ( born 1952 ), social scientists
- William Wirt (1772-1834), lawyer and politician
- William Wyler (1902-1981), film director and producer
Z
- Renée Zellweger (born 1969 ), actress
- John Joachim Zubly (1724-1781), pastor, farmer and politician during the American Revolution
- Fritz Zwicky (1898-1974), physicist and astronomer