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This is a list of '''notable [[Swiss American]]s''', including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

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==Pioneers==
* [[Peter Luginbill]] (1818–1886), born in France as the son of Mennonite parents exiled from the [[Emmental]], early settler in [[Indiana]] and founder of the city of [[Berne, Indiana|Berne]]
* [[John Sutter]] (1803–1880), born in Germany of a Swiss father, [[California]]n 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<ref>((dead link|date=January 2021|bot=Dlmarial|fix-attempted=yes)) [https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Sutter "German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California; the discovery of gold on his land in 1848 precipitated the California Gold Rush."]</ref>
** [[John Augustus Sutter, Jr.]] (1826–1897), his son, a [[United States|U.S.]] [[Consul (representative)|Consul]] to [[Acapulco]], [[Mexico]] and the founder and planner of the [[Sacramento, California|City of Sacramento]], [[California]]
*[[Erlach family#The family divides|Theobald (Diebold) von Erlach]] (1541–1565), first Swiss person known to have settled in North America.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Sr-Z/Swiss-Americans.html|title=Swiss Americans - History, Modern era, Swiss in British north america|access-date=17 March 2015))</ref>
* [[Wright brothers]], aviation pioneers, mother of partial Swiss descent
* [[Louis Chevrolet]], co-founder of Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911
* [[John Joachim Zubly]] (1724–1781) of [[St. Gallen]], pastor, planter, and statesman during the American Revolution<ref>[http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-662 New Georgia Encyclopedia: John J. Zubly (1724-1781)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==List by occupation==

===Business===
* [[Robert Abplanalp]] (1922–2003), businessman, inventor of the aerosol valve
* [[Steve Ballmer]] (born 1956), businessman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation
* [[Henry Clay Frick]] (1849–1919), industrialist and art patron, once known as "America's most hated man".<ref>((cite web |title=American Whiskey |url=http://www.ellenjaye.com/hist_mono3overholt.htm |access-date=2008-06-28))</ref> as per CNBC one of the "Worst American CEOs of All Time".<ref>[https://www.cnbc.com/id/30502091?slide=11] "Portfolio's Worst American CEOs of All Time." CNBC.com April 30, 2009.</ref>
* [[Meyer Guggenheim]] (1828–1905), statesman, patriarch of Guggenheim family<ref>[http://www.nysun.com/article/8142] "Meyer, though a native speaker of German, was Swiss-German."</ref>
* [[Simon Guggenheim]] (1867–1941), businessman, politician, and philanthropist
* [[Steve Jobs]] (1955–2011), information technology entrepreneur and inventor
* [[Milton Hershey]] (1857–1945), confectioner, philanthropist, and founder of The Hershey Chocolate Company
* [[Otto Frederick Hunziker]] (1873–1959), pioneer in the American and international dairy industry
* [[S. S. Kresge]] (1867–1966), merchant, philanthropist and founder of the S. S. Kresge Company, now Sears Holdings Corporation.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.nndb.com/people/755/000160275/|title = S. S. Kresge))</ref>
* [[Bob Lutz (businessman)|Robert Lutz]] (born 1932), General Motors Vice Chairman of Product Development and Chairman of GM North America, the world's largest automaker<ref>((cite web|url=http://emagazine.credit-suisse.com/app/article/index.cfm?fuseaction%3DOpenArticle%26aoid%3D18718%26coid%3D72939%26lang%3DEN |title=Credit Suisse |access-date=2006-07-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708203355/https://emagazine.credit-suisse.com/app/article/index.cfm?fuseaction=OpenArticle&aoid=18718&coid=72939&lang=EN |archive-date=2011-07-08 )) "The legendary Swiss manager has been tasked with bringing fresh momentum to the sputtering engine of the world's largest automobile group."</ref>
* [[Mark Spitznagel]] (born 1971), hedge fund manager
* [[James G. Sterchi]] (1867–1932), furniture store magnate
* [[Bruce Tognazzini]] (born 1945), usability consultant in partnership the [[Nielsen Norman Group]]
* [[Albert Lee Ueltschi]] (1917–2012), considered the father of modern flight training and was the founder of FlightSafety

===Arts and entertainment===

====Actors and directors====
* [[René Auberjonois (actor)|René Murat Auberjonois]] (1940–2019), film actor
* [[Theda Bara]] (1885–1955), silent film actress and sex symbol
* [[Wallace Beery]] (1885–1949), film actor
* [[Berry Berenson]] (1948–2001), photographer, actress, and model, mother of part Swiss descent
* [[Marisa Berenson]] (born 1947), actress and model
* [[Amy Brenneman]] (born 1964), film and TV actress, father of part Swiss descent
*[[Jeff Bridges]] (born 1949), actor, singer, and producer
* [[Yul Brynner]] (1920–1985), actor, father of part Swiss descent
* [[James Caviezel]] (born 1968), film actor, paternal grandfather of Swiss descent<ref name=autogenerated1 />
* [[Emily Deschanel]] (born 1976), actress, director, and producer
* [[Billie Dove]] (1903–1997), film actress
* [[Robert Downey Jr.]] (born 1965), actor, mother of partial Swiss descent
* [[Jon Hall (actor)|Jon Hall]] (1915–1979), actor, Swiss father
* [[Nina Hartley]] (born 1959), porn actress and director
* [[David Hayter]] (born 1969), actor and voice actor
* [[Tyler Hoechlin]] (born 1987), film actor, father of part Swiss descent
* [[Melia Kreiling]] (born 1990), actress
* [[Q'Orianka Kilcher]] (born 1990), singer and actress, of part Swiss descent<ref>[http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/movies/stv-122305ent-movies-kilcher,0,531575.story?coll=orl-calmoviestop]((Dead link|date=April 2019|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes)) "The actress, who's Alaskan/Swiss on her mother's side, was born in Schweigmatt, Germany."((cite web |title=Swiss Roots: Q'Orianka Kilcher |url=http://history.swissroots.org/233.0.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720190910/http://history.swissroots.org/233.0.html |archive-date=2006-07-20 |access-date=2006-05-16))</ref>
* [[Taylor Lautner]] (born 1992), actor
* [[Karina Lombard]] (born 1969), actress
* [[George Lucas]] (born 1944), film director, of part Swiss descent<ref>((cite web|url=http://history.swissroots.org/swissroots/en/stories/heritage/Famous%20Swiss%20in%20the%20US/Portraits/George%20Lucas |title=George Lucas |access-date=2009-06-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090923213807/http://history.swissroots.org/swissroots/en/stories/heritage/Famous%20Swiss%20in%20the%20US/Portraits/George%20Lucas |archive-date=2009-09-23 )) "His father had mainly Swiss and British roots."</ref>
* [[Bridget Marquardt]] (born 1975), model, actress
* [[Victor Mature]] (1913–1999), film actor<ref>[http://history.swissroots.org/153.0.html Swiss Roots: Film<!-- Bot generated title -->] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720190734/http://history.swissroots.org/153.0.html |date=2006-07-20 ))</ref>
* [[Nick Offerman]] (born 1970), actor, writer, comedian, and professional carpenter
*[[Jodi Ann Paterson]] (born 1975), model, actress and former beauty queen
* [[Michelle Pfeiffer]] (born 1958), film actress, maternal grandfather of Swiss descent<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090923211124/http://www.michellepfeiffer.org/index.php?start_from=10&ucat=&archive=&subaction=&id=] "...and my mother is Swiss and Swede."</ref>
*[[Chris Pratt]] (born 1979), actor
* [[Ben Pronsky]] (born 1978), voice actor
* [[Kelly Rohrbach]] (born 1990), model and actress
* [[Ryan Seacrest]] (born 1974), television and radio host, television producer, and entrepreneur, of part Swiss descent
* [[August Schellenberg]] (1936–2013), actor
* [[Liev Schreiber]] (born 1967), film actor, father of part Swiss descent
* [[Meryl Streep]] (born 1949), film actress, father of part Swiss descent
* [[Evelyn Ward]] (1923–2012), actress
* [[Paul Walker]] (1973–2013), actor
* [[William Wyler]] (1902–1981), film director <ref>((IMDb name|id=0943758|section=bio|name=William Wyler)) "Born Willi Wyler ... to a Swiss father and a German mother"</ref>
* [[Darryl F. Zanuck]] (1902–1979), film producer and director 
* [[Renée Zellweger]] (born 1969), film actress, Swiss-born father<ref name=autogenerated1>[http://history.swissroots.org/222.0.html Swiss Roots: Renee Zellweger<!-- Bot generated title -->] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060721181723/http://history.swissroots.org/222.0.html |date=2006-07-21 ))</ref>
* [[Denis Ooi]], actor, Swiss-British-United States Citizen <ref>((cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8062778/ | title=Denis OOI | website=[[IMDb]] ))</ref>

====Visual artists====
* [[Scott Indermaur]], photographer
* [[Herbert Matter]] (1907–1984), photographer and graphic designer
* [[Adolfo Müller-Ury]] (1862–1947), portrait and impressionistic still-life painter
* [[Jeremiah Theus]] (1716–1774) of [[Chur]], painter

====Writers and publicists====
* [[Fernand Auberjonois]] (1910–2004), journalist, foreign correspondent of the ''[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]'' and the ''[[The Blade (Toledo)|Toledo Blade]]''<ref>[http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040828/NEWS13/408280302 toledoblade.com - Blade's man in Europe brought world to Toledo<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Lisa Brennan-Jobs]] (born 1978), writer, daughter of [[Steve Jobs]]
* [[William F. Buckley Jr.]] (1925–2008), writer
* [[Henry J. Eyring]], author, educator, president of Brigham Young University-Idaho
* [[A. C. Frieden]]  (born 1966), novelist
* [[Katherine Indermaur]], poet, author, and editor
* [[Lorin Morgan-Richards]], author and illustrator
* [[Sofia Samatar]] (born 1971), poet and writer
* [[Mona Simpson]] (born 1957), novelist
* [[Wendy Watson Nelson]], Canadian-American, author, lecturer, educator, associate professor at University of Calgary
* [[Tessa Gräfin von Walderdorff]] (born 1994), writer and socialite
* [[Eudora Alice Welty]]  (1909–2001), writer; ancestry can be traced to Emmental Valley of Switzerland; Swiss ancestral name Wälti

====Musicians====
* [[Melissa Auf der Maur]] (born 1972), singer
* [[Leon Botstein]] (born 1946), conductor
* [[Rudolph Ganz]] (1877–1972), pianist, conductor and composer
* [[Edna Indermaur]] (1892–1985), singer
* [[Yung Gravy]] (born 1996), rapper, songwriter and producer.
* [[Jewel (singer)|Jewel]] (born 1974), singer-songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and author<ref>[http://history.swissroots.org/219.0.html Swiss Roots: Jewel Kilcher<!-- Bot generated title -->] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720190851/http://history.swissroots.org/219.0.html |date=2006-07-20 ))</ref>
* [[Cyndi Lauper]] (born 1953), singer-songwriter and actress
* [[Karina Lombard]] (born 1969), singer and actress
* [[Elvis Perkins]] (born 1976), singer-songwriter
* [[Tom Petty]] (1950–2017), singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor
* [[Dee Snider]] (born 1955), singer-songwriter
* [[Tina Turner]] (1939–2023), singer-songwriter and actress (relinquished U.S. citizenship in 2013)
*[[Eddie Vedder]] (born 1964), singer-songwriter and musician
*[[Adam Yauch|Adam Yauch "MCA"]] (1964–2012), rapper, bass player, filmmaker, and founding member of the hip hop group Beastie Boys

====Other====
* [[Mary Katherine Campbell]] (1905–1990), only [[Miss America Pageant|Miss America]] winner to hold beauty title twice, 1922 & 1923; mother was of partial Swiss ancestry<ref>((cite news|title=An American of 10 Generations| date= 1907-05-12|work= New York Times))</ref>
* [[Gary Gygax]] (1938–2008), writer and game designer, co-creator of ''Dungeons & Dragons''

===Law and politics===

====Governors and presidents====
* [[Anthony Brown (Maryland politician)|Anthony Brown]] (born 1961), Governor of Maryland
* [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] (1890–1969), President of the United States<ref name=Ethnic2000Yang>((cite book| last=Yang| first=Philip Q.| title=Ethnic Studies: Issues and Approaches| year=2000| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3wwO1_XzDKAC&pg=PA214| page=214| publisher=SUNY Press| location=Albany, New York| isbn=9780791493113| access-date=May 26, 2020))</ref>
* [[Herbert Hoover]] (1874–1964), President of the United States<ref name=Ethnic2000Yang/>
* [[Robert B. Meyner]] (1908–1990), Governor of New Jersey
* [[Barack Obama]] (born 1961), President of the United States (distant ancestors)<ref>((cite book| last=Kenneally| first=Christine| title=The Invisible History of the Human Race: How DNA and History Shape Our Identities and Our Futures| page=47| year=2014| publisher=Schwartz| location=[[Melbourne]], Victoria| isbn=9780670025558| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VEJPBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT47))</ref>
* [[Emanuel L. Philipp]] (1861–1925), Governor of Wisconsin<ref name="politicalgraveyard.com">[http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/swiss.html] "Swiss ancestry."</ref>
* [[Gretchen Whitmer]] (1971), Governor of Michigan

====Congressmen and senators====
* [[James L. Buckley]] (born 1923), Senator from New York
* [[Albert Gallatin]] (1761–1849), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Senator of Pennsylvania, diplomat<ref name="politicalgraveyard.com"/>
* [[James William Good]] (1866–1929), Congressman Iowa<ref name="politicalgraveyard.com"/>
* [[Herbert Hoover Jr.]] (1903–1960), Under Secretary of State
* [[Amy Klobuchar]] (born 1960), Senator from Minnesota
* [[James S. Negley]] (1826–1901), Congressman Pennsylvania<ref name="politicalgraveyard.com"/>
* [[Robert Portman]] (born 1955), Senator from Ohio<ref>http://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/startseite/Ein_amerikanischer_Freund_der_Schweiz.xml?siteSect=106&sid=5650313&cKey=1112621165000&ty=st ((Dead link|date=February 2022))</ref>
* [[Benjamin F. Welty]] (1870–1962), Congressman from Allen County, Ohio; ancestry traced back to Emmental Valley, Switzerland; Swiss ancestral name Wälti

====Other====
* [[Warren E. Burger]] (1907–1995), Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986<ref>[https://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/97/background] "Ethnicity Swiss/German"</ref>
* [[Tucker Carlson]] (born 1969), political commentator and talk show host
* [[August Claessens]] (1885–1954), politician, best known as one of the five New York Assemblymen
* [[Albert Gallatin]] (1761–1849), politician, ethnologist, linguist, founder of New York University, diplomat, and [[United States Secretary of the Treasury]]<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/management/curator/collection/secretary/gallatin.htm |title=Secretary of the Treasury - Albert Gallatin |access-date=2006-04-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060109095130/http://www.ustreas.gov/offices/management/curator/collection/secretary/gallatin.htm |archive-date=2006-01-09 )) "Born to an aristocratic Swiss family, Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) emigrated from Switzerland to America in 1780."</ref>
* [[Arthur L. Gilliom]] (1886–1968), [[Indiana Attorney General]] from 1925 to 1929<ref>((cite journal |last1=Verbeek |first1=Ann Gilliom |title=The League and the Law: Arthur L. Gilliom and the Problem of Due Process in Prohibition-Era Indiana |journal=Indiana Magazine of History |date=December 2011 |volume=107 |issue=4 |pages=289–326 |doi=10.5378/indimagahist.107.4.0289 |jstor=10.5378/indimagahist.107.4.0289 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5378/indimagahist.107.4.0289))</ref>
* [[Fred Iklé]] (1924–2011), [[Under Secretary of Defense for Policy]]
* [[Thomas M. Honan]] (1867–1932), [[List of speakers of the Indiana House of Representatives|Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives]] (from 1908 to 1910) and [[Indiana Attorney General]] (from 1911 to 1915)<ref>((cite book |title=The Ancestry of Henry James Lawless, Jr. Book Two: Maternal Ancestry |publisher=E J Kennedy |pages=65–71 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9enL-TAq_p8C&q=%22Thomas+Honan%22+%22Indiana%22+%22Attorney+General%22))</ref>
* [[J. Edgar Hoover]] (1935–1972), first Director of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]]
* [[Sid Meier]] (born 1954), prominent video game programmer and designer of the video game series Civilization.
* [[Wally Schirra]] (1923–2007), astronaut, only person to fly in all of America's first three space programs (Mercury, Gemini and Apollo)
* [[Joseph A. Shakspeare]] (1837–1896), politician, elected mayor of New Orleans from 1880 to 1882
* [[Samuel F. Snively]] (1859–1952), Mayor of [[Duluth, Minnesota]]<ref>[http://politicalgraveyard.com/group/swiss.html] "Swiss and German ancestry."</ref>
* [[Peter Staub]] (1827–1904), Mayor of [[Knoxville, Tennessee]]<ref>Robert Parkinson, [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=1259 Peter Staub]. ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture'', 2002.  Retrieved: 5 August 2010.</ref>
* [[Mike Thompson (California politician)|Mike Thompson]] (born 1951), California House of Representatives
* [[William Wirt (Attorney General)|William Wirt]] (1772–1834), author and statesman who is credited with turning the position of United States Attorney General into one of influence; Swiss father.<ref>[http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Sr-Z/Swiss-Americans.html] mentioned as one of several "Swiss Americans"</ref>
* [[Henry Wisner]] (1720–1790), patriot leader during the [[American Revolution]] and New York representative in the [[Continental Congress]]. 
* [[Dan Zumbach]] (born 1960), Iowa Senator

===Military===
* [[Henry Bouquet]], prominent Army officer in the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War<ref>[http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?ALLSELECTED=1;xc=1;g=pitttextall;type=simple;q1=white%20settlement;c=pitttext;sort=occur;cc=pitttext;didno=00awk9211m;rgn=full%20text;idno=00awk9211m;view=image;seq=17;page=root;size=s;frm=frameset;] "Bouqet as a free born Switzer..."</ref>
* [[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<ref>[http://www.muellerscience.com/ENGLISH/Switzerland.htm Mueller Science - Specialities: Switzerland<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Al Ulmer]] (1916-2000), a major head of U.S. intelligence operations during World War II and part of the Cold War
* [[Henry Wirz]] (1822–1865), only Confederate soldier executed in the aftermath of the American Civil War for war crimes<ref>[http://history.swissroots.org/263.0.html Swiss Roots: Henry Wirz<!-- Bot generated title -->] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071006073120/http://history.swissroots.org/263.0.html |date=2007-10-06 ))</ref>
* [[Felix Zollicoffer]] (1812–1862), newspaperman, three-term US Congressman from Tennessee, officer in the United States Army, and a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War

===Religion===
* [[Henry B. Eyring]] (born 1933), educator, Stanford University professor, Presiding Elder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
* [[Daniel Kumler Flickinger]] (1824–1911), Bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ
* [[Martin Marty (bishop)|Martin Marty]] (1834–1886), Benedictine priest
* [[Philip Schaff]] (1819–1893), Protestant theologian and a historian of the Christian church

===Scientists and engineers===
* [[Alexander Emanuel Agassiz]] (1835–1910), geologist and zoologist
* [[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<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9272749 Louis Agassiz – Britannica Student Encyclopaedia<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Berni Alder]] (1925–2020), physicist
* [[David Alter]] (1807–1881), inventor, almost discovered spectroscopy
* [[Othmar Ammann]] (1879–1965), civil engineer<ref>((in lang|de)) [http://en.structurae.de/persons/data/index.cfm?id=d000001 Structurae [en&#93;: Othmar Herrmann Ammann (1879-1965)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier]] (1840–1914), archeologist
* [[Felix Bloch]] (1905–1983), physicist<ref>[http://library.cern.ch/archives/dg/bloch.html CERN Scientific Information Service<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Armand Borel]] (1923–2003), mathematician
* [[Wilhelm (Willy) Burgdorfer]] (1925-2014), medical entomologist 
* [[Hans R. Camenzind]] (1934–2012), inventor of the [[555 timer IC]]
* [[Florian Cajori]] (1859–1930), mathematician<ref>[http://140.90.235.27/edocs/HASSLER7.htm NOAA Central Library<!-- Bot generated title -->] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060208103128/http://140.90.235.27/edocs/HASSLER7.htm |date=2006-02-08 ))</ref>
* [[Robert Frank]] (1924–2019), important figure in American photography and film<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20000116030156/http://m2.aol.com/UvGotMail/frank/frank.html] "Though Swiss by birth, Frank traveled the world before settling in the United States in 1953."</ref>
* [[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<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/nobel/macro/5002_5.html] "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."</ref>
* [[Henry Eyring (chemist)|Henry Eyring]] (1901–1981), Mexican born American, theoretical chemist, associate of Albert Einstein
* [[Edmond H. Fischer]] (1920–2021), biochemist<ref>[http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/march98/fischer.html Edmond Fischer<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Walter Gautschi]] (born 1927), mathematician
* [[Otto Frederick Hunziker]] (1873–1959), dairy educator and technologist
* [[Josias Joesler]] (1895–1927), architect
* [[John Kruesi]] (1843–1899), inventor and close associate of Thomas Edison
* [[Adolf Meyer (psychiatrist)|Adolf Meyer]] (1866–1950), psychiatrist<ref>[https://archive.today/20120715071621/http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9372023/Adolf-Meyer] "Swiss-born U.S. psychiatrist"</ref>
* [[Jean Piccard]] (1884–1963), scientist and high-altitude balloonist
* [[Louis François de Pourtalès]] (1824–1880), naturalist
* [[Adolph Rickenbacker]] (1886–1976), pioneer of the electric guitar; founder of the [[Rickenbacker]] guitar company, whose products would be an important influence on 1960s 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<ref>((Cite web |url=http://history.swissroots.org/166.0.html |title=Swiss Roots: Eddie Rickenbacker<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2006-05-16 |archive-date=2006-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060720102213/http://history.swissroots.org/ |url-status=live ))</ref>
* [[Louis Sullivan]] (1856–1924), American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers"<ref>((cite encyclopedia |title=Louis Sullivan |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Sullivan |quote=His Irish-born father and Swiss-born mother had immigrated to the United States in 1847 and 1850, respectively |access-date=January 18, 2024 ))</ref>
* [[Max Theiler]] (1899–1972), virologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing a vaccine against yellow fever

===Sports===
* [[Valeri Bure]] (born 1974), former ice hockey player, naturalized American citizen
* [[Martin Buser]] (born 1958), champion of sled dog racing<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20040913234111/http://www.senate.gov/member/ak/stevens/general/pr/2002/march/pr031302a.htm] "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."</ref>
* [[Louis Chevrolet]] (1878–1941), racing driver; founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company, now the most famous brand of General Motors<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.swissworld.org/eng/swissworld.html?siteSect=603&sid=4270276&rubricId=14030|title=Discover Switzerland))</ref>
*[[Joey Daccord]] (born 1996), NHL goaltender currently playing for the [[Ottawa Senators]]; born in Boston to a Swiss mother
* [[Phil Dalhausser]] (born 1980), [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] beach volleyball champion; born in [[Baden, Switzerland|Baden]] to German father and Swiss mother
* [[Brett Favre]] (born 1969), former NFL quarterback
* [[Bobby Fischer]] (1943–2008), controversial world chess champion
* [[Dan Fritsche]] (born 1985), former ice hockey player
* [[Pudge Heffelfinger]] (1867–1954), first professional football player<ref>[[:de:William Heffelfinger]]</ref>
* [[Jeff Hostetler]] (born 1961), quarterback in the NFL for the New York Giants, Los Angeles/Oakland Raiders, and Washington Redskins.
* [[Fred Merkle]] (1888–1956), baseball player
* [[Alexia Paganini]] (born 2001), figure skater, Swiss father
* [[Alexander Ritschard]] (born 1994), tennis player, naturalized American citizen
* [[Ben Roethlisberger]] (born 1982), quarterback in the NFL for the Pittsburgh Steelers<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.swissroots.org/celebrities/default.asp |title=Swiss Roots |access-date=2006-04-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060519110331/http://www.swissroots.org/celebrities/default.asp |archive-date=2006-05-19 )) "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."</ref>
* [[Simone Schaller]] (1912–2016), Olympic hurdler, Swiss father
*[[Cory Schneider]] (born 1986), NHL goaltender
* [[Rudolph Wanderone|Rudolph "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone]] (1913–1996), perhaps the best known pool player in the United States<ref>[http://espn.go.com/classic/s/2001/0422/1177138.html] "The Wanderones were German-Swiss"</ref>
* [[Ben Zobrist]], second baseman in Major League Baseball<ref>[http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=zobrist] "Zobrist Name Meaning Swiss German: topographic name for someone who lived at the highest or furthest point of a settlement."</ref>

===Other===
* [[Helen Keller]] (1880–1968), author, political activist and lecturer; first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree
* [[Christoph Meili]] (born 1968), whistleblower<ref>[http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_24_35/ai_54492309] "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."</ref>
* [[Chesley Sullenberger]] (born 1951), airline transport pilot who successfully carried out the emergency ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River, saving the lives of the 155 people on the aircraft<ref>((cite news|url=http://www.bernerzeitung.ch/region/emmental/Held-vom-Hudson-stammt-aus-Wynigen/story/11891131 |title="Held vom Hudson" stammt aus Wynigen |date=2008-01-20 |publisher=[[Berner Zeitung]] |language=de |access-date=2009-01-20))</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of Amish and their descendants]]

==References==
((reflist|2))

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060405001312/http://history.swissroots.org/famous_swiss.0.html List of Swiss-Americans]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060714233138/http://www.ahneninfo.com/ Forefathers in Switzerland]
* [https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20170525132607/http://www4.ti.ch/can/oltreconfiniti/home/ OltreconfiniTi, the official website dedicated to Ticinese emigration]
* [http://www.riponswissclub.com San Joaquin Valley Swiss Club (California, US)]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110309035235/http://swissamericanhistoricalsoc.org/ Swiss American Historical Society]

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