Pedretti (1930–2022), author and artist Eugène Rambert (1830–1886) Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878–1947), writer Grisélidis Réal (1929–2005) William Ritter (1867–1955), novelist and music critic Alice Rivaz (1901–1998), writer Gustave Roud (1897–1976), poet Denis de Rougemont (1906–1985) Léon Savary (1895–1968), writer and journalist Jakob Schaffner (1875–1944) Josias Simmler (1530–1576), theologian, historian Victor Snell (1874–1931), journalist Carl Spitteler (1845–1924), 1919 Nobel Prize in Literature Johanna Spyri (1827–1901), author of Heidi Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (Madame de Staël) (1766–1817) Peter Stamm (born 1963) Albert Steffen (1884–1963), writer, anthroposophist Otto Steiger (1909–2005) Gottfried Strasser (1854–1912) Martin Suter (born 1948), columnist and novelist Rudolf Sutermeister (1802–1868) Robert Walser (1878–1956) Otto F. Walter (1928–1994), novelist Silja Walter (1919–2011), sister of Otto F. Walter; Benedictinian nun and writer Markus Werner (1944–2016) Urs Widmer (1938–2014) Johann David Wyss (1743–1818), author of The Swiss Family Robinson Albin Zollinger (1885–1941) Fritz Zorn (Fritz Angst) (1944–1976), author of Mars Roland Zoss (born 1951) Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke (1771–1848) Legendary and folk heroes Helvetia, personification ("mother") of Switzerland Arnold von Melchtal, legendary founding father of Switzerland Ueli Rotach, legendary hero of the 1405 battle at Stoss William Tell, legendary 14th-century hero Arnold von Winkelried, legendary hero of the 1386 battle of Sempach Others Sarah, Crown Princess of Brunei (born 1987), wife of Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah, half Swiss and half Bruneian Othmar Ammann (1879–1965), civil engineer, bridge engineer to the New York Port Authority Nick Auf der Maur (1942–1998), Canadian journalist, Swiss parents Louise Bachofen-Burckhardt (1845–1920), art collector Maximilian Bircher-Benner (1867–1939), physician and Muesli inventor Johann Georg Bodmer (1786–1864), inventor Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698–1783) Hans Ormund Bringolf (1876–1951), adventurer and autobiographer Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), art historian Johann Ludwig Burckhardt (1784–1814), traveller and orientalist Michée Chauderon (died 1652), the last person to be executed for sorcery in Geneva Arthur Cohn (born 1927), film producer, received six Oscars Kadie Karen Diekmeyer (born 1965), Canadian vegan activist and Internet personality, known online as That Vegan Teacher. Lydia Welti-Escher (1858–1891), Swiss patron of the arts and founder of the Gottfried Keller Stiftung Philipp Emanuel von Fellenberg (1771–1844) Marie Grossholtz (1761–1850), known as Madame Tussaud Paul Grueninger (1891–1972), commander of police and humanitarian Felix Hemmerlin (1388/9 – c. 1460), theologian Michelle Hunziker (born 1977), TV presenter previously married to the Italian singer Eros Ramazzotti Ingvar Kamprad (1926–2018), founder of IKEA, Swiss resident 1976-2014 Carl Lutz (1895–1975), diplomat and humanitarian Robert Maillart (1872–1940), civil engineer, inventor of many