Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938), painter Aviation Oskar Bider (1891–1919), aviation pioneer Alfred Comte (1895–1965), pilot, co-director Ad Astra Aero, engineer Raphaël Domjan (born 1972), explorer, founder and pilot of SolarStratos Armand Dufaux (1883–1941) Henri Dufaux (1879–1980) Ernest Failloubaz (1892–1919), pilot, instructor, Swiss pilot's brevet number 1 René Grandjean (1884–1963), pilot, engineer Else Haugk (1889–1973), first Swiss woman to earn a pilot's licence in May 1914 Walter Mittelholzer (1894–1937), pilot, director of Ad Astra Aero, Swissair Claude Nicollier (born 1944), pilot, astronaut Bertrand Piccard (born 1958), psychiatrist, balloonist, founder and pilot of Solar Impulse Yves Rossy (born 1959), pilot, "jet-man" Eduard Spelterini (1852–1931), balloonist Emile Taddéoli (1879–1920), pilot, Swiss pilot's brevet number 2, chief pilot on seaplanes Ad Astra Aero Business Daniel Aegerter (born 1969), investor and entrepreneur Carl Franz Bally (1821–1899), founder of the Bally Shoe company Ernesto Bertarelli (born 1965), entrepreneur, founder of Team Alinghi Daniel Borel (born 1950), founder of Logitech Abraham-Louis Breguet (1747–1823), watchmaker François-Louis Cailler (1796–1852), chocolatier Arthur Chevrolet (1884–1946), automobile engineer, race car driver, entrepreneur Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941), automobile engineer, race car driver, founder of Chevrolet Raphael H. Cohen (born 1953), serial entrepreneur and business angel Rolf Dobelli (born 1966), entrepreneur, author and founder of the World Minds foundation Gottlieb Duttweiler (1888–1962), entrepreneur, founder of Migros Alfred Escher (1819–1882), statesman, businessman and railway constructor Hans Conrad Escher von der Linth (1767–1823), architect of the Lint melioration Louis Favre (1826–1879), engineer of the Gotthard tunnel Elsa Gasser (1896–1967), economist, business executive Nessim Gaon (1922–2022), financier, founder of the Noga company Adolf Guyer-Zeller (1839–1899), railway entrepreneur Nicolas Hayek (1928–2010), entrepreneur, chairman, Swatch Group Pierre Hemmer (1950–2013), one of the Internet pioneers in Switzerland Baron Jean-Conrad Hottinguer (1764–1841), banker Henri Nestlé (1814–1890), founder of Nestlé S.A. Daniel Peter (1836–1919), inventor of milk chocolate Georges Edouard Piaget (1855–1931), watchmaker Beat Fischer von Reichenbach (1641–1698), held postal monopoly in Berne Werner Reinhart (1884–1951), industrialist, philanthropist, music and literature patron Tibor Rosenbaum (1923–1980), businessman Guy Spier (born 1966), investor, author Philippe Suchard (1797–1884), chocolatier Ernst Thomke (born 1939) in Biel/Bienne, turnaround manager, e.g. Swatch Daniel Vasella (born 1953), chairman of Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG Yomi Denzel (born 1996), entrepreneur and youtuber Dancers Giuseppe Bausilio (born 1997), performs on Broadway in the titular role in the Tony-award-winning musical Billy Elliot Flore Revalles (1889–1966), principal dancer with Ballets Russes c. 1915–1918 Filmmakers Arthur Cohn (born 1927), film producer, received six Oscars Marc