• Source: List of Swiss Americans

This is a list of notable Swiss Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Swiss American or must have references showing they are Swiss American and are notable.




Pioneers


J. Presper Eckert (1919–1995), computer pioneer, co-designed the ENIAC
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
John Sutter (1803–1880), born in Germany of a Swiss father, 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
John Augustus Sutter, Jr. (1826–1897), his son, a U.S. Consul to Acapulco, Mexico and the founder and planner of the City of Sacramento, California
Theobald (Diebold) von Erlach (1541–1565), first Swiss person known to have settled in North America.
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




List by occupation






= Business

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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". as per CNBC one of the "Worst American CEOs of All Time".
Meyer Guggenheim (1828–1905), statesman, patriarch of Guggenheim family
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.
Robert Lutz (born 1932), General Motors Vice Chairman of Product Development and Chairman of GM North America, the world's largest automaker
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

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Actors and directors

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
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 (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
Taylor Lautner (born 1992), actor
Karina Lombard (born 1969), actress
George Lucas (born 1944), film director, of part Swiss descent
Bridget Marquardt (born 1975), model, actress
Victor Mature (1913–1999), film actor
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
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
Darryl F. Zanuck (1902–1979), film producer and director
Renée Zellweger (born 1969), film actress, Swiss-born father
Denis Ooi, actor, Swiss-British-United States citizen



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 Toledo Blade
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
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 (born 1974), singer-songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and author
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 "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 winner to hold beauty title twice, 1922 & 1923; mother was of partial Swiss ancestry
Gary Gygax (1938–2008), writer and game designer, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons




= Law and politics

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Governors and presidents

Anthony Brown (born 1961), Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), President of the United States
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), President of the United States
Robert B. Meyner (1908–1990), Governor of New Jersey
Barack Obama (born 1961), President of the United States (distant ancestors)
Emanuel L. Philipp (1861–1925), Governor of Wisconsin
Gretchen Whitmer (born 1971), Governor of Michigan



Congressmen and senators

James L. Buckley (1923–2023), Senator from New York
Albert Gallatin (1761–1849), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Senator of Pennsylvania, diplomat
James William Good (1866–1929), Congressman Iowa
Herbert Hoover Jr. (1903–1960), Under Secretary of State
Amy Klobuchar (born 1960), Senator from Minnesota
James S. Negley (1826–1901), Congressman Pennsylvania
Robert Portman (born 1955), Senator from Ohio
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
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
Arthur L. Gilliom (1886–1968), Indiana Attorney General from 1925 to 1929
Fred Iklé (1924–2011), Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Thomas M. Honan (1867–1932), Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives (from 1908 to 1910) and Indiana Attorney General (from 1911 to 1915)
J. Edgar Hoover (1935–1972), first Director of the 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
Peter Staub (1827–1904), Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee
Mike Thompson (born 1951), California House of Representatives
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.
Henry Wisner (1720–1790), patriot leader during the American Revolution and New York representative in the Continental Congress.
Dan Zumbach (born 1960), Iowa Senator
John D. Imboden (born 1823), Virginia state legislator




= Military

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Henry Bouquet, prominent Army officer in the French and Indian War and Pontiac's War
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
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
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

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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 (1834–1886), Benedictine priest
Philip Schaff (1819–1893), Protestant theologian and a historian of the Christian church




= Scientists and engineers

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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
Berni Alder (1925–2020), physicist
David Alter (1807–1881), inventor, almost discovered spectroscopy
Othmar Ammann (1879–1965), civil engineer
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840–1914), archeologist
Felix Bloch (1905–1983), physicist
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
Robert Frank (1924–2019), important figure in American photography and film
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
Henry Eyring (1901–1981), Mexican born American, theoretical chemist, associate of Albert Einstein
Edmond H. Fischer (1920–2021), biochemist
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 (1866–1950), psychiatrist
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
Louis Sullivan (1856–1924), American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers"
Max Theiler (1899–1972), virologist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing a vaccine against yellow fever




= Sports

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Valeri Bure (born 1974), former ice hockey player, naturalized American citizen
Martin Buser (born 1958), champion of sled dog racing
Louis Chevrolet (1878–1941), racing driver; founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company, now the most famous brand of General Motors
Joey Daccord (born 1996), NHL goaltender currently playing for the Ottawa Senators; born in Boston to a Swiss mother
Phil Dalhausser (born 1980), Olympic beach volleyball champion; born in 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
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
Simone Schaller (1912–2016), Olympic hurdler, Swiss father
Cory Schneider (born 1986), NHL goaltender
Rudolph "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone (1913–1996), perhaps the best known pool player in the United States
Ben Zobrist, second baseman in Major League Baseball




= Other

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Helen Keller (1880–1968), author, political activist and lecturer; first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree
Christoph Meili (born 1968), whistleblower
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




See also


List of Amish and their descendants




References






External links


List of Swiss-Americans
Forefathers in Switzerland
OltreconfiniTi, the official website dedicated to Ticinese emigration
San Joaquin Valley Swiss Club (California, US)
Swiss American Historical Society

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