100 Notable alumni of
University of Lausanne
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The University of Lausanne is 373rd in the world, 132nd in Europe, and 4th in Switzerland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Lausanne sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the University of Lausanne won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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Bhumibol Adulyadej
- Enrolled in the University of Lausanne
- Studied in 1945-1951
- Occupations
- composerteacherwritermonarchenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Bhumibol Adulyadej, titled Rama IX, was King of Thailand from 1946 until his death in 2016. His reign of 70 years and 126 days is the longest of any Thai monarch, the longest on record of any independent Asian sovereign, and the third-longest of any sovereign state.
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Sepp Blatter
- Enrolled in the University of Lausanne
- In 1958 graduated with Diplom in general economics
- In 1959 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianice hockey playereconomistsports official
- Biography
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Joseph Sepp Blatter is a Swiss former football administrator who served as the eighth President of FIFA from 1998 to 2015. He has been banned from participating in FIFA activities since 2015 as a result of the FIFA corruption case made public that year, and will remain banned until 2027.
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Ananda Mahidol
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- monarchmilitary officersocial worker
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Ananda Mahidol was the eighth king of Siam (later Thailand) from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama VIII. At the time he was recognised as king by the National Assembly in March 1935, he was a nine-year-old boy living in Switzerland. He returned to Thailand in December 1945, but six months later, in June 1946, he was found shot dead in his bed. Although at first thought to have been an accident, his death was ruled a murder by medical examiners, and three royal aides were later executed following very irregular trials. The mysterious circumstances surrounding his death have been the subject of much controversy.
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Beatrix von Storch
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- lawyerpolitician
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Beatrix Amelie Ehrengard Eilika von Storch is a German politician and lawyer, who has been the Deputy Parliamentary Leader of the Alternative for Germany since July 2015 and a Member of the Bundestag since September 2017. She previously was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. From April 2016 to 2017 she was also a member of the right-wing populist Anti-EU group Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy. She is part of the right-wing conservative wing of the parliamentary group of the AfD. She belongs ancestrally to the royal House of Oldenburg which reigned over the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg until 1918.
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Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
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- economistmilitary personnelpoliticiandiplomatjurist
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Johann Ludwig "Lutz" Graf Schwerin von Krosigk was a German senior government official who served as the minister of finance of Germany from 1932 to 1945 and de facto chancellor of Germany during May 1945.
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Prince Bernhard, Prince Consort of the Netherlands
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- aircraft pilotmilitary commanderphotographerconservationistmilitary officer
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Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld was Prince of the Netherlands from 6 September 1948 to 30 April 1980 as the husband of Queen Juliana. They had four daughters together, including Beatrix, who was Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 to 2013.
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Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
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- politicianpartisan
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Jonas Malheiro Sidónio Sakaita Savimbi was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). UNITA was one of several groups which waged a guerrilla war against Portuguese colonial rule from 1966 to 1974. Once independence was achieved, it then became an anti-communist group which confronted the ruling People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) during the Angolan Civil War. Savimbi had extensive contact with anti-communist activists in the United States, including Jack Abramoff and was one of the leading anti-communist voices in the world. Savimbi was killed in a clash with government troops in 2002.
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Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh
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- translatorshort story writerwriternovelistlinguist
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Mohammad-Ali Jamālzādeh Esfahani was one of the most prominent writers of Iran in the 20th century, best known for his unique style of humour. In view of his vast influence over Persian short story writing, he is often referred to as the father of this genre in Iran.
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Galyani Vadhana
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- helicopter pilotlinguistwriteruniversity teacheraircraft pilot
- Biography
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Galyani Vadhana, Princess of Naradhiwas was a princess of Thailand and the elder sister of King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) and King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX). She was also a direct granddaughter of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) and Queen Sri Savarindira and the aunt of King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X).
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Bernhard von Bülow
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- politicianauthorstatespersondiplomat
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Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin, Prince of Bülow was a German statesman who served as the imperial chancellor of the German Empire and minister-president of Prussia from 1900 to 1909. A fervent supporter of Weltpolitik, Bülow devoted his chancellorship to transforming Germany into a global power. Despite presiding over sustained economic growth and major technological advancements within his country, his government's foreign policy did much to antagonize France and Great Britain thereby contributing significantly to the outbreak of the World War I, a conflict that resulted in the fall of the German Empire.
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Bertrand Piccard
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- balloonistexplorerpsychiatrist
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Bertrand Piccard FRSGS is a Swiss explorer, psychiatrist and environmentalist. Along with Brian Jones, he was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe, in a balloon named Breitling Orbiter 3. He was the initiator, chairman, and pilot, with André Borschberg, of Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar-powered flight. In 2012 Piccard was awarded a Champions of the Earth award by the UN Environment Programme. He is the founder and chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation.
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Alexandre Yersin
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- agronomistphysicianexplorerbiologistbacteriologist
- Biography
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Alexandre Émile Jean Yersin was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer (1894) of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest, which was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis. Another bacteriologist, the Japanese physician Kitasato Shibasaburō, is often credited with independently identifying the bacterium a few days earlier. Yersin also demonstrated for the first time that the same bacillus was present in the rodent as well as in the human disease, thus underlining the possible means of transmission.
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Frank Wedekind
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- screenwriterwriterplaywrightstage actorjournalist
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Benjamin Franklin Wedekind was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the development of epic theatre.
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Moritz Schlick
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- university teacherphysicistphilosopher of sciencephilosopher
- Biography
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Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.
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Hocine Aït Ahmed
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- politician
- Biography
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Hocine Aït Ahmed was an Algerian politician. He was founder and leader until 2009 of the historical political opposition in Algeria. The Hocine Aït Ahmed Stadium, one of the largest stadiums by capacity in Algeria, is named after Hocine Aït Ahmed.
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Frère Roger
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- theologian
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Roger Schutz, popularly known as Brother Roger (French: Frère Roger), was a Swiss Christian leader and monastic brother. In 1940 Schutz founded the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community in Burgundy, France, serving as its first prior until his murder in 2005. Towards the end of his life, the Taizé Community was attracting international attention, welcoming thousands of young pilgrims every week, which it has continued to do after his death.
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Juan Sartori
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- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Juan José Sartori Piñeyro is a Uruguayan businessman, senator and co-owner of Sunderland A.F.C.. He is the president and founder of Union Group, a privately owned investment management and private equity firm that holds significant interests across an array of industries worldwide, including agriculture, technology, energy and real estate.
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Michel Mayor
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- astronomeruniversity teacherphysicistastrophysicistresearcher
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Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the Observatory of Geneva. He is co-laureate of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Jim Peebles and Didier Queloz, and the winner of the 2010 Viktor Ambartsumian International Prize and the 2015 Kyoto Prize.
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Vera Gedroits
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- physicianpoetsurgeonphysician writerwriter
- Biography
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Princess Vera Ignatievna Gedroits was a Russian doctor of medicine and author. She was the first woman military surgeon in Russia, the first woman professor of surgery, and the first woman to serve as a physician to the Imperial Court of Russia.
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Théophile Steinlen
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- graphic artistvisual artistprintmakerillustratorlithographer
- Biography
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Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, was a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker. He was politically engaged and collaborated with anarchist and socialist press.
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Jean-Claude Biver
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Jean-Claude Biver is a Luxembourg-born Swiss businessman, executive and cheesemaker. He previously served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of TAG Heuer. From 2014 until 2018, he was the president of LVMH's watchmaking division until his retirement after 43 years in the industry.
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Shaul Tchernichovsky
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- translatorphysicianpoetwriterIliad's translator
- Biography
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Shaul Tchernichovsky or Saul Gutmanovich Tchernichovsky (Russian: Саул Гутманович Черниховский; 20 August 1875 – 14 October 1943) was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece.
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Michel Pastoureau
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- research fellowhistorian
- Biography
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Michel Pastoureau is a French professor of medieval history and an expert in Western symbology.
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İsmail Cem İpekçi
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- photographerpoliticianwriterdiplomatjournalist
- Biography
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İsmail Cem was a Turkish centre-leftist politician, intellectual, writer, author and journalist who served as the Minister of Culture of Turkey from July 7 to October 26, 1995, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey from June 30, 1997 to July 11, 2002.
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Hassan Emami
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- judge
- Biography
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Sayyid Hassan Emami was an Iranian Shia cleric and royalist politician. He worked as a judge in the Ministry of Justice and taught law at the University of Tehran.
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Hans Fischer
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- chemistbiochemistphysicianuniversity teacherinternist
- Biography
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Hans Fischer was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin."
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Leonard Jeffries
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- academic
- Biography
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Leonard Jeffries Jr. is an American political scientist and former academic. He was the departmental chair of Black Studies at the City College of New York, part of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He is the uncle of U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Ohio State University historian Hasan Kwame Jeffries.
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Philippe Jaccottet
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- translatorpoetwriter
- Biography
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Philippe Jaccottet was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator.
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Charles Ferdinand Ramuz
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- writerlibrettistpoet
- Biography
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Charles Ferdinand Ramuz was a French-speaking Swiss writer.
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Alexander Osterwalder
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- economistbusiness theoristentrepreneurpolitical scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alexander Osterwalder is a Swiss business theorist, author, speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur, known for his work on business modeling and the development of the Business Model Canvas.
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Jacques Dubochet
- Occupations
- molecular biologist
- Biography
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Jacques Dubochet is a retired Swiss biophysicist. He is a former researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and an honorary professor of biophysics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.
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Claude Nicollier
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- aircraft pilotastrophysicistastronautphysicist
- Biography
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Claude Nicollier is the first astronaut from Switzerland. He has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight (STS-46) was in 1992, and his final spaceflight (STS-103) was in 1999. He took part in two servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope (called STS-61 and STS-103). During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalk, becoming the first European Space Agency astronaut to do so during a Space Shuttle mission (previous ESA astronauts conducted spacewalks aboard Mir, see List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999). In 2000 he was assigned to the Astronaut Office Extravehicular Activity Branch, while maintaining a position as Lead ESA Astronaut in Houston. Nicollier retired from ESA in April 2007.
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Michael Piazolo
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- university teacherpoliticianjuristpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Michael Piazolo is a German Free Voter politician, lawyer and political scientist. In 2018 he was appointed as the Bavarian State Minister for Culture and Education in Minister President Söder's second Cabinet.
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Gaston Thorn
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- resistance fighterbankerpoliticianlawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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Gaston Egmond Thorn was a Luxembourgish politician who served in a number of high-profile positions, both domestically and internationally. Amongst the posts that he held were the 20th prime minister of Luxembourg (1974–1979), President of the United Nations General Assembly (1975), and the seventh president of the European Commission (1981–1985).
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Şemsettin Günaltay
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- politicianhistorianacademicprofessor
- Biography
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Mehmet Şemsettin Günaltay was a Turkish historian, politician, and Prime Minister of Turkey from 1949 to 1950.
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Ernest Ansermet
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- musiciancomposerconductormusicologist
- Biography
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Ernest Alexandre Ansermet was a Swiss conductor.
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Marcel Bezençon
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- journalist
- Biography
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Marcel Bezençon was a Swiss journalist, media executive and the director of the European Broadcasting Union between 1954 and 1970. In 1955, he conceived the idea of the Eurovision Song Contest, based on the famous Sanremo Music Festival.
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Pascal Couchepin
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- politician
- Biography
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Pascal Couchepin is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1998 to 2009. A member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD), he was President of the Swiss Confederation twice, in 2003 and 2008. Couchepin headed the Federal Department of Economic Affairs from 1998 to 2002 and Federal Department of Home Affairs from 2003 until 2009.
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Karl III Wilhelm of Baden-Durlach
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- margrave
- Biography
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Charles III William was Margrave of Baden-Durlach between 1709 and 1738. He was the son of Margrave Frederick Magnus of Baden-Durlach and Augusta Maria of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp. In 1715, he established Karlsruhe (Charles' repose), where he built his residence. Karlsruhe has since grown to a large city. With the consolidation of public finances and the creation of a reliable administration, he laid the foundations for the reform policies of his grandson, Charles Frederick.
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Johannes Popitz
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- resistance fighterpoliticianeconomistjurist
- Biography
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Hermann Eduard Johannes Popitz was a Prussian lawyer, finance minister and a member of the German Resistance against the government of Nazi Germany. He was the father of Heinrich Popitz, an important German sociologist.
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Lauriane Gilliéron
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- modelactorbeauty pageant contestant
- Biography
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Lauriane Gilliéron is a Swiss actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Switzerland 2005 on 21 September 2005 and represented Switzerland at Miss World 2005 in China but unplaced, she also competed at Miss Universe 2006 in United States where she placed 2nd runner-up.
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Jean Piccard
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- engineerchemistuniversity teacherballoonistaircraft pilot
- Biography
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Jean Felix Piccard, also known as Jean Piccard, was a Swiss-born American chemist, engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist. He invented clustered high-altitude balloons, and with his wife Jeannette, the plastic balloon. Piccard's inventions and co-inventions are used in balloon flight, aircraft and spacecraft.
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Philippe Lazzarini
- Enrolled in the University of Lausanne
- Graduated with master's degree in business administration
- Occupations
- administratoreconomist
- Biography
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Philippe Lazzarini is a Swiss-Italian humanitarian who has been serving as Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) since 2020.
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Yomi Denzel Olaniyi
- Enrolled in the University of Lausanne
- Studied in 2016-2019
- Occupations
- entrepreneurYouTuberbusinessperson
- Biography
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Yomi Denzel, is a Swiss entrepreneur and YouTuber in e-commerce.
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Patrick Baumann
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- basketball coachbasketball officialbasketball playersports officialjurist
- Biography
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Patrick Baumann was a Swiss basketball executive, player and coach. He was the President of the Global Association of International Sports Federations and Secretary General of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). He was posthumously inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020.
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Mohammad Sa'ed
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Mohammad Sa'ed Maraghei was the 23rd Prime Minister of Iran.
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Alp Yalman
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Alp Yalman is a Turkish businessman and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.
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Jacques Chessex
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- writerpainterpoet
- Biography
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Jacques Chessex was a Swiss author and painter.
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Jean-Pascal Delamuraz
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- politician
- Biography
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Jean-Pascal Delamuraz was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1983–1998).
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Isabelle Moret
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Isabelle Moret is a Swiss politician who served as President of the National Council from 2019 to 2020. A member of FDP.The Liberals since its foundation in 2009, she first entered the National Council in 2006 as a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD). Moret is a resident of Yens-sur-Morges in the canton of Vaud.
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Elisa Shua Dusapin
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- writer
- Biography
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Elisa Shua Dusapin, born 23 October 1992 in Sarlat-la-Canéda, France, is a Franco-Swiss writer, with Korean origins through her mother, currently living in Switzerland.
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Henri François Pittier
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- botanistnaturalistengineerbotanical collector
- Biography
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Henri François Pittier de Fabrega was a Swiss-born geographer and botanist who started Venezuelan National Park history.
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Ottmar Schreiner
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Ottmar Schreiner was a German lawyer and left-wing politician. He was known as one of the leading leftists in his party, SPD.
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Pierre-Yves Maillard
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- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Pierre-Yves Maillard is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party. He was successively a deputy for the canton of Vaud on the National Council (from the end of 1999 to the end of 2004), a member of the Council of State of Vaud at the head of the department of health and social action (from the end of 2004 to May 2019), again national advisor (from the end of 2019 to the end of 2023) and advisor to the states since the end of 2023.
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Ruben Sevak
- Enrolled in the University of Lausanne
- Studied in 1911
- Occupations
- writerphysicianpoet
- Biography
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Rupen Chilingiryan was an Armenian poet, prose-writer, and doctor. He was sent to a prison along with Siamanto and Daniel Varoujan during the Armenian Genocide.
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Georges de Rham
- Enrolled in the University of Lausanne
- Studied in 1921-1925
- Occupations
- topologistuniversity teachermathematician
- Biography
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Georges de Rham was a Swiss mathematician, known for his contributions to differential topology.
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Nuria Gorrite
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- politician
- Biography
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Nuria Gorrite is a Swiss-Spanish politician and museum curator. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland, she was the first woman to be elected President of the Council of State of Vaud.
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Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen
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- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen is a German politician, lawyer and administrative officer. who served as State Minister of Culture and Science in the governments of Minister-Presidents Armin Laschet and Hendrik Wüst of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2022. Since 2023 she is managing director of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich.
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Rebecca Ruiz
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- criminologistpolitician
- Biography
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Rebecca Ana Ruiz is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party (SP). Since 2019, she has been a member of the Council of State in the canton of Vaud where she heads the cantonal department of health and social action. She also represented Vaud in the National Council from June 2014 to May 2019.
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Ali Lutfi Mahmud
- Enrolled in the University of Lausanne
- Graduated with doctorate in economics
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Aly Lotfy Mahmoud was an Egyptian politician and prime minister.
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Sabine Sütterlin-Waack
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Sabine Sütterlin-Waack is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She currently serves as State Minister of the Interior, Municipal Affairs, Housing and Sports in the State of Schleswig-Holstein.
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Avedis Aharonyan
- Enrolled in the University of Lausanne
- Studied in 1898-1901
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianteacher
- Biography
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Avetis Aharonian was an Armenian politician, writer, public figure and revolutionary, also part of the Armenian national movement.
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Konrad Fiedler
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- art historianwriterart collectorart theorist
- Biography
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Adolph Konrad Fiedler or Conrad Fiedler was a German art historian, art collector and writer. Fiedler was one of the most important German art theorist of the 19th century.
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Cesla Amarelle
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- politician
- Biography
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Cesla Virginia Amarelle is an Uruguayan-Swiss jurist and politician. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland and a professor of law at University of Neuchâtel.
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Chrysostomos II of Athens
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- Christian minister
- Biography
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Chrysostomos II was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 14 February 1962 to 11 May 1967.
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Max Huber
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- politicianuniversity teacherjudgediplomatjurist
- Biography
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Hans Max Huber was a Swiss lawyer and diplomat who represented Switzerland at a series of international conferences and institutions.
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Adam Zamenhof
- Enrolled in the University of Lausanne
- Studied in 1906-1912
- Occupations
- ophthalmologistEsperantistmilitary physician
- Biography
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Adam Zamenhof was a Polish physician known for his work on ophthalmology. He was the son of L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto. Before the Holocaust, Zamenhof had invented a device to check blind spots in the field of vision. During World War II, 6 September 1939, he was head of the Starozakonnych Hospital in Warsaw, and its director. On 1 October 1939 Zamenhof was arrested and sent to the camp in Palmiry, where he was murdered by the Germans.
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Erich Koch-Weser
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- politician
- Biography
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Erich Koch-Weser was a German lawyer and liberal politician. One of the founders (1918) and later chairman (1924–1930) of the liberal German Democratic Party, he served as minister of the Interior (1919–1921), vice-chancellor of Germany (1920) and minister of Justice (1928–1929).
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Ada Marra
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ada Marra is a Swiss political figure and a member of the Swiss Socialist Party.
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Hamo Ohanjanyan
- Enrolled in the University of Lausanne
- In 1901 graduated with Doctor of Medicine
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Hamazasp "Hamo" Ohanjanyan was an Armenian medical doctor, revolutionary, and politician of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF/Dashnaktsutiun).
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Géraldine Savary
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- politicianjournalisteditor-in-chief
- Biography
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Géraldine Savary is a journalist and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP), former member of the National Council and the Council of States and the current director of the Federal Commission of the Swiss postal services, PostCom.
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Numan Menemencioğlu
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Hüseyin Numan Menemencioğlu was a Turkish diplomat and politician.
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Eva Son-Forget
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- professions libérales et assimiléspoliticianresearcherradiologist
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Eva Son-Forget, formerly known as Joachim Son-Forget, is a South Korean-born French politician who lives in Switzerland. She also holds Kosovar (since 2018) and Swiss citizenships (since 2020).
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Jacqueline de Quattro
- Enrolled in the University of Lausanne
- Studied in 1983
- Occupations
- politicianjudokalawyer
- Biography
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Jacqueline Denise de Quattro is a Swiss-Italian politician, lawyer, and former judoka. As a member of the FDP.The Liberals, she was elected to the Council of State of Vaud in 2007. In 2019, she was elected to a seat in the National Council of Switzerland.
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Karl-Friedrich Scheufele
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- businessperson
- Biography
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Karl-Friedrich Scheufele is co-president of Chopard along with his sister, Caroline, and president of La Chronométrie Ferdinand Berthoud. He is the son of Karl and Karin Scheufele, German entrepreneurs who acquired Chopard in 1963. In 2005, he established the Fleurier Quality Foundation, an independent Swiss watch certification body, and he founded the L.U.C.EUM watch museum in Fleurier a year later.
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Alexandre Vinet
- Enrolled in the University of Lausanne
- 1812-1815 studied Geisteswissenschaften
- 1815-1817 studied theology
- Occupations
- philosopherwritertheologianhistorianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet was a Swiss literary critic and theologian.
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Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig
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- university teacherpoliticianjuristjudge
- Biography
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Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig is a German jurist. He currently holds the chair for public law at the University of Kiel. A member of the Free Democratic Party, he served as Federal Minister of Justice in the Fifth Kohl cabinet between 1996 and 1998.
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Johann Samuel König
- Enrolled in the University of Lausanne
- Studied in 1729-1730
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Johann Samuel König was a German mathematician.
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Jacques Poos
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- politicianeconomistbankerdiplomat
- Biography
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Jacques François Poos was a Luxembourgish politician from the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP).
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François Couchepin
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- politicianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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François Couchepin was a Swiss lawyer and politician who served as Chancellor of Switzerland from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the now-defunct Free Democratic Party of Switzerland (FDP/PRD).
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Anja Weisgerber
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Anja Weisgerber is a German lawyer and politician. She currently is a member of the German Bundestag representing Schweinfurt for the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), part of the European People's Party (EPP). She previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Bavaria. In addition to her political work, she serves as of counsel at the Frankfurt office of German law firm GSK Stockmann & Kollegen.
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Adèle Thorens Goumaz
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Adèle Thorens Goumaz is a Swiss politician. She has been a member of the Council of States since December 2019. Previously, she served in the National Council of Switzerland from the Canton of Vaud from 2007 to 2019. She was elected as the co-president of the Green Party of Switzerland with Regula Rytz in 2012 and announced that she would not run for re-election in 2016, leaving the post solely in Rytz's hands.
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Zofia Zamenhof
- Occupations
- pediatricianEsperantist
- Biography
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Zofia Zamenhof was a Polish pediatrician and the daughter of Klara (Silbernik) and L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto.
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Amin al-Hafez
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Amin al-Hafez was the prime minister of Lebanon from 25 April 1973 to 21 June 1973. He was also a long-running Member of Parliament for Tripoli in the Lebanese Parliament until 1996.
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Eduardo Posada Flórez
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Eduardo Posada Flórez is a Colombian physicist and the executive director of COMSATS’ Centre of Excellence in Colombia, the International Centre of Physics (CIF), and is the chairperson of COMSATS’ Coordinating Council, comprising the Heads of Centres of Excellence.
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Suzette Sandoz
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- politician
- Biography
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Suzette Sandoz, born Suzette Monod in Lausanne on 12 January 1942, is a professor of law and a Swiss political figure and member of the Liberal Party of Switzerland.
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Valentine Telegdi
- Enrolled in the University of Lausanne
- Studied in 1946
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- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Valentine Louis Telegdi was a Hungarian-American physicist. He was the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago before he moved to ETH Zürich.
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Samuel Bendahan
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- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Samuel Bendahan is a Swiss Socialist Party politician and member of the National Council elected from Canton of Vaud in 2017. He previously served in Vaudois Grand Council.
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Nikol Aghbalian
- Occupations
- public figureteacherpoliticianliteraryliterary scholar
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Nikol Poghosi Aghbalian was an Armenian public figure and historian of literature, the editor of Horizon paper.
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Henri Druey
- Occupations
- philosopherpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Daniel-Henri Druey was a Swiss politician of the 19th century. He was a founding father of constitutional democracy and member of the Free Democratic Party in Switzerland.
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Katharina Borchert
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Katharina Borchert is a German journalist and technology company executive.
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René Fülöp-Miller
- Occupations
- university teacherwritercultural historiansociologist
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René Fülöp-Miller, born Philip René Maria Müller was an Austrian cultural historian and writer. He was born to an Alsatian immigrant and a Serbian mother in Karánsebes, Austria-Hungary (now Caransebeş, Romania) and died in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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Paul Jaccard
- Occupations
- university teacherbotanistmathematician
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Paul Jaccard was a professor of botany and plant physiology at the ETH Zurich. He studied at the University of Lausanne and ETH Zurich (PhD 1894). He continued studies in Paris with Gaston Bonnier. He developed the Jaccard index of similarity (he called it coefficient de communauté) and published it in 1901. He also introduced the use of the species-to-genus ratio (he called it generic coefficient) in biogeography. In the 1920s, Paul Jaccard engaged in a dispute with the Finnish botanist and phytogeographer Alvar Palmgren over the interpretation of species-to-genus ratio, as evidence of competitive exclusion (as held by Jaccard) or attributable to random sampling (as held by Palmgren).
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Luc Recordon
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- politician
- Biography
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Luc Recordon is a Swiss politician. He is a member of the Green Party of Switzerland and represented Vaud in the Swiss National Council from 2003 to 2007 and in the Swiss Council of States from 2007 to 2015.
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Edouard Rod
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- writerjournalistliterary critic
- Biography
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Édouard Rod was a French-Swiss novelist.
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Helena Araújo
- Occupations
- hispanistliterary criticwriteruniversity teachernovelist
- Biography
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Helena Araújo Ortiz was a writer and an international professor of Latin American literature and women's studies. Her works of literary criticism have appeared in various Latin American and European literary journals.
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Pierre Zimmermann
- Occupations
- bridge player
- Biography
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Pierre Zimmermann is a Swiss bridge player, captain of the Swiss national team, number one individual player in the world since September 13, 2021, six-time world champion, nine-time North American champion, eight-time European champion and one-time South American champion. He is also an organizer of tournaments, including the Monaco Cavendish since 20123 and the transnational European winter team championships since 2016, the last in 2024 at Alpe d'Huez.
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Angela D. Friederici
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- psychologistneuroscientistprofessor
- Biography
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Angela Friederici is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and is an internationally recognized expert in neuropsychology and linguistics. She is the author of over 400 academic articles and book chapters, and has edited 15 books on linguistics, neuroscience, language and psychology.
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Philipp Humm
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- writerfilm directorbusinesspersonfilm producer
- Biography
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Philipp Rudolf Humm is an artist, film director and a former European business executive.
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Bessora
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Bessora is a novelist and short story writer. After a career in international finance in Geneva, she studied anthropology and wrote her first novel. Since 1999 Bessora has published a book a year on average, mainly through the publishing group Gallimard. Her books have been translated into several languages.
