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Do not fill this in! ==Notable people== {{category see also|People from Lausanne}} [[File:Jean-Pascal Delamuraz.gif|thumb|150px|Jean-Pascal Delamuraz]] [[File:Johann Ludwig Burckhardt.png|thumb|150px|Johann Ludwig Burckhardt]] [[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 102-13738, Auguste Piccard.jpg|thumb|150px|Auguste Piccard, 1932]] [[File:Albert-chavannes-portrait-tn1.jpg|thumb|150px|Albert Chavannes, 1903]] [[File:Capucine (1962).jpg|thumb|150px|Capucine, 1962]] [[File:Lady Elizabeth Southerden Butler (née Thompson) by Lady Elizabeth Southerden Butler (née Thompson).jpg|thumb|150px|Lady Elizabeth Butler (née Thompson)]] [[File:Rachel Kolly d'Alba.jpg|thumb|150px|Rachel Kolly d'Alba, 2009]] [[File:Gabrielle Chanel en marinière.jpg|thumb|150px|Coco Chanel, 1928]] [[File:Pierre de Coubertin Anefo2.jpg|thumb|150px|Pierre de Coubertin, 1925]] === Public service, the military and the church === * [[Pierre Viret]] (1511–1571), Reformed theologian and Protestant reformer * [[David-Louis Constant de Rebecque]] (1722–1785), colonel and commandant of a Swiss regiment * [[Alexandre Vinet]] (1797–1847), critic and theologian< * [[Amalric-Frédéric Buscarlet]] (1836–1928), overseas minister of the Church of Scotland, promoted the building of the [[Scots Kirk, Lausanne]] in 1876 * Major General [[Lionel Dunsterville]] CB CSI (1865–1946), British general, who led [[Dunsterforce]] * Baron [[Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim]] (1867–1951), Finnish field marshal and president * [[Gustave Biéler]] DSO MBE (1904–1944), [[Special Operations Executive]] agent during World War II * Metropolitan [[Anthony of Sourozh]] (1914–2003), Russian Orthodox ecclesiastic * [[Georges-André Chevallaz]] (1915–2002), historian, politician, [[Mayor of Lausanne]] 1958–1973 and member of the [[Swiss Federal Council]] 1974–1983 * [[Jean-François Bergier]] (1931–2009), historian, chaired the [[Bergier commission]] * [[Jean-Pascal Delamuraz]] (1936–1998), politician * [[Daniel Brélaz]] (born 1950), mathematician and politician, Mayor of Lausanne 2001–2016 * [[Simone de Montmollin]] (born 1968), member of the [[National Council (Switzerland)|National Council]] * [[Cassandre Berdoz]], first woman Watchman of [[Lausanne Cathedral]] * [[Marguerite Narbel]] (1918–2010), member of the [[Grand Council of Vaud]] === Science and architecture === * [[Jean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamand]] (1716–1787), natural philosopher * [[Johann Ludwig Burckhardt]] (1784–1817), traveller, geographer and orientalist * [[Oswald Heer]] (1809–1883), geologist and naturalist * [[Eugène Viollet-le-Duc]] (1814–1879), French architect and author * [[Eugène Renevier]] (1831–1906), geologist and professor at the [[University of Lausanne]] * [[Léon Walras]] (1834–1910), economist, professor of economics at [[University of Lausanne]], co-founder of the [[Lausanne School]] of economics, together with [[Vilfredo Pareto]] * [[Vilfredo Pareto]] (1848–1923), economist, engineer, sociologist, philosopher, professor of economics at [[University of Lausanne]], co-founder of the [[Lausanne School]] of economics, together with: [[Léon Walras]] * Sir [[Waldemar Haffkine]] (1860–1930), Ukrainian bacteriologist * [[Auguste Piccard]] (1884–1962), physicist, inventor and explorer * [[Michel Mayor]] (born 1942), astrophysicist, winner of the 2015 [[Kyoto Prize]] and co-laureate of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics * [[Bernard Tschumi]] (born 1944), architect, writer and educator associated with [[deconstructivism]] === Writing === * [[Jean Bagnyon]] (1412–1487), lawyer, historian, political writer and translator * [[Jean-Pierre de Crousaz]] (1663–1750), writer, theologian and philosopher * [[Edward Gibbon]] (1737–1794), English historian, writer and Member of Parliament * [[Benjamin Constant]] (1767–1830), political activist and writer on politics and religion. * [[Charles Secrétan]] (1815–1895) philosopher * [[Albert Chavannes]] (1836–1903), American author, philosopher and sociologist * [[Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz]] (1878–1947), French-speaking Swiss writer * [[Verena Hoehne]] (1945–2012), journalist and author * [[Georges Simenon]] (1903–1989), Belgian writer, created ''[[Jules Maigret]]'' * [[Alejo Carpentier]] (1904–1980), Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist * [[Jean Anouilh]] (1910–1987), French dramatist * [[Jack Rollan]] (1916–2007), journalist * [[Han Suyin]] (1917–2012), Chinese-born Eurasian physician and author of books on China * [[Nanos Valaoritis]] (born 1921), Greek writer, poet, novelist and playwright * [[Jeanlouis Cornuz]] (1922–2007), novel writer * [[Albin Schram]] (1926–2005), collected letters by royals, scientists, writers and philosophers * [[Jon Steele]] (born 1950), American expatriate author, cameraman and journalist * [[Manon Schick]] (born 1974), Swiss-German journalist and human rights activist === Acting === * [[George Sanders]] (1906–1972), British film and television actor and author * [[James Mason]] (1909–1984), English actor * [[Freddy Buache]] (born 1924), cinema critic and director of the [[Swiss Film Archive]] 1951–1996 * [[Capucine]] (1928–1990), French actress and model * [[Fernand Melgar]] (born 1961), actor, producer, director and film editor * [[Vincent Perez]] (born 1964), film actor and director * [[David Bennent]] (born 1966), actor * [[Élodie Frenck]] (born 1974), Peruvian-Swiss-French actress * [[James Thiérrée]] (born 1974), circus performer, violinist, actor and director === Painting === * [[Jeanne-Charlotte Allamand]] (1760 – 1839), pioneer, educator and artist * [[François Bocion]] (1828–1890), artist and teacher, painted scenes around [[Lake Geneva]] * [[Eugène Grasset]] (1845–1917), decorative artist, pioneer in [[Art Nouveau]] design * [[Elizabeth Thompson]] (Lady Butler) (1846–1933), British painter of [[history painting]]s * [[Théophile Steinlen]] (1859–1923), French [[Art Nouveau]] painter and printmaker * [[Marius Borgeaud]] (1861–1924), Post-Impressionist painter * [[Félix Vallotton]] (1865–1925), Swiss/French painter and printmaker associated with [[Les Nabis]] * [[Alice Bailly]] (1872–1938), radical painter, participated in the [[Dada]] movement * [[René Auberjonois (painter)|René Auberjonois]] (1872–1957), a [[Post-Impressionism|post-impressionist]] painter * [[Ernest Boiceau]] (1881–1950), artist and designer * [[Aloise Corbaz]] (1886–1964), [[outsider art]]ist * [[Lucienne Peiry]] (born 1961), PhD in the history of art, specialist in [[Outsider Art]] ("Art Brut"), an exhibition curator and lecturer *[[Andy Picci]] (born 1989), [[conceptual artist]] *[[Irene Pijoan]] (1953–2004), painter, sculptor, educator === Music and dancing === * [[Karol Szymanowski]] (1882–1937), Polish composer and pianist * [[Hélène Boschi]] (1917–1990), pianist * [[Maurice Béjart]] (1927–2007), dancer, choreographer and opera director, ran the [[Béjart Ballet Lausanne|Béjart Ballet]] * [[Charles Dutoit]] (born 1936), conductor * [[Manola Asensio]] (born 1943), ballet dancer * [[Jacques Viret]] (born 1943), French musicologist * [[Pierre Amoyal]] (born 1949), French violinist, artistic director of the [[Conservatory of Lausanne]] * [[Rachel Kolly d'Alba]] (born 1981), violinist and an honorary citizen of [[Asunción]] in Paraguay === Royalty, nobility, and the landed gentry === * [[Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg]] (1887–1969), Queen of Spain as the wife of [[King Alfonso XIII]] * [[Alexandra Tegleva]] (1894–1955), Russian noblewoman who served as a nursemaid in the Imperial Household, lived in Lausanne after the Russian Revolution * [[Helen of Greece and Denmark]] (1896–1982), Queen mother of Romania, saved Romanian Jews in World War II * Prince [[Nicholas Tchkotoua]] (1909–1984), Georgian writer and member of the [[Order of Malta]] * [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] (1927–2016), late [[Monarchy of Thailand|King of Thailand]], educated and lived locally 1933–1945 * [[Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria]] (1938–2015), last [[infante]] of Spain * Prince [[Egon von Fürstenberg]] (1946–2004), socialite, banker, fashion and interior designer * [[Princess Yasmin Aga Khan]] (born 1949), American philanthropist * Princess [[Margareta of Romania]] (born 1949), daughter of [[Michael I of Romania|King Michael I]] and [[Queen Anne of Romania]] * [[Princess Elena of Romania]] (born 1950), daughter of [[Michael I of Romania|King Michael I]] and [[Queen Anne of Romania]] * Princess [[Ubol Ratana]] (born 1951), Thai princess * [[Prince Christoph of Hohenlohe-Langenburg]] (1956–2006), European socialite === Business === * [[Peter Carl Fabergé]] (1846–1920), Russian jeweller of [[Fabergé eggs]], founded [[House of Fabergé]] * [[Coco Chanel]] (1883–1971), a French fashion designer and businesswoman * [[Ingvar Kamprad]] (1926–2018), founded [[IKEA]] * [[Paloma Picasso]] (born 1949), French and Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman * [[Dominique Lévy]] (born 1967) art dealer === Sport === {{category see also|Sportspeople from Lausanne}} {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * [[Pierre de Coubertin]] (1863–1937), French baron, founder of the [[International Olympic Committee]] * [[André Wicky]] (1928–2016), racing car driver and team owner * [[Umberto Agnelli]] (1934–2004), head of [[Fiat]] and [[Juventus F.C.]] * [[Howard Stupp]] (born 1955), Canadian wrestler * [[Bertrand Piccard]] FRSGS (born 1958), psychiatrist and balloonist * [[Patrik Lörtscher]] (born 1960), curler, Olympic winner * [[Stéphane Chapuisat]] (born 1969), footballer * [[Mattia Binotto]] (born 1969), Italian F1 engineer, team principal of [[Scuderia Ferrari]] from 2019 to 2022 * [[Sébastien Loeb]] (born 1974), French rally, racing, and rallycross driver * [[Ludovic Magnin]] (born 1979), footballer * [[Lorik Cana]] (born 1983), Albanian footballer * [[Stan Wawrinka]] (born 1985), tennis player * [[Stéphane Lambiel]] (born 1985), figure skater and coach and Olympic silver medalist * [[Timea Bacsinszky]] (born 1989), tennis player * [[Hugo de Sadeleer]] (born 1997), racing driver {{div col end}} === Unwelcome notables === * [[Marie Manning (murderer)|Marie Manning]] (1821–1849), Swiss domestic servant and, with her husband, a murderer * [[Serge Voronoff]] (1866–1951), French quack surgeon of Russian extraction * [[Gaston-Armand Amaudruz]] (1920–2018), neo-fascist political philosopher and [[Holocaust denial|Holocaust denier]] * [[François Genoud]], (1915-1996), financier and Nazi sympathizer Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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