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Bowie, David Byron, George Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Geraldine Collins, Phil Coulthard, David Coward, Noel Diana, Lady >>>

2c6 William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850) Writer English poet William Wordsworth was still a student at Cambridge when he developed a passion for the Alps while reading texts by Rousseau. In 1790, he left for Switzerland with a friend and b >>> 0

Germany (19)

Becker, Boris Beisheim, Otto Benjamin, Walter Einstein, Albert Hesse, Hermann Kesten, Hermann Kinski, Nastassja Liebherr, >>>

2bf Henri Nestlé (1814 - 1890) Businessman The founder of one of the leading Swiss companies settled in Vevey in 1833. Henri Nestlé was born in 1814 to a rich Frankfurt family. Fleeing the repression that followed the revolutionary riot >>> 0

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Edelman, Asher Fizgerald, Scott Hauk, Minnie Hemingway, Ernest Hendricks, Barbara Highsmith, Patricia Jackson, Michael Lauder, Léonard A. >>>

2bf Asher Edelman (1939 - ) Businessman The New York raider, famous for his takeover bids in the eighties, moved to Epalinges in upper Lausanne in 1988. He relocated to Switzerland so that his children could grow up in a better >>> 0

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Gambini, Giovanni Guareschi, Giovanni Mussolini, Benito Muti, Ornella Pareto, Vilfredo Pavone, Rita Pratt, Hugo Rossi, Pellegrino >>>

2bf Rita Pavone (1945 - ) Music star This singer and television presenter lives in the Swiss canton of Ticino with its Mediterranean climate. Rita Pavone was born in Turin in 1945 to family impoverished after the war. At a ve >>> 0

Russia (9)

Bakounine, Mikhaïl Lenin, Nabokov, Vladimir Nijinsky, Vaslav Romanov, Nicolas Stravinsky, Igor Tchaïkowsky, Piotr Trotski, Leon >>>

2c0 Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) Writer The Russian writer was born in 1899 to a wealthy family from St Petersburg. By the age of seven, he could speak French and English fluently. His happy childhood was shattered by the Bolshevik >>> 0

Greece (9)

Cohen, Albert Goulandris, Basil Latsis, John Lemos, Costas Livanos, Georges Mercouri, Melina Mouskouri, Nana Niarchos, Stavros >>>

2c6 John Latsis (1910 - ) Shipping tycoon The Latsis family runs its financial empire from Geneva. Born in 1910, John Spyridon Latsis started out in the dried fruit business. Business was booming and he bought his first charter boat in 1938. >>> 0

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