•
Erich von Däniken, ancient astronaut theorist •
Patrick Aebischer (1954– ), president of the
EPFL • Abbé Joseph Bovet (1879–1951), composer •
Dominique de Buman (1956– ),
national councilor •
Jacques Chessex (1934–2009), writer • Michel Dénériaz (1928–1999), radio host and game show •
Joseph Deiss (1946– ), former
federal councilor • Antoine Dousse (1924–2006), bookseller, teacher and writer • Claude Frochaux (1935), writer, publisher •
Emile Gardaz (1931–2007), poet and writer • Félix Glutz, vaudois politician • François Gross (1931–2015), journalist •
Pierre Hemmer (1950–2013), one of the Internet pioneers in Switzerland •
Armin Jordan (1932–2006) orchestra conductor • Cardinal
Charles Journet (1891–1974) •
Anthony Kohlmann (1771–1836), Jesuit educator • Mgr
Pierre Mamie (1920–2008), bishop • Jules Marmier (1874–1975), Swiss composer, cellist, organist and choirmaster • Georges Python, conseiller d'État, principal founder in 1891 of the
University of Fribourg •
Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon (1817–1854), adventurer, conqueror of the desert of
Sonora (
Mexico) • Count
Gonzague de Reynold (1880–1970), historian and writer •
Léon Savary (1895–1968), writer and journalist •
Peter Scholl-Latour (1924–2014), journalist • Vladimir Serbinenko, Switzerland's first gold medallist at the
International Mathematical Olympiad • Father
Joseph-Marie Timon-David (1835–1842), founder of
Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus •
Ernst Wilczek (1862–1948),
botanist ==See also==