The university is counted among the country's leading institutions of higher learning and has a large number of politicians, scientists and thinkers as professors and alumni from around the world: File:Paracelsus.jpg|
Paracelsus, physician and alchemist File:Jakob Bernoulli.jpg|
Jacob Bernoulli, mathematician File:Leonhard Euler 2.jpg|
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Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher File:Johann Friedrich Miescher. Photograph. Wellcome V0026860.jpg|
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Karl Gustav Jung, physician and surgeon File:ETH-BIB-Jung, Carl Gustav (1875-1961)-Portrait-Portr 14163 (cropped).tif|
Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist File:Karl Jaspers 1946.jpg|
Karl Jaspers, philosopher and psychiatrist File:Thadeus Reichstein ETH-Bib Portr 10137.jpg|
Tadeus Reichstein, chemist and Nobel Prize laureate File:Werner Arber at Biozentrum, University of Basel.jpg|
Werner Arber, microbiologist and Nobel Prize laureate File:Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard mg 4372 cropped.jpg|
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, biologist and Nobel Prize laureate •
Emil Abderhalden (1877–1950), Swiss biochemist and physiologist •
Bonifacius Amerbach (1495–1562) Swiss jurist •
Johann Konrad Ammann (1669–1724, Swiss physicist and educator of deaf children) •
Werner Arber (1929–), Swiss microbiologist and geneticist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1978 •
Johann Jakob Bachofen (1815–1887), Swiss antiquarian and jurist •
Karl Barth (1886–1968), Swiss Protestant theologian •
Caspar Bauhin (1560–1624), Swiss botanist •
Johann Bauhin (1541–1613), Swiss botanist •
Daniel Bernoulli (1700–1782), Swiss mathematician and physicist •
Jacob Bernoulli (1655–1705), prominent Swiss mathematician, after whom Bernoulli numbers are named •
Johann Bernoulli (1667–1748), Swiss mathematician •
Johann Georg Birnstiel (1858–1927), Swiss writer and clergyman •
James Montgomery Boice (1938–2000), American theologian and pastor •
Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), Swiss historian •
Meehyun Chung (1963–) South Korean theologian, professor of
Yonsei University •
Jacques Dubochet (1942–), Swiss biophysicist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2017 •
Nikolaus Eglinger (1645–1711), Swiss physician •
Paul Erdman (1932–2007), American business and financial writer •
Leonhard Euler (1707–1783), mathematician and physicist •
Rudolf Eucken (1846–1926), philosopher,
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1908 •
Till Förster (1955), Prof.em.Dr., anthropologist, founding director of the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel •
Christoph Gerber professor at the Department of Physics, co-inventor of the atomic force microscope •
Fina Girard (2001–), Swiss politician and youth climate activist •
Albert Gobat (1848–1914), Swiss politician,
Nobel Peace Prize in 1902 •
Arno David Gurewitsch (1902–1974), professor,
Columbia‐Presbyterian Medical Center, and personal physician to
Eleanor Roosevelt •
Paul Herrling, professor of Drug Discovery Science •
Jeanne Hersch (1910–2000), Swiss philosopher •
Robert Jacob (physician) (died 1588), English court physician to Elizabeth I and the Russian Czarina •
Karl Jaspers (1883–1969), German-Swiss psychiatrist and philosopher •
Karl Gustav Jung (1795–1864), German-Swiss physician and surgeon, Rector and professor of the University •
Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961), Swiss psychiatrist, and founder of Analytical Psychology •
Eberhard Jüngel (1934–2021), German Lutheran theologian •
Jack Dean Kingsbury (1931–), American New Testament theologian and professor at
Union Presbyterian Seminary •
Michael Landmann (1913–1984), Swiss-Israeli philosopher •
Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903–1994), Israeli public intellectual and polymath •
Friedrich Miescher (1844–1895), Swiss physician and biologist, first researcher to isolate
nucleic acid •
Alice Miller (1923–2010), Swiss psychologist and author •
David-François de Montmollin (1721–1803), Swiss colonist to Canada, Protestant minister, landowner •
Paul Hermann Müller (1899–1965), Swiss chemist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 •
Annegret Mündermann, professor in the field of
regenerative medicine &
biomechanics •
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900,) German philosopher, held Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel at the age of 24 •
Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard (1942–), German biologist and biochemist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1995 •
Paracelsus (1493–1541), Swiss philosopher, physician, botanist and astrologer •
Tadeus Reichstein (1897–1996), Polish-Swiss chemist,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1950 •
John H. Rodgers Jr. (1930–2022), American systematic theologian and Anglican bishop •
Otto Stich (1927–2012),
President of the Swiss Confederation •
Emmanuel Stupanus (1587–1664), Swiss physician •
William Theilheimer (1914–2005), German-American scientist •
Lilian Uchtenhagen (1928–2016), Swiss politician and economist •
Peter Werenfels (1627–1703), Swiss theologian •
Kurt Wüthrich (1938–), Swiss chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2002 •
Iona Yakir (1896–1937), Red Army commander •
Rolf Zinkernagel (1944–), Swiss physician,
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1996 •
Hans Zingg (M.D.) — professor emeritus of pharmacology and therapeutics, professor of medicine, professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and Wyeth-Ayerst Chair in Women's Health at
McGill University •
Mirjana Spoljaric Egger (1972–), Swiss
diplomat, the president of the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) ==Student life==