Swiss Famous Names Starting with Letter F

Is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour Team Saxo Bank. A time trial specialist,

Is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour Team Saxo Bank. A time trial specialist, he has been three time World Time Trial Champion and is the current Olympic gold medalist.Cancellara rode as stagiaire for the Mapei-Quick Step team in lat

Is a Swiss football player. He currently plays for FC Thun.He joined FC Thun on 22 January 2006.

Is a Swiss football player. He currently plays for FC Thun.He joined FC Thun on 22 January 2006.

Is a professional Swiss footballer.He has four caps for Switzerland as a midfielder and currently pl

Is a professional Swiss footballer.He has four caps for Switzerland as a midfielder and currently plays for FC Thun 1898 of Switzerland.

Is a Swiss former road bicycle racer.

Is a Swiss former road bicycle racer.

Is a Swiss ice dancer. He competes with sister Daniela Keller. Tment was 20th in 2004.

Is a Swiss ice dancer. He competes with sister Daniela Keller. Tment was 20th in 2004.

Is a Swiss football player who currently plays for SC Cham as a defender. He previously played for F

Is a Swiss football player who currently plays for SC Cham as a defender. He previously played for FC Lucerne.

Is a Swiss football striker, currently with the Swiss Super League's FC Basel, and also a Swiss inte

Is a Swiss football striker, currently with the Swiss Super League's FC Basel, and also a Swiss international.Streller started his career with local club FC Basel in 2000 where he played one game in his debut season. He left Basel the next season to join feeder club FC Concordia Basel. He scored 16 goals in 30 starts in the Challenge League with Concordia which made Basel sit up and take notice. They bought him back in 2002 but he left in January of the next year to join FC Thun after playing just three games.

Is a Swiss bobsledder who has competed since 2005. Her best World Cup finish was sixth in the two-wo

Is a Swiss bobsledder who has competed since 2005. Her best World Cup finish was sixth in the two-woman event at Altenberg, Germany in January 2006.

Is a Swiss snowboarder and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Is a Swiss snowboarder and Olympic medalist. She received a bronze medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Is a Swiss Alpine skier. She was born in Sattel, Switzerland. She specializes in the Super G, giant

Is a Swiss Alpine skier. She was born in Sattel, Switzerland. She specializes in the Super G, giant slalom, and the downhill.

Is a Swiss football player. He currently plays for FC Winterthur.At the start of the 2004-05 season,

Is a Swiss football player. He currently plays for FC Winterthur.At the start of the 2004-05 season, Turkish champion Fenerbahçe tried Önder and Gökhan Inler in the season start training camp in Germany, but coach Christoph Daum declared that both players couldn't play for Fenerbahçe.

Is a Swiss footballer.He played for several clubs, including Lausanne Sports, Yverdon-Sport FC, Gras

Is a Swiss footballer.He played for several clubs, including Lausanne Sports, Yverdon-Sport FC, Grasshoppers Zürich, AJ Auxerre (France), Le Mans UC72 and Servette Geneva.He played for Switzerland national football team and was a participant at the 1996 UEFA European Championship.

Is a Swiss football goalkeeper currently playing for Grasshopper in the Swiss Super League.

Is a Swiss football goalkeeper currently playing for Grasshopper in the Swiss Super League.

Is a Swiss footballer of Italian descent. He currently plays for Fenerbahce Zürich. He played over

Is a Swiss footballer of Italian descent. He currently plays for Fenerbahce Zürich. He played over 300 games in Swiss Super League.

Is a Swiss former football defender who played for various clubs in Switzerland, Germany and Belgium

Is a Swiss former football defender who played for various clubs in Switzerland, Germany and Belgium throughout the 1970s and 1980s.Botteron started his professional career at FC Zürich in 1972 and won three League Titles and three Swiss Cups before he left in 1980 to join the 1. FC Köln side of the early 1980s, where he played alongside the likes of Dieter Müller, Bernd Schuster, Tony Woodcock, Rainer Bonhof, Bernhard Cullmann, Klaus Fischer, Klaus Allofs and Stephan Engels.

Is a Swiss football player of Italian descent who currently plays for FC Basel in the Swiss Super Le

Is a Swiss football player of Italian descent who currently plays for FC Basel in the Swiss Super League.Zanni started off playing football for SC Buochs and then was scouted by Grasshopper-Club Zürich subsequently starting his professional career with Grasshopper-Club Zürich in 1998 at the age of 18. He started out in the youth squad, where he played for 2 years until he was 20. He was eventually brought into the full squad after a few injuries in the team. He played well on his debut and kept his place in the team. He went on to play 46 times for the Grasshopper, scoring 1 goal.

Is a Swiss freestyle skier. She represented Switzerland at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Sh

Is a Swiss freestyle skier. She represented Switzerland at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. She received a 7th place. She's got two Top-3 placements in the World Cup.

Is a Syrian composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor. He is one of the most important names

Is a Syrian composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor. He is one of the most important names of twentieth century Arab music.Farid was born in Syria to a Druze princely family who fought the French Colonial armies. In the mid 1920s he moved with his family to Egypt escaping the French occupation, later on they were naturalized by the Egyptian government. Farid’s mother sang and played the oud, which spurred his musical interest at an early age.

Is a Swiss sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1980s. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles,

Is a Swiss sprint canoer who competed in the mid 1980s. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the K-1 500 m and the K-4 1000 m events.

Was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Competing in two Winter Olymp

Was a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal in the two-man event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.

Was a Swiss entomologist.Santschi is known for his pioneering work on the navigational abilities of

Was a Swiss entomologist.Santschi is known for his pioneering work on the navigational abilities of ants. In one experiment, he investigated the way harvester ants used the sky to navigate. He found that as long as even a small patch of sky was visible, the ants could return directly to the nest after gathering food.

Is a retired Swiss cyclist with over 400 professional victories, including the 1950 Tour de France.

Is a retired Swiss cyclist with over 400 professional victories, including the 1950 Tour de France. He was born in Marthalen. He began racing professionally in 1940 but his early career was limited to Switzerland by the Nazi occupation elsewhere. He was m

Is a retired Swiss football goalkeeper, who was capped 36 times for the Swiss national team. He was

Is a retired Swiss football goalkeeper, who was capped 36 times for the Swiss national team. He was an unused substitute at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

Was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics

Was a Swiss linguist whose ideas laid a foundation for many significant developments in linguistics in the 20th century. Saussure is widely considered the 'father' of 20th-century linguistics, and his ideas have had a monumental impact on literary and cultural theory and interpretation.Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure, born in Geneva in 1857, showed early signs of considerable talent and intellectual ability. After a year of studying Latin, Greek, Sanskrit, and a variety of courses at the University of Geneva, he commenced graduate work at the University of Leipzig in 1876. Two years later at 21 years Saussure studied for a year at Berlin, where he wrote his only full-length work, Mémoire sur le système primitif des voyelles dans les langues indo-européenes (Thesis on the Primitive Vowel System in Indo-European Languages).

Is a Swiss football defender of Haitian descent.Jaggy made his debut for Swiss league side Grasshopp

Is a Swiss football defender of Haitian descent.Jaggy made his debut for Swiss league side Grasshopper in the 1999/2000 season and stayed with them for 10 seasons. In summer 2007 he signed a two-years contract with Dutch Eredivisie outfit Sparta Rotterdam.