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Gustave Ador was a Swiss politician. In 1919, he became President of the Confederation.

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René Victor Auberjonois was a Swiss post-impressionist painter and one of the leading Swiss artists of the 20th century.

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Johann Georg Bodmer was a prolific Swiss inventor, making contributions to areas ranging from weaponry to steam engines, textile manufacture, and railroad construction.

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Colonel Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres was a cartographer who served in the Seven Years' War, as the aide-de-camp to General James Wolfe. He later went on to serve as the Lieutenant-Governor of Cape Breton and later as Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island.

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Emil Johann Rudolf Frey was a Swiss politician, soldier in the American Civil War and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1890–1897).

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Albert Meyer was a Swiss politician, editor of Neue Zürcher Zeitung (1915-1930) and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1929-1938).

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Josef Fridolin Vinzenz Aloys Reding von Biberegg was a Swiss patriot, military officer and politician. He is best known for leading an early revolt against the Helvetic Republic.

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August Ludwig, Baron von Senarclens de Grancy was born Auguste Louis de Senarclens de Grancy at the château d'Etoy in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, the firstborn son of three sons and four daughters of César Auguste, Baron von Senarclens de Grancy, and wife Élizabeth Claudine Marie-Rose de Loriol. He is reputed to have been the long-time lover of Wilhelmine of Baden, the Grand Duchess consort of Hesse, and the actual father by her of the Empress consort Maria Alexandrovna of Russia and Prince Alexander of Hesse, ancestors of modern royalty in Bulgaria, Germany, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.