List of people from Lucerne

Lucerne in central Switzerland is the capital of the canton of Lucerne and part of the district of Lucerne. With a population of about 81,057 people (as of 2013^[update]),^[1] it is the most populous town in Central Switzerland. Notable people associated with Lucerne include:

• Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988), theologian
• Alphons Egli (1924-2016), politician
• Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (1904-1970), American socialite
• Felix Gmür (born 1966), theologian and bishop of Basel
• Petermann von Gundoldingen (? -1386), Schultheiss, participant in the battle near Sempach
• Josef Martin Knüsel (1813-1889), politician and jurist
• Gloria Morgan-Vanderbilt (1904-1965), American socialite
• Anton Muheim (1916-2016), Social Democrat politician, President of the National Council
• Oswald Myconius (1488-1552), reformer.^{[2] [3]}
• Franz Riedweg (1907-2005), doctor and SS Obersturmbannführer
• Melchior Russ (c. 1450-1499), historian
• Anna Maria Rüttimann-Meyer von Schauensee (1772-1856) a politically influential Swiss salonist
• Judith Schmutz (born 1996), politician^[4]
• Josef Anton Schobinger (1849-1911), politician and builder ^[5]

• Peter Bichsel, (born 1935), writer
• Rolf Brem (1926-2014), sculptor, draftsman and graphic artist
• Fritz Brun (1878-1959), composer and conductor
• Heidi Brunner (born 1961), opera singer^[6]
• Caspar Diethelm (1926-1997), composer
• Rolf Dobelli (born 1966), writer and entrepreneur
• Jolanda Egger (born 1960), actress, beauty queen, model and racing driver
• Hans Erni (1909-2015), painter, graphic artist and sculptor
• Herbert Ernst Groh (1906-1982), tenor
• Ernst Hodel junior (1881-1955), painter
• Thomas Imbach (born 1962), filmmaker
• Armin Jordan (1932-2006), conductor
• Stephan Klapproth, (born 1958), journalist and television presenter
• Michael Koch (born 1982), film director and screenwriter
• Urs Leimgruber (born 1952), saxophonist
• Edith Mathis (born 1938), soprano and university professor
• Max von Moos (1903-1979), painter and graphic artist
• Mauro Peter (born 1987), opera singer
• Robert Pilchowski (1909-1990), writer
• Carl Spitteler (1845-1924), writer and Nobel laureate (died in Lucerne)^[7]
• Andrea Štaka (born 1973), director and screenwriter
• Emil Steinberger (born 1933), cabaret artist, writer, director and actor
• Fredy Studer (born 1948), drummer
• André Thomkins (1930-1985), painter, draftsman and poet
• Siegfried Wagner (1869-1930), German composer, librettist and conductor
• Robert Wuellner (1885-1966), actor, director and filmproducer
• Luzia von Wyl (born 1985), jazz pianist and composer
• Loredana Zefi (born 1995), rapper
• Robert Zünd (1826-1909), painter^[8]
• Manon Bannerman (born 2002), singer, model, and member of the girl group Katseye^[9]

• Markus Breitschmid (born 1966), architectural theorist and architectural historian
• Johann Baptist Cysat (1585-1657), mathematician and astronomer ^[10]
• Edgar Gretener (1902-1958), electrical engineer
• Toni Hagen (1917-2003), geologist
• Josef-Maria Jauch (1914-1974), theoretical physicist
• Peter von Matt, (born 1937), philologist, specialist for German studies, author
• Stanislaus von Moos (born 1940), art historian and architectural theorist
• Michael Pieper (born 1946), billionaire businessman^[11]
• Walter von Moos (1918-2016), industrialist

• Hippolyt Kempf (born 1965), Olympia gold medal winner (Nordic combined)
• Kurt Müller (born 1948), footballer, 38 caps for Switzerland
• Karl Odermatt (born 1942), footballer, 50 caps for Switzerland
• Lara Stalder (born 1994), ice hockey player