Notable Alumni of University of Lausanne [Sorted List]

1. Pierre Zimmermann

1955-. (aged 71)

bridge player

Pierre Zimmermann is a Swiss bridge player, captain of the Swiss national team, number one individual player in the world since September 13, 2021, six-time world champion, nine-time North American champion, ten-time European champion and one-time South American champion. He is also an organizer of tournaments, including the Monaco Cavendish since 2023 and the transnational European winter team championships since...

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2. Livia Leu Agosti

1961-. (aged 65)

diplomat lawyer

Livia Leu stylized Leu Agosti is a Swiss attorney and diplomat. She currently serves as the State Secretary and EU-negotiator since 14 October 2020. Leu previously served as the Swiss Ambassador to Iran between 2009 and 2013. She was the first female from Europe to hold this position. From 2018 to 2020, she served as the Swiss Ambassador to France...

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3. Amin al-Hafez

1926-2009 (aged 83)

politician

Amin al-Hafez was the prime minister of Lebanon from 25 April 1973 to 21 June 1973. He was also a long-running Member of Parliament for Tripoli in the Lebanese Parliament until 1996.

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4. Edouard Rod

1857-1910 (aged 53)

literary critic writer journalist

Édouard Rod was a French-Swiss novelist.

5. Jocelyne Bloch

1971-. (aged 55)

neurosurgeon

Jocelyne Bloch is a Swiss neuroscientist and a neurosurgeon at Lausanne University Hospital and at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

6. Nikol Aghbalian

1875-1947 (aged 72)

teacher politician literary scholar public figure

Nikol Poghosi Aghbalian was an Armenian public figure and historian of literature, the editor of Horizon paper.

7. Eduardo Posada Flórez

1942-. (aged 84)

physicist

Eduardo Posada Flórez is a Colombian physicist and the executive director of COMSATS’ Centre of Excellence in Colombia, the International Centre of Physics (CIF), and is the chairperson of COMSATS’ Coordinating Council, comprising the Heads of Centres of Excellence.

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8. Katharina Borchert

1972-. (aged 54)

journalist

Katharina Borchert is a German journalist and technology company executive.

9. Henri Druey

1799-1855 (aged 56)

lawyer philosopher politician

Daniel-Henri Druey was a Swiss politician of the 19th century. He was a founding father of constitutional democracy and member of the Free Democratic Party in Switzerland.

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10. René Fülöp-Miller

1891-1963 (aged 72)

writer cultural historian sociologist university teacher

René Fülöp-Miller, born Philip René Maria Müller was an Austrian cultural historian and writer. He was born to an Alsatian immigrant and a Serbian mother in Karánsebes, Austria-Hungary (now Caransebeş, Romania) and died in Hanover, New Hampshire.

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11. Paul Jaccard

1868-1944 (aged 76)

university teacher botanist mathematician

Paul Jaccard was a professor of botany and plant physiology at the ETH Zurich. He studied at the University of Lausanne and ETH Zurich (PhD 1894). He continued studies in Paris with Gaston Bonnier. He developed the Jaccard index of similarity (he called it coefficient de communauté) and published it in 1901. He also introduced the use of the species-to-genus...

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12. Johann Samuel König

1712-1757 (aged 45)

mathematician university teacher

Johann Samuel König was a German mathematician.

13. Jacques Poos

1935-2022 (aged 87)

economist banker diplomat politician

Jacques François Poos was a Luxembourgish politician from the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP).

14. Alexandre Vinet

1797-1847 (aged 50)

theologian historian university teacher journalist literary critic

Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet was a Swiss literary critic and theologian.

15. Zofia Zamenhof

1889-1942 (aged 53)

pediatrician Esperantist

Zofia Zamenhof was a Polish pediatrician and a daughter of Klara Silbernik and L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto.

16. François Couchepin

1935-2023 (aged 88)

jurist lawyer politician

François Couchepin was a Swiss lawyer and politician who served as Chancellor of Switzerland from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the now-defunct Free Democratic Party of Switzerland (FDP/PRD).

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17. Suzette Sandoz

1942-. (aged 84)

politician

Suzette Sandoz, born Suzette Monod in Lausanne on 12 January 1942, is a professor of law and a Swiss political figure and member of the Liberal Party of Switzerland.

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18. Samuel Bendahan

1980-. (aged 46)

politician economist

Samuel Bendahan is a Swiss Socialist Party politician and member of the National Council elected from Canton of Vaud in 2017. He previously served in Vaudois Grand Council.

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19. Adèle Thorens Goumaz

1971-. (aged 55)

politician

Adèle Thorens Goumaz is a Swiss politician. She has been a member of the Council of States since December 2019. Previously, she served in the National Council of Switzerland from the Canton of Vaud from 2007 to 2019. She was elected as the co-president of the Green Party of Switzerland with Regula Rytz in 2012 and announced that she would...

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20. Valentine Telegdi

1922-2006 (aged 84)

physicist university teacher

Valentine Louis "Val" Telegdi was a Hungarian-American physicist. He was the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago before he moved to ETH Zürich.

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21. Karl-Friedrich Scheufele

1958-. (aged 68)

businessperson

Karl-Friedrich Scheufele is co-president of Chopard along with his sister, Caroline, and president of La Chronométrie Ferdinand Berthoud. He is the son of Karl and Karin Scheufele, German entrepreneurs who acquired Chopard in 1963. In 2005, he established the Fleurier Quality Foundation, an independent Swiss watch certification body, and he founded the L.U.C.EUM watch museum in Fleurier a year later.

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22. Erich Koch-Weser

1875-1944 (aged 69)

politician

Erich Koch-Weser was a German lawyer and liberal politician. One of the founders (1918) and later chairman (1924–1930) of the liberal German Democratic Party, he served as minister of the Interior (1919–1921), vice-chancellor of Germany (1920) and minister of Justice (1928–1929).

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23. Hamo Ohanjanyan

1873-1947 (aged 74)

diplomat physician politician

Hamazasp "Hamo" Ohanjanyan was an Armenian medical doctor, revolutionary, and politician of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (ARF/Dashnaktsutiun).

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24. Cesla Amarelle

1973-. (aged 53)

politician

Cesla Virginia Amarelle is an Uruguayan-Swiss jurist and politician. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland and a professor of law at University of Neuchâtel.

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25. Numan Menemencioğlu

1893-1958 (aged 65)

diplomat politician

Hüseyin Numan Menemencioğlu was a Turkish diplomat and politician.

26. Ada Marra

1973-. (aged 53)

politician

Ada Marra is a Swiss political figure and a member of the Swiss Socialist Party.

27. Géraldine Savary

1968-. (aged 58)

editor-in-chief politician journalist

Géraldine Savary is a journalist and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP), former member of the National Council and the Council of States and the current director of the Federal Commission of the Swiss postal services, PostCom.

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28. Jacqueline de Quattro

1960-. (aged 66)

judoka lawyer politician

Jacqueline Denise de Quattro is a Swiss-Italian politician, lawyer, and former judoka. As a member of the FDP.The Liberals, she was elected to the Council of State of Vaud in 2007. In 2019, she was elected to a seat in the National Council of Switzerland.

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29. Ruben Sevak

1885-1915 (aged 30)

physician poet writer

Rupen Chilingiryan was an Armenian poet, prose-writer, and doctor. He was sent to a prison along with Siamanto and Daniel Varoujan during the Armenian Genocide.

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30. Pierre-Yves Maillard

1968-. (aged 58)

trade unionist politician

Pierre-Yves Maillard is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party. He was successively a deputy for the canton of Vaud on the National Council (from the end of 1999 to the end of 2004), a member of the Council of State of Vaud at the head of the department of health and social action (from the end of 2004...

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31. Nuria Gorrite

1970-. (aged 56)

politician

Nuria Gorrite is a Swiss-Spanish politician and museum curator. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland, she was the first woman to be elected President of the Council of State of Vaud.

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32. Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen

1954-. (aged 72)

jurist politician

Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen is a German politician, lawyer and administrative officer. who served as State Minister of Culture and Science in the governments of Minister-Presidents Armin Laschet and Hendrik Wüst of North Rhine-Westphalia from 2017 to 2022. Since 2023 she is managing director of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich.

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33. Avedis Aharonyan

1866-1948 (aged 82)

teacher writer politician

Avetis Aharonian was an Armenian politician, writer, public figure and revolutionary, also part of the Armenian national movement.

34. Konrad Fiedler

1841-1895 (aged 54)

art collector art theorist art historian writer

Adolph Konrad Fiedler or Conrad Fiedler was a German art historian, art collector and writer. Fiedler was one of the most important German art theorist of the 19th century.

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35. Chrysostomos II of Athens

1880-1968 (aged 88)

Christian minister

Chrysostomos II was Archbishop of Athens and All Greece from 14 February 1962 to 11 May 1967.

36. Adam Zamenhof

1888-1940 (aged 52)

Esperantist military physician ophthalmologist

Adam Zamenhof was a Polish physician known for his work on ophthalmology. He was the son of L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto, and his wife Klara. Before the Holocaust, Zamenhof had invented a device to check blind spots in the field of vision. During World War II, 6 September 1939, he was head of the Starozakonnych Hospital in...

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37. Rebecca Ruiz

1982-. (aged 44)

criminologist politician

Rebecca Ana Ruiz is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party (SP). Since 2019, she has been a member of the Council of State in the canton of Vaud where she heads the cantonal department of health and social action. She also represented Vaud in the National Council from June 2014 to May 2019.

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38. Alp Yalman

1940-. (aged 86)

businessperson

Alp Yalman is a Turkish businessman and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.

39. Mohammad Sa'ed

1881-1973 (aged 92)

diplomat politician

Mohammad Sa'ed Maraghei was the 23rd Prime Minister of Iran.

40. Patrick Baumann

1967-2018 (aged 51)

basketball coach basketball official basketball player sports official jurist

Patrick Baumann was a Swiss basketball executive, player and coach. He was the President of the Global Association of International Sports Federations and Secretary General of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). He was posthumously inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020.

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41. Jacques Chessex

1934-2009 (aged 75)

painter poet writer

Jacques Chessex was a Swiss author and painter.

42. Elisa Shua Dusapin

1992-. (aged 34)

writer

Elisa Shua Dusapin,, is a Franco-Swiss writer, with Korean origins through her mother, currently living in Switzerland.

43. Jean-Pascal Delamuraz

1936-1998 (aged 62)

politician

Jean-Pascal Delamuraz was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1983–1998).

44. Isabelle Moret

1970-. (aged 56)

lawyer politician

Isabelle Moret is a Swiss politician who served as President of the National Council from 2019 to 2020. A member of FDP.The Liberals since its foundation in 2009, she first entered the National Council in 2006 as a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD). Moret is a resident of Yens-sur-Morges in the canton of Vaud.

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45. Henri François Pittier

1857-1950 (aged 93)

botanical collector scientific collector engineer botanist naturalist

Henri François Pittier de Fabrega was a Swiss-born geographer and botanist who started Venezuelan National Park history.

46. Şemsettin Günaltay

1883-1961 (aged 78)

historian academic university teacher politician

Mehmet Şemsettin Günaltay was a Turkish historian, politician, and Prime Minister of Turkey from 1949 to 1950.

47. Marcel Bezençon

1907-1981 (aged 74)

journalist

Marcel Bezençon was a Swiss journalist, media executive and the director of the European Broadcasting Union between 1954 and 1970. In 1955, he conceived the idea of the Eurovision Song Contest, based on the famous Sanremo Music Festival.

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48. Ernest Ansermet

1883-1969 (aged 86)

composer conductor musicologist musician

Ernest Alexandre Ansermet was a Swiss conductor.

49. Pascal Couchepin

1942-. (aged 84)

politician

Pascal Couchepin is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 1998 to 2009. A member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD), he was President of the Swiss Confederation twice, in 2003 and 2008. Couchepin headed the Federal Department of Economic Affairs from 1998 to 2002 and Federal Department of Home Affairs from 2003...

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50. Yomi Denzel Olaniyi

1996-. (aged 30)

YouTuber businessperson entrepreneur

Yomi Denzel, is a Swiss entrepreneur and YouTuber in e-commerce.

51. Lauriane Gilliéron

1984-. (aged 42)

actor beauty pageant contestant model

Lauriane Gilliéron is a Swiss actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Switzerland 2005 on 21 September 2005 and represented Switzerland at Miss World 2005 in China but unplaced, she also competed at Miss Universe 2006 in United States where she placed 2nd runner-up.

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52. Akbar Etemad

1930-2025 (aged 95)

nuclear physicist politician

Akbar Etemad was the president of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran from 1974 to 1978. He was popularly called the father of Iran's nuclear program.

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53. Jean Piccard

1884-1963 (aged 79)

university teacher balloonist aircraft pilot engineer chemist

Jean Felix Piccard, also known as Jean Piccard, was a Swiss-born American chemist, engineer, professor and high-altitude balloonist. He invented clustered high-altitude balloons, and with his wife Jeannette, the plastic balloon. Piccard's inventions and co-inventions are used in balloon flight, aircraft and spacecraft.

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54. Jean-Claude Biver

1949-. (aged 77)

businessperson

Jean-Claude Biver is a Luxembourg-born Swiss watchmaking executive. He previously served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of TAG Heuer. From 2014 until 2018, he was the president of LVMH's watchmaking division until his retirement after 43 years in the industry.

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55. Leonard Jeffries

1937-. (aged 89)

academic

Leonard Jeffries Jr. is an American political scientist and former academic. He was the departmental chair of Black Studies at the City College of New York, part of the City University of New York (CUNY). He was born and raised in Newark, New Jersey. He is the uncle of U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Ohio State University historian...

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56. Hassan Emami

1903-1981 (aged 78)

judge

Hassan Emami was an Iranian Shia cleric and royalist politician. He worked as a judge in the Ministry of Justice and taught law at the University of Tehran.

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57. Philippe Jaccottet

1925-2021 (aged 96)

poet writer translator

Philippe Jaccottet was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator.

58. Charles Ferdinand Ramuz

1878-1947 (aged 69)

librettist essayist prose writer writer poet

Charles Ferdinand Ramuz was a French-speaking Swiss writer.

59. Galyani Vadhana

1923-2008 (aged 85)

linguist writer university teacher aircraft pilot social worker

Galyani Vadhana, Princess of Naradhiwas was a princess of Thailand and the elder sister of King Ananda Mahidol (Rama VIII) and King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX). She was also a direct granddaughter of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) and Queen Sri Savarindira and the aunt of King Vajiralongkorn (Rama X).

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60. Jacques Dubochet

1942-. (aged 84)

university teacher molecular biologist

Jacques Dubochet is a retired Swiss biophysicist. He is a former researcher at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, and an honorary professor of biophysics at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

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61. Alexander Osterwalder

1974-. (aged 52)

economist business theorist entrepreneur political scientist university teacher

Alexander Osterwalder is a Swiss business theorist, author, speaker, consultant, and entrepreneur, known for his work on business modeling and the development of the Business Model Canvas.

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62. Claude Nicollier

1944-. (aged 82)

astrophysicist astronaut physicist aircraft pilot

Claude Nicollier is the first astronaut from Switzerland. He has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight (STS-46) was in 1992, and his final spaceflight (STS-103) was in 1999. He took part in two servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope (called STS-61 and STS-103). During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalk, becoming the first European...

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63. Frère Roger

1915-2005 (aged 90)

theologian

Roger Schutz, popularly known as Brother Roger (French: Frère Roger), was a Swiss Christian leader and monastic brother. In 1940 Schutz founded the Taizé Community, an ecumenical monastic community in Burgundy, France, serving as its first prior until his murder in 2005. Towards the end of his life, the Taizé Community was attracting international attention, welcoming thousands of young pilgrims...

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64. Michel Mayor

1942-. (aged 84)

astronomer university teacher physicist astrophysicist researcher

Michel Gustave Édouard Mayor is a Swiss astrophysicist and professor emeritus at the University of Geneva's Department of Astronomy. He formally retired in 2007, but remains active as a researcher at the Observatory of Geneva. He is co-laureate of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Jim Peebles and Didier Queloz, and the winner of the 2010 Viktor Ambartsumian...

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65. Théophile Steinlen

1859-1923 (aged 64)

illustrator lithographer sculptor architectural draftsperson painter

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, was a Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker. He was politically engaged and collaborated with the anarchist and socialist press.

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66. Vera Gedroits

1870-1932 (aged 62)

surgeon physician writer writer physician poet

Princess Vera Ignatievna Gedroits, also known by her pen name Sergei Gedroits, was a Russian doctor of medicine and author. She was the first woman military surgeon in Russia, the first woman professor of surgery, and the first woman to serve as a physician to the Russian imperial court.

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67. Michel Pastoureau

1947-. (aged 79)

research fellow historian

Michel Pastoureau is a French professor of medieval history and an expert in Western symbology.

68. Shaul Tchernichovsky

1875-1943 (aged 68)

writer Iliad's translator translator physician poet

Shaul Tchernichovsky or Saul Gutmanovich Tchernichovsky (Russian: Саул Гутманович Черниховский; 20 August 1875 – 14 October 1943) was a Russian-born Hebrew poet. He is considered one of the great Hebrew poets, identified with nature poetry, and a poet greatly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece.

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69. İsmail Cem

1940-2007 (aged 67)

politician writer diplomat journalist photographer

İsmail Cem was a Turkish centre-leftist politician, intellectual, writer, author and journalist who served as the Minister of Culture of Turkey from July 7 to October 26, 1995, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey from June 30, 1997 to July 11, 2002.

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70. Hocine Aït Ahmed

1926-2015 (aged 89)

politician

Hocine Aït Ahmed was an Algerian politician. He was founder and leader until 2009 of the historical political opposition in Algeria. The Hocine Aït Ahmed Stadium, one of the largest stadiums by capacity in Algeria, is named after Hocine Aït Ahmed.

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71. Bhumibol Adulyadej

1927-2016 (aged 89)

environmentalist photographer jazz musician painter saxophonist

Bhumibol Adulyadej, titled Rama IX, was King of Thailand from 9 June 1946 until his death in 2016. His reign of 70 years and 126 days is the longest of any Thai monarch, the longest on record of any independent Asian sovereign, and the third-longest of any sovereign state.

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72. Sepp Blatter

1936-. (aged 90)

ice hockey player economist sports official politician

Joseph Sepp Blatter is a Swiss former football administrator who served as the eighth president of FIFA from 1998 to 2015. He has been suspended from participating in FIFA activities since 2015 as a result of the FIFA corruption case made public that year, which remains in place until 2027.

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73. Ananda Mahidol

1925-1946 (aged 21)

military officer social worker monarch

Ananda Mahidol was the eighth king of Siam (later Thailand) from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama VIII. At the time he was recognised as king by the National Assembly in March 1935, he went to Switzerland when he was nine years-old. He returned to Thailand in December 1945, but six months later, in June 1946, he was found shot dead...

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74. Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld

1911-2004 (aged 93)

lobbyist aircraft pilot activist amateur photographer consort

Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld was Prince consort of the Netherlands from 6 September 1948 to 30 April 1980 as the husband of Queen Juliana. They had four daughters together, including Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

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75. Jonas Malheiro Savimbi

1934-2002 (aged 68)

politician partisan

Jonas Malheiro Sidónio Sakaita Savimbi was an Angolan revolutionary, politician, and rebel military leader who founded and led the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, also known as UNITA. UNITA was one of several groups which waged a guerrilla war against Portuguese colonial rule from 1966 to 1974. Once independence was achieved, it then became an anti-communist group,...

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76. Alexandre Yersin

1863-1943 (aged 80)

explorer biologist bacteriologist agronomist physician

Alexandre Émile John Yersin was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered for his work as a pioneer in microbiology and immunology. Yersin is the co-discoverer of both the Diphtheria and Tetanus toxins (1890 with Émile Roux) and of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest (1894, with Kitasato Shibasaburō). The bacteria was later named in his...

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77. Bertrand Piccard

1958-. (aged 68)

explorer psychiatrist balloonist

Bertrand Piccard FRSGS is a Swiss explorer, psychiatrist and environmentalist. Along with Brian Jones, he was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe, in a balloon named Breitling Orbiter 3. He was the initiator, chairman, and pilot, with André Borschberg, of Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar-powered flight. In 2012 Piccard was awarded a Champions...

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78. Philippe Lazzarini

1964-. (aged 62)

administrator economist

Philippe Lazzarini is a Swiss humanitarian who has been serving as Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) since 2020.

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79. Max Huber

1874-1960 (aged 86)

politician university teacher judge diplomat jurist

Max Huber was an influential Swiss graphic designer.

80. Karl III Wilhelm of Baden-Durlach

1679-1738 (aged 59)

margrave

Charles III William was Margrave of Baden-Durlach between 1709 and 1738. He was the son of Margrave Frederick Magnus of Baden-Durlach and Augusta Maria of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp. In 1715, he established Karlsruhe (Charles' repose), where he built his residence. Karlsruhe has since grown to a large city. With the consolidation of public finances and the creation of a reliable administration, he...

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81. Sabine Sütterlin-Waack

1958-. (aged 68)

lawyer politician

Sabine Sütterlin-Waack is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She currently serves as State Minister of the Interior, Municipal Affairs, Housing and Sports in the State of Schleswig-Holstein.

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82. Johannes Popitz

1884-1945 (aged 61)

economist jurist resistance fighter politician

Hermann Eduard Johannes Popitz was a Prussian lawyer, finance minister and a member of the German Resistance against the government of Nazi Germany. He was the father of Heinrich Popitz, an important German sociologist.

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83. Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk

1887-1977 (aged 90)

military personnel politician diplomat jurist economist

Johann Ludwig "Lutz" Graf Schwerin von Krosigk was a German senior government official who served as the minister of finance of Germany from 1932 to 1945 and de facto chancellor of Germany during May 1945.

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84. Philipp Humm

1959-. (aged 67)

writer film director businessperson film producer

Philipp Rudolf Humm is an artist, film director and a former European business executive.

85. Ottmar Schreiner

1946-2013 (aged 67)

lawyer politician

Ottmar Schreiner was a German lawyer and left-wing politician. He was known as one of the leading leftists in his party, SPD.

86. Bernhard von Bülow

1849-1929 (aged 80)

author statesperson diplomat politician

Bernhard Heinrich Karl Martin, Prince of Bülow was a German politician who served as the imperial chancellor of the German Empire and minister-president of Prussia from 1900 to 1909. A fervent supporter of Weltpolitik, Bülow devoted his chancellorship to transforming Germany into a global power. Despite presiding over sustained economic growth and major scientific breakthroughs within his country, his government's...

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87. Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig

1941-. (aged 85)

jurist judge university teacher politician

Edzard Schmidt-Jortzig is a German jurist. He currently holds the chair for public law at the University of Kiel. A member of the Free Democratic Party, he served as Federal Minister of Justice in the Fifth Kohl cabinet between 1996 and 1998.

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88. Angela D. Friederici

1952-. (aged 74)

neuroscientist professor psychologist

Angela Friederici is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, and is an internationally recognized expert in cognitive science, neurobiology, and linguistics. She is the author of over 400 academic articles and book chapters, and has edited 15 books on linguistics, neuroscience, language and psychology.

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89. Frank Wedekind

1864-1918 (aged 54)

journalist dramaturge screenwriter playwright lyricist

Benjamin Franklin Wedekind was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes (particularly towards sex), is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the development of epic theatre.

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90. Hans Fischer

1881-1945 (aged 64)

university teacher internist chemist biochemist physician

Hans Fischer was a German organic chemist and the recipient of the 1930 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his researches into the constitution of haemin and chlorophyll and especially for his synthesis of haemin."

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91. Anja Weisgerber

1976-. (aged 50)

jurist lawyer politician

Anja Weisgerber is a German lawyer and politician. She currently is a member of the German Bundestag representing Schweinfurt for the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), part of the European People's Party (EPP). She previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Bavaria. In addition to her political work, she serves as of counsel at the...

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92. Michael Piazolo

1959-. (aged 67)

jurist political scientist university teacher politician

Michael Piazolo is a German Free Voter politician, lawyer and political scientist. In 2018 he was appointed as the Bavarian State Minister for Culture and Education in Minister President Söder's second Cabinet.

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93. Moritz Schlick

1882-1936 (aged 54)

physicist philosopher of science philosopher university teacher

Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. He was murdered by a former student, Johann Nelböck, in 1936.

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94. Beatrix von Storch

1971-. (aged 55)

lawyer politician

Beatrix Amelie Ehrengard Eilika von Storch is a German politician and lawyer, who has been the Deputy Parliamentary Leader of the Alternative for Germany since July 2015 and a Member of the Bundestag since September 2017. She previously was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. From April 2016 to 2017 she was also a member of the...

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95. Gaston Thorn

1928-2007 (aged 79)

banker politician lawyer diplomat resistance fighter

Gaston Egmond Thorn was a Luxembourgish politician who served in a number of high-profile positions, both domestically and internationally. He most prominently served as prime minister of Luxembourg (1974–1979), President of the United Nations General Assembly (1975), and president of the European Commission (1981–1985).

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96. Juan Sartori

1981-. (aged 45)

businessperson politician

Juan José Sartori Piñeyro is a Uruguayan businessman, executive and politician. He is the co-owner of Sunderland A.F.C and president and founder of Union Group, a privately owned investment management and private equity firm that holds significant interests across an array of industries worldwide, including agriculture, technology, energy and real estate.

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97. Eva Son-Forget

1983-. (aged 43)

researcher radiologist professions libérales et assimilés politician

Eva Son-Forget, formerly known as Joachim Son-Forget, is a South Korean-born French politician who lives in Switzerland. She also holds Kosovar (since 2018) and Swiss citizenships (since 2020).

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98. Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh

1892-1997 (aged 105)

novelist linguist historian poet translator

Mohammad-Ali Jamālzādeh Esfahani was one of the most prominent writers of Iran in the 20th century, best known for his unique style of humour. In view of his vast influence over Persian short story writing, he is often referred to as the father of this genre in Iran.

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99. Helena Araújo

1934-2015 (aged 81)

hispanist literary critic writer university teacher novelist

Helena Araújo Ortiz was a writer and an international professor of Latin American literature and women's studies. Her works of literary criticism have appeared in various Latin American and European literary journals.

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100. Ali Lutfi Mahmud

1935-2018 (aged 83)

politician economist

Aly Lotfy Mahmoud was an Egyptian politician who served as the 44th prime minister of Egypt from 1985 to 1985.