List of personalities from the city of Biel

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This list contains personalities born in Biel as well as those who had their sphere of activity in Biel without having been born there. Both sections are sorted chronologically according to the year of birth. The list does not claim to be complete.

Honorary citizen

  • Harry Borer (1927-2017), PhD and long-standing patron of Manufacture des Montres Rolex SA Bienne, as well as a major sponsor of countless social, cultural and social initiatives in the city of Biel and its region (honorary citizenship awarded in 2012)
  • Guillaume-Henri Dufour (1787–1875), humanist , general , politician, cartographer and engineer (honorary citizenship granted in 1848)
  • Nicolas Hayek (1928–2010), entrepreneur and founder of the Swatch Group. (Honorary citizenship granted in 2005)
  • Paul Kipfer (1905–1980), engineer and first person in the stratosphere (according to NASA, together with Auguste Piccard the first astronaut in the world) (honorary citizenship granted in 1931)

Personalities born in Biel

Until 1850

Robert Walser
(late 1890s)

1851 to 1900

Moritz Leuenberger , Federal Council 1995–2010

1901 to 1950

From 1951

Personalities who have worked on site

Individual evidence

  1. Harry Borer: On the sales situation of Swiss watch manufacturers. Dissertation Bern / Solothurn 1963.
  2. swatchgroup.com/ehrenbuergerfeier . Retrieved February 22, 2014.
  3. Michel Delprete. In: Sikart
  4. ^ Romano Della Chiesa. In: Sikart
  5. Ferdinando Della Chiesa. In: Sikart