Orelli
Orelli comes from Orello and is an old name from Locarno , which was mentioned as early as 1181. In 1555 a Protestant part of this family fled to Zurich.
Name bearer
- Anny von Orelli (1890–1968), Swiss-German actress
- Baldassarre Antonio Orelli (1669–1731), Swiss painter
- Giorgio Orelli (1921–2013), Swiss writer
- Giovanni Orelli (1928–2016), Swiss writer
- Giuseppe Antonio Felice Orelli (1706 – around 1776), Swiss painter
- Hans Conrad von Orelli (publisher) (1714–1785), Swiss publisher Orell Füssli , pen scribe and bailiff
- Hans Conrad von Orelli (1770–1826), Swiss theologian
- Hans Heinrich von Orelli (1715–1785), Swiss businessman, politician and guild administrator
- Hans Konrad von Orelli (1846–1912), Swiss theologian
- Johann Caspar von Orelli (1787–1849), Swiss classical philologist
- Konrad von Orelli (1788–1854), Swiss high school teacher and author
- Otto Schneider-Orelli (1880–1965), Swiss entomologist and oenologist
- Simone Orelli , Swiss governor
- Stephanie von Orelli (* 1966), Swiss gynecologist
- Susanna Orelli-Rinderknecht (1845–1939), Swiss abstainer, founder of the Zurich women's association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Benvenuti sul portale della Nuova Bellinzona .
- ↑ Rudolf Pfister: For the sake of faith. The Evangelical Refugees from Locarno and their admission to Zurich in 1555 . Evangelischer Verlag, Zollikon 1955, pp. 23-25