Basel
Basel ranks 155th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Ghent, Hammersmith, and Caracas. Memorable people born in Basel include Leonhard Euler, Johann Bernoulli, and Arnold Böcklin. Memorable people who died in Basel include Erasmus, Karl Jaspers, and Daniel Bernoulli. Basel has been the birth place of many soccer players and mathematicians and the death place of many writers and mathematicians. Basel is located in Switzerland.
Basel, also known as Basle, is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine. Basel is Switzerland's third-most-populous city, with 177,595 inhabitants within the city municipality limits. The official language of Basel is Swiss Standard German and the main spoken language is the local Basel German dialect. Read more on Wikipedia
Between 1274 and 2000, Basel was the birth place of 65 globally memorable people, including Leonhard Euler, Johann Bernoulli, and Arnold Böcklin. Additionaly, 49 globally memorable people have passed away in Basel including Erasmus, Karl Jaspers, and Daniel Bernoulli.
People Born in Basel
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Leonhard Euler
1707 - 1783
HPI: 84.57
Rank: 1
Johann Bernoulli
1667 - 1748
HPI: 71.44
Rank: 2
Arnold Böcklin
1827 - 1901
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 3
Jacob Burckhardt
1818 - 1897
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 4
Jacob Bernoulli
1654 - 1705
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 5
Karl Barth
1886 - 1968
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 6
Auguste Piccard
1884 - 1962
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 7
Friedrich Miescher
1844 - 1895
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 8
Roger Federer
1981 - Present
HPI: 63.58
Rank: 9
Peter Zumthor
1943 - Present
HPI: 63.51
Rank: 10
K. Alex Müller
1927 - 2023
HPI: 62.79
Rank: 11
Johann Jakob Bachofen
1815 - 1887
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Born in Basel
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Joanna of Pfirt
1300 - 1351
HPI: 55.19
Rank: 20
Jakob II Bernoulli
1759 - 1789
HPI: 51.01
Rank: 31
Arthur Cohn
1927 - Present
HPI: 47.64
Rank: 38
Ernst Stueckelberg
1905 - 1984
HPI: 44.28
Rank: 47
Jacob Wackernagel
1853 - 1938
HPI: 43.83
Rank: 48
Dani Levy
1957 - Present
HPI: 39.24
Rank: 51
Rudolf Thurneysen
1857 - 1940
HPI: 37.97
Rank: 54
Noah Okafor
2000 - Present
HPI: 30.43
Rank: 60
Eray Cömert
1998 - Present
HPI: 29.82
Rank: 61
People Deceased in Basel
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Erasmus
1466 - 1536
HPI: 83.50
Rank: 1
Karl Jaspers
1883 - 1969
HPI: 76.82
Rank: 2
Daniel Bernoulli
1700 - 1782
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 3
Fritz Haber
1868 - 1934
HPI: 75.01
Rank: 4
Johann Bernoulli
1667 - 1748
HPI: 71.44
Rank: 5
Jean Arp
1886 - 1966
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 6
Jacob Burckhardt
1818 - 1897
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 7
Jacob Bernoulli
1654 - 1705
HPI: 67.90
Rank: 8
Karl Barth
1886 - 1968
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 9
Tadeusz Reichstein
1897 - 1996
HPI: 66.15
Rank: 10
Pierre Louis Maupertuis
1698 - 1759
HPI: 65.61
Rank: 11
Johann Jakob Balmer
1825 - 1898
HPI: 65.09
Rank: 12
Newly Added People Deceased in Basel
Go to all RankingsMost individuals born in present day Basel were soccer players (15), mathematicians (8), politicians (6), physicists (4), and writers (3), while most who died were writers (9), mathematicians (6), politicians (4), philosophers (3), and chemists (3).
Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Basel, including Murat Yakin, Hakan Yakin, and Alexander Frei. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Basel, including Leopold Kielholz, Murat Yakin, and Hakan Yakin.
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Basel since 1700.
