Geneva, Switzerland

Swiss businessman and humanitarian who co-founded the Red Cross and initiated the Geneva Conventions, receiving the first Nobel Peace Prize

Swiss activist, politician, economist, journalist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate recognized for his directorship of the Bern Peace Bureau

Swiss linguist and philosopher whose foundational ideas shaped 20th-century linguistics and semiotics

Swiss philosopher, poet, and diarist known for his introspective 'Journal Intime' and moral philosophy

Swiss botanist known for documenting hundreds of plant families and creating a new natural plant classification system

Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer whose political philosophy influenced the Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and modern political, economic, and educational thought