Henry Dunant
18281910
Swiss businessman and humanitarian who co-founded the Red Cross and initiated the Geneva Conventions, receiving the first Nobel Peace Prize
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18281910
Swiss businessman and humanitarian who co-founded the Red Cross and initiated the Geneva Conventions, receiving the first Nobel Peace Prize
18331906
Swiss activist, politician, economist, journalist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate recognized for his directorship of the Bern Peace Bureau
18571913
Swiss linguist and philosopher whose foundational ideas shaped 20th-century linguistics and semiotics
18211881
Swiss philosopher, poet, and diarist known for his introspective 'Journal Intime' and moral philosophy
17781841
Swiss botanist known for documenting hundreds of plant families and creating a new natural plant classification system
17121778
Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer whose political philosophy influenced the Age of Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and modern political, economic, and educational thought