The Most Famous People in Switzerland
Top 100 of 170 ranked · August 2026 · See today's live standing →
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Federer leads Switzerland by fourteen points, with skiing and football behind tennis
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · 1 min read
The retired champion is the country's one figure of global scale in August 2026; Lara Gut-Behrami, Stan Wawrinka and Xherdan Shaqiri follow at a distance.
Roger Federer retired in 2022 and still holds the most attention of anyone connected to Switzerland. His score of 59.2 is fourteen points ahead of Donald Trump at 45.1, and no other Swiss name comes within twenty-five of him. That is the shape of the country's fame: one figure of world scale, then a group of national sporting names, then the global visitors.
The Swiss group starts at seventh. Lara Gut-Behrami, the alpine skier who dominated downhill and Super-G for close to two decades, scores 33.5. Stan Wawrinka, the tennis player born in 1985, is eighth at 33.4, one tenth behind her. Xherdan Shaqiri, the attacking midfielder, is tenth, and Yann Sommer, the goalkeeper now at Club Brugge, thirteenth. Four Swiss names in the top fifteen besides Federer, all of them athletes, none of them politicians. The Federal Council does not appear in this band at all.
The visitors are the ones that appear on most European tables. Cristiano Ronaldo is third, Shakira fifth, Lionel Messi sixth, Taylor Swift eleventh, Vladimir Putin twelfth, Ariana Grande fourteenth and Justin Bieber fifteenth. Two dead names hold high places: Michael Jackson at fourth with 38.5, and Adolf Hitler at ninth.
The engine measured 170 people connected to Switzerland and lists 100. Forty-five are Swiss, 31 American, six British and four Canadian, across sixteen nationalities, and 91 are living, a high proportion that reflects a table with few historical figures. For a country with a long roll of scientists, bankers and reformers, the August 2026 list is strikingly athletic, and strikingly dependent on a single tennis player.
| Rank | Name | Score | Live |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Roger Federer celebrityAlive | 59.2 | iFANN → |
| 2 |  Donald Trump  politicianAlive | 45.1 | iFANN → |
| 3 |  Cristiano Ronaldo  celebrityAlive | 39.8 | iFANN → |
| 4 |  Michael Jackson celebrity | 38.5 | iFANN → |
| 5 |  Shakira  celebrityAlive | 36.0 | iFANN → |
| 6 |  Lionel Messi  celebrityAlive | 35.6 | iFANN → |
| 7 |  Lara Gut-Behrami celebrityAlive | 33.5 | iFANN → |
| 8 |  Stan Wawrinka celebrityAlive | 33.4 | iFANN → |
| 9 |  Adolf Hitler  politician | 31.5 | iFANN → |
| 10 |  Xherdan Shaqiri celebrityAlive | 30.7 | iFANN → |
| 11 |  Taylor Swift celebrityAlive | 30.3 | iFANN → |
| 12 |  Vladimir Putin  politicianAlive | 30.0 | iFANN → |
| 13 |  Yann Sommer celebrityAlive | 29.8 | iFANN → |
| 14 |  Ariana Grande celebrityAlive | 29.5 | iFANN → |
| 15 |  Justin Bieber  celebrityAlive | 28.7 | iFANN → |
| 16 |  Albert Einstein celebrity | 28.5 | iFANN → |
| 17 |  Granit Xhaka celebrityAlive | 28.0 | iFANN → |
| 18 |  Elon Musk celebrityAlive | 27.8 | iFANN → |
| 19 |  Elizabeth II  celebrity | 27.0 | iFANN → |
| 20 |  Madonna celebrityAlive | 25.7 | iFANN → |
| 21 |  Rihanna  celebrityAlive | 25.5 | iFANN → |
| 22 |  Christoph Blocher politicianAlive | 25.3 | iFANN → |
| 23 |  Eminem celebrityAlive | 25.0 | iFANN → |
| 24 |  Lady Gaga celebrityAlive | 24.5 | iFANN → |
| 25 |  Miley Cyrus celebrityAlive | 24.1 | iFANN → |
| 26 |  Kylian Mbappé  celebrityAlive | 24.0 | iFANN → |
| 27 |  Katy Perry celebrityAlive | 23.5 | iFANN → |
| 28 |  Brad Pitt celebrityAlive | 23.5 | iFANN → |
| 29 |  Michelle Hunziker celebrityAlive | 23.2 | iFANN → |
| 30 |  Neymar  celebrityAlive | 23.2 | iFANN → |
| 31 |  Beyoncé celebrityAlive | 23.0 | iFANN → |
| 32 |  Céline Dion celebrityAlive | 22.9 | iFANN → |
| 33 |  Johnny Depp celebrityAlive | 22.9 | iFANN → |
| 34 |  Angelina Jolie celebrityAlive | 22.8 | iFANN → |
| 35 |  Jennifer Lopez celebrityAlive | 22.3 | iFANN → |
| 36 |  William Shakespeare celebrity | 22.3 | iFANN → |
| 37 |  Kim Kardashian celebrityAlive | 22.1 | iFANN → |
| 38 |  Marilyn Monroe celebrity | 22.1 | iFANN → |
| 39 |  Selena Gomez celebrityAlive | 21.9 | iFANN → |
| 40 |  Leonardo DiCaprio celebrityAlive | 21.8 | iFANN → |
| 41 |  Erling Haaland  celebrityAlive | 21.6 | iFANN → |
| 42 |  Tom Cruise celebrityAlive | 21.3 | iFANN → |
| 43 |  Barack Obama politicianAlive | 21.1 | iFANN → |
| 44 |  KANYE WEST celebrityAlive | 21.0 | iFANN → |
| 45 |  Diana, Princess of Wales public figure | 20.8 | iFANN → |
| 46 |  Scarlett Johansson celebrityAlive | 20.6 | iFANN → |
| 47 |  Muhammad  historical figure | 20.0 | iFANN → |
| 48 |  Arnold Schwarzenegger  politicianAlive | 19.8 | iFANN → |
| 49 |  Dwayne Johnson celebrityAlive | 19.6 | iFANN → |
| 50 |  Bruno Mars celebrityAlive | 19.3 | iFANN → |
| 51 |  Alain Berset politicianAlive | 19.2 | iFANN → |
| 52 |  Bill Gates celebrityAlive | 18.9 | iFANN → |
| 53 |  Britney Spears celebrityAlive | 18.5 | iFANN → |
| 54 |  Adele celebrityAlive | 17.2 | iFANN → |
| 55 |  David Beckham internet personalityAlive | 16.9 | iFANN → |
| 56 |  The Weeknd celebrityAlive | 16.7 | iFANN → |
| 57 |  Jackie Chan  celebrityAlive | 16.6 | iFANN → |
| 58 |  Ed Sheeran celebrityAlive | 16.6 | iFANN → |
| 59 |  Bruce Lee celebrity | 16.3 | iFANN → |
| 60 |  Drake celebrityAlive | 16.0 | iFANN → |
| 61 |  Gianni Infantino celebrityAlive | 7.8 | iFANN → |
| 62 |  Audrey Werro celebrityAlive | 6.1 | iFANN → |
| 63 |  Valon Behrami celebrityAlive | 6.1 | iFANN → |
| 64 |  Zendaya celebrityAlive | 4.7 | iFANN → |
| 65 |  Guy Parmelin politicianAlive | 4.4 | iFANN → |
| 66 |  Mirka Federer celebrityAlive | 4.2 | iFANN → |
| 67 |  DJ BoBo celebrityAlive | 4.1 | iFANN → |
| 68 |  Belinda Bencic celebrityAlive | 4.0 | iFANN → |
| 69 |  Sepp Blatter politicianAlive | 3.9 | iFANN → |
| 70 |  Martina Hingis celebrityAlive | 3.9 | iFANN → |
| 71 |  Albert Rösti politicianAlive | 3.8 | iFANN → |
| 72 |  Johan Manzambi celebrityAlive | 3.2 | iFANN → |
| 73 |  Beat Jans politicianAlive | 2.9 | iFANN → |
| 74 |  Stephan Lichtsteiner celebrityAlive | 2.6 | iFANN → |
| 75 |  Alisha Lehmann celebrityAlive | 2.2 | iFANN → |
| 76 |  Nico Elvedi celebrityAlive | 2.1 | iFANN → |
| 77 |  LeBron James celebrityAlive | 2.0 | iFANN → |
| 78 |  Murat Yakın celebrityAlive | 1.9 | iFANN → |
| 79 |  John Cena celebrityAlive | 1.8 | iFANN → |
| 80 |  Dan Ndoye celebrityAlive | 1.7 | iFANN → |
| 81 |  Francine Jordi celebrityAlive | 1.5 | iFANN → |
| 82 |  Rubén Vargas celebrityAlive | 1.4 | iFANN → |
| 83 |  Remo Freuler celebrityAlive | 1.3 | iFANN → |
| 84 |  Vladimir Petković celebrityAlive | 1.3 | iFANN → |
| 85 |  Joël Dicker celebrityAlive | 1.3 | iFANN → |
| 86 |  Ivan Rakitić celebrityAlive | 1.3 | iFANN → |
| 87 |  Ricardo Rodriguez celebrityAlive | 1.2 | iFANN → |
| 88 |  Alexander Frei celebrityAlive | 1.2 | iFANN → |
| 89 |  Gregor Kobel celebrityAlive | 1.1 | iFANN → |
| 90 |  MrBeast celebrityAlive | 1.1 | iFANN → |
| 91 |  Noah Okafor celebrityAlive | 1.1 | iFANN → |
| 92 |  Silvan Widmer celebrityAlive | 0.9 | iFANN → |
| 93 |  Denis Zakaria celebrityAlive | 0.9 | iFANN → |
| 94 |  Fabian Rieder celebrityAlive | 0.9 | iFANN → |
| 95 |  Fabian Cancellara celebrityAlive | 0.9 | iFANN → |
| 96 |  Viktorija Golubic celebrityAlive | 0.9 | iFANN → |
| 97 |  Haris Seferovic celebrityAlive | 0.8 | iFANN → |
| 98 |  Fabian Schär celebrityAlive | 0.8 | iFANN → |
| 99 |  Mattias Grafstrom celebrityAlive | 0.8 | iFANN → |
| 100 |  Djibril Sow celebrityAlive | 0.8 | iFANN → |
About this list
This list ranks the most famous people connected to Switzerland as of August 2026, by overall fame rather than one month's attention: the top 100 of 170 names the rankings measured for Switzerland, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 91 of the 100 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.
Roger Federer is No. 1 on this list for August 2026. Behind Roger Federer come Donald Trump and Cristiano Ronaldo. Evidence coverage for this list is high, so its order can be quoted with confidence.
What famous means here
Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.
The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.
How the list was ranked
The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.
About Switzerland
Switzerland is one of the countries and regions the journal ranks every month. Country lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared with its neighbours and against the world.
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iFAMOUS is published by iFANN and powered by the iFANN Global Fame Rankings v5.62. Today's live standing for this list is on ifann.net; the journal freezes it once a month so it can be cited permanently.
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"Roger Federer, No. 1 on The Most Famous People in Switzerland", iFAMOUS No. 1 (August 2026), ifamous.org