The Most Famous People from Switzerland
Top 100 of 121 ranked · August 2026 · See today's live standing →
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Federer leads Switzerland, and two FIFA presidents sit in the top eight
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · 1 min read
The Switzerland origin list for August 2026 is a tennis champion, football's administrators and players, and one 18th-century mathematician.
Roger Federer is the most famous person from Switzerland in the world for August 2026, with a fame score of 22.1. Second is Gianni Infantino, the Swiss-Italian-Lebanese administrator who has run FIFA since February 2016, at 18.8, and eighth is Sepp Blatter, who ran it from 1998 to 2015, at 10.1. A country of nine million people supplies both of the men who have led world football for nearly three decades, and the world's attention has followed them.
The players fill in between. Granit Xhaka, who captains both Sunderland and Switzerland, is third at 14.5, and Xherdan Shaqiri fourth at 11.1. Yann Sommer of Club Brugge, Dan Ndoye of Nottingham Forest and Gregor Kobel of Borussia Dortmund are all in the top fifteen. So are two footballers the world does not think of as Swiss at all: Diogo Costa, the Portugal goalkeeper, tenth, and Ivan Rakitić, the Croatian midfielder, twelfth, both born in Switzerland and counted here by origin.
Tennis gives Federer company in Stan Wawrinka at seventh and Belinda Bencic at fourteenth. Romain Grosjean, the French-Swiss driver with nine Formula One seasons, is sixth at 10.4.
The one dead name in the top fifteen is Leonhard Euler, fifth at 11, the mathematician whose notation is still in daily use. Ninety-nine of the 100 published names are living, from a scope of 121 measured, so the Swiss list is a list of the present with a single reminder of the country's scientific past. The ranking measures fame, and for Switzerland that attention goes overwhelmingly to sport, and within sport to the offices as much as the pitch.
About this list
This list ranks people from Switzerland by their overall worldwide fame rather than local attention, as assessed for August 2026: the top 100 of 121 names, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 99 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 Gianni Infantino and Granit Xhaka.
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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"Roger Federer, No. 1 on The Most Famous People from Switzerland", iFAMOUS No. 1 (August 2026), ifamous.org