Women | CH | Switzerland

1850s

Marion Talbot (31 jul 1858 – 20 oct 1948 | Thun, Switzerland – Chicago IL) author, educator, college president, domestic science teacher, women’s rights activist, co-founded American Association of University Women [AAUW]

1860s

1870s

1880s

1890s

Claire Huchet Bishop (30 dec 1898 – 13 mar 1993 | Switzerland – Paris, France) Swiss-born American poet, editor, lecturer, librarian, children’s book author

1900s

Berthe Marie Marti (11 may 1904 – 04 jun 1995 | Vevey, Switzerland – Chapel Hill NC) author, Latin scholar / professor

Louise Fatio Duvoisin (18 aug 1904 – 26 jul 1993 | Lausanne, Switzerland – New Brunswick NJ) children’s book author

Lucienne Bloch (05 jan 1909 – 13 mar 1999 | Geneva, Switzerland – Gualala CA) Swiss-American artist, muralist, sculptor, photographer, children’s book illustrator

Blanche Honegger Moyse (23 sep 1909 – 10 feb 2011 | Geneva, Switzerland – Brattleboro VT) violinist, music professor, choral conductor, music center founder / co-founder

1910s

1920s

Isabelle Christian Holland (16 jun 1920 – 09 feb 2002 | Basel, Switzerland – New York NY) children’s / adult fiction author

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (08 jul 1926 – 24 aug 2004 | Zurich, Switzerland – Scottsdale AZ) author, psychiatrist, expert on stages of grief

Isabelle Juliette Martha Rapin (04 dec 1927 – 24 may 2017 | Lausanne, Switzerland – Rhinebeck NY) author, essayist, leading authority on autism, professor of neurology and pediatrics

1930s

Madeleine May Kunin (28 sep 1933 – Zurich, Switzerland) author, diplomat, politician, community activist, women’s rights advocate, former Vermont Governor

1940s

Eva Evdokimova-Gregori (01 dec 1948 – 03 apr 2009 | Geneva, Switzerland – New York NY) Swiss-American ballerina

Yasmin Aga Khan (28 dec 1949 – Lausanne, Switzerland) princess, philanthropist, Alzheimer’s awareness activist

1950s

Léa Pool (08 sep 1950 – Soglio, Switzerland) Swiss-Canadian film director / screenwriter

Esther Dyson (14 jul 1951 – Zurich, Switzerland) Swiss-born American author, journalist, philanthropist, commentator, businesswoman, leading angel investor