Davos is an Alpine town, and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of 10,899, Davos is located on the river Landwasser, in the Rhaetian Alps, between the Pleasure and Albula Range at 1,560 m (5,120 ft) above sea level.
The list of Notable people of Davos:
Art and Culture
| Name | Known for |
| Valentin Bühler | a lawyer, he wrote dictionaries about the local and Swiss dialects |
| Sophie Taeuber-Arp | Swiss painter, sculptor, textile designer, architect and dancer |
| Dorothea Wieck | a German theatre and film actress |
| Juri Elperlin | writer and German-Russian translator |
| Ernst Haefliger | Swiss tenor |
| Eberhard W. Kornfeld | art collector; made Honorary citizen of Davos in 2004 |
| Jürg Federspiel | Swiss writer, grew up in Davos |
| Thomas Hirschhorn | Swiss artist, grew up in Davos |
| Marc Forster | German and Swiss director and filmmaker, grew up in Davos made freeman of Davos in 2007 |
Politics, public service and business
| Name | Known for |
| Johannes Guler von Wyneck | Grisonian annalist, officer, and local official |
| Fortunat Sprecher von Bernegg | lawyer, Grisonian annalist and local official |
| Johann Luzius Isler | confectioner and gastronomy entrepreneur in Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg |
| Willem Jan Holsboer | a Dutch entrepreneur, sponsor of Davos as a health resort. His young wife died after 2 years in Davos due to TB. He stayed in Davos, remarried, and founded the Rhaetian Railway |
| Wilhelm Vischer | a Swiss pastor, theologian, Hebraist, Old Testament scholar and amateur Lied lyricist |
| Ursula Wyss | economist, Swiss National Councillor 1999–2013 and current Municipal Councilor of Bern |
Science & Medicine
| Name | Known for |
| Alexander Spengler | a German and Swiss physician, specialised in TB in Davos |
| Carl Rüedi | a Swiss pulmonologist, treated Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Lucius Spengler | Swiss physician, specialised in TB |
| Carl Spengler | Swiss physician, bacteriologist, inventor of immunotherapy with Spenglersan colloids. Also an ice hockey player from Davos, founded the Spengler Cup |
| Carl Dorno | German researcher, lived in Davos from 1904, founded the Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos, a predecessor of Academia Raetica in Davos |
| Walter Siegenthaler | Swiss physician, professor of internal medicine at Zurich University |
Sports
| Name | Known for |
| Fritz Kraatz | a Swiss ice hockey player, competed in the 1928 Winter Olympics |
| Paul Söllner | a German rower, competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics |
| Albert Künzler | a Swiss ice hockey player, competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics |
| Andreas Däscher | a ski jumping athlete, competed at the 1956 Winter Olympics and developed the Daescher technique |
| Franz Berry | a Swiss ice hockey player, competed in the 1956 and 1964 Summer Olympics |
| Peter Frei | a Swiss former alpine skier, competed in the 1968 Winter Olympics |
| Nicolas Gilliard | a Swiss former swimmer, competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics |
| Paul Accola | former alpine skiing World Cup, overall champion |
| Martina Accola | a Swiss former alpine skier, competed in the 1994 and 1998 Winter Olympics |
| Andrea Senteler | a Swiss cross-country skier, competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics |
| Carmen Schäfer | a Swiss curler |
| Andres Ambühl | a Swiss professional ice hockey forward |
| Iouri Podladtchikov | a Russian-born Swiss snowboarder, brought up in Davos, gold medallist at the 2014 Winter Olympics |
| Dino Wieser | a Swiss professional ice hockey forward |
| Stefanie Müller | a Swiss Alpine snowboarder, competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics |
| Claude-Curdin Paschoud | a Swiss professional ice hockey defenceman |
*If we missed anyone out please let us know below and we can make the correct changes*
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