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 |
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