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Bowie, David Byron, George Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Geraldine Collins, Phil Coulthard, David Coward, Noel Diana, Lady >>>

David Bowie (1947 - ) Music star In 1982, the English pop star moved to upper Lausanne in Switzerland to find a haven of stability and fade into anonymity. He purchased an early twentieth-century residence called the Château du Signa >>>

Germany (19)

Becker, Boris Beisheim, Otto Benjamin, Walter Einstein, Albert Hesse, Hermann Kesten, Hermann Kinski, Nastassja Liebherr, >>>

Henri Nestlé (1814 - 1890) Businessman The founder of one of the leading Swiss companies settled in Vevey in 1833. Henri Nestlé was born in 1814 to a rich Frankfurt family. Fleeing the repression that followed the revolutionary riot >>>

USA (12)

Edelman, Asher Fizgerald, Scott Hauk, Minnie Hemingway, Ernest Hendricks, Barbara Highsmith, Patricia Jackson, Michael Lauder, Léonard A. >>>

Barbara Hendricks (1948 - ) Music star The most famous opera singer in the world lives in Clarens, on the outskirts of Montreux. Barbara Hendricks was born in 1948 in Stephens, Arkansas, in the United States. Her father was a pastor and sh >>>

Italy (11)

Gambini, Giovanni Guareschi, Giovanni Mussolini, Benito Muti, Ornella Pareto, Vilfredo Pavone, Rita Pratt, Hugo Rossi, Pellegrino >>>

Rita Pavone (1945 - ) Music star This singer and television presenter lives in the Swiss canton of Ticino with its Mediterranean climate. Rita Pavone was born in Turin in 1945 to family impoverished after the war. At a ve >>>

Russia (9)

Bakounine, Mikhaïl Lenin, Nabokov, Vladimir Nijinsky, Vaslav Romanov, Nicolas Stravinsky, Igor Tchaïkowsky, Piotr Trotski, Leon >>>

Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977) Writer The Russian writer was born in 1899 to a wealthy family from St Petersburg. By the age of seven, he could speak French and English fluently. His happy childhood was shattered by the Bolshevik >>>

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Cohen, Albert Goulandris, Basil Latsis, John Lemos, Costas Livanos, Georges Mercouri, Melina Mouskouri, Nana Niarchos, Stavros >>>

John Latsis (1910 - ) Shipping tycoon The Latsis family runs its financial empire from Geneva. Born in 1910, John Spyridon Latsis started out in the dried fruit business. Business was booming and he bought his first charter boat in 1938. >>>

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