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Marthe Keller was born on January 28, 1945 in Basel, Switzerland. She studied ballet as a child but stopped after a skiing accident at age 16. She changed to acting, and worked in Berlin at the Schiller Theatre and the Berliner Ensemble.

Keller's earliest film appearances were in Funeral in Berlin (1966) (uncredited) and the German film Wilder Reiter GmbH (1967). She appeared in a series of French films in the 1970s, including Un cave (1972), La raison du plus fou (1973) and And Now My Love (1974). Her most famous American film appearances are her Golden Globe-nominated performance as Dustin Hoffman's girlfriend in Marathon Man (1976) and her performance as an Arab terrorist who leads an attack on the Super Bowl in Black Sunday (1977). Keller also acted with William Holden in Billy Wilder's romance drama Fedora (1978). She appeared alongside Al Pacino in the auto racing film Bobby Deerfield (1977). Her later films included Dark Eyes (1987), with Marcello Mastroianni.

Keller has appeared in Europe and America in plays, directed opera and as a speaker on classical music in the last twenty years. For example, in 2001, Keller appeared in a Broadway adaptation of Abby Mann's play "Judgment at Nuremberg" as Mrs. Bertholt (the role played by Marlene Dietrich in the 1961 Stanley Kramer film version). She was nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actress for this performance.

In addition to her work in film and theatre, Keller has developed a career in classical music as a speaker and opera director. She has performed the speaking role of Joan of Arc in the oratorio "Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher of Arthur Honegger" on several occasions, with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa and Kurt Masur. She has recorded the role for Deutsche Grammophon with Ozawa (DG 429 412-2). Keller has also recited the spoken role in Igor Stravinsky's "Perséphone". She has performed classical music melodramas for speaker and piano in recital. The Swiss composer Michael Jarrell wrote the melodrama "Cassandre", after the novel of Christa Wolf, for Keller, who gave the world premiere in 1994.

Keller's first production as an opera director was "Dialogues des Carmélites", for Opéra National du Rhin, in 1999. This production subsequently received a semi-staged performance in London that year. She has also directed "Lucia di Lammermoor" for the Washington National Opera and for the Los Angeles Opera. Her directorial debut at the Metropolitan Opera was in a 2004 production of "Don Giovanni". Keller has one son, Alexandre de Broca, from her relationship with director Philippe de Broca.

Tim Fehlbaum was born in 1982 in Basel, Basel, Switzerland. He is a director and writer, known for The Colony (2021), Hell (2011) and September 5 (2024).

Simon Stone was born on 19 August 1984 in Basel, Kanton Basel Stadt, Switzerland. He is an actor and director, known for The Daughter (2015), The Dig (2021) and The Turning (2013).

Jonni Remmler was born on 15 February 1991 in Basel, Switzerland. He is a writer and actor, known for Ash (2025), Das Quartett (2019) and Fabrixx (2000).

Naomi Krauss was born in 1967 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for The International (2009), 8 Uhr 28 (2010) and Faraway (2023).

Federer is the former #1 ranked tennis player in the world, having held the number one position for a record 237 consecutive weeks.

He won the Indesit ATP 2004 Race on September 14. The ATP confirmed that his lead was insurmountable, marking what is believed to be the earliest a player has locked up the year-end No. 1 position since the ATP Rankings were established in 1973.

He won his third Grand Slam title of the year at the U.S. Open. That was his 9th title of the year, his 16th since the beginning of 2003, his 19th career title. No other male player had ever won his first four Grand Slam finals.

He is considered to have the talent to be the best tennis player of all time. His fellow players have nicknamed him "The Natural."

He is the favorite tennis player of Anna Wintour, editor of American Vogue. She sometimes can be seen at his matches. He's frequently featured in American Vogue and once graced the cover of Men's Vogue.

He has appointed former American tennis player Paul Annacone as his coach.

Sarah Spale was born on 7 December 1980 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Needle Park Baby (2020), Wilder (2017) and Die Nachbarn von oben (2023). She has been married to Philip Spale since 2010. They have two children.

Christian Kohlund was born on 17 August 1950 in Basel, Switzerland. He is an actor and director, known for Anna Maria - Eine Frau geht ihren Weg (1994), L'homme de Suez (1983) and La nouvelle malle des Indes (1981). He has been married to Elke Best since 1982. They have two children. He was previously married to Christine Buchegger and Sylvana Henriques.

Lukas Ettlin is a director and cinematographer, most well-known for his work on Black Sails, Lincoln Lawyer and Battle Los Angeles. He was born in Luzern, Switzerland and started his career as a teenager, remaking Back to the Future in German, shot for shot, VCR to VCR. After graduating from NYU film school, he won the ASC heritage award and started working as a cinematographer in music videos and commercials. After acclaimed short films like Rings, Genesis and Catastrophe and Fast Forward, he had his break through shooting Michael Bay's Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning and additional photography for Transformers. Following a successful career as a cinematographer, Lukas has become a prolific TV director, with shows like Power, Counterpart, Daredevil, Jack Ryan and Barkskins to his credit. He has also stepped up to the role of producing director on multiple seasons of Black Sails, See and 2020's The Old Man.

Vincent Gross was born on 23 August 1996 in Basel, Switzerland. He is a composer, known for Plooien (2015), Jullermorgen señorita (2014) and Die Passion (2022).

Patrick Elias was born on 9 April 1966 in Basel, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Inglourious Basterds (2009), Die Schule am See (1997) and Tatort (1970). He died on 28 November 2023.

Arthur Cohn is an independent film producer and has won six Academy Awards, more than any other independent producer in film history. Cohn was born in Basel, Switzerland. His father was Dr. Marcus Cohn, a lawyer and leader of the Swiss Zionist movement who saved many Jews in WWII from within Switzerland. He moved to Israel in 1949 where he helped to write many of the basic laws of the new state and served as Israel's assistant attorney-general. Cohn's mother was Rose Galewski, a German-Jewish poet from Berlin. After high school Arthur Cohn became a journalist and a reporter for Swiss Radio, covering soccer and ice hockey games, as well as the Middle East, which he wrote three books about. He shifted from journalist writing to script writing very early on, but soon found his passion in supervising other scripts and producing movies. His first film production, The Sky Above, the Mud Below (1961), about an expedition through unmapped territory in West Papua, earned him his first Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. From 1967 to 1973 he worked closely with his friend and mentor Vittorio De Sica and produced six of the latter's last films, among them The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970), an epic about the fate of a Jewish family in fascist Italy, which won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Other Cohn- de Sica collaborations include: Woman Times Seven (1967), starring Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Alan Arkin, Michael Caine and Anita Ekberg; A Place for Lovers (1968), with Faye Dunaway and Marcello Mastroianni; Sunflower (1970), with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni; We'll Call Him Andrea (1972) and A Brief Vacation (1973). After the de Sica era, Cohn preferred working with young and inexperienced directors, always maintaining his right for the final cut. Two collaborations with then-unknown French directors Jean-Jacques Annaud and Richard Dembo got him two other Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film: Black and White in Color (1976), a satire on French Colonialists, and Dangerous Moves (1984), a psychological thriller between two Chess champions in the communist era. Cohn has always kept his passion for documentary film-making. His account on the holocaust The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe - 1933-1945 (1981) earned him an Academy Award nomination. Ten years later he would win his fifth Academy Award, his second in the category of Best Documentary Feature, for American Dream (1990), an account of a six-month strike at Hormel in Austin, Minnesota. In the Nineties he produced Two Bits (1995), with Al Pacino in the lead, and White Lies (1997), starring Rosanna Arquette and Harvey Fierstein. In 1998 he began his collaboration with Brazilian director Walter Salles, with whom he made two critically acclaimed films: Central Station (1998), which earned Oscar nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress in a Leading Role (Fernanda Montenegro), as well as Behind the Sun (2001). In between he received an Academy Award for the sixth time, his third in the category of Best Documentary Feature, for One Day in September (1999), a shocking account of the murder of eleven Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. In 2004 Cohn reunited with his colleague Jacques Perrin, with whom he had already collaborated in L'adoption (1979), to co-produce the French box-office hit The Chorus (2004), which got Academy Award nominations for Best Foreign Language Film and for Best Achievement in Music (Original Song). In 2008 he produced the road-movie The Yellow Handkerchief (2008), set in post-Katrina Louisiana, starring William Hurt, Kristen Stewart, Eddie Redmayne and Maria Bello. In the same year he produced the war epic The Children of Huang Shi (2008), set in occupied China of 1937 and based on the true life story of British journalist George Hogg, played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers. In 2012 he produced the German comedy Russendisko (2012), based on the bestseller of Wladimir Kaminer. In 2018 his newest production The Etruscan Smile (2018), based on the bestseller of José Luis Sampedro, premiered in Berlin, Germany, to wide acclaim and went on to win top prizes of both jury and audience at several film festivals in the USA and Canada. The film stars Brian Cox in the lead, along impressive performances by JJ Feild, Thora Birch, Rosanna Arquette, Treat Williams, Tim Matheson, Peter Coyote and Emanuel Cohn. Cohn divides his time between Basel and Los Angeles and is regarded as a hands-on producer who is strongly involved with the development of the script until the final touches of the editing process. Besides the cinematic prizes of his film productions, Arthur Cohn was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1992, the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture in 1995, the Humanitarian Award by the National Board of Review in 2001, the Guardian of Zion Award in 2004 as well as the UNESCO Award in 2005. Cohn is recipient of multiple honorary degrees, from Boston University (1998), Yeshiva University (2001) and the University of Basel (2006). He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Film Festivals in Chicago (1992), Jerusalem (1995), Shanghai (1999) and Haifa (2016). In February 2019 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cinema for Peace-Foundation in Berlin and in November 2019 from the Israel Film Festival in Los Angeles. Arthur Cohn's films have been shown in many retrospectives around the world.

Sabrina Amali was born in 1992 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Marnow Murders (2021), Himmel, Herrgott, Sakrament (2023) and Tatort (1970).

Elisabeth Müller was born on 18 July 1926 in Basel, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for The Power and the Prize (1956), Viktoria (1957) and Corinna Darling (1956). She was married to Kurt Grigoleit. She died on 11 December 2006 in Sempach, Kanton Luzern, Switzerland.

Helmut Förnbacher was born on 26 January 1936 in Basel, Switzerland. He is an actor and director, known for The Amorous Adventures of a Young Postman (1970), Youth (2015) and Schonzeit für Füchse (1966). He has been married to Kristina Nel since 1975.

Paolo Macchiarini is a Swiss-Italian thoracic surgeon and former regenerative medicine researcher who became known for research fraud and manipulative behavior. He has been convicted of research-related crimes in Italy (2020) and Sweden (2022, 2023). Macchiarini obtained his medical degree (equivalent to MD) at the Medical School of the University of Pisa (UniPi) in 1986 and a Master of Surgery in 1991. He performed three transplantations of synthetic tracheas coated with stem cells in 2011-12 at Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. In November 2012, Macchiarini published an article in The Lancet describing the operation on the first patient.

Charlotte Schwab was born on 17 December 1952 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress and publicist, known for Alarm für Cobra 11 - Einsatz für Team 2 (2003), Alarm für Cobra 11 - Die Autobahnpolizei (1996) and Kreuzfahrt ins Glück (2007). She is married to Sven-Eric Bechtolf. They have one child. She was previously married to Peter Simonischek.

Dani Levy was born on 17 November 1957 in Basel, Switzerland. He is a director and writer, known for Go for Zucker (2004), Silent Night (1996) and Tatort (1970). He is married to Sabine Liedl. They have two children.

Marc Benjamin was born on 15 April 1986 in Basel, Basel, Switzerland. He is an actor, known for Eddie the Eagle (2015), The Team (2015) and The Island (2020).

Eléonore Hirt was born on 19 December 1919 in Basel, Switzerland. She was an actress, known for A Witch's Way of Love (1997), Comédie (1966) and Le journal (1979). She was married to Michel Piccoli and André Rouyer. She died on 27 January 2017 in Longjumeau, Essonne, France.

László I. Kish was born on 24 March 1957 in Basel, Switzerland. He is an actor and director, known for The Seventh Scroll (1999), Tatort (1970) and Freunde wie wir (1997). He has been married to Ulrike Bliefert since 1990. They have one child.

Sandra Speichert was born on 22 January 1971 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Rote Rosen (2006), Low Profile (1993) and Largo Winch (2001).

Emanuela von Frankenberg was born on 20 February 1961 in Basel, Switzerland. She is an actress, known for Die Wolke (2006), Tatort (1970) and Ku'damm 56 (2016).

Gabriel Lobos was born in 1975 in Basel, Kanton Basel Stadt, Switzerland. Gabriel is a cinematographer, known for Blue My Mind (2017), Servant (2019) and Chroma (2022).

Sascha Pederiva was born on 30 October 1982 in Basel, Switzerland. He is an actor, known for Unter uns (1994), Verbotene Liebe (1995) and Ein Sommer am Gardasee (2022).