Talk:List of Swiss Americans

Ethnicity lists discussion

Please see discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) for current discussion of a potential policy to apply to all ethnicity lists on Wikipedia, including this one. JackO'Lantern 20:34, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Sources

I have sourced the list in accordance with Wikipedia's Original Research and Verifiability policies. Basically, anyone described by a reliable source as "Swiss" or "Swiss American" (i.e. as opposed to "of Swiss descent") is on the list. Here are the few people I couldn't find anything for. If you have a source that fits that please restore the names:

• Robert Abplanalp
• Rene Auberjonois
• Robert Baer
• Yul Brynner - also need proof that he is American
• Frank Carlucci
• James Caviezel
• Tracy Chevalier
• Billie Dove
• George Gallup
• Charles Wister Groff
• Ulysses Grant Groff
• Benjamin Guggenheim
• Jeff Hostetler
• Cyndi Lauper
• George Lucas
• Michelle Pfeiffer
• Don Piccard
• Rob Portman
• Kenneth A. Schmied
• Ryan Seacrest
• Meryl Streep
• Paul Westerberg
• Renée Zellweger
• Felix Zollicoffer

Mad Jack O'Lantern 05:44, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Explain

Here's your chance, Badagnani. Explain what you still don't get. If you don't respond here, this all but qualifies your "please discuss in talk" edit summaries as affectedness. Bulldog123 (talk) 04:45, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

Swiss descent

Gustav A. Schneebeli Bill Zuber

Two people with typical Swiss surnames, but there is no proof. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Primusinterparem (talk • contribs) 12:30, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Eminem

has also Swiss distant ancestors:

http://www.wargs.com/other/mathers.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eminem

Primusinterparem (talk) 21:57, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Article organisation

The sorting by occupation is difficult to do in a consistent way. Better to transform the entire thing into a single sortable table, with the following columns,

• name
• birth/death dates
• place of birth
• descent (partial/full Swiss descent or Swiss-born)
• occupation / description of notability
• reference in footnote

This way, the table can be sorted by name, date or descent and we don't need to rely on dubious categorizations like "arts and entertainment > other" etc. --dab (𒁳) 10:38, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

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