Editing Basel (section)

== Notable people ==
Notable people who were born or grew up in Basel:
* [[Gaspard Bauhin]] (1560–1624), botanist and anatomist<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Bauhin, Gaspard |volume= 3 | page = 539 |short= 1 }}</ref> 
* [[Matthäus Merian the Elder]] (1593–1650), engraver<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Merian, Matthew |volume= 18 |last= Coolidge |first= William Augustus Brevoort| pages = 164–165 |short=1 }}</ref>
* [[Johannes Buxtorf II]] (1599–1664), Protestant [[Christian Hebraist]]<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Buxtorf, Johannes (1599–1664) |volume= 4 | page = 894 |short= 1 }}</ref>
* [[Johannes Jakob Buxtorf]] (1645–1705), professor of Hebrew 
* [[Jacob Bernoulli]] (1654–1705), mathematician<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Bernoulli |volume= 3 | pages = 803–805;see page 803, para 2|quote=I. Jacques Bernoulli (1654–1705)..... |short= 1 }}</ref>
* [[Johann Bernoulli]] (1667–1748), mathematician<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Bernoulli |volume= 3 | pages = 803–805;see page 804, para 4|quote=II. Jean Bernoulli (1667–1748),..... |short= 1 }}</ref>
* [[Johann Jakob Wettstein]] (1693–1754), theologian and [[New Testament]] critic<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Wetstein, Johann Jakob |volume= 28 | pages = 564–565 |short= 1 }}</ref>
* [[Maximilian Ulysses Browne]] (1705–1757), Austrian field marshal<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Browne, Maximilian Ulysses |volume= 4 | pages = 664–665 |short= 1 }}</ref>
* [[Leonhard Euler]] (1707–1783), mathematician, physicist and astronomer<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Euler, Leonhard |volume= 9 | pages = 887–990 |short= 1 }}</ref>
* [[Johann Peter Hebel]] (1760–1826), German short story writer, poet and Lutheran theologian<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Hebel, Johann Peter |volume= 13 | page = 166 |short= 1 }}</ref>
* [[Johann Jakob Herzog]] (1805–1882), Swiss-German Protestant theologian<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Herzog, Johann Jakob |volume= 13 | page = 406 |short= 1 }}</ref>
* [[Jacob Burckhardt]] (1818–1897), historian of art and culture<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Burckhardt, Jakob |volume= 4 |last= Coolidge |first= William Augustus Brevoort | page = 809 |short=1 }}</ref>
* [[Arnold Böcklin]] (1827–1901), symbolist painter<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Böcklin, Arnold |volume= 4 |last= Frantz |first= Henri | pages = 107–108 |short= 1 }}</ref>
* [[Friedrich Miescher]] (1844–1895), physician and biologist, the first scientist to isolate nucleic acid
* [[Karl Barth]] (1886–1968), Swiss Reformed theologian, best known for his involvement with the [[Confessing Church]] and Christian resistance to Hitler
* [[Richard J. Baer]] (1892–1940), physicist
* [[Véronique Filozof]] (1904–1977), painter<ref>{{Cite web |title=Véronique Filozof |url=https://www.richardsaltoun.com/artists/1012-veronique-filozof/biography/ |access-date=2025-02-13 |website=Richard Saulton}}</ref>
* [[Clara Thalmann]] (1908–1987), journalist, athlete, and militiawoman
* [[Harry Goldschmidt]] (1910–1986), musicologist
* [[Rudy Burckhardt]] (1914–1999), American filmmaker and photographer
*[[Avraham Yaakov Finkel]] (1926–2016), author 
*[[Arthur Cohn]] (born 1927), film producer and multiple Academy Award winner
* [[Marion Wiesel]] (born Mary Renate Erster; 1931–2025), Austrian-American [[Holocaust survivor]], humanitarian, and translator
* [[Christa de Carouge]] (1936–2018), fashion designer
* [[Peter Zumthor]] (born 1943), architect
* [[Margrith von Felten]] (born 1944), politician and lawyer
* [[Heidi Köpfer]] (born 1954), choreographer, dancer and video artist
* [[Carlo Strenger]] (1958–2019), Swiss-Israeli psychologist, philosopher, existential psychoanalyst, and public intellectual 
* [[Christina Surer]] (born 1974), racing driver
* [[DJ Antoine|Antoine Konrad]] (born 1975), DJ and record producer, known as [[DJ Antoine]]
* [[Martina Gmür]] (born 1979), visual artist<ref>{{Cite news |last=Latimer |first=Quinn |date=October 2010 |title=Martina Gmür: Stampa |edition=9 |volume=98 |pages=198 |work=[[Art in America]] |issn=0004-3214}}</ref>
* [[Roger Federer]] (born 1981), professional tennis player
* [[Granit Xhaka]] (born 1992), professional footballer with 100 caps with [[Switzerland national football team|Switzerland]]
* [[Fina Girard]] (born 2001), politician and youth climate activist<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fina Girard |url=https://grosserrat.bs.ch/mitglieder/15004068-fina-girard |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=[[Grand Council of Basel-Stadt]] |language=de}}</ref>