Karl Bürkli, 1823-1901, socialist activist, born in Zurich. Together with Johann Jakob Treichler (1822-1906) founded the Consumer Association of Zurich in 1851. Went to the US in the 1850s to join the "La Réunion" near Dallas, of which he had been one of the instigators. Hoever, the commune soon collapsed, and Bürkli returned to Zurich in 1858. He continued to take an active part in socialist politics in Zurich until the end of his life, serving on both the city and the cantonal councils. 

Albert Gallatin, 1761 - 1849

Yule Farenorth (Julius Jacob) Kilcher, 1913-1998: Alaska pioneer. Born Laufen. Emigrated to Alaska with wife Ruth Helen Weber of Pratteln and their eight children, and settled in  homestead east of Homer. He became an Alaskan state senator and was a delegate to the constitutional convention.  He is the great grandfather of actress Q'Orianka Kilcher and singer Jewel Kilcher.

William Wirt, 1772-1834

John Joachim Zubly, (born Johann/Hans Joachim Züblin) (1724 – 1781), pastor and statesman. Born in St Gallen, he was ordained in the German Reformed Church in London in 1744, after which he moved to South Carolina, where his father had already immigrated in 1736. He moved to various parishes in South Carolina and Georgia, finally taking up a position as first pastor of the Independent Presbyterian Church of Savannah in 1760. He was a passionate and articulate supporter of the colonies in their quarrels with Britain, and was elected a delegate for Georgia to the Continental Congress in 1775. However, he opposed independence and was branded a traitor and banished from Georgia. He continued to write fiery anti-independence articles under the pen-name Helvetius. He died three months before the end of the revolutionary war, which he had been convinced would end in defeat for the Americans.