page_title: Aarau
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Aarau / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Porträt Martin Schlumpf in Zürich
context_page_description: Aarau is a town, a municipality, and the capital of the northern Swiss canton of Aargau. The town is also the capital of the district of Aarau. It is German-speaking and predominantly Protestant. Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aare, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura Mountains, and is west of Zürich, and 65 kilometres northeast of Bern. The municipality borders directly on the canton of Solothurn to the west. It is the largest town in Aargau. At the beginning of 2010 Rohr became a district of Aarau.
  The official language of Aarau is German, but the main spoken language is the local variant of the Alemannic Swiss German dialect.
caption: Martin Schlumpf, 2011
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