page_title: Yverdon-les-Bains
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Yverdon-les-Bains / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo: Laurence Périgaud
context_page_description: Yverdon-les-Bains is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is the seat of the district. The population of Yverdon-les-Bains, as of December 2018, was 30,157.
  Yverdon is located in the heart of a natural setting formed by the Jura mountains, the plains of the Orbe, the hills of the Broye and Lake Neuchâtel. It is the second most important town in the Canton of Vaud. It is famous for its thermal springs and is an important regional centre for commerce and tourism.
  It was awarded the Wakker Prize in 2009 for the way the city handled and developed the public areas and connected the old city with Lake Neuchâtel.
context_section_description: Bernard Gilles Penot (1519–1617) a French Renaissance alchemist and doctor
  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer 
  Sir Frederick Haldimand KB (1718–1791) a military officer in the British Army in North America during the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War
  Fortunato de Felice, 2nd Count Panzutti (1723–1789) an Italian nobleman, author, philosopher and scientist
  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746–1827) a pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism 
  François-Rodolphe de Weiss (1751–1818) a political and military leader, writer and philosopher, a follower of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  Friedrich Fröbel (1782–1852) a German pedagogue, a student of Pestalozzi 
  Louis Vulliemin (1797–1879) a theologian and historian
  Marcel Lequatre (1882–1960) a professional road racing cyclist 1902-1919
  Robert Piguet (1898–1953) a Paris-based fashion designer, trained Christian Dior and Hubert de Givenchy
  Jona von Ustinov (1892–1962) a German journalist and diplomat, father of Sir Peter Ustinov
  Benno Besson (1922-2006) an actor and director 
  Pierre D'Archambeau (1927–2014) of Belgian parents, an American violin virtuoso and pedagogue
  Rodolphe Kasser (1927–2013) philologist and archaeologist, translated ancient Coptic language manuscripts
  Christa Muth (born 1949) a German systems scientist, management professor and management consultant
caption: Christa Muth, 2011
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