page_title: Wädenswil
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Wädenswil / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: English: Franz Würbel, Hans Auer (Vienna, ca. 1885). Private Collection (Yarmouth Port, MA).
context_page_description: Wädenswil, locally often called Wädi or Wädischwil, is a municipality in the district of Horgen in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland. The population, as of 2013, was about 21,000. On 1 January 2019 the former municipalities of Hütten and Schönenberg were merged into the municipality of Wädenswil.
context_section_description: Johann Gottfried Steffan (1815–1905) Swiss landscape artist
  Walter Hauser (1837–1902) politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council 1888-1902
  Hans Auer (1847–1906) a Swiss-Austrian architect, designed the Federal Palace of Switzerland 1894–1902
  Robert Haab (1865–1939) politician, on the Swiss Federal Council 1917-1929
  Otto Hauser (1874–1932) a prehistorian
  Paul Wild (1925–2014) astronomer, discovered numerous comets, asteroids and supernovae
  Ernst Hürlimann (born 1934) rower, bronze medallist in the 1960 Summer Olympics
  Karin Ott (born 1945) operatic coloratura soprano
  Daniel Wyder (born 1962) former racing cyclist.
  Alain Nef (born 1982) football defender, over 460 club caps
  José Manuel Rodríguez Morgade (born 1984) known as Manu, a Spanish professional footballer
caption: Hans Auer, 1885
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