Paracelsus (Theophrastus von Hohenheim) - Graduated in 1516, a renowned physician and alchemist, considered one of the founders of toxicology.
Jacob Burckhardt - Graduated in 1839, a prominent historian of art and culture, known for his work 'The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy'.
Friedrich Nietzsche - Attended from 1865 to 1869, a philosopher, cultural critic, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history.
Karl Jaspers - Graduated in 1909, a psychiatrist and philosopher who had a significant impact on modern theology, psychiatry, and philosophy.
Erwin Schrödinger - Worked at the University of Basel from 1921 to 1927, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist known for his contributions to quantum theory, including the famous thought experiment known as 'Schrödinger's cat'.