François-Louis Cailler, founder of the first mechanised chocolate production facility; this was where milk chocolate was invented; Philippe Suchard, a confectioner and from 1826 onwards also a chocolate manufacturer;
Rudolf Sprüngli-Ammann, founder of the first chocolate production facility in German-speaking Switzerland in 1845; Aquilino Maestrani, a Ticino-based chocolate maker who opened a production facility in Lucerne in 1852 and – of course! – Rodolphe Lindt.
Rodolphe Lindt laid the foundation in 1879 for the success of Lindt & Sprüngli AG, which was founded twenty years later, together with Rudolf Sprüngli. Swiss chocolate now became world famous