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{{Infobox Swiss town
 | subject_name		= Lyss
 | municipality_type	= municipality
 | image_photo          = Lyss in winter.JPG
 | image_caption        = Winter in Lyss
 | imagepath_coa	= CHE Lyss COA.svg
 | imagepath_flag   = CHE Lyss Flag.svg
 | canton		= Bern
 | iso-code-region 	= CH-BE
 | district		= [[Seeland (administrative district)|Seeland]]
 | coordinates   = {{coord|47|4|N|7|18|E|display=inline,title}}
 | postal_code		= 3250
 | municipality_code	= 0306
 | area			= 11.76
 | elevation		= 444|elevation_description= 
 | population		= 13'918
 | website		= https://www.lyss.ch
 | mayor		= Stefan Nobs|mayor_asof=January 2022
 | mayor_party          = FDP
 | mayor_title	        = Gemeindepräsident
 | list_of_mayors	= 
 | executive_name = Gemeinderat | executive_number_of_members = 5
 | parliament_name = Grosser Gemeinderat | parliament_number_of_members = 40
 | places		= 
 | demonym		= 
 | neighboring_municipalities= [[Aarberg]], [[Büetigen]], [[Busswil bei Büren]], [[Diessbach bei Büren]], [[Grossaffoltern]], [[Kappelen, Switzerland|Kappelen]], [[Seedorf, Bern|Seedorf]], [[Worben]]
 | twintowns		= [[Monopoli]] (Italy)
}}

'''Lyss''' ({{IPA|de|ˈliːs}}) is a [[Municipalities of Switzerland|municipality]] in the [[Seeland (administrative district)|Seeland administrative district]] in the [[Cantons of Switzerland|canton]] of [[Bern (canton)|Bern]] in [[Switzerland]]. On 1 January 2011, the former municipality of [[Busswil bei Büren]] was merged with Lyss.<ref name=Fusion>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/infothek/nomenklaturen/blank/blank/gem_liste/03.html Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz] published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office {{in lang|de}} accessed 19 July 2011</ref>

==History==
[[File:Bahnhof-lyss.jpg|thumb|left|[[Lyss railway station|Lyss train station]]. The first railroad in Lyss in 1864 allowed the town to grow rapidly.]]
Lyss is first mentioned in 1009 as ''Lissa''.<ref name=HDS/>

The oldest traces of humans in Lyss include [[neolithic]], [[Bronze Age]] and [[Hallstatt culture]] items scattered around the municipality.  One of the best preserved items is a 6th-century BC [[Etruscan art|Etruscan]] bronze statue.  [[Switzerland in the Roman era|Roman era]] bricks have been found in Kirchhübeli along with [[Early Middle Ages|early medieval]] and [[Middle Ages|medieval]] tombs and the remains of a [[Carolingian architecture|Carolingian]] church.  A number of graves dating from the 7th Century were discovered at Sonnhalde-Kreuzhöhe.

The [[Ministerialis]] (unfree knights in the service of a [[feudal]] overlord) family of Lyss is first mentioned in 1185-87 under the Counts of [[Counts of Neuchâtel#History|Neuchâtel]]-Aarberg.  In 1367, Lyss, along with the rest of the land around [[Aarberg]], was transferred to the Counts of Neuchâtel-Nidau.  About ten years later, around 1377-79 it was transferred again to the City of [[Bern]] and became part of the Bernese [[bailiwick]] of Aarberg.  While Bern owned the village of Lyss, a number of nobles and monasteries owned property, farms or rights in the village and surroundings.<ref name=HDS/>

Until the [[Reformation]], Lyss had two [[parish church]]es.  The church of St. John the Evangelist was built in the 7th or 8th century.  Around 1246 it was replaced with a new church, which was partially renovated in the 15th century.  It became the center of an important [[deanery]] in the second half of the 14th century.  After the Reformation it was the only church in Lyss until the current [[Swiss Reformed Church|Reformed]] church was built in 1934–35.  The other church St. Mary's Church at Kirchhübeli which was built on the foundations of a Carolingian church.  In the 15th century the church began to fall into disrepair, and during the Reformation it was abandoned and demolished in 1533.<ref name=HDS/>

For centuries, the meandering [[Aare]] and Lyssbach rivers flooded Lyss repeatedly.  Over the centuries several dams and [[levee]]s were built to protect the village.  Starting in the 17th century a number of water powered mills, including an oil mill, sawmills, fulling mills and dyeing factories, were built along the river.  The first [[Jura water correction]] (1868–91) diverted the Aare river into [[Lake Biel]].  This, together with the Lyssbach correction (1911–16) opened up extensive farm land along the old river.<ref name=HDS/>

The population of Lyss was always greater than in the nearby political and administrative center of Aarberg.  However, because of Aarberg's central location and convenient roads Lyss remained a quiet, isolated town.  The arrival of the railroad from [[Bern]] to [[Biel]] in 1864 and the Jura water correction led to extensive population growth. In 1876, another railway line from [[Lausanne]] to [[Solothurn]] was built through Lyss. This made the town a rail hub.  Built in 1983-86 the Bern-Biel/Bienne [[highway]] passed through Lyss and brought increased traffic.<ref name=HDS/>

In 1866 the ''Käserei- und Kreditgesellschaft Lyss'' (Dairy and Credit Society of Lyss) was founded as a bank to help farmers.  By 1880 it had grown into a savings and loan bank which helped fund the expansion of Lyss.  With the new rail links, factories began to settle in the town.  By 1900 there were factories manufacturing watches, cement products, biscuits, watch crystals, fittings, bricks, cloth and steel.  Heavy machinery factories moved in by 1940.  The town expanded in 1956 and again in 1979 as businesses and residents moved into Lyss.  In 2005 there were 6,035 jobs in a town of about 10,000 people.<ref name=HDS/>

==Geography==

[[File:ETH-BIB-Lyss, Übersicht v. S. aus 600 m-Inlandflüge-LBS MH01-002979.tif|thumb|Aerial view by [[Walter Mittelholzer]] (1922)]]

Lyss has an area of {{Swiss area|0306|mi=on}}.{{Swiss area data|0306|QUELLE}}<!--11.78 – 11.78 km2-->  Of this area, {{convert|3.56|km2|mi2|abbr=on}} or 30.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while {{convert|3.98|km2|mi2|abbr=on}} or 33.8% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, {{convert|4.19|km2|mi2|abbr=on}} or 35.6% is settled (buildings or roads), {{convert|0.05|km2|acre|abbr=on}} or 0.4% is either rivers or lakes.<ref name=BFS_land>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/02/03/blank/data/gemeindedaten.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Land Use Statistics] 2009 data {{in lang|de}} accessed 25 March 2010</ref>

Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 6.4% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 14.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 9.6%.  Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.5% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 3.1%.  Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests.  Of the agricultural land, 21.5% is used for growing crops and 7.2% is pastures, while 1.5% is used for orchards or vine crops.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.<ref name=BFS_land/>

The municipality is an administrative and economic center for the surrounding region.  Lyss is located at the mouth of the Lyssbach valley on the former right bank of the [[Aare]] river.  It consists of the village of Lyss and village sections of Hardern and Eigenacker.  Until 1876 it included the settlement of Werdthof, which is now part of [[Kappelen]].

Lyss lies on the eastern edge of a wide valley that extends southwest to [[Lake Murten]]. West of this valley lie [[Lake Neuchâtel]] and [[Lake Biel]], and beyond that the [[Jura mountains]].

The valley is flat and was subject to flooding until 1878, when a major hydraulic engineering project changed the courses of the [[Aare]] and the [[Zihl]] and lowered the level of the three lakes by {{convert|2.5|m|ft|sp=us}}. In addition, water from the Aare, the [[Broye]], the Zihl, and the [[Schüss]] was diverted into the [[Nidau-Büren Canal]] and the [[Hagneck Canal]].

==Coat of arms==
The [[blazon]] of the municipal [[coat of arms]] is ''Azure a Fleur-de-lys Argent ringed Or on a Mount of 3 Coupeaux Vert.''<ref>[http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/ch-be006.html Flags of the World.com] accessed 4 May 2012</ref>

==Demographics==
Lyss has a population ({{as of|{{Swiss populations YM|CH-BE}}|lc=on}}) of {{Swiss populations|CH-BE|0306}}.{{Swiss populations ref|CH-BE}}  {{as of|2010}}, 16.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals.  Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 9.4%.  Migration accounted for 7.9%, while births and deaths accounted for 1.7%.<ref name=SFSO>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105172441/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/regionen/02/key.html |date=5 January 2016 }} accessed 4 May 2012</ref>

Most of the population ({{as of|2000|lc=on}}) speaks [[German language|German]] (9,072 or 85.1%) as their first language, [[Italian language|Italian]] is the second most common (356 or 3.3%) and [[Spanish language|Spanish]] is the third (271 or 2.5%).  There are 196 people who speak [[French language|French]] and 6 people who speak [[Romansh language|Romansh]].<ref name=STAT2000/>

{{as of|2008}}, the population was 49.0% male and 51.0% female.  The population was made up of 4,803 Swiss men (40.6% of the population) and 992 (8.4%) non-Swiss men.  There were 5,131 Swiss women (43.4%) and 89 (0.8%) non-Swiss women.<ref name=BE_Stat>[http://www.fin.be.ch/de/index/finanzen/finanzen/publikationen/wohnbevoelkerung.html Statistical office of the Canton of Bern] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215012157/http://www.fin.be.ch/de/index/finanzen/finanzen/publikationen/wohnbevoelkerung.html |date=15 February 2012 }} {{in lang|de}} accessed 4 January 2012</ref> Of the population in the municipality, 2,676 or about 25.1% were born in Lyss and lived there in 2000.  There were 4,146 or 38.9% who were born in the same canton, while 1,642 or 15.4% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 1,865 or 17.5% were born outside of Switzerland.<ref name=STAT2000/>

{{as of|2000}}, children and teenagers (0–19 years old) make up 24.3% of the population, while adults (20–64 years old) make up 63.7% and seniors (over 64 years old) make up 12%.<ref name=SFSO/>

{{as of|2000}}, there were 4,434 people who were single and never married in the municipality.  There were 5,101 married individuals, 510 widows or widowers and 614 individuals who are divorced.<ref name=STAT2000>[http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_40%20-%20Eidgen%C3%B6ssische%20Volksz%C3%A4hlung/40.3%20-%202000/40.3%20-%202000.asp?lang=1&prod=40&secprod=3&openChild=true STAT-TAB Datenwürfel für Thema 40.3 – 2000] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130809142611/http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_40%20-%20Eidgen%C3%B6ssische%20Volksz%C3%A4hlung/40.3%20-%202000/40.3%20-%202000.asp?lang=1&prod=40&secprod=3&openChild=true |date=9 August 2013 }}  {{in lang|de}} accessed 2 February 2011</ref>

{{as of|2000}}, there were 5,367 private households in the municipality, and an average of 2.3 persons per household.<ref name=SFSO/> There were 1,511 households that consist of only one person and 220 households with five or more people.  {{as of|2000|alt=In 2000}}, a total of 4,533 apartments (93.3% of the total) were permanently occupied, while 205 apartments (4.2%) were seasonally occupied and 123 apartments (2.5%) were empty.<ref name=Housing>[http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_09%20-%20Bau-%20und%20Wohnungswesen/09.2%20-%20Geb%C3%A4ude%20und%20Wohnungen/09.2%20-%20Geb%C3%A4ude%20und%20Wohnungen.asp?lang=1&prod=09&secprod=2&openChild=true Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB – Datenwürfel für Thema 09.2 – Gebäude und Wohnungen] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907111534/http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_09%20-%20Bau-%20und%20Wohnungswesen/09.2%20-%20Geb%C3%A4ude%20und%20Wohnungen/09.2%20-%20Geb%C3%A4ude%20und%20Wohnungen.asp?lang=1&prod=09&secprod=2&openChild=true |date=7 September 2014 }} {{in lang|de}} accessed 28 January 2011</ref>  {{as of|2009}}, the construction rate of new housing units was 13.6 new units per 1000 residents.<ref name=SFSO/>

{{as of|2003}} the average price to rent an average apartment in Lyss was 973.41 [[Swiss franc]]s (CHF) per month (US$780, £440, €620 approx. exchange rate from 2003).  The average rate for a one-room apartment was 559.24 CHF (US$450, £250, €360), a two-room apartment was about 723.26 CHF (US$580, £330, €460), a three-room apartment was about 838.08 CHF (US$670, £380, €540) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 1596.12 CHF (US$1280, £720, €1020).

The average apartment price in Lyss was 87.2% of the national average of 1116 CHF.<ref name=BFS_rent>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/05/06/blank/key/einfuehrung.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office-Rental prices] 2003 data {{in lang|de}} accessed 26 May 2010</ref> The vacancy rate for the municipality, {{as of|2010|alt=in 2010}}, was 1.44%.<ref name=SFSO/>

The historical population is given in the following chart:<ref name=HDS>{{HDS|177|Lyss}}</ref><ref>[http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_40%20-%20Eidgen%C3%B6ssische%20Volksz%C3%A4hlung/40.4%20-%201850-2000/40.4%20-%201850-2000.asp?lang=1&prod=40&secprod=4&openChild=true Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Bevölkerungsentwicklung nach Region, 1850-2000] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140930162751/http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_40%20-%20Eidgen%C3%B6ssische%20Volksz%C3%A4hlung/40.4%20-%201850-2000/40.4%20-%201850-2000.asp?lang=1&prod=40&secprod=4&openChild=true |date=30 September 2014 }} {{in lang|de}} accessed 29 January 2011</ref>
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==Twin Town==
{{See also|List of twin towns and sister cities in Switzerland}}
Lyss is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:
*{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Monopoli]], [[Italy]].<ref>[https://archive.today/20120722095847/http://www.asccre.ch/N193/berne-bern-berna/?M=216 Conseil des Communes et Regions d'Europe] {{in lang|fr}} accessed 27 April 2011</ref>

==Politics==
In the [[2007 Swiss federal election|2007 federal election]] the most popular party was the [[Swiss People's Party|SVP]] which received 28.51% of the vote.  The next three most popular parties were the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|SPS]] (23.05%), the [[FDP.The Liberals|FDP]] (20.5%) and the [[Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland|EVP Party]] (9.24%).  In the federal election, a total of 3,135 votes were cast, and the [[voter turnout]] was 40.5%.<ref>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/17/02/blank/data/04/03.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office, ''Nationalratswahlen 2007: Stärke der Parteien und Wahlbeteiligung, nach Gemeinden/Bezirk/Canton''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150514211354/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/17/02/blank/data/04/03.html |date=14 May 2015 }} {{in lang|de}} accessed 28 May 2010</ref>

Lyss is governed by the ''Gemeinderat'', an executive branch with 5 members, one of them elected mayor (''Gemeindepräsident''). The parliament has 47 members and is called ''Grosser Gemeinderat''. The last elections were held in 2009 with the next elections scheduled to be in 2013.

The 47 members of the legislative municipal council belong to 8 different political parties, the strongest being the [[FDP.The Liberals|FDP]] with 11 seats followed by the [[Swiss People's Party|SVP]] with 10 and the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|SPS]] with 9 seats.

The executive municipal council is made up of five members of three different political parties. The [[FDP.The Liberals|FDP]] and the [[Social Democratic Party of Switzerland|SPS]] hold two seats each, the [[Swiss People's Party|SVP]] holds one seat. The mayor Andreas Hegg is a member of the [[FDP.The Liberals|FDP]].

==Economy==
{{as of|2010|In 2010}}, Lyss had an unemployment rate of 2.5%.  {{as of|2008}}, there were 54 people employed in the [[Primary sector of the economy|primary economic sector]] and about 20 businesses involved in this sector.  3,194 people were employed in the [[Secondary sector of the economy|secondary sector]] and there were 153 businesses in this sector.  3,761 people were employed in the [[Tertiary sector of the economy|tertiary sector]], with 505 businesses in this sector.<ref name=SFSO/>

{{as of|2008|alt=In 2008}} the total number of [[full-time equivalent]] jobs was 5,762.  The number of jobs in the primary sector was 28, of which 22 were in agriculture and 6 were in forestry or lumber production.  The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 2,905 of which 2,228 or (76.7%) were in manufacturing, 30 or (1.0%) were in mining and 567 (19.5%) were in construction.  The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 2,829.  In the tertiary sector; 948 or 33.5% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 145 or 5.1% were in the movement and storage of goods, 181 or 6.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 108 or 3.8% were in the information industry, 159 or 5.6% were the insurance or financial industry, 531 or 18.8% were technical professionals or scientists, 177 or 6.3% were in education and 207 or 7.3% were in health care.<ref>[http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_06%20-%20Industrie%20und%20Dienstleistungen/06.2%20-%20Unternehmen/06.2%20-%20Unternehmen.asp?lang=1&prod=06&secprod=2&openChild=true Swiss Federal Statistical Office STAT-TAB Betriebszählung: Arbeitsstätten nach Gemeinde und NOGA 2008 (Abschnitte), Sektoren 1-3] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225013454/http://www.pxweb.bfs.admin.ch/Database/German_06%20-%20Industrie%20und%20Dienstleistungen/06.2%20-%20Unternehmen/06.2%20-%20Unternehmen.asp?lang=1&prod=06&secprod=2&openChild=true |date=25 December 2014 }} {{in lang|de}} accessed 28 January 2011</ref>

{{as of|2000|alt=In 2000}}, there were 4,242 workers who commuted into the municipality and 3,312 workers who commuted away.  The municipality is a net importer of workers, with about 1.3 workers entering the municipality for every one leaving.<ref name=commuter>[http://www.media-stat.admin.ch/stat/pendler/pop.php Swiss Federal Statistical Office – Statweb] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120804043150/http://www.media-stat.admin.ch/stat/pendler/pop.php |date=4 August 2012 }} {{in lang|de}} accessed 24 June 2010</ref> Of the working population, 21.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 48.7% used a private car.<ref name=SFSO/>

==Religion==
From the {{as of|2000|alt=2000 census}}, 2,082 or 19.5% were [[Roman Catholic]], while 6,580 or 61.7% belonged to the [[Swiss Reformed Church]].  Of the rest of the population, there were 116 [[Orthodoxy#Christianity|members of an Orthodox church]] (or about 1.09% of the population), there were 12 individuals (or about 0.11% of the population) who belonged to the [[Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland|Christian Catholic Church]], and there were 476 individuals (or about 4.47% of the population) who belonged to another Christian church.  There was 1 individual who was [[Judaism|Jewish]], and 404 (or about 3.79% of the population) who were [[Islam]]ic.  There were 35 individuals who were [[Buddhism|Buddhist]], 147 individuals who were [[Hinduism|Hindu]] and 7 individuals who belonged to another church.  751 (or about 7.05% of the population) belonged to no church, are [[Agnosticism|agnostic]] or [[Atheism|atheist]], and 281 individuals (or about 2.64% of the population) did not answer the question.<ref name=STAT2000/>

==Education==
In Lyss about 4,289 or (40.2%) of the population have completed non-mandatory [[Education in Switzerland#Secondary|upper secondary education]], and 1,196 or (11.2%) have completed additional higher education (either [[List of universities in Switzerland|university]] or a ''[[Fachhochschule]]'').  Of the 1,196 who completed tertiary schooling, 72.1% were Swiss men, 18.9% were Swiss women, 5.4% were non-Swiss men and 3.6% were non-Swiss women.<ref name=STAT2000/>

The Canton of Bern school system provides two years of obligatory [[Kindergarten]], followed by six years of Primary school.  This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude.  Following the lower Secondary students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an [[apprenticeship]].<ref>{{Cite report |title=Kantonale Schulstrukturen in der Schweiz und im Fürstentum Liechtenstein / Structures Scolaires Cantonales en Suisse et Dans la Principauté du Liechtenstein |url= https://edudoc.ch/record/132356?ln=en |author= EDK/CDIP/CDPE/CDEP|year= 2019 |accessdate= 20 November 2019 }}</ref>

During the 2018–19 school year, there were a total of 1,640 students attending classes in Lyss.  There were 269 kindergarten students in the municipality.  Of the kindergarten students, 21.2% were permanent or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 28.6% have a different mother language than the classroom language.  The municipality had 857 primary students of which, 23.1% were not citizens and 28.8% have a different mother language.  During the same year, there were 419lower secondary students of which 21.0% were not citizens and 19.1% have a different mother language than the classroom language.  The remaining 95 attended special classes.<ref name=School>{{cite web |url= https://www.erz.be.ch/erz/de/index/direktion/organisation/generalsekretariat/statistik/schul-_und_gemeindetabellen.html |title= Datei der Gemeinde- und Schultabellen 2018/19 |date= 2018 |website= erz.be.ch |publisher= Erziehungsdirektion, Kanton Bern |access-date= 20 November 2019 |archive-date= 5 October 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211005012448/https://www.erz.be.ch/erz/de/index/direktion/organisation/generalsekretariat/statistik/schul-_und_gemeindetabellen.html |url-status= dead }}</ref> 
{{as of|2000}}, there were 166 students in Lyss who came from another municipality, while 251 residents attended schools outside the municipality.<ref name=commuter/>

Lyss is home to the ''Gemeindebibliothek Lyss'' (municipal library of Lyss).  The library has ({{as of|2008|lc=on}}) 22,002 books or other media.  It was open a total of 224 days with average of 20 hours per week during that year.<ref>[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/16/02/02/data.html Swiss Federal Statistical Office, list of libraries] {{in lang|de}} accessed 14 May 2010</ref>

==Transportation==
The municipality has three railway stations: {{rws|Lyss}}, {{rws|Lyss Grien}}, and {{rws|Busswil BE}}. Between them there is regular service to {{rws|Bern}}, {{rws|Belp}}, {{rws|Biel/Bienne}}, {{rws|Büren an der Aare}}, and {{rws|Kerzers}}.

==Notable people==
[[File:Büste Ernst Gäumann Ki 00018 06.tif|140px|thumb|Ernst Gäumann]]
* [[Ernst Albert Gäumann]] (1893 in Lyss – 1963) a Swiss botanist and mycologist 
* [[Werner Zimmermann (canoeist)|Werner Zimmermann]] (born 1915) a retired Swiss slalom and sprint canoeist, competed in the [[1936 Summer Olympics]]
* Margrit von Dach (born 1946 in Lyss) is a Swiss author and translator<ref>[[:de:Margrit von Dach|German Wiki, Margrit von Dach]]</ref> 
* [[Paolo Collaviti]] (born 1978 in Lyss) a Swiss football player, currently plays for [[BSC Young Boys]]
* [[Junior Strous]] (born 1986) a Dutch racing driver and racing team owner, lives in Lyss

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Official website|https://www.lyss.ch}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090608144620/http://www.wibs.ch/cms/EN/home/ECONOMIC-REGION.aspx Chamber of economy Biel-Seeland]

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