Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Cantón de Basilea-Ciudad

Patrick Baumann was a Swiss basketball executive, player and coach. He was the President of the Global Association of International Sports Federations and Secretary General of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). He was posthumously inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020.

Francisco Javier Gómez Noya es un triatleta profesional español, cinco veces campeón mundial, en los años 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014 y 2015, medalla de plata en los Juegos Olímpicos de Londres 2012, y cuatro veces campeón de Europa, en los años 2007, 2009, 2012 y 2016. Llegó a ocupar el número uno del ranking de la ITU al final de nueve temporadas, del año 2007 al 2016.

Urs Siegenthaler is a former Swiss footballer, turned manager. Since 13 May 2005 he is Chiefscout and Analyser for the German national team.

Marcel Louis Ospel was a Swiss banker and the longtime head of the multinational investment bank UBS.

Dani Levy es un cineasta, director teatral, guionista y actor suizo.

Marc Allégret fue un director de cine suizo que realizó la mayor parte de su trabajo en Francia.

Carl Jacob Burckhardt was a Swiss diplomat and historian. His career alternated between periods of academic historical research and diplomatic postings; the most prominent of the latter were League of Nations High Commissioner for the Free City of Danzig (1937–39) and President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (1945–48).

Thomas Gustav Borer is a Swiss management consultant, lobbyist and former diplomat. From 1996 to 1999 he headed the Switzerland - Second World War Task Force. From 1996 to 1999 he headed the Switzerland – Second World War Task Force. He then was Switzerland's ambassador to Germany until 2002.

Helene Louise "Helli" Stehle was a Swiss actress and radio presenter.

Roland Wiesendanger is a German physicist, specializing in nanoscience. Since 1993 he has been a full professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany, where he established a National Center of Competence in Nanotechnology. He has been awarded three times in a row with the ERC Advanced Grant of the European Research Council as first scientist in Europe. In the Laudatio for the International Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics (2016), his pioneering work on Spin-Polarized Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Magnetic Exchange Force Microscopy, which allow for investigations of the magnetism of individual atoms on surfaces as well as the spin structure of solid surfaces with atomic resolution, was highlighted.