Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Cantón de Ginebra

Marc Delafontaine fue un químico suizo que en 1878, junto con Jacques-Louis Soret, observaron por primera vez el holmio mediante espectroscopia. En 1879, Per Teodor Cleve lo separó químicamente del tulio y erbio. Los tres se dieron crédito por el descubrimiento del elemento.

Maurice Turrettini was a Swiss architect, most notable for his design of Am Römerholz.

Marc-Michel Rey fue un editor muy influyente en las Provincias Unidas de los Países Bajos que editó muchas obras de los Philosophes franceses, incluyendo las de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) y Denis Diderot (1713-1784).

François Pierre Ami Argand. Fue un físico y químico suizo, reconocido por desarrollar e inventar el quinqué, el cual remplazó al candil como fuente principal de alumbrado.

Raymond Lambert was a Swiss mountaineer who together with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached an altitude of 8611 metres of Mount Everest, as part of a Swiss Expedition in May 1952. At the time it was the highest point that a climber had ever reached. There was a second Swiss expedition in autumn 1952, but a party including Lambert and Tenzing was forced to turn back at a slightly lower point. The following year Tenzing returned with Edmund Hillary to reach the summit on 29 May 1953.

Charles [Auguste Louis] Panzéra was a Swiss operatic and concert baritone.

Charles Laeser was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. Laeser entered 1903 Tour de France, the first edition of the race. He did not finish the third stage, but according to the rules then, he was still allowed to start the next stage. He started and even won the fourth stage, thus becoming the first foreign Tour de France stage winner. Laeser also entered the 1904 Tour de France, but did finish any stage.

Albert Sechehaye fue un lingüista suizo, discípulo de Saussure, hizo una serie de apuntes tomados por él y su compañero Charles Bally, en tres cursos que el lingüista suizo impartió en la Facultad de Letras de Ginebra entre 1907 y 1911.

Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin fue un etnólogo, lingüista, político, diplomático y Secretario del Tesoro de Estados Unidos.

Camille Graeser (1892–1980) was a Swiss painter and member of the circle of Zurich Concrete artists. He was born in Switzerland but grew up in Stuttgart, Germany where he became a furniture designer. He took part in major exhibitions by the association Werkbund and in 1927 was invited to create furniture for Mies van der Rohe. In 1933 he fled to Switzerland as a result of the Nazis coming to power. He then became a member of the Swiss artists’ association Allianz.