Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en cantón Zúrich

Richard Seifert was a Swiss-British architect, best known for designing the Centre Point tower and Tower 42, once the tallest building in the City of London. His eponymously named practice – R. Seifert and Partners was at its most prolific in the 1960s and 1970s, responsible for many major office buildings in Central London as well as large urban regeneration projects in other major British cities.

Barbara Schulthess, was a Swiss Salonnière. From 1772 onward, she hosted a literary salon in Zürich, which came to be regarded as the intellectual center of contemporary Zürich. She is known as the friend and correspondent of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Teo Gheorghiu is a Swiss-Canadian pianist and actor.

Josef Benz –conocido como Sepp Benz– fue un deportista suizo que compitió en bobsleigh en las modalidades doble y cuádruple.

William Helmreich was a Swiss-born American professor of sociology at the City College of New York Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was also a published author.

Richard Robert Ernst es un químico y profesor universitario suizo galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Química del año 1991.

Evelyne Kraft was a Swiss business woman and former actress. She was best known for her roles in the films Lady Dracula and The Mighty Peking Man.

Karl Bodmer, Johann Carl Bodmer o Jean-Charles Bodmer, nacido en Zúrich el 6 de febrero de 1809 y fallecido en Barbizon el 30 de octubre de 1893, fue un artista gráfico, litógrafo, dibujante, ilustrador y pintor suizo.

Nils Melzer is a Swiss academic and author in the field of international law. Since 1 November 2016, Melzer has served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. He is a professor of international law at the University of Glasgow and holds the Human Rights Chair at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights in Switzerland, where he has been teaching since 2009, including as the Swiss Chair of International Humanitarian Law (2011–2013).

Johann Heinrich Hottinger was a Swiss philologist and theologian.