List of Famous people born in Basel-Stadt, Switzerland

Arlind Afrim Ajeti is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie B club Reggiana and the Albania national team. He holds dual Albanian and Swiss nationality.

Kurt Leopold Seligmann (1900–1962) was a Swiss-American Surrealist painter and engraver. He was known for his fantastic imagery of medieval troubadors and knights in macabre rituals and inspired by the carnival held annually in his native Basel, Switzerland.

Trudi Roth was a Swiss stage and film actress who starred in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions.

Benjamin Steffen is a Swiss épée fencer, four-time European team champion and team bronze medallist in the 2011, 2014 and 2019 World Championships. He won the silver medal in individual épée at the 2003 Summer Universiade.

Natascha Badmann is a professional triathlete from Switzerland. She is a 6-time winner of the Ironman World Championships in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii in 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, and 2005 ; in 1998 she became the first European woman to win the Ironman Triathlon World Championship.

Martin Schenkel was a Swiss television actor and musician starring usually in Swiss German television productions.

Xavier Guillaume Mertz was a Swiss polar explorer, mountaineer, and skier who took part in the Far Eastern Party, a 1912–1913 component of the Australasian Antarctic expedition, which claimed his life. Mertz Glacier on the George V Coast in East Antarctica is named after him.

Hans Emil "Hannes" Meyer was a Swiss architect and second director of the Bauhaus Dessau from 1928 to 1930.

Rudolf Kelterborn was a Swiss musician and composer.

Marco Streller is a Swiss former footballer who played as a striker and is best known for his years with FC Basel and the Switzerland national team. He was the sporting director of FC Basel from June 2017 until June 2019. Since February 2020 he works as a TV expert for the Swiss Pay TV broadcaster Teleclub.