List of Famous people born in Canton of Nidwald, Switzerland

Nina Christen is a Swiss sports shooter. She competed in the women's 10 metre air rifle event at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Games, winning bronze in 2020. Winning the 50 m rifle three positions event with an Olympic record, Christen became the first Swiss to claim a gold medal in women's Olympic shooting.

Erika Hess is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Switzerland. One of the best female racers of the 1980s, Hess had 31 World Cup wins, four slalom titles, and two overall titles. She also won six World Championship gold medals between 1982 and 1987, and took bronze in the slalom at the 1980 Winter Olympics at age 17. Hess missed another medal in 1985, when she led after the first run of the slalom at the "Stelvio" course at Bormio, but failed to finish the second leg.

Fredi M. Murer is a Swiss filmmaker.

Urs Odermatt is a Swiss film director and author.

Ayla Huser is a Swiss badminton player and a member of Yverdon-les-Bains club. Born in Stans, Nidwalden, Switzerland, Huser spent her childhood in Buochs. She started paying badminton at the age of ten in Buochs badminton club, and after two years she moved to Stansstad club. In 2009, she won the Swiss national U17 championships in the singles and mixed event, and in 2011 she won the singles title at the Italian Junior tournament. In the 2011/2012 seasons, she joined the Swiss national badminton squad. Huser was the semifinalists at the 2016 Finnish and 2017 Dutch International tournament. In September 2017, she won her first international senior title at the Polish International.