List of Famous people born in Canton of Vaud, Switzerland

Daniel Atienza Urendez is a former Spanish professional road bicycle racer who rode for UCI ProTeam Cofidis from 2001 to 2005.

Pierre-Yves Maillard is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party. He is a member of the Council of State of Vaud since 2004.

Alexandre Pasche is a Swiss professional footballer, who plays as a midfielder for FC Lausanne-Sport in the Swiss Super League.

Daniel Brélaz is a Swiss mathematician and politician, member of the Green Party of Switzerland and mayor of Lausanne between 2001 and 2016.

Danilo Wyss is a Swiss road racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI WorldTeam NTT Pro Cycling. He is no relation to fellow Swiss cyclist Daniel Wyss who won the Race Across America in 2006 and 2009.

Claude Calame is a Swiss writer on Greek mythology and the structure of mythic narrative from the perspective of a Hellenist trained in semiotics and ethnology (ethnopoetics) as well as philology. He was a professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Lausanne and is now Director of Studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, in Paris.- He taught also at the Universities of Urbino and Siena in Italy, and at Yale University in the US.

Amanda Sandrelli is an Italian actress.