List of Famous people born in Canton of Vaud, Switzerland

Siem Stefan de Jong is a Dutch professional footballer who currently plays for Eredivisie club SC Heerenveen as an attacking midfielder or striker.

Thabo Patrick Sefolosha is a Swiss-South African professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has also played in the NBA for the Chicago Bulls, Oklahoma City Thunder, Atlanta Hawks, and Utah Jazz, in the Turkish Basketball League for the Fenerbahçe, in France for Élan Chalon, in Italy for Angelico Biella, and in Switzerland for Vevey Riviera Basket. In 2006, he became the first player from Switzerland to play in the NBA, and in 2013, he was labelled the best Swiss basketball player of all-time by Swiss newspaper Freiburger Nachrichten.

Mario Corti is a Swiss businessman who acted as chairman of Swissair.

Princess Yasmin Aga Khan is a Swiss-born American philanthropist known for raising public awareness of Alzheimer's disease.

Frédéric Shtjefan Veseli, also known as Freddie Veseli, is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Italian Serie B club Benevento and the Albania national team. His main position is centre back but he can also play at right-back and left-back.

Jean-Philippe Écoffey is a Swiss actor. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1985.

Philippe Jaccottet was a Swiss Francophone poet and translator.

Kacey Mottet Klein is a Swiss actor.

Léa Sprunger is a Swiss track and field athlete. A former heptathlete, she began concentrating on the 200 metres and 400 metres in 2011, and then on the 400 metres hurdles from 2015. Her best times in the 400m and 400m hurdles of 50.52 s (2018) and 54.06 s (2019) are the Swiss records. She finished fifth in the 400m hurdles final at the 2017 World Championships, and went on to win the gold medal in the 400m hurdles at the 2018 European Championships. She is the younger sister of Ellen Sprunger.

Lorenzo Viotti is a Swiss conductor. He is currently music director of the Gulbenkian Orchestra, and chief conductor-designate of the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, and Dutch National Opera.