List of Famous people born in Canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Zoë Pastelle Holthuizen, known professionally as Zoë Pastelle, is a Swiss actress, model, and social media influencer.

Heinz Peter Günthardt is a retired tennis player from Switzerland.

Davide Callà is a Swiss professional footballer of Italian descent who plays as midfielder for Winterthur.

Walter Eich was a Swiss football goalkeeper who played for Switzerland in the 1954 FIFA World Cup. He also played for FC Winterthur and BSC Young Boys. He died on 1 June 2018, aged 93 in Bern.

Jakob "Jack" Günthard was a Swiss artistic gymnast. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where he won the gold medal in the horizontal bar, and the silver medal in the team combined exercises. Günthard died in August 2016 at the age of 96.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a Swiss-American psychiatrist, a pioneer in near-death studies, and author of the internationally best-selling book, On Death and Dying (1969), where she first discussed her theory of the five stages of grief, also known as the "Kübler-Ross model".

Carl Wilhelm von Nägeli was a Swiss botanist. He studied cell division and pollination but became known as the man who discouraged Gregor Mendel from further work on genetics. He rejected natural selection as a mechanism of evolution, favouring orthogenesis driven by a supposed "inner perfecting principle".

Franco Marvulli is a Swiss professional racing cyclist.

Lucian Büeler was a Swiss civil engineer and figure skater. He was the 1935-1937 Swiss national champion. He represented Switzerland at the 1936 Winter Olympics where he placed 17th. As a civil engineer, he worked in Argentina from 1939 to 1947 and constructed South America's first artificial ice rink in Buenos Aires.

James Schwarzenbach was a right-wing Swiss politician and publicist. In the 1970s he was head of the short-lived Republican Movement. He also was publisher of fascist, völkisch, and antisemitic literature as the owner of Thomas-Verlag. He served in the National Council from December 12, 1967 to February 28, 1979, representing the Canton of Zürich.