List of Famous people born in Canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Niklaus Emil Wirth is a Swiss computer scientist. He has designed several programming languages, including Pascal, and pioneered several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984, he won the Turing Award, generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science, for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages.

Anna Barbara Reinhart, was a Swiss mathematician. She was considered an internationally respected mathematician of her era.

Max Pfister was a Swiss Romance studies scholar and linguist.

Hermann Rorschach was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. His education in art helped to spur the development of a set of inkblots that were used experimentally to measure various unconscious parts of the subject's personality. His method has come to be referred to as the Rorschach test, iterations of which have continued to be used over the years to help identify personality, psychotic, and neurological disorders. Rorschach continued to refine the test until his premature death at age 37.

Amédée Grab was a Swiss Roman Catholic bishop.

Darius Sinathrya is a Swiss-born Indonesian model, actor, TV performer, futsal manager and sport presenter. He is best known for his role in film Naga Bonar (Jadi) 2 and hosted programs such as Super Family Quiz and 2006 FIFA World Cup on SCTV.

Conrad Gessner was a Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist. Born into a poor family in Zürich, Switzerland, his father and teachers quickly realised his talents and supported him through university, where he studied classical languages, theology and medicine. He became Zürich's City Physician, but was able to spend much of his time on collecting, research and writing. Gessner compiled monumental works on bibliography and zoology and was working on a major botanical text at the time of his death from plague at the age of 49. He is regarded as the father of modern scientific bibliography, zoology and botany. He was frequently the first to describe a species of plant or animal in Europe, such as the tulip in 1559. A number of plants and animals have been named after him.

Adolf Muschg is a Swiss writer and professor of literature. Muschg was a member of the Gruppe Olten.

Niels Hintermann is a Swiss World Cup alpine ski racer. Born in Bülach, Zürich, Hintermann specializes in the speed events of Downhill and Super-G.

Chantal Galladé is a Swiss politician, represented the Canton of Zürich in the Swiss National Council as member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) from December 2003 until December 2018.