List of Famous people born in Canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Barbara Diethelm is a Swiss painter, drawer and producer of artists' colours.

Fanny Moser was a Swiss noblewoman who at one point was known as the richest woman in Eastern Europe. She was one of the five women evaluated in Freud's Studies on Hysteria, which led to his psychoanalytic theories. Her father, Baron Heinrich von Sulzer-Wart had inherited his title from her grandfather, Johann Heinrich von Sulzer-Wart, who had been awarded a peerage for service to Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. On 28 December 1870, she married Swiss watchmaker and industrialist Heinrich Moser, who had made a fortune by developing high-quality watches to sell on the Russian market. H. Moser & Co. then expanded to include a factory in Switzerland and Heinrich founded a railway company in Schaffhausen, furthering his wealth.

Milena Moser is a Swiss writer. Her first language is Swiss German. She has emigrated to the United States of America twice, in 1998 and again in 2015, but German remains the language in which she writes, and in which by 2018 more than twenty of her novels had been published.

Gabriela Scherer is a Swiss mezzo-soprano.

Daniel Jositsch is a Swiss politician, member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP), representing the canton of Zürich in the Swiss Council of States since 2015.

Jan Elvedi is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Jahn Regensburg.

Frank Feltscher Martínez is a Swiss-Venezuelan professional footballer who plays for Atlético Venezuela as an attacking midfielder.

Gino Lettieri is a football manager who last manged MSV Duisburg. Lettieri is an Italian national but was born in Switzerland.

George Gerster was a Swiss journalist and a pioneer aerial photographer.

Hermann Obrist was a Swiss sculptor of the Jugendstil and Art Nouveau movement. He studied Botany and History in his youth; the influence of those subjects is detected in his later work in the field of applied arts. As a teacher, Hermann Obrist exerted a seminal influence on the rise and subsequent development of Jugendstil in Germany.