List of Famous people born in Canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Manfred Bleuler was a Swiss physician and psychiatrist. Following in the footsteps of his father, doctoral supervisor, and colleague, Eugen Bleuler, Manfred Bleuler was devoted primarily to the study and treatment of schizophrenia. For his contributions, he received the Stanley R. Dean Award in 1970 and the Marcel Benoist Prize in 1972.

Werner Kaegi (1901–1979) was a Swiss historian. He is best known for a single work, a biography of Jacob Burkhardt. This appeared in seven volumes, from 1947 to 1982.

Martin Buser is a champion of sled dog racing.

Hans Oeschger was the founder of the Division of Climate and Environmental Physics at the Physics Institute of the University of Bern in 1963 and director until his retirement in 1992.

Louis Louis-Dreyfus was a member of the French parliament and co-director of the commodity distribution and trading company, Louis Dreyfus Group.

Ettore Cella was a Swiss actor and film director. He was naturalised as a Swiss citizen in 1930, as his parents had emigrated from Italy. He appeared in 25 films between 1941 and 2004. He starred in the 1976 film The Sudden Loneliness of Konrad Steiner, which was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival.

Urs Allemann is a Swiss writer and journalist.

Martin Hürlimann was a Swiss publisher, better known in the English speaking world as a photographer.