List of Famous people born in Canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Willy Spühler was a Swiss politician.

Pancho Haralanov Vladigerov was a Bulgarian composer, pedagogue, and pianist.

Sandra Hess is a Swiss actress and fashion model. She is best known for her role as Sonya Blade in the film Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, and Lieutenant Alexandra "Ice" Jensen on the television series Pensacola: Wings of Gold.

Heinrich Escher was mayor of the City and Republic of Zürich at the turn of the 18th Century. He is credited with introducing chocolate to Switzerland after learning about it in Brussels.

Balthasar Glättli is a Swiss politician. He is a member of the National Council and, since June 2020, the president of the Green Party of Switzerland.

Karl Brunner was a Swiss economist.

David Botstein is an American biologist serving as the chief scientific officer of Calico. He served as the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University from 2003 to 2013, where he remains an Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics.