List of Famous people born in Canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Marcel Strauss is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer, last riding for UCI ProTeam Gerolsteiner. He retired in 2008, when that team folded.

Daniel Wyder is a Swiss former racing cyclist. Professional from 1984 to 1992, he won the points race at the 1988 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and rode in five editions of the Giro d'Italia.

Kurt Gimmi was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. He was born and died in Zürich and was a professional from 1958 until 1964. He won the eleventh stage of the 1960 Tour de France and the 1959 Tour de Romandie.

Albert Zweifel is a former professional cyclo-cross cyclist. Zweifel was professional from 1973 to 1989 and was in this time five times World Champion in cyclo-cross. He was also National Swiss Cyclo-Cross champion nine times. Zweifel dominated cyclo-cross in Switzerland in the 1970s as well as winning big international cyclo-cross races such as Aigle and Igorre.

Martin Tillman is a Swiss cellist and composer.

Eskil Suter is a former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and current motorcycle chassis constructor from Switzerland.

Adele Duttweiler was a Swiss philanthropist and the wife of Gottlieb Duttweiler, founder of both the Migros group and the LdU political party.

Gustav Heinrich Theodor Eimer was a German zoologist.

Walter Diggelmann was a Swiss professional road bicycle racer. Diggelmann won one stage in the 1952 Tour de France.

Carl Nathanael Burckhardt was a Swiss painter and sculptor. Although a modernist, his choice of subject matter was Neoclassically inspired.