List of Famous people born in Canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Anton Graff was an eminent Swiss portrait artist. Among his famous subjects were Friedrich Schiller, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Heinrich von Kleist, Frederick the Great, Friederike Sophie Seyler, Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Moses Mendelssohn and Christian Felix Weiße. His pupils included Emma Körner, Philipp Otto Runge and Karl Ludwig Kaaz.

Melanie Winiger is a Swiss actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Switzerland 1996.

Denise Biellmann is a Swiss professional figure skater. She was the European and World Champion in 1981 and won the Swiss Championships three times.

Hans Max Gamper-Haessig, known in Catalonia as Joan Gamper, was a Swiss football pioneer, versatile athlete and club president. He founded football clubs in Switzerland and Spain, most notably FC Barcelona and FC Zürich.

Diego Orlando Benaglio is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

Max Rudolf Frisch was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. The use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war output. Frisch was one of the founders of Gruppe Olten. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1986.

Arijanet Anan Murić is a Kosovar professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Dutch club Willem II, on loan from English club Manchester City, and the Kosovo national team. He previously represented Montenegro at under-21 international level.

Marcel Koller is a Swiss professional football manager and former player who last managed Swiss Super League club FC Basel.

Luc Bondy was a Swiss theatre and film director.

Marc Faber is a Swiss investor based in Thailand. He is the publisher of the Gloom Boom & Doom Report newsletter and the director of Marc Faber Ltd, which acts as an investment advisor and fund manager. Faber also serves as director, advisor, and shareholder of a number of investment funds that focus on emerging and frontier markets, including Asia Frontier Capital Ltd.'s AFC Asia Frontier Fund.