List of Famous people born in Canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Gustav Max Wiederkehr was a Swiss football administrator. He served as UEFA President from 1962 to 1972.

Johann Caspar Bluntschli was a Swiss jurist and politician. Together with fellow liberals Francis Lieber and Édouard René de Laboulaye, he developed one of the first codes of international law and war.

Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke was a Swiss philologist of the Neogrammarian school of linguistics.

Robert Julius Trumpler was a Swiss-American astronomer.

Heinrich Sutermeister was a Swiss composer, most famous for his opera Romeo und Julia.

Inigo Gallo was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions.

Sereina Trachsel is a Swiss former racing cyclist. She was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 2004, 2005 and 2007.

Jakob Ackeret, FRAeS was a Swiss aeronautical engineer. He is widely viewed as one of the foremost aeronautics experts of the 20th century.