List of Famous people born in Canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Hans Knecht was a Swiss professional road racing cyclist. The highlight of his career was winning the World Cycling Championship in 1946. He was the Swiss National Road Race champion in 1943, 1946 and 1947. He was a professional cyclist from 1939 to 1949.

Paul Eugen Bleuler was a Swiss psychiatrist and humanist most notable for his contributions to the understanding of mental illness. He coined several psychiatric terms including "schizophrenia", "schizoid", "autism", depth psychology and what Sigmund Freud called "Bleuler's happily chosen term ambivalence".

Michael Gempart is a Swiss actor.

Tina Stuerzinger is a Swiss figure skater. She is the 2013 Swiss national champion and competed in the free skate at two ISU Championships – the 2012 World Junior Championships in Minsk, Belarus, and 2013 European Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.

Ernst Paul Specker (11 February 1920, Zurich – 10 December 2011, Zurich) was a Swiss mathematician. Much of his most influential work was on Quine's New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics, showing that certain types of hidden variable theories are impossible. He also proved the ordinal partition relation ω² → (ω²,3)², thereby solving a problem of Erdős.

Eduard L. Stiefel was a Swiss mathematician. Together with Cornelius Lanczos and Magnus Hestenes, he invented the conjugate gradient method, and gave what is now understood to be a partial construction of the Stiefel–Whitney classes of a real vector bundle, thus co-founding the study of characteristic classes.