List of Famous people born in Canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Walter Andreas Müller is a Swiss stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions.

Markus Imhoof is a Swiss film director, screenwriter, theatre and opera director.

Johanna Louise Spyri was a Swiss author of novels, notably children's stories, and is best known for her book Heidi. Born in Hirzel, a rural area in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers near Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels.

Francisco Rodríguez Araya is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for FC Schaffhausen. His older brothers are the Swiss international Ricardo Rodríguez and the winger Roberto Rodríguez.

Peter Sauerbruch was a highly decorated Oberstleutnant i.G. in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

Harald Naegeli is a Swiss artist best known as the "Sprayer of Zurich" after the graffiti he sprayed in the late 1970s onto walls and buildings in Zürich, Switzerland.

Jean-Pierre Patrick Rhyner Pebe is a Swiss-born Peruvian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Greek club Volos.

Steve Lee was a Swiss musician, best known as the vocalist of the band Gotthard.

Carl-Eduard Otto Wolfgang Jayme Anders von Bismarck-Schönhausen, often known as Calle von Bismarck, is a German politician (CDU). He served as a member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2007, and is a member of the princely House of Bismarck.

Konrad "Koni" Steffen was a Swiss glaciologist, known for his research into the impact of global warming on the Arctic.