List of Famous people born in Canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Marco Bliggensdorfer, professionally known as Bligg, is a Swiss rapper. His albums 0816 and Bart Aber Herzlich reached the spot on the Swiss charts; four of his other albums have peaked the Top 20. In 1999 and 2000, he was part of the duo Bligg'n'Lexx with rapper and producer Lexx, releasing one album together.

Gottfried Honegger was a Swiss artist and graphic designer. He was married to the Swiss illustrator Warja Lavater. He studied shop-window display at the Zurich Kunstgewerbeschule and taught there from 1948. His early work was commercial graphic design.

Rolf Günther Feltscher Martínez is a Swiss-Venezuelan professional footballer who plays as defender for Würzburger Kickers and the Venezuela national team.

Gottfried Keller was a Swiss poet and writer of German literature. Best known for his novel Green Henry and his cycle of novellas called The People from Seldwyla, he became one of the most popular narrators of literary realism in the late 19th century.

Johann Heinrich Alfred Escher vom Glas, known as Alfred Escher was a Swiss politician, business leader and railways pioneer. Thanks to his numerous political posts and his significant role in the foundation and management of the Swiss Northeastern Railway, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Credit Suisse, Swiss Life and the Gotthard Railway, Escher had an unmatched influence on Switzerland's political and economic development in the 19th century.

Bruno George Berner is a Swiss professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of SC Kriens in the Swiss Challenge League. Throughout his playing career, Berner played predominantly as a left back, but was also deployed in other roles, such as central defence, left wing and also in central midfield towards the end of his career at Leicester City.

Achille Casanova was a Swiss journalist and politician. He held the office of Vice-Chancellor of Switzerland between 1981 and 2005, and during this time became the first official spokesman for the Swiss Federal Council when that role was created on 1 September 2000.

Ethan Gutmann is an American writer, China watcher, author, and former adjunct fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies whose work has investigated surveillance and organ harvesting in China.

Judith Auer was a resistance fighter against the Nazi régime in Germany.

Magdalena Martullo-Blocher is a Swiss billionaire, businesswoman, Swiss People's Party politician, the CEO of Ems-Chemie, and the daughter and an heiress of former Swiss Federal Councillor Christoph Blocher. In 2015, she was elected to the National Council as a representative of Graubünden, although she lives in the Canton of Zürich.