# List of people from Zurich

Many notable people were either born or adopted in the Swiss city of Zürich.

## Native people from Zürich

The following were born or adopted in Zürich.

### A to D

* Jost Amman (1539–1591), Swiss-German artist
* Hans Asper (c. 1499–1571), Swiss painter
* Richard Avenarius (1843–1896), German-Swiss philosopher
* Hans J. Baer (1927–2011), Swiss banker
* Johann Georg Baiter (1801–1877), Swiss philologist and textual critic
* Daniel Barben (born 1961), Swiss professor
* Denise Biellmann (born 1962), Swiss professional figure skater
* Diego Benaglio (born 1983), Swiss footballer
* Severin Blindenbacher (born 1983), Swiss ice hockey player
* Felix Bloch (1905–1983), Swiss-American physicist
* Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698–1783), Swiss author, academic and poet
* Rosa Bloch-Bollag (1880–1922), Swiss politician and activist
* Johann Kaspar Bluntschli (1808–1881), Swiss jurist and politician
* Alain de Botton (born 1969), Swiss-born British author and public speaker
* Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575), Swiss reformer and theologian
* René Burri (1933–2014), Swiss photographer
* Monika Dettwiler (born 1948), Swiss-Italian journalist and author
* Gottlieb Duttweiler (1888–1962), Swiss businessman and politician
* Ulla Dydo (1925–2017), Swiss writer

### E to G

* Jeanne Eder-Schwyzer (1894–1957), Swiss women's rights activist
* Nico Elvedi (born 1996), Swiss footballer
* Alfred Escher (1819–1882), Swiss politician, business leader and railways pioneer
* Lydia Escher (1858–1891), Swiss patron of the arts
* Arnold Escher von der Linth (1807–1872), Swiss geologist
* Peter Fischli (born 1952), Swiss artist
* Robert Frank (1924–2019), Swiss American photographer and documentary filmmaker
* Max Frisch (1911–1991), Swiss playwright and novelist
* Christoph Froschauer (c. 1490–1564), Swiss printer
* Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), Swiss painter, draughtsman and writer on art
* Daniel Garbade (born 1957), Swiss Spanish artist
* Bruno Ganz (1941–2019), Swiss actor
* Ueli Gegenschatz (1971–2009), Swiss BASE jumper, paraglider and skydiver
* Conrad Gessner (1516–1565), Swiss physician, naturalist, bibliographer, and philologist
* HR Giger (1940–2014), Swiss artist
* Marcel Grossmann (1878–1936), Swiss mathematician

### H to K

* Markus Hediger (born 1959), Swiss writer and translator
* Albert Heim (1849–1937), Swiss geologist
* Max Holzmann (1899–1994), Swiss cardiologist
* Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620–1667), Swiss philologist and theologian
* Andy Hug (1964–2000), Swiss karateka and kickboxer
* Christine Hug (1980–2023), Swiss military officer
* Otto Frederick Hunziker (1873–1959), Swiss American dairy educator
* Hans-Ulrich Indermaur (born 1939), Swiss magazine editor, television reporter and author
* Philippe Jordan (born 1974), Swiss conductor and pianist
* Leo Jud (1482–1542), Swiss reformer
* Carl Jung (1875–1961), Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist
* Gottfried Keller (1819–1890), Swiss poet
* Hugo Koblet (1925–1964), Swiss cyclist
* Ursula Koch (born 1941), Swiss politician
* Albert von Kölliker (1817–1905), Swiss anatomist, physiologist and histologist
* Ernesto Korrodi (1870–1944), Swiss-born Portuguese architect

### L to R

* Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801), Swiss poet, writer, philosopher, physiognomist and theologian
* Antonio Ligabue (1899–1965), Swiss -born Italian painter
* Hugo Loetscher (1929–2009), Swiss writer and essayist
* Rolf Lyssy (born 1936), Swiss screenwriter and film director
* Dieter Meier (born 1945), Swiss musician and conceptual artist
* Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825–1898), Swiss poet and historical novelist
* Silvio Moser (1941–1974), Swiss racing driver
* Walter Andreas Müller (born 1945), Swiss actor
* Harald Naegeli (born 1939), Swiss artist
* Heinz Nigg (born 1949), Swiss visual anthropologist, community artist and video archivist
* Ernst Nobs (1886–1957), Swiss politician
* Hans Konrad von Orelli (1846–1912), Swiss theologian
* Johann Caspar von Orelli (1787–1849), Swiss classical scholar
* Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746–1827), Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer
* Joachim Raff (1822–1882), German-Swiss composer and pianist

### S to Z

* Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672–1733), Swiss physician and natural scientist
* Hanna Scheuring (born 1965), Swiss actress and theatre director
* Roland Scholl (1865–1945), Swiss chemist
* Trudi Schoop (1904–1999), Swiss dancer and therapist
* Peter Schweri (1939–2016), Swiss artist and musician
* Johanna Spyri (1827–1901), Swiss author
* Sandra Studer (born 1969), Swiss moderator and singer
* Stefi Talman (born 1958), Swiss shoe designer
* Bénédict Turrettini (1588–1631), Swiss pastor and professor of theology
* Pancho Vladigerov (1899–1978), Swiss-born Bulgarian composer, pedagogue and pianist
* Heini Waser (1913–2008), Swiss painter
* Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (born 1939), Swiss-born German politician and scientist
* Urs Widmer (1938–2014), Swiss novelist, playwright, and essayist
* Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach (born 1947), Swiss biologist
* Ozan Yildirim (born 1992), Swiss record producer and songwriter

### A to K

* Sibylle Berg (born 1962), German-Swiss contemporary author and essayist
* Max Bill (1908–1994), Swiss architect, artist and designer
* Anne-Marie Blanc (1919–2009), Swiss actress
* Boris Blank (born 1952), Swiss musician
* Georg Büchner (1813–1837), German dramatist
* Johann Gottfried Ebel (1764–1830), author of the first guidebook to Switzerland
* Albert Einstein (1879–1955), German-born theoretical physicist
* Stephanie Glaser (1920–2011), Swiss actress
* Hermann Greulich (1842–1925), Swiss politician
* Franz Hohler (born 1943), Swiss author and cabaret performer
* Udo Jürgens (1934–2014), Austrian composer and singer
* Patricia Kaas (born 1966), French singer and actress
* Jonas Kaufmann (born 1969), German-Austrian tenor opera singer
* Adolf Keller (1872–1963), Swiss Protestant theologian and writer
* Tina Keller-Jenny (1887–1985), Swiss physician and Jungian psychotherapist
* Erich Kleiber (1890–1956), Austrian Argentine conductor

### L to Z

* Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924), Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist
* Moritz Leuenberger (born 1946), Swiss politician
* Mileva Marić, (1875–1948), Serbian physicist and mathematician
* Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (born 1968), Puerto Rican photographer
* Elisabeth von Rapperswil (c. 1251–1309), Countess of Grafschaft Rapperswil
* Roger Sablonier (1941–2010), Swiss historian and writer
* Ernst Sieber (1927–2018), Swiss pastor, social activist and politician
* Lee "Scratch" Perry (1936–2021), Jamaican record producer, composer and singer
* Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935), German journalist, satirist and writer
* Tina Turner (1939–2023), American singer-songwriter and actress
* Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), Romanian avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist
* Georg von Vollmar (1850–1922), Bavarian politician
* Richard Wagner (1813–1883), German composer and conductor
* Raphael Zuber (born 1973), Swiss architect