List of people from Zürich

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

## Native people from Zürich[edit]

The following were born or adopted in Zürich. Some became famous after they moved away.

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Richard Avenarius Rosa Bloch-Bollag, 1915 Heinrich Bullinger, 1550

### A to D[edit]

* Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna of Russia (1853–1920 in Zürich), the fifth child and only surviving daughter of Alexander II of Russia
* Jost Amman (1539 in Zürich – 1591) artist, chiefly of woodcuts.[1]
* Hans Asper (ca.1499 in Zürich – 1571 in Zürich) a painter of portraits.[2]
* Richard Avenarius (1843–1896 in Zürich), philosopher.[3]
* Johann Georg Baiter (1801 in Zürich – 1877) philologist and textual critic.[4]
* Manon Bannerman (born 2002 in Zürich), Ghanaian-Italian-Swiss singer and member of US-based international girl group Katseye formed by HYBE Corporation and Geffen Records.[5]
* Daniel Barben (born 1961 in Zürich), university professor[6]
* Denise Biellmann (born 1962 in Zürich), Olympic figure skater, eponym of her skating spin
* Diego Benaglio (born 1983 in Zürich), footballer
* Severin Blindenbacher (born 1983 in Zürich), ice hockey player
* Felix Bloch (1905 in Zürich – 1983), physicist
* Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698 at Greifensee – 1783 in Zürich) author, academic and poet.[7]
* Rosa Bloch-Bollag (1880 in Zürich – 1922), political activist
* Johann Kaspar Bluntschli (1808 in Zürich – 1881) a jurist and politician.[8]
* Alain de Botton (1969 in Zürich), British philosopher and author
* Celeste Buckingham (born 1995 in Zürich), Slovak singer
* Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575 in Zürich), reformer and theologian.[9]
* René Burri (1933 in Zürich – 2014 in Zürich), photographer
* Elias Canetti (1905–1994 in Zürich), novelist
* Monika Dettwiler (born 1948 in Zürich), journalist and author
* Fabio Digenti (born 1983 in Zürich), footballer
* Gottlieb Duttweiler (1888–1962 in Rüschlikon), entrepreneur and politician (founder of Migros)
* Ulla E. Dydo (1925 in Zürich – 2017), writer, editor and noted Gertrude Stein expert

### E to G[edit]

Max Frisch, 1974 Salomon Gessner, 1765

* Jeanne Eder-Schwyzer (1894–1957 in Zürich), women's rights activist, President of the International Council of Women
* Nico Elvedi (1996 in Zurich) footballer, plays for Borussia Mönchengladbach
* Alfred Escher (1819 in Zürich – 1882 in Zürich), politician, business leader and railways pioneer
* Lydia Escher (1858 in Zürich-Enge – 1891), daughter of Alfred Escher, founded the Gottfried Keller Stiftung
* Arnold Escher von der Linth (1807 in Zürich – 1872) a geologist.[10]
* Ernst Moritz Ludwig Ettmüller (1802 – 1877 in Zürich), a German philologist.[11]
* Wilhelm Filchner (1877–1957 in Zürich), explorer
* Peter Fischli (born 1952 in Zürich), artist, part of artistic duo Fischli and Weiss
* Robert Frank (1924 in Zürich - 2019), photographer and documentary filmmaker
* Max Frisch (1911 in Zürich – 1991 in Zürich), major Swiss playwright and novelist
* Christoph Froschauer (ca.1490/–1564 in Zürich), printer of the Froschauer Bible
* Henry Fuseli (1741 in Zürich – 1825 in London) a painter, draughtsman and writer on art.[12]
* Daniel Garbade (born 1957 in Zürich), painter, illustrator, art director and publisher
* Bruno Ganz (1941 in Zürich – 2019), Swiss actor known for playing Adolf Hitler in Downfall
* Patrick Geering (born 1990 in Zürich), ice hockey player
* Ueli Gegenschatz (1971–2009 in Zürich), Swiss BASE jumper, died after a failed jump from the Sunrise Tower
* Conrad Gessner (1516 in Zürich – 1565 in Zürich), naturalist.[13]
* Salomon Gessner (1730 in Zürich – 1788) painter, graphic artist and poet of Idylls.[14]
* HR Giger (1940 – 2014 in Zürich), artist, designer of the Alien aliens
* Hermann Goetz (1840 – 1876 in Zürich) a German composer, wrote the 1872 opera Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung.[15]
* Marcel Grossmann (1878–1936 in Zürich), mathematician

### H to K[edit]

Carl Jung, 1935 Otto Klemperer, ca.1930

* Markus Hediger (born 1959 in Zurich), poet and translator
* Albert Heim (1849 in Zürich – 1937) a geologist.[16]
* Max Holzmann (1899 in Zürich – 1994 in Zürich), cardiologist
* Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620 in Zürich – 1667) a philologist and theologian.[17]
* Andy Hug (1964 in Zürich – 2000), karateka and kickboxer
* Christine Hug (1980 – 2023), Swiss military officer
* Otto Hunziker (1873 in Zürich – 1959), pioneer in the international dairy industry
* Hans-Ulrich Indermaur (born 1939 in Zürich), magazine editor, TV reporter and author.[18]
* Philippe Jordan (born 1974 in Zürich), music director of the Opéra National de Paris, and current chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra
* James Joyce (1882–1941 in Zürich), Irish novelist, (buried at Fluntern Cemetery in Zürich)
* Leo Jud (1482 – 1542 in Zürich), a reformer who worked with Huldrych Zwingli in Zürich.[19]
* Carl Jung (1875 in Zürich – 1961 in Zürich), psychiatrist
* Enes Kanter Freedom (born 1992 in Zürich), American basketball player
* Raynold Kaufgetz (1797 in Zürich – 1869 in Zürich), economist
* Gottfried Keller (1819 in Zürich – 1890 in Zürich), poet.[20]
* Otto Klemperer (1885–1973 in Zürich), German conductor (buried at Israelitischer Friedhof Oberer Friesenberg)
* Hugo Koblet (1925 in Zürich – 1964), cycling champion
* Ursula Koch (born 1941 in Zürich), politician
* Albert von Kölliker (1817 in Zürich – 1905) an anatomist, physiologist and histologist.[21]
* Ernesto Korrodi (born Ernst Korrodi) (1870 in Zürich – 1944), architect who lived, worked and died in Portugal

### L to R[edit]

Thomas Mann, 1929 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, ca.1806

* Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741 in Zürich – 1801), poet and physiognomist.[22]
* Antonio Ligabue (1899 in Zürich – 1965), Italian painter
* Hugo Loetscher (1929 in Zürich – 2009 in Zürich), writer
* Rolf Lyssy (born 1936 in Zürich), screenwriter and film director
* Erika Mann (1905 – 1969 in Zurich), German actress, cabaretist and novelist
* Thomas Mann (1875 – 1955 in Zurich), German novelist, exilant in Zürich during WWII.[23]
* Mason McTavish (born 2003 in Zurich), Canadian ice hockey player for the Anaheim Ducks of the NHL.[24]
* Dieter Meier (born 1945 in Zürich), conceptual artist and musician with electronica group Yello
* Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (1825 in Zürich – 1898), poet.[25]
* Silvio Moser, (1941 in Zurich – 1974), a racing driver, died from accident during a race in Monza
* Walter Andreas Müller (born 1945 in Zürich), actor and comedian
* Harald Naegeli (born 1939 in Zürich), artist, renowned as "Sprayer von Zürich"
* Ernst Nobs (1886–1957), trade unionist, politician and mayor of Zürich, 1942 to 1944.
* Hans Konrad von Orelli (1846 in Zürich - 1912) a theologian.[26]
* Johann Caspar von Orelli (1787 in Zürich – 1849), a classical scholar.[27]
* Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958 in Zürich), physicist
* Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746 in Zürich – 1827), educational reformer.[28]
* Joachim Raff (1822 in Lachen – 1882) a German-Swiss composer and pianist.[29]

### S to Z[edit]

Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, 1731 Trudi Schoop, 1933

* James Sadleir (ca.1815–1881 in Zürich), fugitive swindler, murdered in Zürich
* Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (1672 in Zürich – 1733), scholar.[30]
* Hanna Scheuring (1965 in Zürich), actress and theatre director
* Roland Scholl (1865 in Zürich – 1945), chemist
* Trudi Schoop (1904 in Zürich – 1999), comedy dancer and therapist
* Peter Schweri (1939–2016 in Zürich), artist, illustrator, musician, lived over 20 years in Villa Egli
* Jonas Siegenthaler (born 1997 in Zürich), ice hockey player
* Nadja Sieger (born 1967 in Zürich), comedian (Ursus & Nadeschkin) raised in Zürich
* Johanna Spyri (1827–1901 in Zürich), author of Heidi
* Tobias Stephan (born 1984 in Zürich), ice hockey player
* Sandra Studer (born 1969 in Zürich), Swiss moderator and singer
* Stefi Talman (born 1958 in Zürich), Swiss shoe designer
* King Tribhuvan Shah (1906–1955 in Zürich), King of Nepal
* Bénédict Turrettini (1588 in Zürich – 1631), an ordained a pastor and professor of theology.[31]
* Shefqet Vërlaci (1877–1946 in Zürich), 12th Prime Minister of Albanian Kingdom (1939–1943)
* Pancho Vladigerov (1899 in Zürich – 1978), Bulgarian composer
* Heini Waser (1913 in Zürich – 2008 in Zollikon), painter
* Max Weber (1897–1974), trade unionist and politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council)
* Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (born 1939 in Zurich), German politician and scientist
* Hermann Weyl (1885–1955 in Zurich), mathematician
* Urs Widmer (1938 – 2014 in Zurich), novelist, playwright, essayist and a short story writer.
* Heidi Wunderli-Allenspach (born 1947), Swiss biologist and first women rector of ETH Zurich
* Ozan Yildirim (born 1992 in Zurich), known as OZ, record producer
* Katharina von Zimmern (1478–1547 in Neumarkt), last abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey

### Famous residents[edit]

Albert Einstein, 1904 Patricia Kaas, 2007

### A to K[edit]

* Sibylle Berg (1962 in Weimar), German novelist and essayist
* Max Bill (1908 in Winterthur– 1994 in Berlin), Swiss architect, designer and member of the Swiss National Council
* Anne-Marie Blanc (1919 in Vevey– 2009 in Zurich), Swiss actress
* Boris Blank, (born 1952) musician with Yello
* Georg Büchner (1813 – 1837 in Zurich), German revolutionary, dramatist, writer and physician
* Johann Gottfried Ebel (1764–1830) author of the first guidebook to Switzerland, lived in Zurich from 1810.[32]
* Albert Einstein (1879 in Ulm – 1955) lived in Zurich, 1896–1900, 1909–1911, 1912–1914.[33]
* Stephanie Glaser (1920 in Neuchâtel– 2011 in Zollikerberg), Swiss actress, lived in Zürich-Witikon
* Hermann Greulich (1842 in Breslau– 1925 in Zurich), politician, founder of the first Social Party in Switzerland
* Franz Hohler (born 1943 in Biel), Swiss novelist, cabaretist and songwriter
* Udo Jürgens, (1934–2014) an Austrian composer and singer of popular music
* Patricia Kaas, (born 1966) a French singer and actress.
* Jonas Kaufmann, (born 1969) a German operatic tenor.
* Adolf Keller (1872–1963) Swiss Protestant theologian and writer
* Tina Keller-Jenny (1887–1985) Swiss physician and Jungian psychotherapist
* Erich Kleiber (1890–1956 in Zürich), an Austrian, later Argentine, conductor

Vladimir Lenin, 1916 Richard Wagner, 1871

### L to Z[edit]

* Vladimir Lenin [1870–1924), travelled to Russia from Zürich in 1917.[34]
* Moritz Leuenberger (born 1946 in Biel), Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council)
* Mileva Maric, (1875 – 1948 in Zürich), Serbian mathematician, first wife of Albert Einstein
* Alina Popa, (born 1978) a Romanian-born professional female bodybuilder
* Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (born 1968) a stateside Puerto Rican photographer.
* Elisabeth von Rapperswil (ca.1251 – 1309 in Rapperswil), Burgrecht of Zürich, last Countess of the House of Rapperswil
* Roger Sablonier (1941–2010), historian and writer of non-fiction publications
* Ernst Sieber (1927–2018), pastor, member of the Swiss National Council, worked with the homeless and drug addicts.
* Lee 'Scratch' Perry (1936–2021), reggae and dub producer and singer.
* Kurt Tucholsky (1890–1935) German journalist, satirist and writer, lived in Zürich, 1932–1933
* Tina Turner (1939-2023), singer, dancer, actress and composer of American origin and naturalized Swiss
* Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist.
* Georg von Vollmar (1850–1922) a Bavarian democratic socialist politician, lived in Zürich 1879 to 1882.[35]
* Richard Wagner (1813–1883) a German composer and conductor, lived in Zürich, 1849–1861.[36]
* Raphael Zuber (born 1973 in Chur), architect und visiting professor at the ETH Zurich

## See also[edit]

* List of mayors of Zürich

* Biography portal
* Lists portal

## References[edit]

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## External links[edit]

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