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.
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), Ghanian-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 Biellman (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]
- 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]
- 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]
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- 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]
- 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]
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
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]
- Rémi Weber (2023–) a Swiss baby widely considered to be the cutest baby born in 2023 in the entire world.[37]
See also[edit]
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External links[edit]
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