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ZURICH
Most Famous People Born in Zurich, Switzerland
- Notable people
- 2,462
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- Median birth year
- 1941
- Most distinctive
- Author 3.5×
A Reformed Swiss city with a disproportionately large academic-and-letters bench. Zurich's distinctive professions are authors, academics, architects, artists, and physicists — the trades of a German-language university town that runs from Gottfried Keller through Max Frisch on the literary side and Einstein and Pauli on the scientific. Pestalozzi, Rorschach, and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross all belong to this bench, and nearly eighty per cent of the names were born after 1900.
One face per century — the most globally famous figure born in Zurich during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Zurich Is Known For
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Politician is Zurich's biggest profession — 7% of all notables (164).
Zurich over-indexes on author — 3.5× the global rate.
Zurich under-produces football — only 0.4× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Zurich's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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- Field: Football Clear ×
Diego Benaglio
Born 1983
Ricardo Rodríguez (footballer)
Born 1992
Shkëlzen Gashi
Born 1988
Alen Stevanović
Born 1991
Köbi Kuhn
1943 - 2019
Berat Djimsiti
Born 1993
Daniel Gygax
Born 1981
Nico Elvedi
Born 1996
Ricardo Cabanas
Born 1979
Marcel Koller
Born 1960
Heinz Hermann
Born 1958
Saidy Janko
Born 1995
Yassin Mikari
Born 1983
Bruno Berner
Born 1977
Fabio Daprelà
Born 1991
Martin Rueda
Born 1963
Heinz Barmettler
Born 1987
Martin Angha
Born 1994
Albion Avdijaj
Born 1994
Claudio Lustenberger
Born 1987
Francisco Rodríguez Araya
Born 1995
Christian Gross
Born 1954
David Da Costa
Born 1986
Urs Meier
Born 1959
Martin Brunner
Born 1963
Christian Fassnacht
Born 1993
Gürkan Sermeter
Born 1974
Roberto Rodríguez Araya
Born 1990
Fabienne Humm
Born 1986
Vanessa Bernauer
Born 1988
Stephan Keller
Born 1979
Imran Bunjaku
Born 1992
Djibril Sow
Born 1997
Marco Schällibaum
Born 1962
Levent Gülen
Born 1994
Jean-Pierre Rhyner
Born 1996
Jérôme Thiesson
Born 1987
Gustav Wiederkehr
1905 - 1972
Ulrich Forte
Born 1974
Florian Stahel
Born 1985
Gino Lettieri
Born 1966
Eseosa Aigbogun
Born 1993
Yves Oehri
Born 1987
Davide Mariani
Born 1991
Peter Läng
Born 1986
Rudolf Elsener
Born 1953
Vasilije Janjičić
Born 1998
Walter Eich
1925 - 2018
Cinzia Zehnder
Born 1997
Ergün Berisha
Born 1988
Stefan Huber
Born 1966
Adolphe Hug
1923 - 2006
Jonas Elmer
Born 1988
Gregor Kobel
Born 1997
Prisca Steinegger
Born 1977
Bjørn Gulden
Born 1965
Willy Huber
Born 1913
Yanick Brecher
Born 1993
Andreas Hirzel
Born 1993
Gerhard Lusenti
Born 1921
Barla Deplazes
Born 1995
Stefan Iten
Born 1985
Roger Berbig
Born 1954
Sirio Vernati
1907 - 1993
August Lehmann
1909 - 1973
Feliciano Magro
Born 1979
Kurt Armbruster
1934 - 2019
Tiago Ribeiro
Born 1992
Hermann Springer
1908 - 1978
Nicole Remund
Born 1989
Karim Rossi
Born 1994
Fritz Schmid (football manager)
Born 1959
Urs Meier (footballer)
Born 1961
Thomas Weller
Born 1980
Arbenit Xhemajli
Born 1998
Fabian Rohner
Born 1998
Maren Haile-Selassie
Born 1999
René Hüssy
1928 - 2007
Nuno da Silva
Born 1994
Urs Schönenberger
Born 1959
David Pallas
Born 1980
Daniela Schwarz
Born 1985
Marco Kehl-Gómez
Born 1992
Gianluca D'Angelo
Born 1991
Walter Streule
Born 1882
Mattia Desole
Born 1993
Miloš Antić
Born 1994
Lavdrim Rexhepi
Born 1998
Urs Suter
Born 1959
Noah Loosli
Born 1997
Tobias Schättin
Born 1997
Nikola Sukacev
Born 1998
Mirlind Kryeziu
Born 1997
Miguel Retuerto
Born 1962
Muriel Bouakaz
Born 1991
Simon Roduner
Born 1984
Massimo Rizzo
Born 1974
Fabio Digenti
Born 1983
Patrick Costinha
Born 1994
Herbert Hermann
Born 1956
Axel Bamba
Born 1999
Antonino Gart
Born 1980
Giuseppe Chiesa
Born 1916
Seny Dieng
Born 1994
Gold Omotayo
Born 1994
Paul Wyssling
1912 - 1970
Flavia Schwarz
Born 1986
Hans Heinrich Suter
1878 - 1955
Romeu Leite
Born 1984
Luca Ladner
Born 1989
Allan Arigoni
Born 1998
Giuseppe Baldi
1905 - 1945
Simon Sohm
Born 2001
Walter Bosshard (Fussballspieler)
1921 - 1984