People
- Ursus of Solothurn († ca. 303), saint of the city
- Urs Graf der Ältere (1485/90–1529)
- Gregorius Sickinger (1558–1631), artist
- Georg Gotthart († 1619), poet (Verfasser von drei Theaterstücken)
- Johann Rudolf Byss (1660–1738), painter
- Georg Gsell (1673–1740), painter
- Tadeusz Kościuszko (1746–1817), Polish hero; lived in exile in Solothurn
- Robert Glutz von Blotzheim (1786–1818), writer
- Konrad Josef Glutz von Blotzheim (1789–1857), priest
- Charles Sealsfield (1793–1864), writer
- Franz Krutter (1807–1873), writer, politician
- Otto Frölicher (1840–1890), painter
- Conradin Zschokke (1842–1918), engineer
- Cuno Amiet (1868–1961), painter
- Richard Flury (1896–1967), composer
- Max Kohler (1919–1999), painter
- Herbert Meier (born 1928), writer
- Martin Oeggerli (born 1974), fine art artist TEM
- Otto F. Walter (1928–1994), writer
- Urs Jaeggi (born 1931), sociologist, painter, artist
- Schang Hutter (born 1934), sculptor
- Peter Bichsel (born 1935), writer
- Walter Bloch (born 1943), philosopher and writer
- Walter Schenker (born 1943), painter
- Anton Mosimann (born 1947), famous cook
- Chris von Rohr (born 1951), rock star
- Alexander Popov (swimmer) (born 1971)
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