Notable Residents
- Johann Kaspar Riesbeck (1754–1786), author and actor
- Johann Rudolf Dolder (1753–1807), politician
- Sebastian Fahrländer (1768–1841), politician, physician
- Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke (1771–1848), writer
- Ignaz Paul Vitalis Troxler (1780–1866), physician, politician, philosopher
- Carl Feer-Herzog (1820–1880), politician
- Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
- Charles Tschopp (1899–1982), writer
- Born in Aarau:
- Eugen Bircher (1882–1956), politician
- Erika Burkart (1922–2010), writer and poet
- Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler, (1770–1843), first director of the United States Coast Survey.
- Maximilian Bircher-Benner
- Urs Faes, author
- Friedrich Frey-Herosé (1801–1873), member of the Swiss Federal Council
- Hans Herzog (1819–1894), general
- Paul Hubschmid, actor
- Klaus Merz, author
- Nicolas Hunziker, Automotive Fine Artist
- Nicolas Müller, snowboarder
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