Editing Schaffhausen (section)

=== 19th century ===
* [[Johann Heinrich Gelzer]] (1813–1889), historian and diplomat
* [[Hans Bendel]] (1814–1853), painter and illustrator
* [[Ferdinand Hurter]] (1844–1898), industrial chemist who settled in England, researched photography
* Dame [[Sophia Wintz]] DBE (1847–1929), British philanthropist who co-founded the [[Royal Sailors' Rests]]
* [[Ernst Homberger]] (1869–1955), industrialist, [[Georg Fischer (Swiss company)|Georg Fischer]] and [[International Watch Company]]
* [[Emil Ermatinger]] (1873–1953), professor for Germanic philology
* [[Ferdinand Schalch]] (1848–1918), paleontologist and geologist
* [[Hermann Rorschach]] (1884–1922), psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, brought up in Schaffhausen
* [[Bernhard Peyer]] (1885–1963), paleontologist and anatomist 
* [[Karl Jäger]] (1888–1959), mid-ranking official in the SS of Nazi Germany, perpetrated acts of genocide during [[the Holocaust]]
* [[Walther Bringolf]] (1895–1981), mayor of Schaffhausen 1933–1968, former president of the National Council of Switzerland 1961/1962