Ziegler is a common German-language surname meaning "brick-maker" and may refer to the following people:

Actors

  • Daniela Ziegler (born 1948), German actress
  • Ernst Ziegler (1894–1974), German actor
  • Joseph Ziegler (actor) (1953–2025), Canadian actor and theatre director
  • Lulu Ziegler (1903–1973), Danish actress
  • Mackenzie Ziegler (born 2004), American dancer and actress
  • Maddie Ziegler (born 2002), American dancer and actress
  • Matilda Ziegler (born 1964), English actress

Artists

  • Adolf Ziegler (1892–1959), German painter, favoured by Adolf Hitler
  • Johann Ziegler (1749–1802), German-Austrian painter and copperplate engraver
  • Samuel P. Ziegler (1882–1967), American painter, educator, musician
  • Yvonne Ziegler (1902–1988), French resistance fighter, artist, educator
  • Zio Ziegler (born 1988), American visual artist and graphic artist

Authors

  • Alexander Ziegler (German writer) (1822–1887), German writer and economist
  • Alexander Ziegler (Swiss writer) (1944–1987), Swiss author and actor
  • Calvin Ziegler (1854–1930), Pennsylvanian poet
  • Christiana Mariana von Ziegler (1695–1760), German poet
  • Jennifer Ziegler, American author
  • Leopold Ziegler (1881–1958), German philosoph

Fictional characters

  • Morgan Ziegler, a.k.a. Zitz in the Battletoads series
  • Toby Ziegler, White House Communications Director in American TV series The West Wing
  • Angela Ziegler, a.k.a. Mercy in Overwatch
  • Victor Ziegler, wealthy member of New York's elite in Eyes Wide Shut
  • Werner Ziegler, German construction engineer in Better Call Saul
  • Margarethe Ziegler, wife of Werner

Military

  • David Ziegler (1748–1811), military officer of the Continental Army, Society of the Cincinnati
  • Joachim Ziegler (1904–1945), SS-Brigadeführer and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
  • Werner Ziegler (1916–2001), German officer in World War II
  • William Smith Ziegler (1911–1999), Canadian general in World War II

Musicians

  • Anne Ziegler (1910–2003), English singer, wife of Webster Booth
  • Klaus Martin Ziegler (1929–1993), German choral conductor, organist and Protestant church musician
  • Delores Ziegler (born 1951), American mezzo-soprano
  • Pablo Ziegler (born 1944), Argentine composer
  • Adrian von Ziegler (born 1989), Swiss musician

Politicians

  • A. H. Ziegler (1889–1972), American lawyer and politician
  • Bridget Ziegler (born 1982), American politician and right-wing activist
  • Christian Ziegler (politician) (born 1983), American politician
  • Bob Ziegler (1921–1991), American lawyer and politician, son of A. H. Ziegler
  • Dagmar Ziegler (born 1960), German politician
  • Erich Ziegler (1914–2004), German politician and anti-Nazi resistance activist
  • Justin Ziegler, Canadian politician
  • Kay-Uwe Ziegler (born 1963), German politician
  • Maximilian Ziegler (born 1992), German politicians
  • Ron Ziegler (1939–2003), Richard Nixon's press secretary and assistant to the president

Religion

  • Albert Ziegler (theologian) (1927–2022), Swiss Roman-Catholic theologian, ethicist and author
  • Gregorius Thomas Ziegler (1770–1852), Benedictine monk and bishop of Linz
  • Ignaz Ziegler (1861–1948), Austrian rabbi
  • Jacob Ziegler (c. 1470 – 1549), German humanist and theologian, itinerant scholar of geography and cartographer

Scientists and academics

  • Albert Ziegler (born 1961), German psychologist and professor
  • Daniel Ziegler (1804–1876), American clergyman and entomologist
  • Günter M. Ziegler (born 1963), German mathematician
  • Heinz Otto Ziegler (1903–1944), German speaking Czech political scientist
  • Jean Ziegler (born 1934), Swiss professor of sociology and politician, active in the anti-globalization movement
  • Johann Heinrich Ziegler (1857–1936), Swiss dye chemist
  • John Bosley Ziegler, American physician who pioneered the athletic use of the steroid Dianabol
  • Karl Ziegler (1898–1973), German chemist and Nobel laureate
  • Peter Ziegler (1928–2013), Swiss geologist
  • Philip Ziegler (1929–2023), British biographer and historian
  • Regina G. Ziegler, American biochemist and nutritional epidemiologist
  • Tamar Ziegler (born 1971), Israeli mathematician
  • Willi Ziegler (1929–2002), a German paleontologist
  • William Ziegler (1843–1905), American industrialist, co-founder of the Royal Baking Powder Company, Arctic explorer

Sports

  • Ava Marie Ziegler (born 2006), American figure skater
  • Brad Ziegler (born 1979), American baseball player
  • Dave Ziegler (born 1977), American football executive
  • Edi Ziegler (1930–2020), German road cyclist
  • Gus Ziegler (1875–1960), American college football coach
  • John Ziegler Jr. (1934–2018), American lawyer and former president of the National Hockey League
  • Kate Ziegler (born 1988), American swimmer
  • Larry Ziegler (born 1939), American golfer
  • Marc Ziegler (born 1976), German footballer
  • Patrick Ziegler (born 1990), German-Australian footballer
  • Reto Ziegler (born 1986), Swiss footballer
  • Reto Ziegler (curler), Swiss curler
  • Thomas Ziegler (ice hockey) (born 1978), Swiss hockey player
  • Thomas Ziegler (cyclist) (born 1980), German road racing cyclist

Technicians

  • Bernard Ziegler (1933–2021), French, former Airbus director of engineering, son of Henri Ziegler
  • Hans K. Ziegler (1911–1999), German pioneer in the field of satellite technology

Others

  • Anne Ziegler (1910–2003), English singer (born Irene Eastwood)
  • Christian Ziegler (fl. 2000s–2020s), German photojournalist
  • Elizabeth Ziegler (1854–1942), Canadian schoolteacher
  • Henri Ziegler (1906–1998), French, Airbus first CEO
  • John Ziegler (talk show host) (born 1967), radio talk show host in Los Angeles
  • Mary Ziegler (born 1982), American legal historian
  • Mel Ziegler and Patricia Ziegler, American businesspeople
  • Regina Ziegler (born 1944), German producer
  • Garrett Ziegler, American political aide

Other uses

  • Ziegler, Wisconsin, ghost town, United States
  • Ziegler House (Ketchikan, Alaska), NRHP-listed in Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Alaska, associated with A. H. and Bob Ziegler
  • Ziegler–Natta catalyst, chemical reagent named after Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta
  • Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, graduate program at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles
  • Ziegler Cray Y-MP M90 NSA supercomputer, now at National Cryptologic Museum
  • Ziegler & Co., manufacturer and distributor of Persian carpets
  • Zig Ziglar, American personality