Van Zyl

• Annette Van Zyl, South African tennis player
• Anton van Zyl, South African rugby player
• Carina van Zyl, South African field hockey player
• Corniel van Zyl, South African Italian rugby player
• Corrie van Zyl, South African cricketer
• Eben van Zijl, Namibian politician
• Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, South African politician
• Gerard van Zijl, Dutch portrait and genre painter
• Gideon Brand van Zyl, South African politician
• Kayle van Zyl, South African rugby player
• Ian van Zyl, Namibian cricketer
• Lizzie van Zyl, a child inmate of Bloemfontein concentration camp, whose photo was used as propaganda to convince the British public that Boer children were neglected by their parents
• Irvette van Zyl, South African long-distance runner
• Jaco van Zyl, South African golfer
• L. J. van Zyl, South African hurdler
• Hanco Van Zyl, British-Born South African
• Paul van Zyl, South African lawyer and human rights activists
• Piet van Zyl, Namibian rugby union player
• Riaan van Zyl, South African born American rugby player
• Stiaan van Zyl, South African cricketer

• Annejet van der Zijl, Dutch writer
• Nikki van der Zyl, German voice actress
• Werner van der Zyl, rabbi in Berlin and London, father of Nikki van der Zyl

• Theodoor Johan Arnold van Zijll de Jong, Dutch East Indies Army generals

• Jan Franse Verzijl, Dutch portrait painter