List of Famous people who are 42

Sophie Morel is a French mathematician, specializing in number theory. She is a CNRS directrice de recherches in mathematics at École Normale supérieure de Lyon. In 2012 she received one of the ten prizes of the European Mathematical Society.

Tatsuya Enomoto is a former Japanese football player.

André Gonçalves Dias, or simply André Dias is a retired Brazilian football central defender.

Carla Namwali Serpell is a Zambian writer who teaches in the United States. In April 2014 she was named on the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with the potential and talent to define trends in African literature. Her short story "The Sack" won the 2015 Caine Prize for African fiction in English. In 2020, Serpell won the Belles-lettres category Grand Prix of Literary Associations 2019 for her novel The Old Drift.

Hervé Duclos-Lassalle is a French professional road bicycle racer. His father is Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle. He was the first rider to leave the 2008 Tour de France after breaking his left wrist on the first stage.

Jéssica Albiach Satorres is a Spanish journalist and politician. A member of Podemos and En Comú Podem, she was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia in 2015, and has led the latter party in that legislature since 2018.