List of Famous people who are 86

Stanley Norman Cohen is an American geneticist and the Kwoh-Ting Li Professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine. Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer were the first scientists to transplant genes from one living organism to another, a fundamental discovery for genetical engineering. Thousands of products have been developed on the basis of their work, including human growth hormone and hepatitis B vaccine. According to immunologist Hugh McDevitt, "Cohen's DNA cloning technology has helped biologists in virtually every field". Without it, "the face of biomedicine and biotechnology would look totally different."

Karl Lamers is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

António da Cunha Telles is a Portuguese film director and producer. He was born in Funchal.

James Fulton Hoge Jr. was the editor of Foreign Affairs and the Peter G. Peterson Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations. His principal areas of expertise are U.S. foreign policy and international economic policy.

Nicholas Pryor is an American actor. He has appeared in various television series, films, and stage productions.

Heinz Friedrich Ruppert Riesenhuber is a German politician (CDU) who served as Minister of Scientific Research under Chancellor Helmut Kohl from 1982 to 1993.

John Stewart MacMillan is a Canadian retired ice hockey forward.