List of Famous people who born in 1901

Akira Shimada was the last governor of Okinawa Prefecture before Japan's defeat in 1945. He died during the Battle of Okinawa.

Wolfgang Langhoff was a German theatre, film and television actor and theatre director.

Ahmet Kutsi Tecer was a Turkish poet and politician.

Konrad Heiden was a German-American journalist and historian of the Weimar Republic and Nazi eras, most noted for the first influential biographies of Adolf Hitler. Often, he wrote under the pseudonym "Klaus Bredow."

André Girard was a French painter, poster-maker and Resistance worker. During the Second World War he founded and headed the CARTE network, also taking "Carte" as his personal codename.

Mildred Harris was an American film actress during the early part of the 20th century. Harris began her career in the film industry as a child actress when she was 11 years old. She was also the first wife of Charlie Chaplin.

Bibi Aisha is an Afghan woman whose mutilated face appeared on the cover of Time magazine in summer 2010.

Yvonne Beauvais was a French Augustinian nun. She took the name Mother Yvonne-Aimée of Jesus. She helped Allied soldiers and French resistance fighters during World War II, and in 1946, she established the Federation of the Augustinian monasteries.

Sanyu or Chang Yu was a Chinese-French painter.

Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt was the last ruler of the Duchy of Anhalt.