List of Famous people who born in 1902

Vasily Vasilyevich Vakhrushev was a Soviet-Russian statesman who was from 1939 to 1940 the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR, literally meaning Premier or Prime Minister. Vakrushev also was a "key figure" for KGB operations in the United Nations in New York City.

Oliver Emert was an American set decorator. He won an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film To Kill a Mockingbird.

Alan Marshall, was an Australian writer, story teller, humanist and social documenter.

Otto Anton Ferdinand Herbert Schmidt was a German politician of the CDU. He was mayor of Wuppertal and a longtime member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia and the German Bundestag.

Otto Vossler was a German historian.

Kurt Scharf was a German clergyman and bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg.

Willam Farr Christensen was an American ballet dancer, choreographer and founder of the San Francisco Ballet and Ballet West in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is known for bringing the complete version of the Russian ballet The Nutcracker to the United States, as well as staging the first American performances of Swan Lake and Coppélia. Christensen's Nutcracker was first staged in 1944 in San Francisco, where the ballet remains an annual tradition, though the production now staged there is not necessarily the Christensen version. Christensen is often credited with helping to rejuvenate American dance.