List of Famous people who born in 1906

USS John R. Pierce (DD-753), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for Lieutenant Commander John Reeves Pierce.

Eugene Feenberg was an American physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics and nuclear physics.

Alexandre-Charles-Albert-Joseph Renard was a French Roman Catholic Cardinal and Archbishop of Lyon. He was ordained on 12 July 1931 in Lille.

Sir Roger Bentham Stevens, GCMG was a British academic, diplomat and civil servant.

Octavio Antonio Beras Rojas was a Dominican cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Santo Domingo from 1961 to 1981, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1976.

Togo Renan Soares, also commonly known as Kanela was a Brazilian professional basketball coach, football coach, water polo coach, and rowing coach. He was born in João Pessoa, Brazil. The gymnasium Gávea, is named after him. He was enshrined into the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2007.