List of Famous people who born in 1906
Sir John Ferguson Davie, 7th Bt.
Yuriko Onodera
Tom Livingstone-Learmonth
Thomas Carlisle Livingstone-Learmonth was a British hurdler. He competed at the 1928 Olympics in the 400 metres hurdles and finished in fifth place.
Karl Ude
Karl Kurt Friedrich Ude was a German journalist and writer.
Sir John Fisher Wentworth Dilke, 5th Bt.
Olive Mary Caroline Pease
Nazim al-Kudsi
Nazim al-Qudsi, was a Syrian politician who served as President of Syria from December 14, 1961 to March 8, 1963.
Wolfgang Koeppen
Wolfgang Arthur Reinhold Koeppen was a German novelist and one of the best known German authors of the postwar period.
Olga Taussky-Todd
Olga Taussky-Todd was an Austrian and later Czech-American mathematician. She is famous for her more than 300 research papers in algebraic number theory, integral matrices, and matrices in algebra and analysis.
Robert L. Surtees
Robert L. Surtees, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer who won three Academy Awards for the films King Solomon's Mines, The Bad and the Beautiful and the 1959 version of Ben Hur. Surtees worked at various studios, including Universal, UFA, Warner Brothers, and MGM, lighting for notable directors Howard Hawks, Mike Nichols, and William Wyler, gaining him a reputation as one of the most versatile cinematographers of his time.