List of Famous people who born in 1915

John Sutherland Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, was a British peer from the Egerton family. He was styled Viscount Brackley until 1944 when he became the 5th Earl of Ellesmere on inheriting his father's substantive title and inherited his ducal title in 1963 from a distant cousin.

Wilfrid Joseph Dixon was an American mathematician and statistician. He made notable contributions to nonparametric statistics, statistical education and experimental design.

Walter Edward Washington was an American civil servant and politician. He was chief executive of the District of Columbia from 1967 to 1979, serving as the first and only Mayor-Commissioner from 1967 to 1974 and as the first home-rule mayor of the District of Columbia from 1975 to 1979.

Edward Heywood Jr. was an American jazz pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s.

Sir Fred Hoyle FRS was an English astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis. He also held controversial stances on other scientific matters—in particular his rejection of the "Big Bang" theory, a term coined by him on BBC radio, and his promotion of panspermia as the origin of life on Earth. He also wrote science fiction novels, short stories and radio plays, and co-authored twelve books with his son, Geoffrey Hoyle. He spent most of his working life at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge and served as its director for six years.

Michael Kidd was an American film and stage choreographer, dancer and actor, whose career spanned five decades, and staged some of the leading Broadway and film musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. Kidd, strongly influenced by Charlie Chaplin and Léonide Massine, was an innovator in what came to be known as the "integrated musical", in which dance movements are integral to the plot.

Chaim Menachem Rabin was a German, then British, and finally Israeli professor of Hebrew and Semitic languages.

Claude Roy was a French poet and essayist. He was born and died in Paris.