List of Famous people who born in 1916

Tan Siew Sin was a Malaysian politician who served as the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Minister of Finance, and 3rd President of the Malaysian Chinese Association, a major component party of Alliance and later Barisan Nasional (BN) coalitions. In his term as the Minister of Finance, a new Malaysian currency, Malaysian Ringgit was introduced. He is the longest-serving Minister of Finance by serving in the position for 15 years.

Manoel Wenceslau Leite de Barros was a Brazilian poet. He won many awards for his work, including twice the Prêmio Jabuti, the most important literary award in Brazil.

Suat Aşani was a Turkish fencer. She competed in the women's individual foil event at the 1936 Summer Olympics. She and her colleague Halet Çambel were the first Turkish sportswomen to participate at the Olympics.

Nasiba Jahangir gizi Zeynalova was an Azerbaijani actress and People's Artist of Azerbaijan. She was famous mostly for her comedy roles.

Hans Hermann Fränkel, usually Anglicized to Hans Frankel, was a German-American sinologist noted for his studies of Chinese poetry and literature and his 25-year tenure as professor of Chinese at Yale University.