List of Famous people who born in 1918

Suliman Saleh Olayan was among Saudi Arabia's wealthiest businessmen.

Claus Holm was a German film actor. He appeared in 50 films between 1943 and 1979. He was born in Bochum, Germany and died in Berlin, Germany.

Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber was a French journalist and politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly from 1965 to 1967, representing Seine. He was a member of the Union for the New Republic, a center-right political party. He died on April 11, 2018 in Paris on his 100th birthday.

Heinz Paul Johann Felfe was a German spy.

Charles-Henri-Jean Dewisme, better known by his pen name Henri Vernes, was an author of action and science-fiction novels. He published over 200 titles in the action and science-fiction genre. He was most noted for the creation of the character Bob Morane, a hero whose adventures spanned fifty years and went from straight adventure and science-fiction to fantasy. Vernes also wrote the text of many comics albums and animated movies.

Jay Wright Forrester was a pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He is credited with being one of the inventors of magnetic core memory, the predominant form of random-access computer memory during the most explosive years of digital computer development. It was part of a family of related technologies which bridged the gap between vacuum tubes and semiconductors by exploiting the magnetic properties of materials to perform switching and amplification.

Adolph Gustav Kiefer was an American competition swimmer, Olympic competitor, the last surviving gold medalist of the 1936 Summer Olympics and former world record-holder. He was the first man in the world to swim the 100-yard backstroke in under one minute. Kiefer was also an inventor and innovator of new products related to aquatics competition.

Mabuni Kenei was a Japanese martial arts expert, holder of the 10th Dan.

Abukhadzhi Idrisovich Idrisov was a Chechen sniper and machine-gunner in the Red Army during the Second World War. Throughout the war he killed a total of 349 enemy combatants for which he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union just shortly before he was deported to the Kazakh SSR solely on the grounds of his Chechen ethnicity. He was only able to return to his native village in Chechnya in 1957 where he worked in agriculture after the Chechen nation was granted the right of return in the Khrushchev era.

Cheng Kaijia, also known as Kai Chia Cheng, was a Chinese nuclear engineer and nuclear physicist. He was a pioneer and key figure in Chinese nuclear weapon development. He is known as one of the founding fathers of Two Bombs, One Satellite.