List of Famous people who born in 1918

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Derek Milman, 9th Baronet MC (1918–1999) was a British baronet, the ninth of the Milman baronets of Levaton-in-Woodland in the County of Devon.

Hal Roach Jr. was primarily a film and television producer and very occasional director.

Stirling Dale Silliphant was an American screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his screenplay for In the Heat of the Night, for which he won an Academy Award in 1967, and for creating the television series Naked City and Route 66. Other features as screenwriter include the Irwin Allen productions The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure.

Scott Alexander Young was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter, novelist and the father of musicians Neil Young and Astrid Young. Over his career, Young wrote 45 books, including novels and non-fiction for adult and youth audiences.

Jerome Karle was an American physical chemist. Jointly with Herbert A. Hauptman, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1985, for the direct analysis of crystal structures using X-ray scattering techniques.

Vibeke Falk was a Norwegian actress.

Robert Leslie Carroll Conly, better known by pen name Robert C. O'Brien, was an American novelist and a journalist for National Geographic magazine.

John DeCuir was a Hollywood art director and production designer known for his elaborate set designs that were illustrated with his own watercolor paintings.

John Neil McCallum, was an Australian theatre and film actor, highly successful in the United Kingdom. He was also a television producer.

Linda Dégh was a folklorist and professor of Folklore & Ethnomusicology at Indiana University, USA.