List of Famous people who born in 1920

Gerda Daumerlang was a German diver who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. She was born in Nuremberg. In 1936 she finished fourth in the 3 metre springboard event.

James Cecil Dickens, better known by his stage name Little Jimmy Dickens, was an American country music singer and songwriter famous for his humorous novelty songs, his small size, and his rhinestone-studded outfits, in which he is given credit for introducing into country music live performances). He started as a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1948 and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1983. Before his death he was the oldest living member of the Grand Ole Opry.

Jaan Kross was an Estonian writer. He was nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature during the early 1990s.

Lucy Tejada Saenz was a Colombian contemporary painter. She is the sister of Hernando Tejada, another famous Colombian artist.

Margot Duhalde Sotomayor was a Chilean pilot who served with the Air Transport Auxiliary of the Royal Air Force in World War II. She was Chile's first female military pilot and first female air traffic controller.

William Scott "Jack" Elam was an American film and television actor best known for his numerous roles as villains in Western films, and later in his career, comedies. His most distinguishing physical quality was his misaligned eye. Before his career in acting, he took several jobs in finance and served two years in the United States Navy during World War II.

Jason Wingreen was an American actor, best known for his role as bartender Harry Snowden on the television sitcom All in the Family (1977–79) and its continuation series, Archie Bunker's Place (1979–83) and for providing the original voice for Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back (1980).

Arif Memduh Ün was a Turkish film producer, director, actor and screenwriter. His film, The Broken Pots, was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.

Tetsuya Theodore Fujita was a Japanese-American meteorologist whose research primarily focused on severe weather. His research at the University of Chicago on severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons revolutionized the knowledge of each. Although he is best known for creating the Fujita scale of tornado intensity and damage, he also discovered downbursts and microbursts, and was an instrumental figure in advancing modern understanding of many severe weather phenomena and how they affect people and communities, especially through his work exploring the relationship between wind speed and damage.

Siegfried Buback was the Attorney General of Germany from 1974 until his murder.