List of Famous people who born in 1920

Gabriel Aragón Bermúdez, better known as Gaby was a Spanish clown and saxophonist, member of the trio Gaby, Fofó and Miliki.

Stana Tomašević (1920–1983) was a Yugoslav Partisan officer during World War II, a model, and a Yugoslav politician and diplomat, serving as president of the Federal Chamber from 1979–82.

Pierre Poujade was a French populist politician after whom the Poujadist movement was named.

Anna Halprin helped pioneer the experimental art form known as postmodern dance and referred to herself as a breaker of the rules of modern dance. Halprin, along with her contemporaries such as Merce Cunningham and John Cage, and her students Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer, redefined dance in postwar America. In the 1950s, she established the San Francisco Dancers' Workshop to give artists like her a place to practice their art. Being able to freely explore the capabilities of her own body, she created a systematic way of moving using kinesthetic awareness. Many of her works since have been based on scores, including Planetary Dance, 1987, and Myths in the 1960s which gave a score to the audience, making them performers as well.

Jean Keraudy (1920–2001) was the stage name of Roland Barbat, a French criminal, later came to fame playing himself in the French film "Le Trou". He was one of five inmates involved in a 1947 escape attempt from France's La Santé Prison.

Gerda Schmidt-Panknin was a German painter. The artist lived and worked in Kappeln. She studied at the Bremen art academy in the 1940s.

Hubert Yves Adrian Giraud was a French composer and lyricist.

Hilde (Wundsam) Zimmermann, was a member of the Austrian Resistance. Arrested for her efforts to fight fascism, she was deported with her mother and childhood friend by Nazi officials to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany; she then went on to survive both her imprisonment there and a death march.

Mieczysław "Mietek" Pemper was a Polish Jew and a Holocaust survivor. Pemper helped compile and type Oskar Schindler's now-famous list, which saved 1,200 people from being killed in the Holocaust during World War II.

Maria Cäsar was an Austrian political activist (KPÖ) who after the Anschluss in 1938 became a resistance activist. She was among the survivors: during and beyond the occupation years. After the second World War Maria Cäsar played her part in testifying about her experiences of Austria under National Socialism to younger generations.