List of Famous people who born in 1920

Lawrence Neville Brand was an American actor. His most memorable film roles were in Stalag 17 (1953), Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954), and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). Brand was a highly decorated World War II combat soldier.

Pierre Plantard de Saint-Clair was a French draughtsman, best known for being the principal perpetrator of the elaborate Priory of Sion hoax, by which he claimed from the 1960s onwards that he was a direct and legitimate male line Merovingian descendant of Dagobert II and the "Great Monarch" prophesied by Nostradamus. Today in France, he is commonly regarded as a con artist.

Maria Luisa Cuesta Vila was an Uruguayan human rights activist. She dedicated herself to the search for missing detainees during the Uruguayan military dictatorship. Her son Nebio Melo Cuesta disappeared during that period and is still missing today.

Jacques Hébert was a French politician.

Chuang Shu-chi was the first licensed female practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine in Taiwan.

Ann Philippa Pearce OBE was an English author of children's books. Her most famous work is the time-slip fantasy novel Tom's Midnight Garden, which won the 1958 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, as the year's outstanding children's book by a British subject. Pearce was a commended runner-up for the Medal a further four times.

Allen Clayton Hoskins was an American child actor, who portrayed the character of Farina in 105 Our Gang short films from 1922 to 1931.

Joseph Richmond Levenson was a scholar of Chinese history and Jane K. Sather Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

André Salvat was a colonel in the French Army. He was a veteran of World War II, the First Indochina War and the Algerian War. He was made a Companion of the Liberation for his World War II service.

Anna Maria Primavesi was an agronomist, researcher and educator of soil science and especially the ecological management of tropical Brazilian soil.