List of Famous people who born in 1920

Jacques Charon was a French actor and film director.

Salim Halali or Salim Hilali was an Algerian singer who performed Algerian music and Arabic Andalusian classical music. He was a pop singer rather than a professional performer of traditional Arab-Andalusian music, in which he had no formal training. Many of his songs remain popular in North Africa and among Jewish and Muslim North African communities in France, where he is "an iconic figure of French-Arab cabaret music."

Muhammad Fuad Stephens, was the first Chief Minister of the state of Sabah in Malaysia, and the first Huguan Siou or Paramount Leader of the Kadazandusun community. He played a role in bringing Sabah into the Federation of Malaysia in 1963. While he was initially against the idea of Sabah joining in the Federation, given British concerns about the stability of the region and their move to relinquish all their colonies in the post WWII era, he was gradually convinced to work towards it. He held the chief minister's post from 16 September 1963 until 31 December 1964 when he was forced to resign; and again in 1976 for 54 days from 15 April.

Ewa Paradies was a Nazi concentration camp overseer.

Roger Rocher was a French businessman. He was president of AS Saint-Étienne from 1961 to 1982.

Gilbert Lazard was a French linguist and iranologist.

Lieselotte Berger was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and former member of the German Bundestag.

Vera Nikolaevna Kublanovskaya was a Russian mathematician noted for her work on developing computational methods for solving spectral problems of algebra. She proposed the QR algorithm for computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors in 1961, which has been named as one of the ten most important algorithms of the twentieth century. This algorithm was proposed independently by the English computer scientist John G.F. Francis in 1959.

Anna Elisabeth de Bruijn, better known by the stage name of Elisabeth Andersen, was a Dutch actress, primarily in theatre. She was a three-time recipient of the Theo d'Or.

Chao Kuang-piu, SBS, is a Hong Kong industrial tycoon and philanthropist, sometimes referred to as Hong Kong's "Wool Magnate".