List of Famous people who born in 1921

Rudi Valenta was an Austrian cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

John Vliet Lindsay was an American politician and lawyer. During his political career, Lindsay was a U.S. congressman, mayor of New York City, and candidate for U.S. president. He was also a regular guest host of Good Morning America. Lindsay served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from January 1959 to December 1965 and as mayor of New York City from January 1966 to December 1973. He switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party in 1971, and launched a brief and unsuccessful bid for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination as well as the 1980 Democratic nomination for Senator from New York. He died from Parkinson's disease and pneumonia in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on December 19, 2000.

Edmund Crispin was the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English crime writer and composer, known for his Gervase Fen novels and for his musical scores for the early films in the Carry On series.

John William Wainwright, was a British crime novelist and author of 83 books, four of which have been published under the pen name Jack Ripley. He also wrote some short stories, 7 radio plays, and an indefinite amount of magazine articles and newspaper columns.

Muhibbe Darga was a Turkish archaeologist. She was the granddaughter of Darugazade Mehmet Emin Bey, Sultan Abdülhamid's first chamberlain, the poet and translator of Jules Verne’s novels from French into Turkish.

Libero Tresoldi was an Italian prelate, who was the bishop of Crema.

Leroy Matthiesen was a Catholic bishop in the United States. He served as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of Amarillo in the state of Texas from 1980 to 1997.