List of Famous people who born in 1921

John Glen Sperling was an American businessman who is credited with having led the contemporary for-profit education movement in the United States. The fortune he amassed was based on his founding of the for-profit University of Phoenix for working adults in 1976, which is now part of the publicly traded Apollo Group. For ventures ranging from pet cloning to green energy, he has widely been described as an "eccentric" self-made man by The Washington Post and other media.

Ary Ribeiro Valadão was a Brazilian politician, farmer, and lawyer. He served in the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil and as Governor of Goiás.

Yōko Yaguchi was a Japanese actress, and the wife of Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa for 39 years. She had two children with Kurosawa: a son named Hisao and a daughter named Kazuko. Upon her death in 1985, she was survived by her husband, two children and four grandchildren, three from son Hisao's marriage to Hiroko Hayashi and one from daughter Kazuko Karosawa.

Freddie Burke Frederick was an American child actor. He played Jackie Howell in the 1930 Paramount Pictures film Ladies Love Brutes.

Branislav "Branko" Stanković was a Bosnian Serb footballer and manager, from Sarajevo.

Vice Admiral Ko Tun-hwa was a geostrategist, former Vice Minister of Defense of Taiwan and former National Policy Advisor to the President of the Taiwan. Admiral Ko Tun-hwa graduated in 1957 with the first class of the Naval Command Course, the first course for international officers, at the United States Naval War College.

Mikayil Huseyn oglu Abdullayev was an Azerbaijani painter, a People's Painter of the former USSR since 1963, and creator of a series of paintings entitled Through India.

Carlos Zéfiro is the pseudonym of Alcides Aguiar Caminha, a Brazilian comic artist who drew pornographic minicomics.