List of Famous people who born in 1921

John Malcolm Patterson is an American politician who served one term as the 44th Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama from 1959 to 1963 and as his state's attorney general from 1955 to 1959.

Mohammed bin Ismail Al Amrani is a judge and senior Yemen contemporary scholar. He is known by the name Judge Al Almrani; his family originate from the city of Amran in Yemen. His grandfather, a judge in Amran city, moved and settled in Sana’a 1117, the twelfth century of Mohammed's migration — he was the first from his family to be properly educated. Consequently, his descendants maintained the title Amrani since then, but never lived in Amran city.

Heinrich-Hartmut Richard Gustav "Henry" Arnhold was an American banker and philanthropist. He was born in Dresden, the fourth child of Lisa and Heinrich Arnhold. The Arnhold family owned the bank Gebrüder Arnhold, founded in 1864. In 1931 the bank joined with S. Bleichroeder to form Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder.

Robert Chapatte was a French cyclist and sports journalist, voice of the Tour de France on television and radio and the inventor of Chapatte's Law.

Barbro Hiort af Ornäs was a Swedish stage and film actress.

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander was a German-born Canadian landscape architect. Her firm, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Landscape Architects, was founded in 1953, when she moved to Vancouver.

Sol Gareth "Garry" Davis was an international peace activist best known for renouncing his American citizenship and interrupting the United Nations in 1948 to advocate for world government as a way to end nationalistic wars. His actions gained international attention, including support from intellectuals such as Albert Camus and Albert Einstein, but ridicule from Eleanor Roosevelt.

Lydia Vladimirovna Litvyak, also known as Lilya, was a fighter pilot in the Soviet Air Force during World War II. Historians' estimates for her total victories range from five to twelve solo victories and two to four shared kills in her 66 combat sorties. In about two years of operations, she was the first female fighter pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft, the first of two female fighter pilots who have earned the title of fighter ace and the holder of the record for the greatest number of kills by a female fighter pilot. She was shot down near Orel during the Battle of Kursk as she attacked a formation of German aircraft.

Karl Dedecius was a Polish-born German translator of Polish and Russian literature.

Andreas Benedikt Ostler, known as "Anderl", was a German bobsledder who competed in the early 1950s.