List of Famous people who born in 1921

Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi was an Italian actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio personality and television presenter.

Jean Barthélémy Richard was a French historian, who specialized in medieval history. He was an authority on the Crusades, and his work on the Latin missions in Asia has been qualified as "unsurpassed". Richard was a member of the Institut de France. He was President of the prestigious Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 2002. He was born in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France in February 1921. Richard died in January 2021, two weeks shy of his 100th birthday.

L. Norbert Thériault was a Canadian politician.

Mustafa Necdet Üruğ is a former Turkish general and the nephew of Faruk Gürler. He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey during the 1980 military coup. After the coup he was Commander of the Turkish Army (1983), and Chief of the General Staff of Turkey, as well as Secretary-General of the Presidential Council.

Jacques Nahum was a French director, screenwriter, and producer, famed for producing the cult television show Arsène Lupin, descended from the Pallache family.

Kazimierz Klaudiusz Górski was a coach of Poland national football team and honorary president of Polish Football Union. He was also a football player, capped once for Poland.

Gustav Victor Rudolf Born FRCP, HonFRCS, FRS was Professor of Pharmacology at King's College London and Research Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.

Marcos Moshinsky Borodiansky was a Mexican physicist of Ukrainian-Jewish origin whose work in the field of elementary particles won him the Prince of Asturias Prize for Scientific and Technical Investigation in 1988 and the UNESCO Science Prize in 1997.

Miguel Labordeta Subías was an Aragonese poet. He was born in Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain. He held a Doctorate in History from the University of Madrid. His younger brother was the singer, writer and politician José Antonio Labordeta.

Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia was a Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer. Considered Africa's premier musicologist, during his lifetime, he was called a "living legend" and "easily the most published and best known authority on African music and aesthetics in the world", with more than 200 publications and 80 musical compositions to his credit.