List of Famous people who born in 1921

Jacques Ledoux was a Belgian cinema specialist, curator of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium from 1948 to 1988 and the founder of the Cinema Museum in Brussels in 1962.

Jack Clayton was a British film director and producer who specialised in bringing literary works to the screen.

Arve Opsahl was a Norwegian movie and stage actor, singer and stand-up comedian.

Lilli Hornig was a Czech-American scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project, as well as a feminist activist.

Carla Voltolina, later Carla Pertini, was a journalist, Italian partisan, and psychotherapist. She undertook investigations into prostitution in Italy and provided therapy at hospitals and addiction-treatment clinics across Italy.

John Joyce Gilligan was an American Democratic politician from the state of Ohio who served as a U.S. Representative and as the 62nd Governor of Ohio from 1971 to 1975. He was the father of Kathleen Sebelius, who later served as Governor of Kansas and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. Gilligan and Sebelius are the only father and daughter ever to have both been elected state governors.