List of Famous people who born in 1926

André, Baron Delvaux was a Belgian film director and widely regarded as the founder of the Belgian national cinema. Born in Heverlee, he died in Valencia, Spain after giving a speech at the World Arts Meeting. He received the Magritte Honorary Award at the Magritte Awards 2011.

Janet Opal Asimov, usually writing as J. O. Jeppson, was an American science fiction writer, psychiatrist, and psychoanalyst.

Tomiko Miyao (宮尾 登美子) was a Japanese novelist. She is best known for writing historical fiction. Many of her works were adapted into television dramas and films, most notably Onimasa, Atsuhime, and Yoshitsune.

Cesar Ricardo Bressani Castignoli was a Guatemalan food scientist. Born in Guatemala City, he received a bachelor of science in chemical engineering degree from the University of Dayton in 1948. In 1951, he received a master's degree from Iowa State University. In the same year, Bressani returned to Guatemala where he worked at the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama, INCAP. In 1952, he received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to study biochemistry at Purdue University, where Bressani obtained his Ph.D. in 1956. Afterwards, he reincorporated to the INCAP, this time as the Head of the Division of Agricultural Sciences and Food until 1993.

Laurence Rosenthal is a former American composer, arranger and conductor for theater, television and film.

Jesús Guzmán Gareta is a veteran Spanish actor, known for La morte sull'alta collina (1969) Crónicas de un pueblo (1971), Cachimba (2004) and Maestros (2000). He appeared in many western films shot in Almería such as Un par de asesinos (1970), Per qualche dollaro in più (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Ocaso de un pistolero (1965).

Richard Adolf Bloch was an American entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known for starting the H&R Block tax preparation and personal finance company with his older brother Henry in 1955. His personal experience with cancer led him to invest in helping others fight and overcome the disease.

Richard Elgin McGarvie, was a judge in the Supreme Court of Victoria from 1976 to 1992, and the 24th Governor of Victoria from 1992 to 1997.