List of Famous people who born in 1926

Werner Michael Blumenthal is a German-born American business leader, economist and political adviser who served as United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1979.

Johannes Willem Maria Bluyssen or Bluijssen was a Dutch Catholic bishop.

Ernest Armstrong McCulloch, was a University of Toronto cellular biologist, best known for demonstrating – with James Till – the existence of stem cells.

Wilma "Billie" Tisch is an American philanthropist and heiress. She is a graduate of Skidmore College and has served on its board as well as pursuing many other philanthropic ventures.

Juan José Linz Storch de Gracia was a Spanish sociologist and political scientist. He was Sterling Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Political Science at Yale University and an honorary member of the Scientific Council at the Juan March Institute. He is best known for his theories on totalitarian and authoritarian systems of government.

Gil Kane was a Latvian-born American comics artist whose career spanned the 1940s to the 1990s and virtually every major comics company and character.

Rashidi Mfaume Kawawa was the Prime Minister of Tanganyika in 1962 and of Tanzania in 1972 to 1977. He was the effective ruler of the country from January to December 1962 while Julius Nyerere toured the countryside. Kawawa was a strong advocate of economic statism. He later served as Defense Minister from 1977 to 1980.