List of Famous people who born in 1926

Jacques Villeglé, born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé is a French mixed-media artist and affichiste famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters and decollage with ripped or lacerated posters.

Robert Lawson Vaught was a mathematical logician and one of the founders of model theory.

Raymond George Gosling was a British scientist. While a PhD student at King's College, London he worked under the supervision of Rosalind Franklin. Their crystallographic experiments, together with those of Maurice Wilkins of the same laboratory, produced data that helped James Watson and Francis Crick to infer the structure of DNA.

Wallace Prescott Rowe was an American virologist, known for his research on retroviruses and oncoviruses and as a co-discoverer of adenoviruses.

Haradhan Bandopadhyay was a Bengali Indian male actor of television and films. He made his debut in the 1948 Bengali film Devdut, directed by Atanu Bandopadhyay. He worked with some of the most prominent directors of Bengali cinema, like Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen.

Michel Meslin was a professor at and president of the Université de Paris-Sorbonne. He established the Institut de Recherche pour l'Etude des Religions (IRER). A specialist in late antiquity, the history of Christianity and anthropology of religion, he published several works on these and other subjects.

Leonid Aleksandrovich Golikov (Russian: Леонид Александрович Голиков; was a Soviet partisan during World War II who was posthumously recognized as a pioneer hero and received the Hero of the Soviet Union.