List of Famous people who born in 1926

Carlos Valdés Galán, better known as Patato, was a Cuban conga player. In 1954, he emigrated from La Habana to New York City where he continued his prolific career as a sideman for several jazz and Latin music ensembles, and occasionally as a bandleader. He contributed to the development of the tunable conga drum which revolutionized the use of the instrument in the US. His experimental descarga albums recorded for Latin Percussion are considered the counterpart to the commercial salsa boom of the 1970s. Tito Puente once called him "the greatest conguero alive today".

Maxwell Valentine Noronha was a Roman Catholic bishop.

Alberto Johannes Först was a Catholic bishop.

Gerard Washnitzer was an American mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry.

Herbert Taschner (1926–1994) was a German film editor. Much of his work from the 1960s and 1970s was for Wolf C. Hartwig's Rapid Film. He was married to fellow film editor Ingeborg Taschner, with whom he had a son Kai Taschner.