List of Famous people who born in 1926

Gérard Thurnauer was a French architect and a founding member of the Atelier de Montrouge, an architectural and urban planning studio.

Hans Günther Franz Otte was a German composer, pianist, radio promoter, and author of many pieces of musical theatre, sound installations, poems, drawings, and art videos. From 1959 to 1984 he served as music director for Radio Bremen. From the early 1960s onwards, Otte frequently presented contemporary experimental American composers in his Bremen radio festival Pro Musica Nova, among them in those days completely unknown people like John Cage, David Tudor, Terry Riley, and La Monte Young. From 1959 on, Otte lived and worked in Bremen, Germany. His catalogue of compositions contains more than 100 works.

Harold Kay (1926–1990) was a French actor.

Lu Leonard was an American actress, the daughter of Hal Price. She was best known for her role as Mrs. Pugh in the film Annie (1982).

Josef Koukl was the Roman Catholic bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Litoměřice, Czech Republic.

Eugene Iglesias is an American actor from Puerto Rico who was active mainly in 1950s and 1960s. In 1955 Iglesias appeared as Alfredo on the TV western Cheyenne in the episode "Border Showdown." He is most known for his roles in Harper, otherwise referred to as "The Moving Target" during its production period (1966), Cowboy (1958), and The Naked Dawn (1955). Iglesias was mostly active as a film actor but also appeared in television including the series My Little Margie and Dragnet "The Big Bar" (1954).

Stephen Antonakos was a Greek sculptor known for his abstract sculptures and for being a pioneer in the use of neon in art.