List of Famous people who born in 1926

Bandar bin Saud Al Saud was the eighth son of King Saud. He was born on the same day his grandfather, King Abdulaziz, entered and joined the city and province of Qunfudah to his realm.

Carmel E. McSharry was an Irish character actress, best known for her roles as Beryl Humphries in Beryl's Lot (1973–77), a daytime ITV serial, and as Mrs. Hollingbery in In Sickness and in Health. She also played bit parts in The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), 80,000 Suspects (1963) and The Leather Boys (1964).

Walter Lassally was a German-born British cinematographer. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 1965 for the film Zorba the Greek.

António de Almeida Santos, GCC, GCIH, GCL, was a Portuguese lawyer, politician and government minister.

Kim Jong-gil was an early-modern South Korean poet.

Vsevolod Vladimirovich Ovchinnikov is a Soviet and Russian journalist and writer-publicist, one of the leading Soviet postwar international journalists; orientalist and expert on Japan and China.

Helmut Hubacher was a Swiss politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland.

Lyudmila Mikhailovna Arinina is a Soviet and Russian actress. She was named an Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1976.

Raden Sugiyono Mangunwiyoto was one of 10 revolutionary heroes of Indonesia. He was kidnapped and killed by members of the 30 September Movement.

Mitsumasa Anno was a Japanese illustrator and writer of children's books, known best for picture books with few or no words. He received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1984 for his "lasting contribution to children's literature."