List of Famous people who born in 1926

James Idwal Robling was a Welsh sports commentator, who worked for the BBC in Wales for almost 40 years.

Lucien Sève was a French philosopher, communist and political activist. He was an active member of the French Communist Party from 1950 to 2010. His 1969 work Marxisme et théorie de la personnalité has been translated into 25 different languages. Sève died on 23 March 2020 of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Udo Schaefer was a German lawyer and a theologian of the Baháʼí Faith.

Antonio Andrónico Luksic Abaroa was a Chilean businessman of Croatian and Bolivian origin. He founded the Luksic Group, becoming the richest person in Chile, the fourth in Latin America, and the 132nd in the world, with a net worth in 2005 of US$4.2 billion according to Forbes magazine. The Luksic Group has interests in the mining, financial, industrial, and beverages sectors. Major holdings include, or have included, Banco de Chile, Compañia de Cervecerias Unidas (CCU), and Antofagasta Plc, a UK-listed copper mining company. In Croatia, he was involved in the tourist industry.

Yu Chen Yueh-ying was a Taiwanese politician, judge and matriarch of the Yu family, a political family who dominated politics in the former Kaohsiung County for more than thirty years.. Her six children include former Interior Minister Yu Cheng-hsien, who headed the ministry from 2002 to 2004.

Doris Egbring-Kahn (1926–2016) was a German actress.

David Charles Henshaw Austin was a British rose breeder and writer who lived in Shropshire, England. His emphasis was on breeding roses with the character and fragrance of old garden roses but with the repeat-flowering ability and wide colour range of modern roses such as hybrid teas and floribundas.

Jean-Bernard Raimond was a conservative French politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of Jacques Chirac from 1986 to 1988, as French ambassador to a number of states from the 1970s to the 1990s, and as a deputy in the French National Assembly from 1993 to 2002.

Neil Aylmer Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick-Hunter was a British sailor. He won a silver medal in the 5.5 metre class at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

François Morellet was a French contemporary painter, sculptor, and light artist. His early work prefigured minimal art and conceptual art, and he played a prominent role in the development of geometrical abstract art.