List of Famous people who born in 1926

Egisto Pandolfini was an Italian footballer who played as a midfielder.

Efraín Elías "El Caimán" Sánchez Casimiro was a Colombian footballer who played as goalkeeper. He competed for the Colombian national football team at the 1962 FIFA World Cup which was held in Chile. Among other teams, he played for San Lorenzo of Argentina in the 1940s. He won the Colombian league title three times during his career.

Roland Leroy was a French journalist and politician. He served as a Communist member of the National Assembly from 1956 to 1958, and from 1967 to 1981, representing Seine-Maritime.

Mauricio Feres Yázbek best known as Mauricio Garcés, was a Mexican actor and comedian.

Yitzhak Arad was an Israeli historian, author, IDF brigadier general and Soviet partisan. He also served as Yad Vashem's director from 1972 to 1993, and specialised in the history of the Holocaust.

Rudolf Kippenhahn was a German astrophysicist and science author.

Murray Joseph Schisgal was an American playwright and screenwriter.

Oleh Hornykiewicz was an Austrian biochemist.

Max von der Grün was a German novelist.

Amirouche Aït Hamouda, commonly called Colonel Amirouche, was a leader in the Algerian War, organizing the maquis of the Wilaya III. He is considered a national hero in Algeria.