List of Famous people who born in 1926

Günter Mittag was a German member of parliament, secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), and a central figure in East Germany's command economy.

Jacques Jouanneau was a French actor. He was born in Angers, France.

Raul Hilberg was an Austrian-born Jewish-American political scientist and historian. He was widely considered to be the preeminent scholar on the Holocaust. Christopher R. Browning has called him the founding father of Holocaust Studies and his three-volume, 1,273-page magnum opus The Destruction of the European Jews is regarded as seminal for research into the Nazi Final Solution.

Sidney David Drell was an American theoretical physicist and arms control expert.

Wenche Bryn Lowzow was a Norwegian politician in the Conservative Party of Norway. She was a member of the Norwegian parliament as a representative from Oslo from 1977 to 1985. When same-sex civil unions were accepted by Norwegian law in 1993, Lowzow and her partner, author and activist Karen-Christine Friele, were among the first to formalize their relationship.

Christian J. Mohn was a Norwegian ski jumper and sports official. His career highlights included a fourth place at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1950, a second place at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in 1952, and a 20th place at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1954. He represented IL Heming and also practised golf, yacht racing, tennis, bandy and handball.

Christian Habicht was a German historian of ancient Greece and an epigrapher in Ancient Greek.

Armando Cossutta was an Italian communist politician.

Roger Fauroux was a French politician, who served as Minister of Industry and Regional Planning from 1988 to 1991.

Kenneth Alan "Ken" Richmond was an English heavyweight wrestler.