List of Famous people who born in 1926
Xavier de Villepin
Joseph Marie Benoît François Xavier Galouzeau de Villepin, simply known as Xavier de Villepin, was a former high-ranking civil servant of France, and a former French senator from the center-right UMP party. He was the father of the former Prime Minister of France, Dominique de Villepin.
Maria Radnoti-Alföldi
Maria Radnoti-Alföldi is a Hungarian-German archaeologist and numismatist specialising in the Roman period. She is known for her research into the analysis of the distribution of coin finds, Roman history, and the self-depiction of the Roman emperors.
Francisco Humberto Bezerra
Louis Velle
Judith Malina
Judith Malina was a German-born American theater and film actress, writer and director. With her husband, Julian Beck, Malina co-founded The Living Theatre, a radical political theatre troupe that rose to prominence in New York City and Paris during the 1950s and 60s. The Living Theatre and its founders were the subject of the 1983 documentary Signals Through The Flames.
Abdoulaye Wade
Abdoulaye Wade is a Senegalese politician who was President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS), having led the party since it was founded in 1974. A long-time opposition leader, he ran for President four times, beginning in 1978, before he was elected in 2000. He won re-election in 2007 with a majority in the first round, but in 2012 he was defeated in a controversial bid for a third term.
Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat
Andrew Schally
Andrzej Viktor "Andrew" Schally is an American endocrinologist of Polish ancestry, who was a corecipient with Roger Guillemin and Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. This recognized his research in the discovery that the hypothalamus controls hormone production and release by the pituitary gland which control the regulation of other hormones in the body.
Hans Grisebach
Gerhard Zinserling
Gerhard Zinserling was a German classical archaeologist.