List of Famous people who born in 1929

Lawrence Cleveland "Larry" Chambers was the first African American to command a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and the first African-American graduate of the Naval Academy to reach flag rank. While in command of USS Midway during Operation Frequent Wind, Chambers gave the controversial order to push overboard millions of dollars' worth of UH-1 Huey helicopters so Republic of Vietnam Air Force Major Buang-Ly could land on the aircraft carrier in a Cessna O-1 Bird Dog with his wife and five children, thereby saving their lives.

Guy Delorme was a French actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1951 to 1984.

Jean Ann Ewers,, known professionally as Eve Brent and Jean Lewis, was an American actress known for her role as Jane in Tarzan's Fight for Life.

Robert Lebeck was an award-winning German photojournalist.

Peter Ludwig Berger (1929–2017) was an Austrian-born American sociologist and Protestant theologian. Berger became known for his work in the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, study of modernization, and theoretical contributions to sociological theory.

Fernando Silva Santisteban (1929–2006) was a Peruvian historian, anthropologist and professor. He was born in Cajamarca in 1929 and died in Lima on December 16, 2006. He was married to singer, Teresa Guedes, and was the father of the poet, Rocio Silva-Santisteban.

Claude Castonguay, was a Canadian politician, educator, and businessman.

Rubens Paiva was a Brazilian civil engineer and politician who, as a Congressman at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, opposed the implementation of a military dictatorship in Brazil in 1968, for which he was tortured and murdered.

Kazimierz Julian Kutz was a Polish film director, author, journalist and politician, one of the representatives of the Polish Film School and a deputy speaker of the Senate of Poland.

Mochtar Riady also known as Lie Mon Tie is an Indonesian financial magnate and the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Lippo Group. He was born in Malang to a Chinese Indonesian family. At five months old, his parents took him to his father's ancestral village in Fujian where he lived until he was six years old.