List of Famous people who born in 1929

William Nicholas Stone Courtney was a British actor. He was known for his long-running role as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Frederick Allen Nutter was an American actor who appeared in many minor films and the James Bond picture Thunderball.

Ríkharður Jónsson was an Icelandic football player and manager.

Franklin Jacobs was an American author of satires, known primarily for his work in Mad, to which he contributed from 1957 to 2014. Jacobs wrote a wide variety of lampoons and spoof, but was best known as a versifier who contributed parodies of famous song lyrics and poems. In 2009, Jacobs described himself as "the least-known writer of hysterical light verse in the United States."

François de Cossé-Brissac, 13th Duke of Brissac, was a French aristocrat. He held the noble title Duke of Brissac from 1993 until his death in 2021.

Bartolomé Bennassar was a French historian and writer. He specialized in Spanish and Latin American history.

Arthur Bernard Bisguier was an American chess grandmaster, chess promoter, and writer.

Mario Monje Molina was a Bolivian politician, founder Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Bolivia (Partido Comunista Boliviano, PCB). When the party split into a pro-Soviet and a pro-Beijing wing in 1964, he became the leader of the pro-Soviet wing. He agreed to help Ernesto 'Che' Guevara incite a revolution in Bolivia in 1966, but later changed his mind. Aleida March blames Monje for the death of her husband.

Armand J. R. Vaillancourt is a Canadian sculptor, painter and performance artist from Quebec. Born in Black Lake, he received his art training at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal.

Glen Robert Sonmor was a Canadian professional ice hockey player, scout and coach. He played 28 games in the National Hockey League with the New York Rangers from 1953 to 1955, though most of his career was spent in the minor American Hockey League. After his playing career, Sonmor turned to coaching. He led the University of Minnesota from 1966 to 1972, then went to the World Hockey Association, where he was the general manager, and occasional coach, of the Minnesota Fighting Saints and Birmingham Bulls between 1972 and 1978. He then moved to the NHL to coach the Minnesota North Stars from 1978 to 1987. Later in his career, Sonmor became a scout for the Minnesota Wild of the NHL.