List of Famous people who born in 1930

Edsger Wybe Dijkstra was a Dutch computer scientist, programmer, software engineer, systems scientist, science essayist, and pioneer in computing science. A theoretical physicist by training, he worked as a programmer at the Mathematisch Centrum (Amsterdam) from 1952 to 1962. A university professor for much of his life, Dijkstra held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until his retirement in 1999. He was a professor of mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology (1962–1984) and a research fellow at the Burroughs Corporation (1973–1984). In 1972, he became the first non-American, non-British, and continental European winner of the Turing Award.

Hryhorii Mykolaiovych Chapkis was a Ukrainian dancer and choreographer. He was laureate of three international competitions. He became a People's Artist of Ukraine in February 2010. Previously he was awarded the title of Meritorious Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1964).

Edgar Wisniewski was a German architect. He was a student and later business partner of Hans Scharoun.

Yuri Petrovich Artyukhin was a Soviet Russian cosmonaut and engineer who made a single flight into space.