List of Famous people who born in 1930

Maria Alberta Menéres was a Portuguese author, children's writer, journalist and poet. She authored more than 100 books for children and young people when she began her professional writing career in 1952. Menéres also worked as a teacher, newspaper and magazine journalist as well as for Rádio e Televisão de Portugal. She received the International Poetry Contest Giacomo Leopardi in 1960, the Gulbenkian Grand Prize for Literature for Children and Youth in 1986 and was appointed Commander of the Order of Merit in 2010.

Sir Crispin Tickell is a British diplomat, environmentalist and academic.

Jacob (Bob) den Uyl was a Dutch writer of mostly short stories. His writing style is mostly ironic and observant. The most prominent theme in his work is the purposelessness and absurdity of existence. His earlier work consists mostly of absurd stories. In his later work, the focus of his writing shifted to more autobiographic stories, mostly concerned with travels in neighbouring countries of The Netherlands. Recurring elements in his work are:

• His experiences as a child during World War II
• World War I
• His love for bicycle racing
• His alcohol use
• The city of Rotterdam

Vanich Chaiyawan is a Thai billionaire businessman, chairman of Thai Life Insurance, the second-largest life insurer in Thailand.

Michele Giordano was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, who was the Archbishop of Naples and a cardinal-priest.