List of Famous people who born in 1930

Kinji Fukasaku was a Japanese film director and screenwriter who rose to prominence for his association with the Japanese New Wave. He directed the Japanese portion of the Hollywood war film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), yakuza films including Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973), samurai period pieces such as Shogun's Samurai (1978), the space opera Message from Space (1978), the fantasy film Samurai Reincarnation (1981), and his final film Battle Royale (2000). He used a cinema verite-inspired shaky camera technique in many of his films from the early 1970s.

Manfred Feist was a German politician and party functionary. He served as Director of the Foreign Information Department of the Central Committee of the ruling SED (party).

Anatoly Vladimirovich Pokrovsky is a vascular surgeon recognized as a pioneer of vascular surgery in Russia. His text, Clinical Angiology, is acknowledged as a definitive treatment of the discipline in Russia and CIS.

Carlos "Caloy" Loyzaga y Matute was a Filipino basketball player and coach. He was the most dominant basketball player of his era in the Philippines and is considered as the greatest Filipino basketball player of all time. Loyzaga was a two-time Olympian, as a member of the Philippines men's national basketball team.

Michal Kováč was the first President of Slovakia, having served from 1993 through 1998.

Robert Yale Lary Sr. was an American football player, businessman, and politician.

Mahmut Makal was a Turkish writer, poet and teacher who initiated the "Village Literature" movement in 1950 with the publication of his book ‘Bizim Köy’.

Jorge Grau was a Spanish director, scriptwriter, playwright and painter. His 1965 film Acteón was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1973, he directed Ceremonia sangrienta, starring Ewa Aulin. In 1974, he directed the cult zombie film The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue Grau died on 27 December 2018.

Karl Hurm was a contemporary German painter. Hurm was a self-taught artist whose paintings in the style referred to as naïve art have been on permanent display in an exhibition at the municipal art museum Ölmühle in Haigerloch (Germany) since 1998.

Donn Fulton Eisele was a United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and later a NASA astronaut. He occupied the command module pilot seat during the flight of Apollo 7 in 1968. After retiring from both NASA and the Air Force, he became the Peace Corps country director for Thailand, before moving into private business.