List of Famous people who born in 1930

Emmy Schörg was an Austrian stage and film actress. Schörg was mainly known due to her roles on the Tschauner-Bühne in Vienna, where she played for over 40 years.

Raoul Sangla was a French journalist, film director and screenwriter. He created among others Discorama and Bienvenue chez Guy Béart. He was a member of General Confederation of Labour and French Communist Party. He worked at Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française, Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française and Antenne 2. He was director of Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers (1978–1982).

Harold Brodkey, born Aaron Roy Weintraub, was an American short-story writer and novelist.

Françoise Graton was a Québécoise actress who lived and worked in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She contributed much to the advancement of theatre in Montreal and particularly in involvement with children.

James Graham Ballard was an English novelist, short story writer, satirist, and essayist who first became associated with the New Wave of science fiction for his post-apocalyptic novels such as The Drowned World (1962). In the late 1960s, he produced a variety of experimental short stories, such as those collected in the controversial The Atrocity Exhibition (1970). In the mid 1970s, Ballard published several novels, among them the highly controversial Crash (1973), a story about symphorophilia and car crash fetishism, and High-Rise (1975), a depiction of a luxury apartment building's descent into violent chaos.

Aleksandr Yevgenyevich Bovin was a Soviet and Russian journalist, political scientist and diplomat, notable for being the first Soviet, and then Russian ambassador to Israel after the re-establishment of Soviet-Israeli diplomatic relations. He was a leading journalist of Soviet Union and Russia of the late 20th century. The New York Times called him "one of the most colorful and daring commentators of the late Soviet period" and The Washington Post also said he was "widely regarded as the Soviet Union's most sophisticated and best-informed political commentator".

Mohamad-Ali Keshavarz was an Iranian cinema and theater actor.

John Gaulton Hubbard, MBE was a South African footballer. Hubbard spent the majority of his career at Scottish club Rangers, and later played for English club Bury before ending his career back in Scotland with Ayr United. He was the first African player to compete in the European Cup, having played in October 1956 with Rangers versus Nice, and also the first African player to score a goal in the competition.

Benjamin L. Abruzzo was an American balloonist and businessman who helped make Albuquerque, New Mexico, into an international ballooning center. He was part of the balloon crews that made the first Atlantic ocean crossing by balloon in the Double Eagle II and the first Pacific ocean crossing by balloon in the Double Eagle V.

Nathan Zach was an Israeli poet.