List of Famous people who born in 1930

William Emerson Brock III is a former American Republican politician who served in both chambers of the United States Congress from 1963 to 1977 and later in the United States Cabinet from 1981 to 1987. He is the grandson of William Emerson Brock Sr., a Democratic U.S. senator who represented Tennessee from 1929 to 1931.

John William Richmond Shakespeare, is a retired British diplomat.

• From 1949 to 1950 he was 2nd Lieutenant at the Irish Guards.
• From 1953 to 1954 he was lecturer in English, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
• In 1955 he was member of the Editorial Staff of the Times Educational Supplement.
• In 1956 he was member of the Editorial Staff of The Times.
• In 1959 he war Private Secretary to Gladwyn Jebb ambassador in Paris.
• On 22 September 1960 he was appointed a member of the Foreign Service and served in Paris.
• On August 1961 he was transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.
• On 1 July 1963 he was promoted 1st Secretary.
• In 1968 he was employed from the Secret Intelligence Service.
• 1985 Birthday Honours he became Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George.
• On 12 July 1973 he got Exequatur as Consul General in Buenos Aires.
• On 26 January 1976 Derick Ashe terminated his duty as ambassador in Buenos Aires and JWR Shakespeare stayed as Chargé d'affaires, a task he also fulfilled during the Falklands War.
• From 1983 to 1987 he was ambassador in Lima.
• From 1987 to 1990 he was ambassador in Rabat.

Yves Goussebaire-Dupin was a French politician. A member of the Union for French Democracy, he served as Mayor of Dax from 1977 to 1995 and was in the Senate of France from 1983 to 1992.

Georges Martin was a French engineer, a graduate of the Special School of Public Works, "mechanical-electrical" section. He designed automobile internal combustion engines including the "Poissy engine" that powered various cars from Simca, Matra, Chrysler, Talbot, Plymouth, and Dodge from 1961 until 1991, and perhaps more famously, the successful V12 Matra Sports engine for Matra's Formule 1 team.

Henri Burin des Roziers, O.P., was a French Dominican Order priest and lawyer, who spent forty years working with and defending Brazilian peasants forced into labor or harassed by wealthy landowners. Landowners repeatedly threatened his life in an attempt to stop this work. In Brazil, he was known as "counsel for the landless".

Veljo Tormis was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the great contemporary choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella. The great majority of these pieces are based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs (regilaulud), either textually, melodically, or merely stylistically.

Edda Bresciani was an Italian Egyptologist.

Edgard Sorgeloos was a Belgian professional road bicycle racer. Sorgeloos' biggest success came at the end of his career, when he won a stage in the 1965 Tour de France.

Keith Davis was a New Zealand rugby union player who played for both New Zealand and New Zealand Māori. He played for Auckland, and won the Ranfurly Shield in his first ever provincial game. After gaining All Blacks selection in 1952, Davis toured with the team to Europe and North America in 1953–54. He played extensively for New Zealand Māori between 1952 and his retirement in 1959; his time with the team included matches against both South Africa and the British Lions. Davis was awarded the Tom French Cup for Māori player of the year in 1952, 1953 and 1954.