List of Famous people who born in 1936

Luís Fernando Verissimo is a Brazilian writer. Verissimo is the son of Brazilian writer Erico Verissimo and lived with his father in the United States during his childhood. Best known for his crônicas and texts of humor, more precisely satire of manners, published daily in several Brazilian newspapers, Verissimo is also a cartoonist, translator, and television writer, playwright and novelist. He has also been advertising and newspaper copy desk. He is also a musician, having played saxophone in a few sets. With over 60 published titles, is one of the most popular contemporary Brazilian writers.

Huang Ta-chou, also known as Thomas Huang, is a Taiwanese politician who served as mayor of Taipei between 1990 and 1994. He chaired the Chinese Taipei Olympic committee from 1998 to 2006.

Michel Rousseau was a French amateur track cyclist. He won gold medals in the individual sprint at the 1956 Summer Olympics and 1956–1958 world championships, finishing second in 1959 and 1961.

Rotraut Wisskirchen was a German Biblical archaeologist.

Robert Phelan Langlands, is an American-Canadian mathematician. He is best known as the founder of the Langlands program, a vast web of conjectures and results connecting representation theory and automorphic forms to the study of Galois groups in number theory, for which he received the 2018 Abel Prize. He is an emeritus professor and occupies Albert Einstein's office at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Maria Milagros Ortiz Bosch is a lawyer, business manager and Dominican politician. She was the first Dominican woman to be vice president of the country, during 2000–2004. She was senator of the Distrito Nacional twice and Secretary of State (Minister) for Education of the Dominican Republic, for the same time period she was vicepresident (2000-2004).

Robert McCredie May, Baron May of Oxford, HonFAIB was an Australian scientist who was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government, President of the Royal Society, and a professor at the University of Sydney and Princeton University. He held joint professorships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He was also a crossbench member of the House of Lords from 2001 until his retirement in 2017.

Jorge Raúl Porcel de Peralta, known as Jorge Porcel, was an Argentine comedy actor and television host. He was nicknamed El Gordo de América. Porcel is considered, along with Alberto Olmedo, one of Argentina's greatest comic actors of the twentieth century.

William McIlvanney was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, and poet. He was known as Gus by friends and acquaintances. McIlvanney was a champion of gritty yet poetic literature; his works Laidlaw, The Papers of Tony Veitch, and Walking Wounded are all known for their portrayal of Glasgow in the 1970s. He is regarded as "the father of Tartan Noir" and as Scotland's Camus.

Maria Tekla Famiglietti (1936–2020) was the Abbess General of the Order of the Most Holy Savior, commonly called the Bridgettine Sisters, founded by Elizabeth Hesselblad. On 28 October 2016 Famiglietti retired and was replaced by Fabia Kattakayam.