List of Famous people who born in 1936

Wilson das Neves was a Brazilian percussionist and singer from in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a key figure in the history of Brazilian music, having played with many of Brazil's greatest musicians across many decades and featured on numerous important recordings. Wilson was a very important artist specially for Brazilian popular music as a sambista, composer and instrumentalist, with over 50 years dedicated to music. He can be heard in over 600 records from major Brazilian artists.

Henrique José de Sousa Neto is a Portuguese entrepreneur, industrialist and former member of the Portuguese parliament for the Socialist Party. He founded the company Iberomoldes in 1975 and became one of the most noted businesspersons in the Portuguese engineering-related industry. Henrique Neto was the first candidate to step up for the Portuguese presidential election of 2016.

José Andrés Rafael Zaldívar Larraín, popularly known as El Chico Zaldívar, is a prominent Chilean Christian Democrat politician. Andrés Zaldívar is of Basque descent.

Abdelhamid Brahimi is an Algerian politician who first served as minister of planning before becoming the prime minister of Algeria under Chadli Bendjedid. He served as PM from January 22, 1984, until November 5, 1988. He has written several books, particularly about violence in Algeria.

Stephen Michael Reich is an American composer known for his contribution to the development of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.

Fritz Hans Schweingruber was a Swiss dendrochronologist and emeritus professor.

Peter Wende was a German historian who professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main and later director of the German Historical Institute London from September 1994 to August 2000.

Saúl Edólver Ubaldini was an Argentine labor leader and parliamentarian for the Peronist Justicialist Party.

Helga de Alvear is an art collector. She was born in the city of Kirn/Nahe (Rheinland-Pfalz), Germany, in 1936. She studied at the Salem School near Lake Constance, and subsequently in Lausanne and Geneva, Switzerland. She furthered her studies afterwards in London for a year. In 1957 she travelled to Spain to learn Spanish and met the architect Jaime de Alvear. They married in 1959 and she set up residence in Madrid. They have three children, Maria, Ana and Patricia. In 1967 Helga de Alvear met Juana Mordó and began what would later turn into her art collection. She came into contact with artists from the Cuenca group and from the El Paso group and she became increasingly interested in the Spanish art scene. In January 1980 she started to work at the Juana Mordó gallery. Here, she was able to hone her knowledge about the international art scene.

Delio "Maravilla" Gamboa Rentería was a Colombian football player. Gamboa's career ran from 1955 to 1974 in which time he played for Atlético Nacional, Millonarios, Independiente Santa Fe, Once Caldas, and Deportes Tolima, "Maravilla" translates directly to "wonder".