List of Famous people who born in 1938

Élie Hoarau is a Reunionese politician and member of the Communist Party of Réunion. He is the husband of Senator Gélita Hoarau.

Lucille Soong is a Chinese American actress. She is best known for her main role as Grandma Huang in the television series Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020). She has acted and appeared in films and tv series since the 1960s.

Christina ("Stien") Wilhelmina Baas-Kaiser is a former speed skater from the Netherlands.

Janusz Bolonek was a Polish prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See. He was named an archbishop in 1989 and represented the Holy See in Uruguay, Bulgaria, Romania, and the Macedonia.

Pierre Macherey is a French Marxist literary critic at the University of Lille Nord de France. A former student of Louis Althusser and collaborator on the influential volume Reading Capital, Macherey is a central figure in the development of French post-structuralism and Marxism. His work is influential in literary theory and Continental philosophy in Europe though it is generally little read in the United States.

Howard James Hubbard, DD is a United States prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Albany. Hubbard was the ninth Bishop of Albany, serving as Bishop from March 27, 1977, to April 10, 2014.

Makoto Taki is a Japanese politician serving in the House of Representatives in the Diet as an independent. A native of Ōta, Tokyo and graduate of the University of Tokyo he was elected for the first time in 1996.