List of Famous people who born in 1938

Francesco Coccopalmerio is an Italian cardinal. He was president of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts from his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 15 February 2007 until his resignation was accepted by Pope Francis on 7 April 2018. He spent his early years in the Archdiocese of Milan and became an auxiliary bishop in 1993. He moved to the Roman Curia in 2000.

Muhammad Tholchah Hasan was an Indonesian Islamic cleric, academic, and politician who served as Minister of Religious Affairs.

Moshoeshoe II, previously known as Constantine Bereng Seeiso, was the Paramount Chief of Basutoland, succeeding paramount chief Seeiso from 1960 until the country gained full independence from Britain in 1966. He was King of Lesotho from 1966 until his exile in 1990, and from 1995 until his death in 1996.

Fethi Demircan is a Turkish professional football manager.

Sōju Nosaka II was a prominent Japanese koto player, specializing in contemporary music. Her real name was Keiko Nosaka .

Dai Houying was a Chinese woman novelist. Her best known work Stones in the Wall (人啊人) which tells the story of intellectuals named Zhao Zhenhuan, Sun Yue and He Jingfu in the Cultural Revolution, an event Dai experienced from the perspective of the persecutor, as a red guard. In 1971 she divorced her Red Guard husband and married the poet Wen Jie ([闻捷).

Wang Mengshu was a Chinese tunnel and railway engineer. He was a key engineer behind China's first subway tunnel and the development of China's high-speed railways. Wang was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He was a deputy to the 11th National People's Congress.