List of Famous people who born in 1938

Toshiro Kandagawa is a Japanese chef, known primarily for his strict following of classic Japanese cooking styles.

Hoyt Wayne Axton was an American folk music singer-songwriter, guitarist, and a film and television actor. He became prominent in the early 1960s, establishing himself on the West Coast as a folk singer with an earthy style and powerful voice. As he matured, some of his songwriting became well known throughout the world. Among them were "Joy to the World", "The Pusher", "No No Song", "Greenback Dollar", "Della and the Dealer", and "Never Been to Spain".

Kenny Malone was an American drummer and percussionist from Denver, Colorado. Since the 1970s, he was a prominent session musician in folk, country and many other acoustic-based genres. He was known for inventing his own style of unique hand drumming.

Jacqueline Anne Stallybrass was an English actress who trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The television roles for which she is best known are Jane Seymour in The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970) and Anne Onedin in The Onedin Line (1971–1972).

Barbara Ann Rowan was an American attorney. She was the first Black woman to be a prosecutor in the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.

Huang Ju was a Chinese politician and a high-ranking leader in the Communist Party of China. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision making body, between 2002 and 2007, and also served as the first-ranked Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China beginning in 2003. He died in office before he could complete his terms on the Standing Committee and as Vice-Premier.

Tetsuya Yoneda is a Japanese former professional baseball pitcher who spent most of his career with the Hankyu Braves in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He was so tough that he was known as Gasoline Tank and also Human Tank. Yoneda was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000.

Orestes Quércia was a Brazilian politician. He was the 28th governor of São Paulo State.

Hans Peter Hallwachs is a German television actor.

Stephen Francis Patrick Aloysius Dunleavy was an Australian journalist based in the United States, best known as a columnist for the New York Post from 1976 to 2008. He was a lead reporter on the tabloid television program A Current Affair in the 1980s and 1990s.