List of Famous people who born in 1938

Tanju Gürsu was a Turkish actor, director and screenwriter, who was a major star of Turkish cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. He appeared in films such as Haremde Dört Kadın (1965) and Üç Korkusuz Arkadaş (1966) under director Halit Refiğ. As director he directed films such as Erkek Kazım (1975) and Kazım'a Bak Kazım'a (1975).

Wu Guanzheng is a former Chinese politician and one of the major leaders of the Communist Party of China during the administration of Hu Jintao. He served on the Politburo Standing Committee, the country's top ruling body, from 2002 to 2007. During that time he also served as the Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, the party's anti-graft body. He had a lengthy political career, having served as mayor of Wuhan, Governor then Party Secretary of Jiangxi, then party chief of Shandong. Wu retired in 2007 and left public life.

Myroslav Skoryk was a Ukrainian composer and teacher. His music is contemporary in style and contains idioms from diverse sources including German, Welsh, English, and Eastern European artistic traditions.

Igor Mikhailovich Luchenok was a Belarusian composer, People's Artist of the Byelorussian SSR, and chairman of the Belarusian Union of Composers.

Yang Teng-kuei was a Taiwanese businessman with holdings in multiple media ventures.

Lamia Al-Gailani Werr was an Iraqi archaeologist specialising in ancient Mesopotamian antiquities.

Tamio Kawachi was a Japanese actor.

Judith Feld Carr, is a Canadian musicologist and human rights activist known for secretly bringing to freedom thousands of Jews out of Syria over a period of 28 years.

Kanoko Tsutani-Mabuchi is a retired Japanese diver who won five medals in the 3 m springboard and 10 platform events at the Asian Games in 1954–74. Together with her husband Ryo Mabuchi she competed in the springboard and platform at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics and placed 7th–16th. Her daughter Yoshino Mabuchi also became an Olympic diver.

Martine Pascal is a French theatre, cinema, and television actress. She is the daughter of actress Gisèle Casadesus (1914-2017) and actor Lucien Pascal (1906–2006). Pascal was married to American-born French production designer and art director Willy Holt with whom she has two children Natalie Holt and Oliver Holt.