List of Famous people who born in 1938

Sadanoyama Shinmatsu was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Nagasaki Prefecture. He was the sport's 50th yokozuna. After his retirement he was the head coach of Dewanoumi stable and served as head of the Japan Sumo Association.

Luis Arce Gómez was a colonel in the Bolivian Army. In 1980 he backed the bloody coup that brought to power the General Luis García Meza. Arce served as García Meza's Minister of the Interior.

Tom Regan was an American philosopher who specialized in animal rights theory. He was professor emeritus of philosophy at North Carolina State University, where he had taught from 1967 until his retirement in 2001.

Erol Sabancı is a billionaire Turkish banker and a member of the Sabancı family. Sabancı is the Honorary Chairman of Akbank. He has been board member of Akbank since 1963, Turkey’s most valuable and profitable bank.

Roma Ligocka is a Polish costume designer, writer, and painter.

Lya Fett Luft is a Brazilian writer and a prolific translator, working mostly in the English-Portuguese and the German-Portuguese language combinations.

Marien Ngouabi was the third President of the Republic of the Congo from January 1, 1969, to March 18, 1977.

Charles Peter Wuorinen was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. He performed his works and other 20th-century music as pianist and conductor.

Marcel Artelesa was a French footballer who played as a defender. He played for France in the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England.

Maria de Fátima de Bivar Velho da Costa was a Portuguese writer who was awarded the Camões Prize in 2002. She took part in the Portuguese Feminist Movement with Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Teresa Horta.