List of Famous people who born in 1938

Kōbun Otogawa was a Japanese Sōtō Zen priest.

Sir Lester Bryant Bird KNH was an Antigua and Barbuda politician and athlete who served as the second prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda from 1994 to 2004. He was chairman of the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) from 1971 to 1983, then became prime minister when his father, Sir Vere Bird, the previous prime minister, resigned.

Richard George William Pitt Booth was a British bookseller, known for his contribution to the success of Hay-on-Wye as a centre for second-hand bookselling. He was also the self-proclaimed "King of Hay".

Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal, also known as Brother Ezequiel, was a Peruvian politician and prophet of the religious movement he founded. He was the founder of an Evangelical Association of the Israelite Mission of the New Universal Covenant (AEMINPU) and their theocratic party known as Agricultural People's Front of Peru (FREPAP).

Jean-Claude Chamboredon was a French sociologist.

Vatanyar Saidovich Yagyua was a Russian politician. He was born in Leningrad. He was a member of United Russia. Yagyua was a member of the Leningrad city council from 1990 to 1993. He later became a member of the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg from 1994 until his retirement in 2011.

Masaaki Tsukada was a Japanese actor and voice actor working for Mausu Promotion. His widow, Masako Nozawa, is also a voice actress.

John Henry "Jabo" Starks ( ; October 26, 1938 – May 1, 2018) was an American funk and blues drummer best known for playing with James Brown as well as other notable musicians including Bobby Bland and B.B. King. A self-taught musician, he was known for his effective and clean drum patterns. He was one of the originators of funk drumming, and is one of the most sampled drummers.

Richard Samuel Benjamin is an American actor and film director.

Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi was a popular Egyptian poet, and later a children's books writer. He was one of a generation of poets who favored to write their work in the Egyptian dialect rather than Standard Arabic, the formal language of the state. This literary stance was associated with a militant political engagement: Abnudi and other Egyptian writers of this school sought to make their literary production part of the process of political development and movement towards popular democracy in Egypt. He married the former President of the Egyptian Television Network and television presenter and interviewer Nehal Kamal, and they had two children: Aya and Nour.