List of Famous people who born in 1939

Carlos Alberto Vereza de Almeida is a Brazilian actor. He was born in Rio de Janeiro.

Lyudmila Petrovna Polyakova is a Soviet and Russian actress; she is a People's Artist of Russia (1999).

HA Schult, born Hans-Jürgen Schult on 24 June 1939 in Parchim, Mecklenburg is a German installation, happening and conceptual artist known primarily for his object and performance art and more specifically his work with garbage. He is one of the first artists to deal with the world's ecological imbalance in his work and has therefore been called an "eco-art pioneer". His best known works include the touring work, Trash People, which exhibited on all continents, and the Save The Beach hotel, a building made of garbage.

Bérengère Dautun, whose first name is sometimes written Bérangère whose real name is Bérengère Marie Gaubens-Cabrol, is a French actress, resident of the Comédie-Française in 1964, then member of the society from 1972 to 1997. She is the wife of the surgeon Christian Cabrol since 1998.

Richard Ng Yiu-hon, also known as Richard Woo, is a Chinese-born Hong Kong actor known for playing comedic roles, particularly in Hong Kong films of the 1980s and 1990s.

Viktor Antonovich Sadovnichiy is a Russian mathematician, winner of the 1989 USSR State Prize, and since 1992 he has been the rector of Moscow State University. One of the main opinion leaders in Russia, Sadovnichiy has significant political and social influence.

Jürgen Vollmer, with Astrid Kirchherr and Klaus Voormann, befriended the Beatles during the band's time in Hamburg in the early 1960s. The son of a professional army officer who died during World War II, Vollmer was attending Hamburg's Institute of Fashion at the time he met the Beatles, who at the time included drummer Pete Best and bassist Stu Sutcliffe. Vollmer quickly became one of the group's photographers, and was responsible for some of their most iconic images in their leather-clad days prior to Brian Epstein. John Lennon was particularly impressed with Vollmer's photos, and used one of his favourites on the cover of his 1975 album Rock 'n' Roll. During the time Vollmer lived in the US, he worked as a set photographer in several Hollywood film productions.

Takeo Kikuchi is a famous Japanese industrial and fashion designer. He designs such things as spectacle frames and chronographs in addition to clothing.

Nagwa Fouad is an Egyptian belly dancer.

Valentina Dmitriyevna Ponomaryova, often also spelled Ponomareva, is a Russian singer, performer of Russian romances and a jazz vocalist.