List of Famous people who born in 1939

Margot Eskens is a German Schlager singer, most popular in the 1950s and 1960s. She continued to be a frequent guest on television programs into the 2000s.

Rasie Michael Bailey was an American country music artist, known professionally as Razzy Bailey. In the early 1980s, he scored 5 No. 1's on the Billboard country music charts.

Vincenzo "Enzo" Osella is the founder and chairman of Italian auto manufacturer Osella as well as former principal of the Osella Formula One team.

Jean-Claude Germain is a Canadian playwright, author, journalist and historian.

Lidiya Pavlovna Skoblikova is a retired Russian speed skater and coach. She represented the USSR Olympic team during the Olympic Winter Games in 1960, 1964 and 1968, and won a total of six gold medals, which is still a record for a speed skater. She also won 25 gold medals at the world championships and 15 gold medals at the USSR National Championships in several distances. She was also the first athlete to earn six gold medals in the Winter Olympics and the first to earn four gold medals at a single Olympic Winter Games. She was the most successful athlete at the 1960 and 1964 Winter Olympics, sharing the honour for 1960 Games with her compatriot Yevgeny Grishin.

Amazonino Armando Mendes is a Brazilian politician. He served as the Governor of the Brazilian state of Amazonas for three non-consecutive tenures. He first served as governor from 1987 until April 2, 1990, when he resigned from office to run for the Federal Senate. He was elected governor in 1995, serving from 1995 until 2003. In 2017, Mendes was elected Governor of Amazonas succeeding David Almeida, who assumed as interim following the Superior Electoral Court impeachment of former Governor José Melo and former Vice Governor Henrique Oliveira. As a result, the president of the Legislative Assembly of Amazonas State assumed until the elections were held on the 6th and 27th of August.

Patricio Apey, is a former tennis player from Viña del Mar, Chile who has trained and managed various players.

Virginia María del Carmen Reginato Bozzo is a Chilean politician. A member of the Independent Democratic Union (UDI) party, she formely served as mayor of the city of Viña del Mar.

Ali Haydar Şen is an ex-president of Fenerbahçe SK.

Gro Harlem Brundtland is a Norwegian politician, who served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway and as Director-General of the World Health Organization from 1998 to 2003. She is also known for having chaired the Brundtland Commission which presented the Brundtland Report on sustainable development.