List of Famous people who born in 1939

Keiichirō Akagi , born Chikahiro Akatsuka was a Japanese actor. Akagi appeared in over 26 films in his short three-year career. Kenju burai-chō series and The Call of the Foghorn are Akagi's notable films.

Daisaku Kimura is a Japanese film director and cinematographer. He won the award for best director at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize for Mt. Tsurugidake.

Joseph Dominick Pistone, also known by his undercover alias Donnie Brasco, is an American former FBI agent who worked undercover between September 1976 and July 1981, as part of an infiltration primarily into the Bonanno crime family, and to a lesser extent the Colombo crime family, two of the Five Families of the Mafia in New York City. Pistone was an FBI agent for 17 years, from 1969 until he resigned in 1986. The evidence collected by Pistone led to over 200 indictments and over 100 convictions of Mafia members—and some responsible for his infiltration were also killed by other mobsters.

Michael Henry "Mickey" Schwerner, was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) field workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Schwerner and two co-workers, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, were killed in response to their civil rights work, which included promoting voting registration among African Americans, most of whom had been disenfranchised in the state since 1890.

Marco St. John is an American actor who has appeared in films and television programs. He is known for his role as the perverted truck driver in the 1991 film Thelma & Louise and for playing Sheriff Tucker in the 1985 horror film Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.

Hércules de Brito Ruas,, known as Brito, is a former Brazilian footballer. He played as a central defender for several clubs, and for the Brazilian national team.

Pierre Méhaignerie is a French politician. He is a former deputy of the Ille-et-Vilaine's 5th constituency and the former mayor of Vitré.

Christiane Hammacher is a German actress, who has performed on the German stage and on television.

Enrique Pinti is an Argentine actor and comedian.

Elsie Leung Oi-sie, GBM, JP is a Hong Kong politician and solicitor. She was Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong from 1997 to 2005 and a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong.