List of Famous people who born in 1939

Serpil Hamdi Tüzün is a Turkish football coach who coached the Beşiktaş J.K. senior team for the 1979–80 season. Primarily a youth coach, he worked with the youth of Beşiktaş representing some of the finest names to the football stage. He also worked as a youth coach for the Turkey national youth football team, collecting a European under-18 championship gold medal in 1992, and a European under-16 championship gold medal in 1994. Tüzün is now working as a youth coach in Azerbaijan.

Tsutomu Tanaka was a Japanese professional baseball player. A right-handed pitcher, he played in Japan for the Nishitetsu Lions and the Chunichi Dragons. Tanaka was a top pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball shortly before scandals derailed his career. A 23-game winner in 1966, he also is one of the few NPB pitchers to ever throw a perfect game.

Claudio Magris is an Italian scholar, translator and writer. He was a senator for Friuli-Venezia Giulia from 1994 to 1996.

Michael Learned is an American actress, known for her role as Olivia Walton in the long-running CBS drama series The Waltons (1972–1981). She has won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series four times, which is tied for the record of most wins with Tyne Daly. Three of the wins were for The Waltons, while the other was for Nurse (1982).

Rudolf Thome is a German film director and producer. He has directed more than 30 films since 1964. His 1986 film Tarot was entered into the 15th Moscow International Film Festival.

Annette Andre is an Australian actress best known for her work on British television throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Ronald Frederick Atkinson, commonly known as Big Ron or Bojangles, is an English former football player and manager. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he was one of Britain's best-known football pundits.

Garrick Hagon is a British-Canadian actor in film, stage, television and radio, known for his role as Biggs Darklighter in Star Wars: A New Hope. His many films include Batman, Spy Game, Me and Orson Welles and The Message. He was the rebel leader Ky in the Doctor Who serial The Mutants, and played Simon Gerrard, Debbie Aldridge's husband in the BBC's The Archers.

Nini Cáffaro, Erasmo Alfonso Cáffaro Durán is an internationally known singer.

Johnny Wakelin is an English recording artist with the Pye Records label.