List of Famous people who born in 1939

Edward Linde-Lubaszenko is a Polish actor.

Vladimir Evgen'evich Zakharov is a Soviet and Russian mathematician and physicist. He is currently Regents' Professor of mathematics at The University of Arizona, director of the Mathematical Physics Sector at the Lebedev Physical Institute, and is on the committee of the Stefanos Pnevmatikos International Award. Zakharov's research interests cover physical aspects of nonlinear wave theory in plasmas, hydrodynamics, oceanology, geophysics, solid state physics, optics, and general relativity.

George Francis Rayner Ellis, FRS, Hon. FRSSAf, is the emeritus distinguished professor of complex systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time with University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking, published in 1973, and is considered one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology. From 1989 to 1992 he served as president of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. He is a past president of the International Society for Science and Religion. He is an A-rated researcher with the NRF.

Manfred Degen was a German politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, he served in the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1990 to 2005.

Henri Nallet is a French politician. He is a member of the Socialist Party.

Richard Allen Posner is an American jurist and economist who is a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Between 1981 and 2017, he served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. He is a leading figure in the field of law and economics, and was identified by The Journal of Legal Studies as the most cited legal scholar of the 20th century. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential legal scholars in the United States.

Norbert Geis is a German politician. He is a member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU).

Pietro Lunardi is an Italian politician and engineer.