List of Famous people who born in 1939

Peter Karl Otto Straub is a politician from Germany, and served as president of the Committee of the Regions (CoR) of the European Union (EU) from 2004 to 2006.

Sir Julius Chan served as Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea from 1980 to 1982 and from 1994 to 1997. He is Member of Parliament for New Ireland Province, having won the seat in the 2007 national election. He is also the current Governor of New Ireland Province, since 2007. On 26 May 2019, Prime Minister Peter O'Neill announced he would soon resign and that he wished for Sir Julius to succeed him. An outgoing Prime Minister does not, however, have the power to appoint his successor, and the following day O'Neill delayed his own formal resignation.

Charles H. Fuller Jr. is an American playwright, best known for his play A Soldier's Play, for which he received the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

Charles F. Kennel is an American plasma physicist and former Associate Administrator of NASA. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and won the James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics in 1997. In 2009, he was advertised by NASA Watch as a potential pick by Barack Obama as the next NASA Administrator.

Guntis Ulmanis is a Latvian politician and was the fifth President of Latvia from 1993 to 1999.

Frederick John Vine FRS is an English marine geologist and geophysicist. He made key contributions to the theory of plate tectonics, helping to show that the seafloor spreads from mid-ocean ridges with a symmetrical pattern of magnetic reversals in the basalt rocks on either side.

Jaime García Márquez Patricio Castillo San Juan, better known as Patricio Castillo was a Chilean born Mexican actor.

Eisaku Satō is a Japanese politician who served as the governor of Fukushima Prefecture of Japan from 1988 to 2006.