List of Famous people who born in 1939

Manfred Kanther is a German conservative politician and was Minister of the Interior of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1993 to 1998. He has been a member of the CDU.

Ole Martin Ellefsæter is a retired athlete from Norway. He mostly competed in cross-country skiing, and won two gold medals at the 1968 Winter Olympics. At the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships he won one gold and one silver (15 km) medal, and in 1971 he became the first Norwegian to win Vasaloppet. Earlier in 1967, Ellefsæter won the 50 km event at the Holmenkollen ski festival, the same year he was awarded the Holmenkollen medal, shared with Toini Gustafsson.

Hugh Detmar O'Neill, 3rd Baron Rathcavan is a hereditary peer who sat as a crossbencher in the British House of Lords from 1994 until 1999.

Peter Gröning is a former East German track cyclist. Gröning competed for the SC Dynamo Berlin / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. He won the silver medal at the 1960 Olympics in Rome in the 4000-m team pursuit.

Werner Eck is Professor of Ancient History at Cologne University, Germany, and a noted expert on the history and epigraphy of imperial Rome. His main interests are the prosopography of the roman ruling class and the ancient city of Cologne, Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium.

Costanza Pascolato is a naturalized Brazilian businesswoman and fashion consultant, considered to be one of the most influential names in fashion in Brazil.

Mario Bianchi is an Italian film director. Bianchi directed several features including the mondo film Africa Sexy and several sexploitation and pornographic films. He spent the majority of the 1990s directing pornography in Italy under the names Nicholas Moore, Tony Yanker and Martin White.