List of Famous people who born in 1939

Néstor García Canclini is an Argentine-born academic and anthropologist known for his theorization of the concept of "hybridity."

Robert Arthur Morton Stern, usually credited as Robert A. M. Stern, is a New York based architect, educator, and author. He is the founding partner of the architecture firm, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, also known as RAMSA. From 1998 to 2016, he was the Dean of the Yale School of Architecture.

Keith Albarn is an English artist and the father of the musician, Damon Albarn and the artist, Jessica Albarn.

Harold Eliot Varmus is an American Nobel Prize-winning scientist who was director of the National Institutes of Health from 1993 to 1999 and the 14th Director of the National Cancer Institute from 2010 to 2015, a post to which he was appointed by President Barack Obama. He was a co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes. He is currently the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and a senior associate at the New York Genome Center.

Herbert A. Allen Jr. is an American businessman and former president of Allen & Company.

Brian Johnson is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.