List of Famous people who born in 1939

Peter Röhlinger is a German politician and member of the Free Democratic Party. From 1990 to 2006 he was the mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of the city of Jena and from 2009 to 2013 he was an elected representative in the Bundestag.

Peter B. Moore is Sterling Professor emeritus of Chemistry, Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. He has dedicated his entire career to understanding the structure, function, and mechanism of the ribosome.

Robert E. Swindells is an English author of children's and young adult fiction.

Paul H. Rabinowitz is the Edward Burr Van Vleck Professor of Mathematics and a Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He received a Ph.D. from New York University in 1966 under the direction of Juergen Moser. From 1966 to 1969 he held a position as assistant professor at Stanford University. He has visited many mathematical institutions all over the world. In 1978 Paul Rabinowitz became a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

William Edgar Fulton is an American mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry.

Ilkka Olavi Suominen is a Finnish politician from the National Coalition Party. He was President of the Nordic Council in 1992.

Harriet Popham McDougal Rigney is an editor who worked on several best-selling fantasy books, including the Wheel of Time series written by her husband, Robert Jordan. Jordan often claimed that all major female characters in the Wheel of Time series have at least one trait that was inspired by Harriet.

Daniel Chee Tsui is a Chinese-born American physicist, Nobel laureate, and the Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Tsui's areas of research include electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics.