List of Famous people who born in 1940

Steven A. Rosenberg is an American cancer researcher and surgeon, chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland and a Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences and the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He pioneered the development of immunotherapy that has resulted in the first effective immunotherapies and the development of gene therapy. He is the first researcher to successfully insert foreign genes into humans.

Jan David Simon, 3rd Viscount Simon is a British peer.

Eduard J. Zehnder is a Swiss mathematician, considered one of the founders of symplectic topology.

Christian Sautter is a French politician. He served as Minister for Economics, Finance, and Industry from 1999 to 2000 as part of Lionel Jospin's "Plural Left" government.

Maria Grazia Buccella, is a former Miss Italy (1959), Italian glamour model, and film actress.

Colette Avital is a Romanian-Israeli diplomat and politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party and One Israel between 1999 and 2009.