List of Famous people who born in 1940

Malcolm Le Grice is a British artist known for his avant-garde film work.

John Michael Frederick Castle is a retired English actor. He is best known for his film and television work, most notably playing Bill in Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup (1966), and Geoffrey in The Lion in Winter (1968). His other significant credits include Man of La Mancha (1972) and RoboCop 3 (1993).

Zoltán Gál is a Hungarian politician, who served as Interior Minister for a short time in 1990 before the first parliamentary elections. He was the Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary between 1994 and 1998. His son is Zoltán J. Gál former spokesman of the Hungarian Socialist Party government.

Alejandro Goić Karmelić is a Chilean bishop of the Catholic Church. He was the bishop of the Diocese of Rancagua from 2004 to 2018. He was President of the Chilean Conference of Bishops from 2004 to 2010. He was formerly an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Concepción and the Bishop of the Diocese of Osorno.

William Kane Reilly was Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George H. W. Bush. He has served as president of World Wildlife Fund, as a founder or advisor to several business ventures, and on many boards of directors. In 2010, he was appointed by President Barack Obama co-chair of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling to investigate the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Héctor Epalza Quintero P.S.S. was a Colombian Roman Catholic bishop.