List of Famous people who born in 1940

Arnaldo Jabor is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer, writer, journalist and political pundit for Brazilian TV network Rede Globo. He is of Lebanese descent and identifies as an atheist.

Ulla Wiesner is a German singer.

Edward Nowak is a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Assessor of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and Canon of St. Peter's Basilica.

Jacques Kossowski was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the 3rd constituency of the Hauts-de-Seine department, and is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. He is also the Mayor of Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine.

Daniel J. Travanti is an American actor. He is best known for playing police captain Frank Furillo in the television drama series Hill Street Blues (1981–1987), for which he received a Golden Globe Award and two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards from many nominations.

John Irvin is an English film director. Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, he began his career by directing a number of documentaries and television works, including the BBC adaptation of John le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. He made several Hollywood films in the 1980s, including The Dogs of War (1980), Ghost Story (1981) and Hamburger Hill (1987).

John Huston Ricard, S.S.J. is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee in Florida from 1997 to 2011 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Baltimore in Maryland from 1984 to 1997.

John Charles Hora was an American cinematographer and actor active from the 1970s to the 2000s. He also worked as an actor in the 1980s and 1990s.