List of Famous people who born in 1940

Kari Sylwan is a Swedish actress, dancer, ballet teacher, and choreographer.

Thomas Jerome Moulton is an American record producer. He experimented with remix in disco music and this led to its wide adoption as a standard practice in the industry. He also invented the breakdown section, and the 12-inch single vinyl format in the process.

Justino Díaz is a Puerto Rican operatic bass-baritone. In 1963, Díaz won an annual contest held at the Metropolitan Opera of New York, becoming the first Puerto Rican to obtain such an honor and as a consequence, made his Metropolitan debut in October 1963 in Verdi's Rigoletto as Monterone.

José Manuel López Rodríguez is a former Spanish cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He rode in 7 editions of the Vuelta a España and four times in the Tour de France.

James Christopher McLaughlin is a Northern Irish former footballer and was later a football manager in the League of Ireland.

Jean-François Mayet is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Indre department. He is a member of the Union for a Popular Movement.

Jimmie Durham is an American sculptor, essayist and poet, living and working in Europe since 1994. He was active in the United States in the civil rights movements of African Americans and Native Americans in the 1960s and 1970s, serving on the central council of the American Indian Movement (AIM). He returned to working at art while living in New York City. His work has been extensively exhibited. Durham also received the Günther-Peill-Preis (2003), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Robert Rauschenberg Award (2017), and the 58th Venice Biennale's Golden Lion for lifetime achievement (2019).

William Thomas Harris III is an American writer, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter. The majority of his works have been adapted into films and television, the most notable being The Silence of the Lambs, which became only the third film in Academy Awards history to sweep the Oscars in major categories.