List of Famous people who born in 1940

Chris Foote Wood is an English politician and author. He is the brother of the late comedian and actress Victoria Wood.

Camilio Lorenzo Iglesias was a Spanish Catholic bishop.

Dyson Lovell is a film producer and actor. He produced amongst others, Franco Zeffirelli's Hamlet, starring Mel Gibson (1990), and Francis Ford Coppola's 1984 box-office flop The Cotton Club, starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane. He has received four Emmy Award, and three Golden Globe nominations for his work as a producer in television.

Andi Nafsiah Walinono Mboi is an Indonesian politician and physician. She served as Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia from 14 June 2012 until 20 October 2014. Dr Mboi currently serves as the Leaders' Envoy for the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance (APLMA).

Robert Irwin Toll co-founded the American luxury homebuilder company Toll Brothers.

Jack Binder is an American film producer and television producer and second unit director active since 1985. With older brother Mike Binder, a writer, actor and director, he is co-owner of Sunlight Productions. Binder works with the Major Hollywood Studios and independent film companies. Based in Los Angeles and London Binder produces worldwide and is involved in film finance. He formed Michigan Film Production to provide information on the Michigan Film Incentives program, which he helped to enable and created FilmBudget.com, a site that creates a feature film budget & film finance plans for financing and movie production. Binder's production company is Greentrees Films. His family is of Russian-Jewish descent.

Douglas Day Stewart is an American screenwriter and film director. He graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 1962.

Nicholas Theodore Varopoulos is a Greek mathematician, who works on harmonic analysis and especially analysis on Lie groups.