List of Famous people who born in 1940

Imi Knoebel is a German artist. Knoebel is known for his minimalist, abstract painting and sculpture. The "Messerschnitt" or "knife cuts," are a recurring technique he employs, along with his regular use of the primary colors, red, yellow and blue. Knoebel lives and works in Düsseldorf.

Martin Richards is a British computer scientist known for his development of the BCPL programming language which is both part of early research into portable software, and the ancestor of the B programming language invented by Ken Thompson in early versions of Unix and which Dennis Ritchie in turn used as the basis of his widely used C programming language.

Erich P. Ippen is a principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He holds appointments as the Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering Emeritus and Professor of Physics Emeritus. He is one of the leaders of RLE’s Optics and Quantum Electronics Group.

George Ivy Hunter, known as Ivy Jo Hunter, is a former R&B songwriter, record producer and singer, most associated with his work for Motown in the 1960s.

Laurent Akran Mandjo was an Ivorian Roman Catholic bishop. He served as Bishop of Yopougon from 1982 to 2015.

Robin Marshall is an Emeritus professor of Physics & Biology in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester.

Susan Kathleen Milliken is an Australian film producer and author. She has made a number of films with director Bruce Beresford.