List of Famous people who born in 1940

Anna Maria Mazzini OMRI, Anna Maria Quaini, known as Mina Mazzini or simply Mina, is an Italian singer. She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice, and her image as an emancipated woman.

Claudia Lapacó is an Argentine actress.

Catalina Parra is a self-taught Chilean artist, famous for her works It's Indisputable (1992) and Imbunches (1977). Parra is a strong feminist, humanist, and advocates for social and political change through her art. "Art doesn't have a gender", she says.

Özdemir Erdoğan is a Turkish singer-songwriter and composer. He was elected as a Turkish state artist in 1998.

Gianluigi Aponte is an Italian billionaire businessman, and the founder, owner and chairman of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the second-largest container shipping line in the world after Maersk.

Çetin Doğan is a retired Turkish general. He was Commander of the First Army of Turkey.

Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni is an Argentine judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, elected in 2016. He served as a member of the Supreme Court of Argentina from 2003 until 2015, when he resigned due to age restrictions to hold the position.

Seva Novgorodsev MBE is a former radio presenter on the BBC Russian Service, and is famous through the former Soviet Union.

Miquel Roca i Junyent is a Spanish lawyer and politician from Democratic Convergence of Catalonia. He is one of the Fathers of the Constitution in Spain.

Helga Nowitzki is a German former international basketball player. She is the mother of Dirk and Silke Nowitzki.