List of Famous people who born in 1940

José Luis Gómez García is a Spanish film actor and director. He has appeared in 33 films since 1968. At the 1976 Cannes Film Festival, he won the award for Best Actor in the film Pascual Duarte. Gómez was elected to Seat Z of the Real Academia Española on 1 December 2011; he took up his seat on 26 January 2014.

Volkmar Sigusch is a German sexologist, physician and sociologist. From 1973 to 2006, he was the director of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft at the clinic of Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Philippe Junot is a venture capitalist and property developer with business interests in Paris, and New York City. He is also known as the first husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco.

Zhang Wenkang(born 1940 in Nanhui, Shanghai) was the health minister of China during the SARS outbreak who was sacked for mishandling the matter.

Elva "Chunchuna" Villafañe is an Argentine model, actress and architect, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Roland Castro is a French architect and political activist.

Michel Kilo is a Syrian Christian writer and human rights activist, who has been called "one of Syria's leading opposition thinkers."

Christian Latouche is a French billionaire businessman, and the founder, owner and CEO of Fiducial SA, a global accounting company.

Eduardo Sotillos Palet is a Spanish journalist and politician. He served as Spokesperson of the Government of Spain between 1982 and 1985.

Maxime Gremetz was a member of the National Assembly of France. He represented the Somme's 1st constituency, and is a member of the French Communist Party and Gauche démocrate et républicaine. According to Michel Foucault Gremetz's response to the Polish Communist government's outlawing of Solidarity was to declare that the ban was necessary to avoid civil war.