List of Famous people who born in 1940

Gianni Dei was an Italian actor and singer.

Wolf Kahler is a German stage, film, television, and voice actor.

Carlos Heller is an Argentine executive, cooperative banking leader and politician, currently serving as member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies, representing the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, since 2019. He is the founder and president of the Solidary Party.

Li Na, is the daughter of Mao Zedong and his fourth wife Jiang Qing, and their only child together. Her surname is Li rather than Mao, because her father used the pseudonym "Li Desheng" for a period of time during the Chinese Civil War.

Wilfried Erdmann is one of the most famous German sailors. He is known for his single-handed, non-stop circumnavigations. He also is a successful author, some of his books became bestsellers in Germany.

Gaspare Mutolo is a Sicilian mafioso, also known as "Asparino". In 1992 he became a pentito. He was the first mafioso who spoke about the connections between Cosa Nostra and Italian politicians. Mutolo’s declarations contributed to the indictment of Italy’s former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti and to an understanding of the context of the 1992 Mafia murders of the politician Salvo Lima and the magistrates Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

Elisabeth Raiser is a 21st-century historian, former President of the German Evangelical Church Assembly, and daughter of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.

Mieke Wijaya is an Indonesian actress who has won three Citra Awards.

François Bizot is a French anthropologist, the only Westerner to have survived imprisonment by the Khmer Rouge.