List of Famous people who born in 1940

Winfried Scharlau was a German mathematician.

Aurelio González Puente is a Spanish former road bicycle racer who won the Mountains classification in the 1968 Tour de France and the Mountains classification in the 1967 Giro d'Italia. He also won stages in the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Tour de Suisse and Dauphiné Libéré.

Robert Lelangue is a retired Belgian cyclist who was active between 1958 and 1969. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the road race and finished in 49th place. Next year he turned professional and won one stage of the Tour de Luxembourg. Later he won a few races, including the Four Days of Dunkirk (1963), six-day race of Montreal (1964) and the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens (1967).

Wayne Macdonnell is a former Canadian badminton player He was a dominant figure in Canadian badminton in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly in the men's singles events. He remained a top ranked badminton player for eighteen years.

Frieder Birzele is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He is married and has two children. He studied jurisprudence in Tübingen and Berlin from 1960 till 1965.He served as member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg from 1976 to 2006 and was the Minister of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg from 1992 to 1996.