List of Famous people who born in 1942

Sir Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament for the constituency of Aldridge-Brownhills from 1979 to 2015.

Xu Yongyue is a Chinese Communist Party senior official, who served as Minister of State Security from March 1998 to August 2007. Prior to that, he was private secretary to Party Elder Chen Yun from 1983 to Chen's death in 1994.

Orley Clark Ashenfelter is an American economist and the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His areas of specialization include labor economics, econometrics, and law and economics.

Gunter Thielen was chairman and chief executive officer of the Bertelsmann Stiftung.

Norman Stuart Craig is a noted British production designer. He has also designed the sets, together with his frequent collaborator set decorator, the late Stephenie McMillan, on all of the Harry Potter films to date.

Stig Berge is a retired Norwegian orienteer, and master of science in engineering.

Nancy Anne Fleming is an American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss America 1961 on September 10, 1960.