List of Famous people who born in 1942

Hannelore Rönsch is a German conservative politician.

Kurt Lechner is a German politician and former Member of the European Parliament for Rhineland-Palatinate.

Larry Lee Pressler is an American politician from South Dakota who served in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate as a Republican. He remained active in politics following his failed reelection campaign in 1996 and attempted to regain his former seat in 2014 as an independent, but was unsuccessful.

Martin Roos is a Romanian cleric, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Timișoara. Born into a Banat Swabian family in Satchinez (Knees), Timiș County, he attended the cantors' school in Alba Iulia from 1957 to 1961. He began studying theology at the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Alba Iulia in 1961, continuing from 1962 to 1969 at Königstein im Taunus in West Germany. In 1971, Carl Joseph Leiprecht ordained him a priest of the Rottenburg Diocese. From that year until 1973, he was assistant priest in Stuttgart. From 1973 to 1974 he was parish administrator in Stimpfach, becoming parish priest in 1974. Following the Romanian Revolution of 1989, his bishop, Walter Kasper, allowed him to return to his native country. In 1990, Timișoara Bishop Sebastian Kräuter named him director of the diocesan chancery. He became a Monsignor in 1991 and in 1999, following Kräuter's retirement, he was named bishop by Pope John Paul II.In May 2018, Pope Francis accepted his resignation, and appointed József-Csaba Pál as his successor.

Bernd Otto Neumann is a former German politician and since 2014 president of the German Federal Film Board (FFA).

Grigory Stepanovich Marakutsa is a Transnistrian politician and member of Pridnestrovian Supreme Soviet.

John Colin Stillwell is an Australian mathematician on the faculties of the University of San Francisco and Monash University.