List of Famous people who born in 1942

Pierre Bourque, CQ is a businessman and politician in Quebec, Canada. He founded the Vision Montreal political party and served as mayor of Montreal from 1994 to 2001.

Michael Joseph Pasternak, known by his stage name Emperor Rosko, is an American presenter of rock music programmes, most widely known for his shows on Radio Caroline and BBC Radio 1 in the UK in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Pierre Bernard Aidenbaum is a French Socialist Party (PS) politician. He was a member of the Council of Paris from 1989 to 2020, and mayor of the 3rd arrondissement of Paris from 1995 to 2020. Born to a Jewish family during the German occupation of France, he was the president of the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA) from 1993 to 1997.

Dr. Jabbar Patel is a Marathi-language theatre and film director of India. His production of the play Vijay Tendulkar's play Ghashiram Kotwal, in 1973 is considered a classic in Modern Indian Theatre.

Gary Albert Filmon is Canadian politician from Manitoba. He was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba from 1983 to 2000, and served as the 19th premier of Manitoba from 1988 to 1999.

Eli Noyes is an American animator most noted for his stop animation work using clay and sand.

Paul Pavlowitch is a French writer, editor and journalist. He trained as a lawyer and has worked in various jobs, including as a teacher, librarian, and translator. A relative of the well-known French author, Romain Gary, Pavlowitch was presented in public through the 1970s in the guise of writer "Emile Ajar", actually a pseudonym of Gary's. Assuming this role for his famous cousin—concealing the true authorship of certain novels of Gary's—embroiled Pavlowitch in controversy when the deception came to light. Pavlowitch's first published work was his 1981 account of the affair, L'homme que l'on croyait. Pavlowitch went on to write novels, having his first published in 1986. Since 2000, he has had four further novels published.