List of Famous people who born in 1942

Jeremiah Tower is an American celebrity chef who, along with Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck, has been credited with pioneering the culinary style known as California cuisine. A food lover from childhood, he had no formal culinary education before beginning his career as a chef.

Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt is the Germany national football team doctor and current club doctor of Bayern Munich. He was a club doctor for the club between 1 April 1977 and 16 April 2015, and again since November 2017. He resigned after the medical staff was blamed after a 3–1 loss to Porto in a UEFA Champions League match, and rejoined after the reappointment of Jupp Heynckes as coach.

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer is a German-Swedish actor. He is known for his role in Downfall as Robert Ritter von Greim and for playing Adam in the German Netflix series Dark.

Kenichi Shinoda , also known as Shinobu Tsukasa , is a Japanese Yakuza, the sixth and current kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest yakuza organization.

Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, known professionally as Rodriguez, is an American singer-songwriter from Detroit, Michigan. His music career initially proved disappointing in the United States, but unknown to Rodriguez his albums became extremely successful and influential in South Africa, where he is believed to have sold more records than Elvis Presley. His work also found a following in some other countries in Africa, and also in Australia and New Zealand. Because information about him was scarce, it was incorrectly rumored there that he had committed suicide shortly after releasing his second album.

Richard Timothy Smith, known professionally as Richard O'Brien, is an English-New Zealand actor, writer, musician, and television presenter. He wrote the musical stage show The Rocky Horror Show in 1973, which has remained in almost continuous production. He also co-wrote the screenplay of the film adaptation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), appearing in the film as Riff Raff. The film became an international success and has received a large cult following. O'Brien wrote Shock Treatment (1981) and appeared in the film as Dr. Cosmo McKinley.

Danièle Thompson is a Monegasque film director and screenwriter. Thompson is the daughter of film director Gérard Oury, and actress Jacqueline Roman.

Doğu Perinçek is a Turkish politician and doctor of law who has been chairman of the left-wing nationalist Patriotic Party since 2015. He was also a member of the Talat Pasha Committee, an organization named after the main perpetrator of the Armenian Genocide.

Satyan Pitroda popularly known as Sam Pitroda is an Indian telecom engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He is popularly known as the Father of India's Computer and IT Revolution as he helped Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in bringing computerization as an advisor to the PM. He was also an advisor to the PM during Dr. Manmohan Singh's tenure. He was born Titlagarh in the eastern Indian state of Odisha. to a Gujarati family.

Hissène Habré, also spelled Hissen Habré, is a Chadian politician who served as the President of Chad from 1982 until he was deposed in 1990. He was brought to power with the support of France and the United States, who provided training, arms and financing.