List of Famous people who born in 1942

Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist and 1995 Nobel Prize-winner.

Henry James Beach, known as Jim Beach, or Miami Beach is a British lawyer and band manager, best known for being the long-time manager of the rock band Queen, its individual members and the comedy group Monty Python. He was nicknamed "Miami" by Freddie Mercury, a play on his surname. He took over as manager of the band in 1978 after he had acted on their behalf as a lawyer.

Richard Roundtree is an American actor and former model. Roundtree is noted as being "the first black action hero" for his portrayal of private detective John Shaft in the 1971 film Shaft, and its four sequels, released between 1972 and 2019. For his performance in the original film, Roundtree was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor in 1972.

João Teixeira de Faria, known also as João de Deus, is a Brazilian purported medium, "psychic surgeon" and convicted sex offender. He was based in Abadiânia, Brazil, where he ran the Casa de Dom Inácio de Loyola, a "spiritual healing center". He has received media coverage on CNN, ABC News and The Oprah Winfrey Show, amongst others. James Randi and Joe Nickell have exposed his healing procedures as involving nothing more than carnival tricks, and there is no evidence that the benefits that have been reported by patients are anything more than placebo effects..

Toty Rodríguez is an Ecuadorian singer, theatre and film actress in Ecuador and France, television presenter, and former Miss Ecuador.

Giacomo Agostini is an Italian multi-time world champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. Nicknamed Ago, he amassed 122 Grand Prix wins and 15 World Championship titles. Of these, 68 wins and 8 titles came in the 500 cc class, the rest in the 350 cc class. For these achievements obtained over the course of a career spanning 17 years, the AMA described him as "...perhaps the greatest Grand Prix rider of all time". In 2010, Agostini was named an FIM Legend for his motorcycling achievements.

Frank Bonner was an American actor and television director best known for playing sales manager Herb Tarlek on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.

Cordula Trantow is a German actress and director. For her performance as Geli Raubal in the 1962 film, Hitler, she was nominated for a 1962 Golden Globe in the category Most Promising Newcomer - Female. Today, she works mostly as a stage actress and director. Her father was the film composer Herbert Trantow.

Doris Nefedov, better known by her stage name Alexandra, was a German singer.

José Ignacio Gabilondo Pujol better known as Iñaki Gabilondo is a Spanish journalist, and TV news anchor.