List of Famous people who born in 1942

Monika Baumgartl is a German photographer, performance artist and representative of concrete photography.

Junko Hori is a Japanese actress and voice actress represented by Production Baobab.

Barry Joseph Goldberg is a blues and rock keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer.

Mike Elliott is an American cross-country skier. He competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics, the 1968 Winter Olympics and the 1972 Winter Olympics.

Michael David Bordo is a Canadian and American economist, currently Board of Governors Professor of Economics and Distinguished Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research as well as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the third most influential economic historian worldwide according to the RePEc/IDEAS rankings. He was a student of Milton Friedman and has co-authored numerous books and articles with Anna Schwartz.

David Medalla was a Filipino international artist. His work ranged from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation, and performance art. He lived and worked in Manila and Berlin.