List of Famous people who born in 1942

Janet Dean Fodor is distinguished professor of linguistics at the City University of New York. Her primary field is psycholinguistics, and her research interests include human sentence processing, prosody, learnability theory and L1 (first-language) acquisition.

Michel Della Negra, born 1942, is a French experimental particle physicist known for his role in the 2012 discovery of the Higgs Boson.

Suravaram Sudhakar Reddy is the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI) from 2012 to 2019. He was a member of the 12th and 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Nalgonda constituency of Telangana.

Jean-Paul "Picha" Walravens is a Belgian cartoonist, comics artist, animator and film director. He is most famous for his adult animated films, such as Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle.

Tessa Ann Vosper Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone, PC is an English politician and university administrator.

Rachel is a French singer best known in Europe for representing France in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964.

Stephen J. Wiesner is a research physicist currently living in Israel. As a graduate student at Columbia University in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he discovered several of the most important ideas in quantum information theory, including quantum money, quantum multiplexing and superdense coding. Although this work remained unpublished for over a decade, it circulated widely enough in manuscript form to stimulate the emergence of quantum information science in the 1980s and 1990s. Wiesner is the son of Jerome Wiesner and Laya Wiesner. He received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University. In 2019, he received the Micius Quantum Prize, together with Charles H. Bennett, Gilles Brassard, Artur Ekert, Anton Zeilinger and Pan Jianwei.

Isagi Osumi is a Japanese former swimmer. He competed in the men's 200 metre backstroke at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He later became a reporter for the Sports Nippon newspaper, eventually rising to become a member of the board of directors. He also did sports commentary on television.