List of Famous people who born in 1942

Francis Xavier McCarthy is an American actor who has appeared in films such as Interstellar (2014) and Deep Impact (1998).

Paul Jones is an English singer, actor, harmonica player, radio personality and television presenter. He first came to prominence as the lead singer and harmonicist of the successful 1960s group Manfred Mann, with whom he had several Top Ten hit records from 1962 to 1966. He presented The Blues Show on BBC Radio 2 for thirty-two years, from 1986 to 2018.

Al Sadiq Abd-Alrahman Ali Al Ghariani has been the Grand Mufti of Libya since 2012. He is a controversial Muslim imam of the Maliki school of thought. Academically he is a seated professor in the College of Sharia in the University of Tripoli since 1969 and distinguished contributor the Maliki school of thought with his numerous publications.

Sir Christopher Hubert Llewellyn Smith is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford.

John 'Jack' Connor is a British theoretical physicist whose research focussed on understanding the physics of nuclear fusion.