List of Famous people who born in 1942

Kwek Leng Beng is a Singaporean billionaire businessman. He is the executive chairman of Hong Leong Group Singapore. In September 2019, Forbes estimated his net worth to be US$3.4 billion.

Hiroshi Matsumoto is a Japanese engineer and atmospheric scientist. He serves as the president of RIKEN, and until August 2014 was the president of Kyoto University. He is a member of the Japanese government's committee on space policy. He has a Doctorate in Engineering. He was born in Zhangjiakou, China.

Yiannis Boutaris is a Greek businessman and politician, former mayor of Thessaloniki.

Rukmini Sukarno Kline is a daughter of President Sukarno of Indonesia.

R. Lance Hill is an American screenwriter and novelist. He is best known for writing the 1989 cult film Road House, as well as the novel and screenplay for The Evil That Men Do. Hill frequently used the pseudonym David Lee Henry while in Hollywood.