List of Famous people who born in 1942

Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga was a Colombian Roman Catholic prelate.

Abdulaziz bin Mohieddin Khoja is the former Saudi ambassador and he served as the minister of culture and information between 2009 and 2014.

Michael Stewart Paterson, is a British computer scientist, who was the director of the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (DIMAP) at the University of Warwick until 2007, and chair of the department of computer science in 2005.

Muhammad bin Umar bin Abd al-Rahman bin Abd Allah al-Aqil, better known as Abu Abd al-Rahman Ibn Aqil al-Zahiri, is a Saudi Arabian polymath. He has, at various times, been referred to as a theologian, jurist, historian, ethnographer, geographer, poet, critic and author. As a member of Saudi Arabia's "Golden Generation," he knew of life both during the poverty of the pre-oil boom era and the prosperity of the 1950s onward.

Jean Pierre Cayard is a French billionaire businessman, who inherited the spirits manufacturer La Martiniquaise from his father, turning it into France's second-largest spirits group.