List of Famous people who born in 1942

Barbara Parkins is a Canadian-American former actress, singer, and dancer.

Loletha Elayne Falana or Loletha Elaine Falana (sources differ), better known by her stage name Lola Falana, is an American singer, dancer, model and actress.

Yevgeny Ivanovich Shaposhnikov was a Soviet and Russian military leader and business figure. He was awarded the rank of Marshal of Aviation in 1991.

Josephina Johanna "Jopie" Troost is a retired Dutch swimmer who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. A medal favorite, the Dutch team was disqualified in the heats for a premature start by Sieta Posthumus. Troost was part of 4 × 100 m freestyle relay teams that set three national records in 1958.

Alan "Howling Laud" Hope is the Leader of the United Kingdom's Official Monster Raving Loony Party (OMRLP). On the death in 1999 of the party's founder Screaming Lord Sutch, Hope and his pet cat, Catmando, were jointly elected as leaders of the OMRLP. Since June 2002 Hope has been the party's sole leader following Catmando's death in a road traffic crash.

David Richmond Gergen is an American political commentator and former presidential adviser who served during the administrations of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. He is currently a senior political analyst for CNN and a professor of public service and the founding director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. Gergen is also the former editor at large of U.S. News and World Report and a contributor to CNN.com and Parade Magazine. He has twice been a member of election coverage teams that won Peabody awards—in 1988 with MacNeil–Lehrer, and in 2008 with CNN.

Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and choreographer, known for his works predominantly in Telugu cinema and a few Hindi and Kannada films. He has garnered eight state Nandi Awards, the IIFA Award, the SIIMA Award, five Filmfare Awards South and two CineMAA Awards. In a film career spanning more than five decades, Rao has directed more than a hundred feature films, of which around ninety were box office hits, across multiple genres such as romantic comedy, fantasy, melodrama, action thriller, biographical and romance films.

Dr. Takanori Fukushima is a Japanese neurosurgeon, one of the world authorities in the treatment of brain tumors.

James Morrison is an American retired professional wrestler and manager, better known by his ring name, J. J. Dillon.

Friederun Köhnen is a semi-retired television-chef and food-entrepreneuse, originally from Saxony, but based in North Rhine-Westphalia.