List of Famous people who born in 1943

Miklós Beer is a Hungarian prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Vác 2003 to 2019. He previously served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest from 2000 to 2003.

Richard Brent Tully is an astronomer at the Institute for Astronomy in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Helmut Haussmann is a German academic and politician. He served as minister of economy from 1988 to 1991.

Chris Baldo was a Luxembourgish singer. He was born to a French mother, and a Luxembourgish father, in Luxembourg.

Norman Earl Thagard, , is an American scientist and former U.S. Marine Corps officer and naval aviator and NASA astronaut. He is the first American to ride to space on board a Russian vehicle, and can be considered the first American cosmonaut. He did on this on March 14, 1995, in the Soyuz TM-21 spacecraft for the Russian Mir-18 mission.

Charles Vernon (Chuck) Shank is an American physicist, best known as the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 1989 to 2004.

Bjørn Tore Wirkola is a former Norwegian ski jumper.

Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone is an Italian businessman. He controls the holding company Caltagirone S.p.A. with interests in cement manufacturing, real estate, construction and publishing.