List of Famous people who born in 1944

Bertel Geismar Haarder is a Danish politician who was the Danish Minister for Culture and Church until 2016. He is the longest serving Danish minister since a system change in 1901, and represents Venstre in the Folketing as of June 2020.

Tobin Jay Marks is the Vladimir N. Ipatieff Professor of Catalytic Chemistry, Professor of Material Science and Engineering, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, and Professor of Applied Physics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Among the themes of his research are synthetic organo-f-element and early-transition metal organometallic chemistry, polymer chemistry, materials chemistry, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, molecule-based photonic materials, superconductivity, metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, and biological aspects of transition metal chemistry.

Paul Mackriell Copley is an English actor and voiceover artist. In 2020, he began appearing in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street as Arthur Medwin.

Rino Passigato, GCC, GCSE is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church, who was the Apostolic Nuncio to Portugal from 2008 to 2019 and is the current Apostolic Nuncio Emeritus to Portugal.

William Hunt Gross is an American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist. He co-founded Pacific Investment Management Co, the largest global fixed income investment company, and ran their $270 billion Total Return Fund (PTTRX), before leaving to join Janus Capital Group in September 2014.

James Benjamin Peake was the sixth United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs, serving from 2007 to 2009. In 2004, he retired from a 38-year United States Army career. He also served as the 40th Surgeon General of the United States Army.

Charles Burnett is an American film director, film producer, writer, editor, actor, photographer, and cinematographer. His most popular films include Killer of Sheep (1978), My Brother's Wedding (1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), The Glass Shield (1994), and Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007). He has been involved in other types of motion pictures including shorts, documentaries, and a TV series.