List of Famous people who born in 1944

Lynn Loring is an American actress and television and film producer.

Velma Jean Terrell is an American R&B and jazz singer. She replaced Diana Ross as the lead singer of The Supremes in January 1970.

Manuel Toharia Cortés is a Spanish science writer, museum director, and television personality.

Santo Richard Loquasto is an American production designer, scenic designer, and costume designer for stage, film, and dance.

Wojciech Szczęsny Marczewski is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed twelve films between 1968 and 2001.

James Joseph Heckman is a Nobel Prize winning American economist who is currently at the University of Chicago, where he is The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College; Professor at the Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies; Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD); and Co-Director of Human Capital and Economic Opportunity (HCEO) Global Working Group. He is also Professor of Law at the Law School, a senior research fellow at the American Bar Foundation, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2000, Heckman shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Daniel McFadden, for his pioneering work in econometrics and microeconomics. As of December 2020, according to RePEc, he is the second most influential economist in the world.

Richard Lee "Dick" Schmalensee is the John C. Head III Dean, Emeritus and the Howard W. Johnson Professor of Management, Emeritus at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at the Department of Economics at MIT.

Sabina Mary Higgins is an Irish actress, political activist and the wife of the current President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins.