List of Famous people who born in 1944

Gernot Erler is a German politician (SPD) who was member of the Bundestag, the German parliament, from 1987 to 2017.

Michel Ray de Carvalho is a British financier, former Olympic skier and luger, and former child actor in films such as The Brave One, The Tin Star, and Lawrence of Arabia. Born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, his father was a Brazilian diplomat and his mother was British.

Viktoria Valentinovna Postnikova is a Russian pianist.

Friedrich Schorlemmer is a German Protestant theologian. He was a prominent member of the civil rights movement in the German Democratic Republic and has continued to take part in politics after German reunification in 1990.

Philippe Morier-Genoud is a French theatre and film actor.

William Emanuel Cobham Jr. is a Panamanian-American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with the Mahavishnu Orchestra. According to AllMusic's reviewer, Cobham is generally acclaimed as fusion's greatest drummer of all time.

Gao Qiang is a Chinese politician and a former minister and party secretary of the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China.

Harold Noel Breeden was an American Major League Baseball player. Hal was a rarity in that he was a right-handed hitter who threw left-handed. He was also the brother of catcher Danny Breeden. After retirement from baseball, he served as Sheriff of Lee County, Georgia for twenty years until 2008.

Tsuneharu Takeda is a Japanese diplomat, and former imperial prince. He was born in Shinkyo, then the capital of Manchukuo.

Diana Bracho is a Mexican actress.