List of Famous people who born in 1944

Claude Nicollier is the first astronaut from Switzerland. He has flown on four Space Shuttle missions. His first spaceflight (STS-46) was in 1992, and his final spaceflight (STS-103) was in 1999. He took part in two servicing missions to the Hubble Space Telescope. During his final spaceflight he participated in a spacewalk, becoming the first European Space Agency astronaut to do so during a Space Shuttle mission. In 2000 he was assigned to the Astronaut Office Extravehicular Activity Branch, while maintaining a position as Lead ESA Astronaut in Houston. Nicollier retired from ESA in April 2007.

Xabier González Elorriaga is a Spanish film and TV actor, writer and director.

Hwang Jung-Lee, known to many with the spelling of Hwang Jang-Lee is a Japanese-born Korean martial artist and film actor. Hwang is perhaps best known for his role as "Thunderleg" in 1978's Drunken Master, "Sheng Kuan" in 1978's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow and Wong Chin in 1981's Hitman in the Hand of Buddha. Variations of his name include Wong Cheng Lee and Wong Cheng Li, in the Cantonese Chinese equivalents. His nicknames are Silver Fox ; "Thunderleg" and "Thunderfoot".

Leila Khaled is a Palestinian refugee and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

David Rasche is an American theater, film and television actor who is best known for his portrayal of the title character in the 1980s satirical police sitcom Sledge Hammer! Since then he has often played characters in positions of authority, in both serious and comical turns. In television he is known for his recurring performances in L.A. Law, Monk, The West Wing, Veep, and Succession.

Jean-Yves Terlain, born on November 12, 1944 in Angers, is a French navigator and architect. He is the uncle of the Peyron brothers and therefore of Loïck Peyron.

Sir Salvador Moncada, FRS, FRCP, FMedSci is a Honduran-British pharmacologist and professor. He is currently Research Domain Director for Cancer at the University of Manchester.

Takuji Yanagimoto is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Osaka, Osaka, he attended Waseda University as a graduate student. He was elected to the first of his three terms in the city assembly of Osaka in 1975. After running unsuccessfully for the House of Representatives in 1986 as an independent, he ran again in 1990 as a member of the LDP and was elected for the first time.

Miyoko Akaza is a Japanese actress. She is married to Toshiya Fujita.

Jacques-Alain Miller is a psychoanalyst and writer. He is one of the founder members of the École de la Cause freudienne and the World Association of Psychoanalysis which he presided from 1992 to 2002. He is the sole editor of the books of The Seminars of Jacques Lacan.