List of Famous people who born in 1944

Kim Man-il was the second son and child of North Korean leader Kim Il-sung and his first wife, Kim Jong-suk.

Shinsuke Okuno is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the House of Representatives in the Diet. A native of Gose, Nara and graduate of Keio University, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time in 2003. He is affiliated to the revisionist lobby Nippon Kaigi.

Lin Chen-yi is an admiral of the Republic of China Navy in Taiwan. He was the Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of China Armed Forces between 2009 and 2013, and also the last senior admiral/general in the military after the new law that claims "to promoted as the senior general/admiral must have been in wartime".

Salameh Hammad is a Jordanian politician who has served as Minister of the Interior in the government of Jordan a number of times. He held the position from 1993 to 1995, from 1995 to 1996, from 2015 to 2016, from 2016 to 2017 and lastly from May 2019 until October 2020.

Guy Cuevas is a Cuban-born writer, musician, and Paris disc jockey. Born Guillermo Cuevas Carrión, he worked the turntables at Club Sept, and Le Palace before becoming the artistic director, first of Les Bains Douches, then the Barrio Latino.

Jean-Louis Michel is a French oceanographer and engineer.

Michael Charles Avory is an English musician, best known as the longtime drummer and percussionist for the English rock band the Kinks. He joined them shortly after their formation in 1964 and remained with them until 1984, when he left amid creative friction with guitarist Dave Davies. He is the longest-serving member of the band, apart from the Davies brothers. He is also the most prolific member, again apart from the Davies brothers, who has played on twenty studio albums or nearly all of the band's creative output.

Carlos Alberto Libânio Christo, better known as Frei Betto is a Brazilian writer, political activist, philosopher, liberation theologian, and Dominican friar.

Paul M. Rabinow was professor of anthropology at the University of California (Berkeley), director of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory (ARC), and former director of human practices for the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC). He is perhaps most famous for his widely influential commentary and expertise on the French philosopher Michel Foucault.

Ricardo Espírito Santo Silva Salgado is a Portuguese economist and banker. President of Banco Espírito Santo, which was founded by his father, he was, until July 2014, the banker active for the longest time in Portugal.