List of Famous people who born in 1945

Alexey I. Ekimov is a Russian solid state physicist who discovered the semiconductor nanocrystals known as quantum dots, while working at the Vavilov State Optical Institute. He was awarded the 1975 USSR State Prize in Science and Engineering for work on electron spin orientation in semiconductors. He is co-recipient of the 2006 R. W. Wood prize of the Optical Society of America for "discovery of nanocrystal quantum dots and pioneering studies of their electronic and optical properties". He currently works for Nanocrystals Technology Inc.

Ighraa, also is known as Igraa, is a Syrian actress and belly dancer who reached her fame mostly in Syrian cinema of the 1970s.

Nikolay Timofeyevich Tanayev was a Kyrgyz politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan from 2002 to 2005, under President Askar Akayev. He was the first ethnic non-Asian Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan since independence.

Tara Browne was a London-based Irish socialite and heir to the Guinness fortune. His December 1966 death in a car accident was one inspiration for the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life".