List of Famous people who born in 1945

Suzanne Farrell is an American ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Henry Krieger is an American musical theatre composer. He most notably wrote the music for the Broadway shows Dreamgirls, The Tap Dance Kid (1983), and Side Show (1997).

Peter Plympton Smith is an American politician and former member of the United States House of Representatives from the U.S. state of Vermont, the 76th Lieutenant Governor of Vermont, and an education administrator. He served as the founding president of the Community College of Vermont, the founding president of California State University, Monterey Bay, and as assistant director general for education of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Hans Walter Peter Nisblé was a German politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, he served in the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin in 1985 and was subsequently mayor of Bezirk Wedding from 1994 to 2001. He died on 11 January 2022, at the age of 76.

Mikhail Anatolyevich Vasenkov was a Soviet–Russian colonel, photojournalist, and spy, Hero of the Soviet Union (1990). He was part of the Illegals Program.

Franz Keller was a West German nordic combined skier. At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, he won the gold medal in the individual event. Keller also won a silver at the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in the individual event and won the event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1967.