List of Famous people who born in 1945

Louis Whitley Strieber is an American writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, a purported non-fiction account of his alleged experiences with non-human entities. He has maintained a dual career of author of fiction and advocate of paranormal concepts through his best-selling non-fiction books, his Unknown Country web site, and his Internet podcast, Dreamland.

Paul Hirsch is an American film editor with over 40 film credits since 1970, best known as one of the premier filmmakers to come out of the New Hollywood movement, collaborating with directors like Brian De Palma, George Lucas, George A. Romero, and Herbert Ross. He won an Academy Award and Saturn Award for his work on the original Star Wars, which he shared with Richard Chew and Marcia Lucas.

Beatrice Melba Hill or Beatrice Melba Smith, known by her stage name Melba Moore, is an American singer, actress, voice actress, and entertainer.

Michael Tucker is an American actor and author. His most famous role came in the television series L.A. Law (1986–1994), for which he was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards and three Primetime Emmy Awards.

John Mark Guckenheimer joined the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University in 1985. He was previously at the University of California at Santa Cruz (1973-1985). He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1984, and was elected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and served as president 1997–1998. Guckenheimer received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1966 and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970. His Ph.D. thesis advisor was Stephen Smale.

Horst Hörnlein is a former East German luger and bobsleigh coach who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He and Reinhard Bredow won the gold medal in the men's doubles event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.

William George "Bill" Unruh is a Canadian physicist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver who described the hypothetical Unruh effect in 1976.