List of Famous people who born in 1945

Sheila Sloan Frahm is an American politician who served in the U.S. Senate as a Republican from Kansas for a brief period in 1996.

Howard Winchel "Hawk" Koch Jr. is an American film producer, the former president of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America, and a former road manager for the musical groups The Supremes and The Dave Clark Five. Koch is the author of the book, Magic Time: My Life in Hollywood, published in 2019.

Walter Duch Richter is an American screenwriter, film director and film producer. He is best known for adapting Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directing The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and co-writing Big Trouble in Little China.

Anthony Zee is a Chinese-American physicist, writer, and currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller is a Jamaican politician. She served as Prime Minister of Jamaica from March 2006 to September 2007 and again from 5 January 2012 to 3 March 2016. She was the leader of the People's National Party from 2005 to 2017 and the Leader of the Opposition twice, from 2007 to 2012 and from 2016 to 2017.

Tomislav Dretar is a Croatian, Bosnian, French and Belgian poet, writer, critic, and translator, as well as an academic, journalist, editor, political leader and president of Bihać's HVO. He is also known by the French alias Thomas Dretart.

Sir Richard Geoffrey James Ottaway is a British Conservative politician and most recently, was the Member of Parliament for Croydon South from 1992 to 2015. He was previously MP for Nottingham North (1983–87).