List of Famous people who born in 1946

Richard Lynn Carpenter is an American musician, record producer, songwriter, and music arranger, who formed half of the sibling duo The Carpenters alongside his sister Karen. He has had numerous roles including record producer, arranger, pianist, keyboardist, lyricist, and composer, as well as joining with Karen on harmony vocals. He has had a minor acting career, beginning with his cameo in The Karen Carpenter Story.

Anatoly Aleksandrovich Vasilyev is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, People's Artist of Russia (1994).

Catherine Hiegel is a French actress, comedian and director.

Terence Kemp McKenna was an American ethnobotanist and mystic who advocated for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. He was called the "Timothy Leary of the '90s", "one of the leading authorities on the ontological foundations of shamanism", and the "intellectual voice of rave culture".

John Warren Geils Jr., known professionally as J. Geils or Jay Geils, was an American guitarist. He was known as the leader of The J. Geils Band.

George Ervin "Sonny" Perdue III is an American veterinarian, businessman and politician who served as the 31st United States Secretary of Agriculture from 2017 to 2021. He previously served as the 81st Governor of Georgia from 2003 to 2011; Perdue was the first Republican to hold the office since the Reconstruction era.

Allan Holdsworth was a British jazz fusion and progressive rock guitarist and composer.

Marieta Severo da Costa is a Brazilian theater, film and television actress. She is best known on Brazilian television for playing villains.

Ludwig Hirsch was an Austrian singer/songwriter and actor.

Antonio González Pacheco, known also as Billy the Kid, was a Spanish police inspector in Francoist Spain who was charged with 13 counts of torture and sought for extradition by an Argentine judge in 2014. María Romilda Servini had called for the indictment. The request for extradition was refused by the Spanish High Court on the basis that the statute of limitations had run out on the accusation against him.