List of Famous people who born in 1946

Jorge Selarón was a Chilean-born Brazilian painter and ceramist. He is perhaps best known for his work on the Escadaria Selarón, a world-famous set of ceramic tile-covered stairs located in the Lapa and Santa Teresa neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Michael James Radford is an Indian-born English film director and screenwriter. He began his career as a documentary director and television comedy writer before transitioning into features in the early 1980s. His best-known credits include the 1984 film adaptation of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four starring John Hurt and Richard Burton, the Shakespeare adaptation The Merchant of Venice, the true crime drama White Mischief, and the 1994 Italian-language comedy drama Il Postino: The Postman, for which he won the BAFTA Awards for Best Direction and Best Film Not in the English Language, and earned Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Ma Kai was one of the four Vice Premiers of China (Fourth-ranked). He was formerly a State Councilor and Secretary General of the State Council of China.

Nafisah Ahmad Zen Shahab is an Indonesian batik trader from Palembang, South Sumatra. Nafisah is known as a mother who acts as the sole parent in her family after her husband, Alwi Idrus Shahab died in 1996. On the 20th anniversary commemoration of Indonesian World Records Museum (MURI) at Mall of Indonesia on February 3, 2010, Nafisah, the mother of twelve children, ten of whom became doctors, broke the MURI record as the family with the most doctors in Indonesia. Of her ten children who became doctors, five of them are specialists. Her eldest son, Prof. Dr. dr. Idrus Alwi, Sp.PD., K-KV, FECS, FACC., is a cardiovascular specialist and is the Chairman of the Association of Indonesian Internal Medicine Experts for the period 2012–2015.

Khaled Abdelaziz Sulaiman al-Karaki is a Jordanian author, poet, academic and politician. He served as the Jordanian Minister of Culture (1989–91) and Deputy Prime Minister. He is a past president of Jerash University (2002–2006) and the University of Jordan (2007–2010). He currently chairs the Jordan Academy of Arabic.