List of Famous people who born in 1946

A. K. Saseendran is an Indian politician serving as the Transport Minister in the Pinarayi Vijayan ministry. He had resigned on 26 March 2017 over a sexual harassment allegation but returned as minister on 1 February 2018 after getting acquitted in the case. He belongs to the Nationalist Congress Party and represents the Elathur constituency. He was previously elected to the Kerala Legislative Assembly in 1980, 1982, 2006 and 2011.

Teng Yu-kun was a Golden Horse Award-winning Taiwanese screenwriter.

Yves Pignot is a French actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1969.

Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry, is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the French Air Force and a former CNES astronaut. In 1985, he became the second French citizen in space, after Jean-Loup Chrétien, when he flew aboard NASA's Space Shuttle mission STS-51-G.

Young Kwok "Corky" Lee was an American journalistic photographer. His work chronicled and explored the diversity and nuances of Asian American culture overlooked by mainstream media, and advocated for ensuring Asian American history was included as a part of American history.

Abdul Ali Mazari was a Shiite militia and political leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat party during and following the Soviet–Afghan War. Mazari was an ethnic Hazara from Parwan province of Afghanistan who believed that the solution to the internal divisions in Afghanistan was in a federal system of governance, with each ethnic group having specific constitutional rights and able to govern their own land and people. He was allegedly tortured and murdered by the Taliban in 1995, and posthumously given the title ‘Martyr Of National Unity’ in 2016 by Ashraf Ghani government. He supported equal representation of all ethnic groups of Afghanistan, especially Hazaras, who are still being persecuted in Afghanistan.

Ellison Shoji Onizuka was an American astronaut and engineer from Kealakekua, Hawaii, who successfully flew into space with the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-51-C. He died in the destruction of the Space Shuttle Challenger, on which he was serving as Mission Specialist for mission STS-51-L. He was the first Asian American and the first person of Japanese ancestry to reach space.

Freddie Scappaticci was a purported high-level double agent in the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), known by the codename "Stakeknife".

Erwin Pröll, is an Austrian conservative politician (ÖVP). From 1992 to 2017, he was the Governor of Lower Austria.

Mehmet Cansun is a Turkish businessman and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.