List of Famous people who born in 1946

Jean-Jacques Beineix is a French film director whose work is generally seen as the best example of what came to be called the cinéma du look. Critic Ginette Vincendeau defined the films made by Beineix and others as "youth-oriented films with high production values...The look of the cinéma du look refers to the films' high investment in non-naturalistic, self-conscious aesthetics, notably intense colours and lighting effects. Their spectacular and technically brilliant mise-en-scène is usually put to the service of romantic plots." The cinéma du look included the films of Luc Besson and Léos Carax. Luc Besson, like Beineix, was much maligned by the critical establishment during the 1980s, while Carax was much admired. In late 2006, Beineix published a first volume of his autobiography, Les Chantiers de la gloire. The title alluded to the French title of Stanley Kubrick's film, Les Sentiers de la gloire.

Michel Bras is a French chef. His restaurant located in Laguiole in the Aveyron was rated three stars in the Guide Michelin since 1999. It is also classed in the "Relais & Châteaux" since 1992. He was classed several times among the 10 best restaurants in the world.

Kazuhiko Hasegawa is a Japanese film director. He won the award for Best Director at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for The Man Who Stole the Sun.

Heinz Bosl was a German ballet dancer.

Ekaterina Yurievna Genieva, OBE was a Russian librarian. She was director of the Margarita Rudomino All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature from 1993 to 2015.

Dragutin Šurbek was a Croatian and Yugoslav table tennis player and coach.

Maria von Welser is a German TV journalist and the President of UNICEF Germany.

Alla Georgievna Danko is an announcer Soviet Central Television, the TV presenter, journalist.

Erwin Huber is a German politician. He was chairman of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria from 2007 to 2008.

Sun Siang-chong, better known by his stage name Chin Han, is a Taiwanese actor born in Shanghai. His father was born in Chengdu, Sichuan.