List of Famous people who born in 1949

Susan "Sue" Cook is a British television presenter and author. She is best known for co-presenting the BBC One factual crime show Crimewatch from 1984 until 1995.

Jonathan Samuel Carroll is an American fiction writer primarily known for novels that may be labelled magic realism, slipstream or contemporary fantasy. He has lived in Austria since the 1970s.

Shimon Dotan is an Israeli film director, screenwriter, and producer.

Bennett Pang Kin-san is a Hong Kong musician, singer and actor. He is well known as the lead guitarist of The Wynners. He is currently a host of Pleasure & Leisure, a talk show produced by Television Broadcasts Limited.

Kati Marton is a Hungarian-American author and journalist. Her career has included reporting for ABC News as a foreign correspondent and National Public Radio, where she started as a production assistant in 1971, as well as print journalism and writing a number of books.