List of Famous people who born in 1949

Heini Hemmi is a Swiss former alpine skier, winner of the giant slalom competition at the 1976 Winter Olympics. He also won the Giant Slalom World Cup 1976-77.

Gian Paolo Gobbo is an Italian politician. He is the President of Liga Veneta, the "national" section of Lega Nord in Veneto.

Richard Keith Ellis, is a British theoretical physicist, at the University of Durham and a leading authority on perturbative quantum chromodynamics and collider phenomenology.

Jan Egil Storholt is a former speed skater from Norway. He was born in Trondheim.

Peter Gruss is a German developmental biologist, president of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, and the former president of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.

Joseph Cotter Smith is an American stage, film, and television actor.

Sir Paul Maxime Nurse, is an English geneticist, former President of the Royal Society and Chief Executive and Director of the Francis Crick Institute. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with Leland Hartwell and Tim Hunt for their discoveries of protein molecules that control the division of cells in the cell cycle.