List of Famous people who born in 1949

Poonam Sinha is an Indian actress, fashion model, and politician. She acted in Hindi cinema under the screen name Komal in her early career. She was crowned Miss Young India in 1968. She is married to actor and politician Shatrughan Sinha. She worked in lead roles in Hindi movies, and has also produced two films.

Yves Duteil is a French singer-songwriter. He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), on 24 July 1949 and is the third child to be born in the family. Duteil is a noted proponent of the French language, the rights of children and the respect of environment. Duteil is the mayor of Précy-sur-Marne in Seine et Marne.

John Leonard Orr is an American former firefighter, novelist, and convicted arsonist and murderer. Orr was the fire captain and arson investigator for the Glendale Fire Department in Southern California. He was convicted of serial arson and four counts of murder. In the 1980s and 1990s, Los Angeles was plagued by a series of fires that cost millions of dollars in damages and claimed four lives. Orr was found to be the cause of most of those fires. During his arson spree, Orr was nicknamed "The Pillow Pyro" by arson investigators due to the location of the fires inside shops.

Gérard Philippe René André Larcher is a French politician serving as President of the Senate since 2014, previously holding the office from 2008 to 2011. A member of The Republicans, he has been a Senator for the Yvelines department since 1986, with an interruption between 2004 and 2007, when he was Minister for Employment, Labour and Professional Integration of Young People under President Jacques Chirac. Larcher also served as Mayor of Rambouillet from 1983 to 2004 and again from 2007 until 2014.

Julie Leclerc is a French radio and television host.

Jairo [ˈxai̯.ɾo], pseudonym of Mario Rubén González Pierotti is an Argentine singer-songwriter and composer. Throughout his career, he has performed more than 500 songs in Spanish, French and Italian.

Jim Broadbent is an English actor. He won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for his supporting role as John Bayley in the feature film Iris (2001), as well as winning a BAFTA TV Award and a Golden Globe for his leading role as Lord Longford in the television film Longford (2006). Broadbent received four BAFTA Film Award nominations and won for his performance in Moulin Rouge! (2001). He was also nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Hiroshi Ogawa is a Japanese politician and governor of Fukuoka Prefecture since 2011. In 2015, he was re-elected for a second term.

Elmar Hörig, is a German radio and television presenter.

Nicolas Peyrac is a French musician, writer and photographer.