List of Famous people who born in 1949

Leopoldo José Brenes Solórzano is a Nicaraguan Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Managua. He was previously bishop of Matagalpa.

Lisa Kathleen Phillips Honan was the Governor of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha from 26 April 2016 until 11 May 2019, when she was replaced by Philip Rushbrook. She is the first, and currently only, female to have held the post. Honan was previously Head of Office in Kenya for the Department for International Development, and currently holds the same position in Nepal.

Fayez Tarawneh is an independent Jordanian politician, who served twice as prime minister of Jordan. He is the former chief of the Royal Hashemite Court.

Vasyl Semeniuk is the eparch of the Eparchy of Ternopil - Zboriv, an eparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The eparchy is in the ecclesiastical province of Kyiv-Halych.

Nikolay Arefiev is a Russian political figure and a deputy of the 8th State Duma.

George Murphy is an American special effects artist. He is most known for his work in Forrest Gump for which he won an Oscar in the category of Best Visual Effects during the 67th Academy Awards. He shared his win with Allen Hall, Ken Ralston, and Stephen Rosenbaum. He also won the BAFTA award for Best Visual Effects at the 48th British Academy Film Awards for Forrest Gump.