List of Famous people who born in 1949

Vivek Agrawal, is a National Award-winning producer of the English feature film Land Gold Women (2011). The film is the world's first English language feature to explore the issue of honour killing. The film was released in India in conjunction with the Movement to End Honour Violence. The film and the movement were produced by A Richer Lens. A Richer Lens is run by Vivek and Avantika Hari Agrawal and Vivek serves as its CEO. A Richer Lens operates with offices in Mumbai, Dubai and London.

Frank Mkalawile Chipasula is a Malawian writer, editor and university professor, "easily one of the best of the known writers in the discourse of Malawian letters".

Tom Tully was a noted British comic writer mostly of sports and action stories. He was the longest-running writer of the popular football-themed strip Roy of the Rovers, which he wrote for much of Roy Race's playing career until the weekly comic closed in 1993.

Fumihiko Sueki is a Japanese academic and historian, and one of Japan's leading scholars of Japanese Buddhism. He is a professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto. A member of the advisory board of Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture's Japanese Journal of Religious Studies, he is also a contributor to the journal itself.

David Von Ancken was an American film, television director and screenwriter.