List of Famous people who born in 1949

Charles T. Knight was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Sound for the film Butterflies Are Free. He worked on more than 40 films between 1964 and 1994.

Chi Shangbin was a Chinese football player and coach.

Steve Segal is an American animator and filmmaker known for his independent animated shorts as well as his contribution to Pixar films like Toy Story. He teaches animation at the California College of the Arts and has also been a professor in the animation department at Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California.

Carmen Elena Quesada Santamaría is a Costa Rican politician and teacher. She joined the Social Christian Unity Party as a teenager and later, the Libertarian Movement. In 2009 and 2010, she occupied a seat in the Directive Board of the Atlantic Basin Ports and Economical Development Administrative Board. In the 2010 and 2014 Costa Rican general election, she contested as a candidate for the Legislative Assembly, being elected as a deputy representing Limón Province for the 2014–2018 administration. On 2 September 2015, she left the Libertarian Movement, remaining as an independent for the rest of the term. As a deputy, she was a member of the investigative commission for the Panama Papers and elected First Secretary of the Legislative Director for the 2017–2018 period.

David Spinozza is an American guitarist and producer. He worked with former Beatles Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John Lennon during the 1970s, and had a long collaboration with singer-songwriter James Taylor, producing Taylor's album Walking Man.

Pia Charlotte Degermark is a Swedish actress. She is best known for her role as Elvira Madigan in the 1967 drama film Elvira Madigan, for which she won a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress.