List of Famous people who born in 1949

Abel Sanchez is a Mexican-American boxing trainer. He is best known as the former coach of Gennadiy Golovkin, and has trained other boxers such as Lupe Aquino, Terry Norris, and Murat Gassiev.

Oleg Nikolayevich Soskovets is a Soviet, Kazakh and Russian politician.

Moira Clare Ruby Stuart OBE is a British presenter and broadcaster, who was the first African-Caribbean female newsreader to appear on British national television, having worked on BBC News since 1981.

Marilyn Cole is Playboy magazine's January 1972 Playmate of the Month. She was the magazine's first full-frontal nude centerfold. She also became 1973's Playmate of the Year – the only Briton to hold that title. Her original pictorial was photographed by Alexas Urba.

Nicky Stevens is a singer, famous as a member of pop group Brotherhood of Man. She is the only Welsh person to have won the Eurovision Song Contest.

Paul Personne is a French blues singer and guitarist.

Judith Alice Clark is an American activist, convicted felon, and former member of the Weather Underground. Clark was an unarmed getaway driver in the Brink's robbery of 1981 in Nanuet, New York. The robbers murdered a security guard and two Nyack, New York police officers. Clark was arrested in October 1981 and convicted of felony murder for her role in the crime. She was sentenced to the maximum penalty allowed by law: Imprisonment for a term of 75 years to life at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in New York.

Neguinho da Beija-Flor, whose real name is Luiz Feliciano Antonio Marcondes, is a samba singer and composer. He has been the official interpreter of the Beija Flor since 1976.

Sir Gregory Knight is a British politician, author and musician. He has served as the Conservative MP for East Yorkshire since 2001, having previously served as the MP for Derby North from 1983 to 1997, and a minister in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major.

Jennifer Helen Jones, Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb, FSA is a British politician and member of the Green Party of England and Wales. She was until September 2019 the sole Green Party member in the House of Lords.