List of Famous people who born in 1950

Andrew Powell is an English guitarist and songwriter. He is a founding member of the British band Wishbone Ash, whose use of twin lead guitars was influential.

Djoko Susanto is an Indonesian entrepreneur, successful businessman and well known as a new billionaire of Indonesia since 2011. Djoko was the owner of Alfamart, retail business with mini-marts concept.

Mina Teicher is an Israeli mathematician at Bar-Ilan University, specializing in algebraic geometry.

Frank Hübner is a German sailor and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the 470 Class with Harro Bode at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

Archbishop Thomas D’Souza is a serving Archbishop of Calcutta and member of the Commission for Education of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India.

Donald Baird Marron Jr. is an American economist, professor and policy advisor and director of the nonpartisan Urban-Brookings Policy Center in Washington, D.C. He is the son of the economist and financier Donald B. Marron Sr.

Maricica Puică is a retired Romanian middle-distance runner. She is the 1984 Olympic champion in the 3000 metres. One of the greatest female middle-distance runners of the 1980s, she also twice won the World Cross Country Championship and broke the world record for the mile in 1982.

Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs is an Irish palaeontologist and taphonomist based at Yale University. Briggs is one of three palaeontologists, along with Harry Blackmore Whittington and Simon Conway Morris, who were key in the reinterpretation of the fossils of the Burgess Shale. He is the Yale University G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History, and former Director of the Peabody Museum.

Leonardo Ulrich Steiner is a Brazilian prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as Archbishop of Manaus since 2020. A member of the Franciscans since 1976 and a bishop since 2005, he was an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Brasília from 2011 to 2019.